From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 9 19:46:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F04E16A420 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:46:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dthomas53@gmail.com) Received: from uproxy.gmail.com (uproxy.gmail.com [66.249.92.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAA1D43D45 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:46:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dthomas53@gmail.com) Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id j3so283491ugf for ; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:46:02 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=d5fsxdosGik3ESfamyv3gxIACFxUNq8na4BGaUlar8323jNr+9W7UN+vML+wR5etAtHplc3/y1tTY8YT9ZuCCmfh7AtTrxrG86NLblf1aYzs+3sO+JZXTigEnUp2sK+vQhH0UQkd9TjFrvKHPQofRUYbLJ0tooUqE4oXe/biR/8= Received: by 10.66.184.5 with SMTP id h5mr1405867ugf; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:46:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.66.220.5 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:46:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 14:46:01 -0500 From: "David Stanford" To: "Kristian Vaaf" In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060308204431.0225c438@broadpark.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060308204431.0225c438@broadpark.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Let's make a FreeBSD ports blog! CCCCOOOL =) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 19:46:04 -0000 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 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" >