From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Sep 6 10:14: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D03F15424 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 10:14:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Received: from owp.csus.edu (mothra.ecs.csus.edu [130.86.76.220]) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA39755; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 10:13:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37D3F749.718A236@owp.csus.edu> Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 17:18:01 +0000 From: Joseph Scott X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Kenneth Henry Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slashdot-like site References: <19990906030603.A5C2614E1A@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Kenneth Henry wrote: > > Hi all, > > It is my impression that the new advocacy site > (freebsd.tesserae.com) aims to be a slashdot-like site > for FreeBSD. I would like to draw your attention to a > site that already exists and is *very* slashdot-like > (in fact I suspect it uses the same back-end): > > http://osonline.org/bsd/ > > Thought you might be interested. Hummm. I hadn't ever come across that site before. Although I thought it was interesting that when I tried http://osonline.org/ it defaults to /linux/ :-) As someone has already pointed out, the author claims that he wrote the site himself in PHP. Slashdot is written in Perl ( last time I looked anyway :-) If you have suggestions for freebsd.tesserae.com you can email advocacy@freebsd.tesserae.com with ideas comments, gripes, uplifting statements, etc. We've been working on adding new features to the site and realize that many of the features that slashdot has are what people want. We'd also like to hear how you might like those features to be done, and which ones you don't feel are important. -- 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