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How can you substantiate this? The BSD community is by far the most active by scale.

when ./ posts a .00000000001 upgrade to the freaking linux kernel you sheep come out droves.

Amen to that brother! Slashdot is VERY Linux-centric. Just look at the way the ignorant zealots flocked to the Slackware story over this. Stigma is all that matters rather than maturity and performance. Anything that is remotely BSD is crucified on slashdot plus most BSD users avoid slashdot because of its one-sidedness. if you want the current BSD news check out OpenBSD Journal, Daily Daemon News, FreeBSD'zine, FreeBSD Diary, FreeBSD Rocks and OpenBSD Explained

At first much of the BSDI codebase will remain proprietary. It will only be freed as it is integrated with FreeBSD. There are some parts of the codebase that cannot be freed because the code was written under a contract that does not permit disclosure.

According the Karels the only thing that will remain proprietary is the kernel...for now. And a lot of the things they can't just put under a BSDL comes from things under NDA's.

Yes you can run Star Office 5 for FreeBSD

Check out:

FreeBSDRocks.com's StarOffice 5 Installation How-To

A few other good sites, are Daemon news, for all sorts of info on the *BSDs, and FreeBSD Rocks for FreeBSD information, and FreeBSD Zine for more information, and finally, to buy your own cuddly daemon, FreeBSD Mall. George

NovaX wrote:

When Nik told FreeBSD advocacy a few weeks ago about /.'s new section, even then there was a tone of 'sorry for all your work on Daemon News, FreeBSD advocacy, etc.. but your dead. We're covering it now.'

There was? That must have been in private e-mail that never made it to me. I've never intimated that, and quite frankly, it's not true.

IMHO, the BSD 'market' is large enough to support multiple 'sources' for news like this. What may well distinguish the sites from one another is not the news that's posted so much as the quality of the discussion that's generated from it. Of course, that's something that's completely out of my hands.

Andover, when Nik told advocacy, was the one who requested the BSD section because they saw the market. This was not Rob, etc. Andover sees the market, which means money.

I'm not at my home computer at the moment, which means I can't check the original e-mail from Robin (which I wouldn't quote directly in public anyway). However, that's not the impression I've had. It was much more the case that /. has been thinking about running a BSD section for some time, but didn't have the manpower to do it internally.

I was contacted about this completely out of the blue and asked if I wanted to do it. This (presumably) means that Rob and Jeff (and behind them Robin, and the rest of Andover) didn't want to just throw money at the first person who came along and volunteered, but wanted to get the 'right' person. Time will tell if I'm the 'right' person or not, but it's nice to get the chance :-)

So just understand thi: many BSD users don't see the increased number of articles as a great thing, its nice. The way slashdot has treated them in the past, none are rejoicing. I think many will continue to support Daemon News, some OS Online, and other sites with pride.. and support /. BSD because for publicity.. we may have to.

It's interesting that no one in this thread has mentioned FreeBSD Rocks yet. This has been running for a year or so, and is very /. like in terms of interface and what gets posted. Yet it's also been very quiet in terms of the number of articles posted.

As I say, I'd support all of them with pride. The eventual differentiator will be the quality of the discussion, and that's firmly in your hands.

N

And what should Slashdot do to protect itself against bogus "news"? A recent thread on the FreeBSD advocacy list suggested flooding Slashdot with BSD press releases in the hopes that they would get on Roblimos nerves and force him to post them as "News" just to shut up the malcontents. Isn't that dishonest?

That HAPPENS to be Roblimo's suggestion. But you left that little tidbit out didn't you?

Before I go further let me assure you that my post was not meant to be hostile. I was bringing to attention the fact that the FreeBSDCon story was apparantly being rejected simply because it was BSD, and it seemed odd considering what's to come.

Slashdot was founded as a site for Geek news. Linux is predominant because that's what Rob uses, and it's his site. Still, BSD has it's place here. Slashdot apparantly thinks so too, or the soon to be announced new section wouldn't be forthcoming. Surely you saw reference to that while you were in the -Advocacy archive eh?

I wouldn't expect to see Linux stories on BSD sites(Daemonnews, FreeBSDRocks, FreeBSDZine, FreeBSD Advocacy, etc) any more than I would see BSD stories on sites such as Linux.com.

There was a FreeBSDCon story on Slashdot when it was first announced. It's NOT too much to ask to follow up on that when a full schedule of events is released.

When participants tried to register for the FreeBSD event, the hotel manager didn't know what the heck they were referring to.

Funny, I had no trouble whatsoever.

The behavior of WC CDROM is exemplary. They are the primary financial backer of the FreeBSD Project, and there's nothing shady about them booking the room. All such Conferences have Sponsers, and you see their names all over them. Why would this be any different, and why should they try to conceal their identity?

And no one who reads your comments will go read the archives for themselves. A Shame.

Have you ever worked for Microsoft? Maybe in Marketing?


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