Daemon News' September Issue Now Live

questionlp writes: "The September issue of Daemon News is now available on-line here. This month's issue has some very interesting articles, such as Loadable Kernel Modules in OpenBSD, the internals of jail, a review of the recently released FreeBSD book, 'FreeBSD an Open Source OS for your PC,' and more."

If this was anti-linux or slammed /. staff

[Anonymous Coward]

The BSD troll would have long ago been stopped.

Instead, he keeps posting, and the /. staff lets it happen.

Re:If this was anti-linux or slammed /. staff

[Anonymous Coward]

That may be the way Microsoft and Linux works, but in BSD land, annoying bugs get fixed!

exactly!

[Anonymous Coward]

You have it correct. If the *BSD is dying posts were GNU/Linux is collapsing! slashcode would be re-written to filter it. But, as long as the crapflood is anti BSD, they will let it stand.

But, because it says *BSD is dying, it has been allowed to go on for 2 years.

OSDN is not Open Source Developers Network, it is software for Linux developers network. It is too bad that people make the tie Open Source == Linux, and use Linux as shorthand for Open Source OS.

Hit 'em with moderator points

[bee]

Do what I do to the *BSD is dying troll: every time I get moderator points, I go into BSD and moderate them down (-1, Troll). I generally end up spending anywhere from 2 to 4 modpoints that way every time. All it takes is a few of us that get moderator points and we'll have the problem taken care of.

Of course, since I've now posted to this thread, I won't be able to mod down the troll in this article even once I get modpoints again. Ah well.

Re:Hit 'em with moderator points

[bee]

At least I'm posting as myself and not an Anonymous Coward.

I don't have the time to go searching through score 0 posts looking for AC posts to mod up. Better to put modpoints to some use than just let them expire, IMHO. And if you think *BSD is dying trolls are worth being read, then your opinion on anything is so laughable as to not even be worthy of a reply. I shudder to think what would happen to slashdot if you were a staff member.

My copy of the new FreeBSD book arrived today

[Laplace]

My first impressions:

* The CD is a freakin' CD-R!?
* Instructions are great, and truly geared towards a FreeBSD novice
* Lots of screen shots with deatiled instructions
* Covers lots of topics

This book is as good or better than any beginner Linux book I've seen.

Still, it didn't give me any indication on how to set up my PCI modem (no, it is not a win-modem!). Damn my uninformed purchase! (the modem, not the book)