Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 12:50:06 -0500 From: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> To: 'Haikal Saadh' <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com>, Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: RE: BSD software [was Re: The Bazaar part II] Message-ID: <576A688A7DA7D011899B00805FEA1AFF9ADA60@sych02.isdip.upmc.edu>
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I would say you need to spawn a site off either, but there need to be more sites. People want choices variety. People are greedy and want to be able to sustain that greed whether it's for food, knowledge, money or what have you. I would be leery of a daemon news/ freshmet venture, it could do more harm then good making FreeBSD just another Linux Distro. Look at this site http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~conradp/linux/test.html . Every link here is Linux. Linux Magazines, Clothing tons and tons of Linux only stuff. This is what I mean by need more web sites, more diversity in the sites. The Ports Tree is a wonderful thing, but if you want to take the FreeBSD market where the Linux market is the more pre-compile binaries need to be available. Not everyone wants to download the entire ports collection and do builds via a network connections. It all depends on what market your targeting what type of additions need to be made. Myself I like the world domination scope of attack. > -----Original Message----- > > > Does Daemon News need to spawn a new site? > > > I would imagine, no. > freshmeat.net offers a ports tree similar to our 'proper' ports tree, for > the benefit of our linux using brethren. I think it would just a matter > of > getting someone to adapt the makefiles to freeBSD. > Of course, freshmeat.daemonnews.org sounds just as well..a joint venture > between DN and freshmeat, perhaps? > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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