Daemon News launches daily news service

Many people wrote in with this, but Mephistopholies was first. Daemon News, the monthly magazine for all things BSD, now boasts a daily news service, called, unsurprisingly, Daily Daemon News. Read on for some personal opinion.

The number one FAQ is probably going to be "Aren't Slashdot and Daemon News competitors now?"

Well, maybe. But to see this in just those terms is to ignore the wider point.

Which is, of course, that the various sites all have the same aim -- to provide a forum where BSD afficionados can discuss events relating to the different BSD operating systems, outside of the more traditional (and rigid) mailing list framework.

It's a major milestone in the development of the BSDs that they now generate enough news to support daily sections on several different sites. This would have been impossible a few years ago, and difficult even 10 or 12 months back. The BSD projects continue to grow, despite carping from a small minority that they are doomed.

Obviously, you can expect to see similar stories cropping up on Slashdot, Daily Daemon News, and other sites (such as FreeBSD Rocks). What will differentiate the sites more than anything else is the quality of the discussion that ensues. With my slashdot.org hat on I'd like to see Slashdot leading the way in generating high quality discussion. But with my freebsd.org hat on, I think it's far more important that quality discussion is promoted wherever, and in the wider scheme of things that's much more important than the site that happens to be hosting the discussion.