Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 14:46:01 -0500 From: "David Stanford" <dthomas53@gmail.com> To: "Kristian Vaaf" <vaaf@broadpark.no> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Let's make a FreeBSD ports blog! CCCCOOOL =) Message-ID: <f2c91f770603091146r6db8480cx963335ba90bf673@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060308204431.0225c438@broadpark.no> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060308204431.0225c438@broadpark.no>
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Vaaf, 14,187 ports... http://www.freebsd.org/ports/. Sounds like a good idea to me. What kind of help are you looking for? -David On 3/8/06, Kristian Vaaf <vaaf@broadpark.no> wrote: > > > Hey! > > There are about 10.000 ports, am I right? > > Not all FreeBSD users have the time to go through all > of the package descriptions. But definitely all FreeBSD users > have their share of favorite ports, and are interested in > finding new ports that may compliment their lives. > > Not is the ports collection already too big for the average > human intellect. It also continues to span. New programs > appear on a daily basis, however there's nothing to > grasp their presence and determine their quality > > I see this as a chance to promote FreeBSD to desktop > users, which is what this project lacks. It has everything to > make it superior to all the other open source operating > systems, but nothing to really let it out in the open. > > Imagine a FreeBSD ports blog that tries to gather data > on the most popular ports, sorted by ratings, downloads etc. > In addition, it posts articles every now and then telling > people about recent discoveries made among all the 10.000 > ports. This could be a great thing! > > I am aware of freshports.org, this would be totally different. > I know a thing or two about design, and could make the > site look something like lounge72.com or linkdup.com. > I have high speed hosting all standing by. A splendid name > for it as well :D > > So, who's game? :) > > All the best, > Vaaf > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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