@Scotty

The most important thing is
THERE IS SOURCE
I have visited the page that offers source code for download yesterday

Search on www.mobileread.com
somewhere burried in one of the discussion threads about Kindle there is link to the source.
Linux Kernel and things like busybox.

I have clicked on a link. I wanted to see ... well hear ... what is all this fuss about. We all like to receive something for free.

I had to install a crappy and for me almost useless application with weird interface called iTunes. SEVENTY megabyte monster. Talk about windows bloatware. Phew. What is worse, the installer pushed an even crappier application on my computer - Quick Time player. I do not like, I do not need and I definitely do not want quicktime on this computer, but they have promised I will get something free, so I give up. I can uninstall anytime. (and i WILL uninstall all this ... aehm .. software in about 10 minutes)

So. I have iTunes I do not need, want or like.
I click on a link, iTunes get started and here it is ... "get book" button.
"Click."
They want me to register. Sigh ... I went so far, so why not register. I click that I agree to some nonsense, fill in my throw-away email address. Now they want my credit card! I do not have one! I try clicking on PayPal ... they want my credit card again.

They did not persuade me this time ...

Besides, I do not have an iPod and I do not plan to get one. An ordinary Samsung mp3 player is much better. Just plug it in to a computer, be it Apple, windows, Linux or FreeBSD and drag and drop files. Even ogg vorbis encoded ones. No need to install 70MB monster software.

One ot the very first things I do after installing yet another GNU Linux distro is to download and install Terminus font for console and editing in Vim.

For me the "breakthrough" for Linux desktop (meaning that I started to like Linux desktop more than Windows one) was when I "discovered" the terminus font.

The original Terminus font is fixed, it means it has hand tweaked various sizes, so it looks extremly sharp and crisp acros wide range of sizes. Antialiasing is a good thing, but ... .