FreeBSD Journal announced

http://www.freebsdnews.net/2013/11/26/freebsd-journal-announced/

by drallison • 13 years ago

81 37 13 years ago

The actual link for the future magazine's website (with the same info on freebsdnews.net) --> http://www.freebsdjournal.com/

spindritf• 13 years ago

How is it that FreeBSD has such great documentation[1], now this while Linux is stuck with random wikis and blogposts, usually out-of-date?

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/

dijit• 13 years ago

Smaller community, more central management.

Linux is seen as a programming platform a lot more than freeBSD.

man pages work wonderfully though.

X-Istence• 13 years ago

The man pages that come with FreeBSD are absolutely fantastic and top notch, more so than most of the man pages I have found with Ubuntu for example.

I don't see how Linux being seen as a programming platform makes much if a difference. FreeBSD has a pretty large community as well, but the core community that puts together the OS seems to take much more pride in their work and having it be fully documented than any other open source organisation.

akadien• 13 years ago

I develop primarily on FreeBSD (80% C, 20% nodejs) and test for compliance on Centos Linux. My experience is that code written and tested on FreeBSD has so far fewer bugs this way. Package management is more intuitive, too.

justincormack2• 13 years ago

Linux distros have to do that sort of documentation as there is no standard. There is only really one freebsd distro. Also the change rate is lower.

tachion3• 13 years ago

To certain degree - we've also FreeNAS, PC-BSD and lots of others, listed in details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BSD_operating_systems#F...

vacri• 13 years ago

FreeBSD is a 'distribution' and Linux is a 'kernel', which in the context you're discussing is an important distinction. Pick a same-level entity to compare - Fedora? Ubuntu? Arch? Not saying that the documentation is as good, just that the question is apples vs oranges.

mhurron• 13 years ago

In the context it is clear that they used Linux in place of a 'Linux Distribution.' No one was unclear about this.

And the documentation of all Linux distros suck compared to FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Including Arch's.

RexRollman3• 13 years ago

I think OpenBSD and Arch has really good documentation too.

unethical_ban• 13 years ago

There's also BSD Now, which is pretty cool. More BSD coverage is always nice!

tachion3• 13 years ago

Also, there is BSD Magazine too: http://bsdmag.org/

RexRollman3• 13 years ago

"The Journal will be a bi-monthly publication and will be available on the web or as an Android/iPhone/Kindle app."

Why make it an app? Making "app" magazines seems really dumb to me, when you could simply make it available in an open format like PDF or ePub or text.

orik• 13 years ago

I'm willing to bet it will be available in an open format "on the web".

The additional formats probably exist to serve a wider audience.

It would be nice if I could get it in TeX though.

RexRollman3• 13 years ago

I think you are the first person I have ever seen say that. If I may ask, what benefits would having it TeX bring to you?

UNIXgod2• 13 years ago

It's great to see many resources for keeping up with the unknown giant nowdays!

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