Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:39:04 -0500 (EST) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Don Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net>, Pat Lynch <lynch@bsd.unix.sh>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMN kicks Augustin's butt. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001281433030.19364-100000@peloton.runet.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000128183630.A74295@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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Hi Nik, On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 07:14:47AM -0700, Don Wilde wrote: > > What a mess /. is, though. I stay away from it because of all the crap > > you wade through. > > With my @slashdot.org hat on, any suggestions people have for > improving this would be welcome. It's somewhat disheartening to post > BSD stories, and get nothing but Natalie Portman comments for hours > afterwards. I don't have any suggestions really but I would agree that it's annoying to wade through stuff (and I do use the minimum reply score thingy) and that they aren't many BSD people on there. I used to be fairly visual there but I have mostly given up. When the FreeBSD Diary thing was noted people complained that it was silly - just a web page update. No one complained when they said "Redhat has created a new home page." There's a double standard there and there's still a lot of very vocal Linux "advocates" who spend time bashing posts or supplying us w/ negative posts. I consider the diary a tremendous source of knowledge, better than the HOWTOs for Linux IMO and yet I doubt it generated a lot of new, consistent readers, for Dan. Matt Dillon's article on the VM system was lambasted in the message boards because he voiced his own opinion on how NT and Linux did things which he believes is inefficient (and maybe even wrong). Here was a good strong technical article that didn't generate almost any discussion at all on the actual content of the article itself. I don't know what to suggest about this - it's not like the BSD section is the only one there suffering from that "user" rot. Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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