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New Dutch *BSD portal
Kees writes "Since this weekend there's a new *BSD portal site. You can find it at: nedbsd.be
(the nedbsd.nl domain is coming too, but DNS works so slowly :-( ). This site is pretty unique, since it is the first portal site for *BSD users in The Netherlands, and the second one in Dutch. This site really looks like it's going to be a real community. Every Dutch/Belgian *BSD lover should give it a chance! The site is going to contain a huge pile of documentation, written by and for visitors. Just like the bsdvault.net. Everyone is welcome, everything is welcome."
from the gratuitous-promotion dept.
;)
Or you sure it's just that or are the ads alone not bringing in enough money?
If only I could come up with a good sig
But, why couldn't all of these language specific sites pool their resources and create 1 site (write it in English...it seems to be the most common language on the internet) and have translators...much like RivaStation.
RivaStation is written in German, but it gets translated to English...overall, that would be a much more interesting site...and lets face it, it would definately get more hits by being translated to so many other languages.
I'm sure there are better ways of doing this, but it's just a thought...
Recently, Slashdot [goatse.cx] confirmed that WindRiver kicked FreeBSD out on its ass for 1.5 kilos of hashish and a 3 kegs of Amstel.
Yet another story without enough background info. What the heck is Dutch*BSD?
The evaluation of an action as 'practical' . . . depends on what it is that one wishes to practice.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BS has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD s very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dead
P.U. - someone open the window ...
This site is pretty unique, since it is the first portal site for *BSD users in The Netherlands, and the second one in Dutch. This site really looks like it's going to be a real community. Every Dutch/Belgian *BSD lover should give it a chance!
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This is supposed to be the first dutch BSD users site. Bull shit. www.bsdaemon.be (it's in dutch, so most of you will not be able to read it) has been around for some time: online since since 09/02/2001 (dd/mm/yyyy), 38603 pageviews since June 2001, 264 articles posted, 38 users,
The guys behind this site try to make BSD more common for a broad range of people in the netherlands. Therefore, their main goal is to persuade people to install BSD by translating the Documentation from english to Dutch.
Great job!
I think it's a great idea to open a dutch site fot the BSD users amoungst them. Why not in English? to make it accessible to everyone in holland. Not everyone is able to read/write english, and its always less difficult to read dutch instead of english. Go on, and I think I'll submit some how-to's soon.
De site statistieken zijn wel weer interessant te noemen: minder dan 10% v/d visitors bezoekt met *BSD, 45% met Linux en 38% Windows. T'is niet echt een desktop winnaar te noemen;
I don't get the need to convert things into Dutch. an OS without apps is nothing, and most if not all apps aren't in Dutch, and they won't translate that. It's like writing C in the middle of a Java program. It's fine that you know C, but you still won't understand the program unless you also know Java.
loz
Nice to see portals for the BSD OS's
I still find real documentation for say FreeBSD too scarse (besides the handbook).
Besides, there is another portal already in Dutch language:
http://www.bsdfreaks.nl/
Well, don't worry about that. We can get you back before you leave. (Dr. Who)