Stefan Rinkes, a big fan of OpenBSD, had decided to make an effort and create something that is now common in the Linux world, but which had not been done in OpenBSD - an OpenBSD-based live DVD with automatic hardware detection which would boot into a popular graphical desktop and which would also have a point-and-click graphical system installer. The result was a "distribution" called GNOBSD.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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Lanadapter
2 years 15 weeks 2 days 11 hours ago
Wow. just wow.
This is just so stupid that I'm at a loss for what to say.
Why in the world would you want to oppose the development of a better UI?
Utterly insane.
irbis
2 years 15 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago
OddBSD or OpenBSD?
I haven't read the email discussions in question, but I suppose that the OpenBSD folks might perhaps have some understandable reasons for their sometimes somewhat elitist attitudes. The OpenBSD community is still relatively small. They and the OpenBSD OS have a clear focus and that focus is what has made OpenBSD what it is today. For example, being newbie friendly is not among those goals that they concentrate on. Now, if someone like the person behind GnoBSD deviates from the typical goals, trying to bring OpenBSD to wider masses, it can cause some turmoil inside the community who could, for example, lack the resources to support newbies who could find the system hard to use and could ask stupid questions on their mailing lists.
Still, I think that the OpenBSD community could have behaved more understandingly, and could I say, more open-mindedly in this case as I'm sure that they are capable of it. Shouldn't OpenBSD and its free software philosphy emphasizing openness mean that the project is indeed also open to and positive about such derivative projects like GnoBSD? If not, maybe the project should change its name then?