From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 10 19:09:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA16457 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 19:09:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tera.com (tera.tera.com [207.108.223.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA16376; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 19:09:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tera.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) with UUCP id TAA20888; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 19:07:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) id KAA15159; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 10:47:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <199804101747.KAA15159@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" In-Reply-To: from Open Systems Networking at "Apr 9, 98 11:19:58 pm" To: opsys@mail.webspan.net (Open Systems Networking) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 10:47:18 -0700 (PDT) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, dshanes@personalogic.com, brett@lariat.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: <> thought.org: public access uNix in service... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We need a starting point. A number of years ago I saw the first issue of the Linux magazine. Then heard no more about it. I was pleased that at last the Free Unix world has a real (paper) rag in circulation; and the following year when I began running FreeBSD I thought that it would be nice if this Linux pub could be merged in with the FBSD world. <> Well, I've heard the buzzer there. But it still leaves open the issue of having a pay-for or free FBSD publication. Quarterly at first; then perhaps bi-monthly. I've seen one of the ``Announcement'' circulars from WC//FBSD. Could this serve as our house organ? Say 4 to 8 pages for the first few issues. And expanding. I was a writer several lifetimes ago, and altho tech writing is nearly beyond me (it ain't easy, folks), I'd be willing to invest time in a *BSD magazine. There are hundreds or thousands among the BSD users more skilled than I, so should be no lack of articles. We could also have an online magazine; either ASCII-only or HTML distributed by email. Publicizing the Berkeley Software Distribution will require sweat; and imagination. It shouldn't take that much capital. gary > -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message