DaemonForums  

Go Back   DaemonForums > FreeBSD > FreeBSD General

FreeBSD General Other questions regarding FreeBSD which do not fit in any of the categories below.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1   (View Single Post)  
Old 16th November 2008
tuck's Avatar
tuck tuck is offline
Shell Scout
 
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 99
Default Official FreeBSD Forums announced

Hi,

this is not an advertisement! I just found it in my mailbox.

!!!The FreeBSD Project launched a official support forum !!!

Announcement from Brad Davis.

Quote:
Dear FreeBSD users,

The FreeBSD project is finally, after much work, pleased to announce the
availability of an official FreeBSD web based discussion forum. It is
our hope that this forum will serve as a public support channel for
FreeBSD users around the world and as a complement to our fine mailing
lists.

You can register and start using our new service here:

http://forums.FreeBSD.org

The structure of the forum is still in a late beta stage, so if you have
ideas, suggestions for improvements or bug reports, send them to:
forum-moderators at FreeBSD dot org.

Please also have a look at our rules before you create your first thread
or post your first message. You can find our official list of forum
rules here:

http://forums.freebsd.org/faq.php?faq=vb_faq#faq_rules

Also, FreeBSD developers (people with commit access to our CVS/SVN trees)
can be distinguished by having an '@' character at the end of their
username.

It is our hope that both users and developers will find this new service
useful. Please help spread the word.

Sincerely,
The FreeBSD Forums Admin Team
_______________________________________________
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis...ebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
Reply With Quote
  #2   (View Single Post)  
Old 16th November 2008
Oliver_H's Avatar
Oliver_H Oliver_H is offline
Real Name: Oliver Herold
UNIX lover
 
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Germany
Posts: 427
Default

Ah I see thx for the hint. I did hear something about the idea long time ago.
__________________
use UNIX or die :-)
Reply With Quote
  #3   (View Single Post)  
Old 16th November 2008
vermaden's Avatar
vermaden vermaden is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: pl_PL.lodz
Posts: 1,056
Default

Nice move but still a lot of issues there:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=165
__________________
religions, worst damnation of mankind
"If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened." Linus Torvalds

Linux is not UNIX! Face it! It is not an insult. It is fact: GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not UNIX”.
vermaden's: links resources deviantart spreadbsd
Reply With Quote
  #4   (View Single Post)  
Old 16th November 2008
BSDfan666 BSDfan666 is offline
Real Name: N/A, this is the interweb.
Banned
 
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 2,223
Default

Wow.. vBulletin and all? now that's clearly a slap in the face.
Reply With Quote
  #5   (View Single Post)  
Old 16th November 2008
Oliver_H's Avatar
Oliver_H Oliver_H is offline
Real Name: Oliver Herold
UNIX lover
 
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Germany
Posts: 427
Default

>now that's clearly a slap in the face.

The best tool for the job ;-)
__________________
use UNIX or die :-)
Reply With Quote
  #6   (View Single Post)  
Old 16th November 2008
J65nko J65nko is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Budel - the Netherlands
Posts: 4,128
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by cabal View Post
The best tool for the job ;-)
Yes, that is why I recommended CarpetSmoker to use Vbulletin for these forums.
__________________
You don't need to be a genius to debug a pf.conf firewall ruleset, you just need the guts to run tcpdump
Reply With Quote
  #7   (View Single Post)  
Old 17th November 2008
drhowarddrfine drhowarddrfine is offline
VPN Cryptographer
 
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 377
Default

That place already has a Linux troll. I'm just not sure they shouldn't stick to mailing lists.
Reply With Quote
  #8   (View Single Post)  
Old 17th November 2008
vermaden's Avatar
vermaden vermaden is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: pl_PL.lodz
Posts: 1,056
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by drhowarddrfine View Post
That place already has a Linux troll. I'm just not sure they shouldn't stick to mailing lists.
Developers will still use MLs but IMHO forums are much more comfortable to use then MLs.
__________________
religions, worst damnation of mankind
"If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened." Linus Torvalds

Linux is not UNIX! Face it! It is not an insult. It is fact: GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not UNIX”.
vermaden's: links resources deviantart spreadbsd
Reply With Quote
  #9   (View Single Post)  
Old 17th November 2008
TerryP's Avatar
TerryP TerryP is offline
Arp Constable
 
Join Date: May 2008
Location: USofA
Posts: 1,547
Default

To bad there isn't a gateway to link it with the mailing lists.

The comp.lang.ruby newsgroup, ruby-talk mailing list, and a comparable forum, all are chained together IIRC, and quite nice. Post to one, rest should get it eventually unless there's an issue.
__________________
My Journal

Thou shalt check the array bounds of all strings (indeed, all arrays), for surely where thou typest ``foo'' someone someday shall type ``supercalifragilisticexpialidocious''.
Reply With Quote
Old 17th November 2008
BSDKaffee's Avatar
BSDKaffee BSDKaffee is offline
Real Name: Jason Hale
Coffee Addict
 
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Wintersville, Ohio
Posts: 212
Default

Quite amazing. The Official FreeBSD Forum already has more members than this Forum. This is still going to be my main hangout, though. I like seeing a broad variety of discussion and I like the members around here. I did join over there, however, and I saw a few others from here who did too.

Overall I think it will be a good alternative to mailing lists for the masses. It also could help get more people interested or keep them interested in FreeBSD.
Reply With Quote
Old 18th November 2008
stukov's Avatar
stukov stukov is offline
Real Name: Jean-Michel Philippon-Nadeau
Package Pilot
 
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Sherbrooke, Qc, Canada
Posts: 167
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by BSDKaffee View Post
Quite amazing. The Official FreeBSD Forum already has more members than this Forum.
It's not quantity, it's quality my friend
__________________
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
Reply With Quote
Old 19th November 2008
BSDKaffee's Avatar
BSDKaffee BSDKaffee is offline
Real Name: Jason Hale
Coffee Addict
 
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Wintersville, Ohio
Posts: 212
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by stukov View Post
It's not quantity, it's quality my friend
Yes, I realize that. I am just wondering where all of these people (now twice the user base of this forum) came from in only a couple days. If people were looking for a forum all along, why weren't they coming here between the time bsdforums went down hill and the official FreeBSD Forums went up? I only mention bsdforums because it was one of the reasons cited for putting up the FreeBSD Forums almost like this one didn't exist.

I have nothing against the FreeBSD Forums, though. I look at them just like I look at the FreeBSD mailing lists. Just another place to find FreeBSD-specific information. As I said previously, I do enjoy this forum for its wider variety of topics. I also can't imagine the FreeBSD Forums being as fun or relaxed as this one is.
Reply With Quote
Old 19th November 2008
ephemera's Avatar
ephemera ephemera is offline
Knuth's homeboy
 
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 537
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by BSDKaffee View Post
If people were looking for a forum all along, why weren't they coming here between the time bsdforums went down hill and the official FreeBSD Forums went up?
I blame it on the colour theme. I have said this before and I will say it again, its too drab.

Ofcourse, the colour theme can't be the only reason. unix.com appears to be quite popular inspite of having the same theme.
Reply With Quote
Old 17th November 2008
Carpetsmoker's Avatar
Carpetsmoker Carpetsmoker is offline
Real Name: Martin
Tcpdump Spy
 
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 2,243
Default

Quote:
Quite amazing. The Official FreeBSD Forum already has more members than this Forum. This is still going to be my main hangout, though. I like seeing a broad variety of discussion and I like the members around here. I did join over there, however, and I saw a few others from here who did too.
That may be, but there is also such a thing as signal-to-noise ratio ....
__________________
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
Reply With Quote
Old 19th November 2008
drhowarddrfine drhowarddrfine is offline
VPN Cryptographer
 
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 377
Default

Yep. I've noticed that. Maybe it'll settle down but things are pretty settled right here.
Reply With Quote
Old 19th November 2008
Carpetsmoker's Avatar
Carpetsmoker Carpetsmoker is offline
Real Name: Martin
Tcpdump Spy
 
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 2,243
Default

Regarding the style:
I am more than willing to accept and enable any submissions of decent quality, PM me for details and access to the test forums.

Or as the OpenBSD people say:
Shut up and hack!

Quote:
Ok then perhaps we all agree that the bsdforums.org theme was good.
Why not use that? We needn't worry about the purported copright concerns now that the site is down.
Go ahead and make it.
__________________
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
Reply With Quote
Old 20th November 2008
ephemera's Avatar
ephemera ephemera is offline
Knuth's homeboy
 
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 537
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Carpetsmoker View Post
Go ahead and make it.
I would if I could; but I am no artist.

> Shut up and hack!

Now, that's something I can do.

I sense an unwillingness to change the current theme, so before be bury this issue I would like to make a final point.

I agree with DD that the fbsd forum is a bit hard on the eyes but atleast it looks/feels 'alive'.
Going by the looks on this forum I feel as though it has no 'identity'.

If you were making your homepage would you use the free template that possibly a thousand others are using?
Or are you going to say that only content matters, nevermind that surfers don't care to give your page a second look?
Are you going to use the same blue-on-blue like theme?

Red is the colour of Fbsd and I suppose Obsd is yellow and Netbsd orange.

But one things for sure blue is 'not' the colour of BSD.

Last edited by ephemera; 20th November 2008 at 08:05 AM.
Reply With Quote
Old 19th November 2008
DutchDaemon's Avatar
DutchDaemon DutchDaemon is offline
Real Name: Ben
Spam Refugee
 
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Posts: 336
Default

The theme is fine. It's not drab, it's subdued. No need to burn my eyes reading a forum.
Reply With Quote
Old 19th November 2008
DutchDaemon's Avatar
DutchDaemon DutchDaemon is offline
Real Name: Ben
Spam Refugee
 
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Posts: 336
Default

You can remove that real name in your USER CP right after signing up if you like.
Reply With Quote
Old 19th November 2008
anomie's Avatar
anomie anomie is offline
Local
 
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Texas
Posts: 445
Default

Or go by a pseudonym (like I do).
__________________
Kill your t.v.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
OpenBSD 4.5-beta announced jggimi OpenBSD General 14 20th February 2009 01:41 PM
Are the old forums gone? Mantazz Off-Topic 6 20th January 2009 01:31 PM
official openbsd recommendation to install packages (not ports)? boder OpenBSD Packages and Ports 6 3rd January 2009 05:12 AM
Official DVD images from FreeBSD team vermaden FreeBSD General 0 16th October 2008 06:11 PM
PAE and official Nvidia drivers rubenerd FreeBSD General 2 20th May 2008 10:53 PM


All times are GMT. The time now is 05:21 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Content copyright © 2007-2010, the authors
Daemon image copyright ©1988, Marshall Kirk McKusick