Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 17:50:43 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Help wanted with article series "Trawling the Ports Collection" Message-ID: <20021009075043.GF934@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <20021009030926.GG1415@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20021009030926.GG1415@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 12:39:26PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > A few months back I started writing a series in Daemon News entitled > "Trawling the Ports Collection". The idea was to show off some of the > neat things in the Ports Collection which people might otherwise gloss > over. > > Things didn't quite turn out the way I wanted. I found that it took a > long time for me to find interesting ports, more time than I had > available, and the result was decidedly second-rate. Aha, there you have the problem. What is an interesting port? For the last three days I found games/penguin-commander the best port in the collection, but that was only after I dropped games/heretic and games/sopwith because I spend too much free time on it. But then, somebody who hasn't lived in the 80s would never see the fun of these games. I think that you should specify a target audience before you can say ask for "the best ports". The best ports for system administrators is different as the ones for network-guys and the ones for programmers and the ones for for gamers and the ones for people who are interested in webdesign. So, pick a target-audience and it would be easier to write an article for it. And no, you don't have to do the same target-audience each time :-) Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/weblog.php bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | Interested in MUDs? http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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