From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 17 23:08:17 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8E5043B7 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:08:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-x233.google.com (mail-lb0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c04::233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 13807AC6 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:08:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f179.google.com with SMTP id l4so1430813lbv.38 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:08:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=lO0Ti8PLIAxqJZ3k4FtbfwjXsCjJREAAOitTCZj4++M=; b=HDYgzTYUdot0T6tJb2pvSYm+WpQb/OFv+NYdsg9SXG6/J45G8ksaNxonISS2J9o6qt LcIWDQJmMIqZSm0Sr2CxMTwNJ8MJ3vGT56/4w8I78uRB3YLTwjU0vVIJZzM9oTiie4S1 PMlGiJ/OgyJReGrVpZ7E1uH/1geSGNk0yqoPpI7DVbj6rN8dbY0wCEX2Xk/Q+EcTtROa heRyqzSebiOI+sE/TxCU6AtKZaKyFzPBNoAeMvw4L61IoaMDEbcjcIPA+BiDsO5OHJBU Kq+2CbebED0qD25rfByb8igAR/sWfIV0caY99nA02JBGQ9KZeE5L2GQWK4Lb+PXzeKcj 1hVA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.36.33 with SMTP id n1mr6118892laj.95.1413586992903; Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:03:12 -0700 (PDT) Sender: crodr001@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.131.66 with HTTP; Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:03:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20140811221043.492110d4@arch> <20140813213718.4814f58c@arch> <53EC1214.9020505@pinyon.org> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:03:12 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: aGeTuDoMbuDZhe2RuzPjFYhX_e0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: HOWTO articles for migrating from Linux to FreeBSD, especially for pkg? From: Craig Rodrigues To: "Russell L. Carter" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: freebsd-current Current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:08:17 -0000 On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Russell L. Carter > wrote: > > One complaint I have about the FreeBSD project, is that the core > project contributors and developers rely too much on > e-mail for communication. This certainly works, and I use it too, but > new and casual users getting into FreeBSD > may get lost in the maze of FreeBSD mailing lists. It would be nice > if more of the core project contributors > used the web forums ( http://forums.freebsd.org ), since stuff like > that shows up nicely in web searches, and it is easier > for newcomers to find stuff, and jump in and contribute to threads, > versus mailing lists. > I just noticed this: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/new-forums-software-online.48495/ The FreeBSD Forums Administration team just upgraded the forum software from phpBB to Xenforo. They migrated 260,000 messages......wow, this is a huge achievement! Xenforo is nice stuff, so hopefully more FreeBSD core developers can take advantage of the forums, in addition to the traditional mailing lists. -- Craig