Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 21:48:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Marc Veldman <freebsd@planet.nl> Cc: "Ludington, Jacob" <Jacob.Ludington@ed.state.ia.us>, "'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: BSD Magazine Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000916214230.6644B-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009132241440.1636-100000@kwetal.lurkie.org>
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On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Marc Veldman wrote: > could somebody point out the advantages of a > BSD-specific magazine ? I want something on paper. While e-mail and the web are cool, they are far from persistent. I can't read a file written ten years ago in the standard word processing tool of the day. Any articles I read and enjoyed on any commercial or main-stream electronic services are now long gone. I have now assurance that www.daemonnews.org is going to work in ten years time when I want to reference a technical article there in a paper I write. And printers don't cut it -- I have enough leaf-litter of unsorted and un-indexed papers lying around already. I'd happily pay the going rate for magazines to get a nicely bound twice to three times as thick Daemon News. At one point, Jordan was spitting out FreeBSD newsletters on paper -- throw that stuff in also, maybe reviews of recent major commits on various platform source trees (sort of like the new stuff page on the NetBSD web site) so people (users, developers) from various projects can keep up-to-date. Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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