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BSD Magazine released

In the fall of 2007 I wrote two 30-day series about PC-BSD and DesktopBSD respectively. I was impressed by the ease of use and the level of maturity,not of the software but of the people developing and using BSD.
When I was finished I ran across a blogpost by Dru Lavigne who pointed at a new [...]

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Stallman: ‘OpenBSD Ports Suggests Non-Free Software’

“East is east and west is west, and never the twain shall meet.” OSNews reports about an exchange between the ever cuddly Richard Stallman and the always cordial Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD. What is the issue?
According to Richard Stallman the OpenBSD ports collection isn’t as free as he wants it to be. To quote [...]

Monday, December 17th, 2007