From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Dec 16 20:22:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1AA814E78 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 20:22:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id UAA19496; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 20:21:33 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id UAA05432; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 20:21:33 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn0.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA03560; Thu, 16 Dec 99 20:21:27 PST Message-Id: <3859BA98.EE868489@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 21:22:48 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Coleman Cc: Haikal Saadh , "Person, Roderick" , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BAS software [was Re: The Bazaar part II] References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Coleman wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Haikal Saadh wrote: > > > > One thing I think FreeBSD can benefit from is more web pages! There add > > > hundred of Linux pages and as far as I know there a maybe 12 FreeBSD web > > > pages. You can go to LinuxBerg to find any app for Linux. But for FreeBSD > > > there is only FreeBSD.org for apps. I think there needs to be more of a > > > 'third part' presence in the FBSD web community. More pages by users with > > > tips, tricks, custom app whatever. I have been thinking of rededicating my > > > web site to such things instead of being a focus for open source movement > > in > > > general. > > > > Hmm...maybe someone could tie in the freshmeat.net ports tree to the freebsd > > ports tree? > > Does Daemon News need to spawn a new site? http://apps.daemonnews.org. I like that. It'd be really cool if it could cross-refence the ports/packages for {Free,Net,Open}BSD automagically, indicating which are available on each platform. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message