Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 20:50:01 +0000 From: Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu> To: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> Cc: "'Haikal Saadh'" <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com>, Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD software [was Re: The Bazaar part II] Message-ID: <38595079.24CD82DA@owp.csus.edu> References: <576A688A7DA7D011899B00805FEA1AFF9ADA60@sych02.isdip.upmc.edu>
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"Person, Roderick" wrote: > > 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. I wasn't really thinking of a joint venture so much as a site in the same vain as freshmeat.net ( vain != design ) for the ports/packages collection. > > 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. Take a look at the packages collection, these are prebuilt binaries based on the ports collection. -- Joseph Scott joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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