August 2000 Daemonnews e-zine is out

AntiBasic writes "The August 2000 issue of the Daemon News ezine has been published. Content includes the last of the USENIX 2000 coverage (three articles), a Blueprints article on writing an ISA device driver, how to set up FreeBSD on a Compaq iPaq box, and more!"

relevance?

[nconway]

I don't want to be negative, but think about it - Daemonnews is a monthly publication. A new issue is released once per month, every month - on the first day of the month. Do we *really* need announcements about it on /. ?

Don't get me wrong - I like Daemonnews and read it every month. But I can't see what good monthly Slashdot repeats of the same story will do.

And if you're going to argue that it gives more publicity to BSD and Daemonnews - then, IMHO, most experienced BSD users and admins will already be familar with it. BSD newbies will probably be discouraged by the fact that the content is fairly technical (for better or for worse).

Just my opinion - what do you think?

Re:relevance?

[br4dh4x0r]

And if you're going to argue that it gives more publicity to BSD and Daemonnews...

Not to mention the fact that hardly anyone ever seems to look at articles that are just posted in the BSD section and not on the main page.

love,
br4dh4x0r

Re:relevance?

[hearingaid]

Well, I've only been running FreeBSD for a month or two, & I didn't know about this pub. And yes, I've read probably about half of the FreeBSD website, don't remember seeing it.

It would be nice if /. had somewhat better BSD coverage though... like actual stories, rather than stories about stories. ;)

Daemon

[Kiro]

It is great of Slashdot to point out to more media coverage of BSD and its variants.

Of all the Operation Systems it's one of the most undervalued ones. It's quite on par with Solaris in terms of reliability but much lower on maintenance and not related to Sun, which is often associated with proprietary technology.

Not to mention that FreeBSD sports a Linux emulator, meaning there is no problem sharing programs if you multiboot like I do.

Overall, FreeBSD deserves credit for being a mission-critical OS without costing an arm-and-a-leg.

--
Kiro