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FreeBSD Project Launches New Website

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the still-not-dying dept.

UltimaGuy writes "The FreeBSD Project has launched a new website today. The new design was created by Emily Boyd, a student at Smith College that they had the pleasure of working with through Google's Summer of Code program. The old website is also still available."

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  1. Quite an improvement. by St.+Arbirix · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I must admit, it makes it look more like they're providing a serious product rather than something made by a group of hippies and slackers.

    *dives under a table with his Powerbook*

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    1. Re:Quite an improvement. by aztektum · · Score: 4, Interesting

      You know if this story was about some start up who raised a buncha money in VC and had a slick website and was promising a unique product that would revolutionize the world and it turned out to be a battery operated hammer, I might agree with you. But the story is about FreeBSD, which isn't dead btw, and the majority of /. readers, whether they want to admit to it or not, recognize the quality of this product.

      Could we be a little less cynical and jaded over something as trivial as FreeBSDs website redesign?

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  2. Asking for legal trouble? by Florian · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The new FreeBSD site boldly states: "Based on BSD Unix (r)". To my knowledge, the AT&T vs. Berkeley case was settled with (among others) the regulation that BSD may not be called Unix. The official Unix trademark FAQ states that Unix "must not be used as a generic term. It must not be used in connection with products, unless the product is licensed to use the mark".

    I am not sure whether the new headline on the homepage is a very wise and professional move of the FreeBSD project.

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  3. Re:About time.. by Arandir · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hopefully they will give the handbook a bit of a spring clean next...

    Are you volunteering? The FreeBSD Documentation Project is always on the look out for new blood.

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