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  • proposal for a tilde.bsd newsgroup

    From snowcrash@snowcrash@tilde.pink to tilde.meta,tilde.services on Mon Feb 28 12:15:43 2022

    Greetings.
    As I see a significant portion of tildes community is interested or
    involved in BSD projects, given the relative scarcity of fora and other
    Q&A platforms focusing on BSD, I thought it could be a good idea to
    host a _tilde.bsd_ group here and see if it manages to attract some
    users. The possibility of having this hosted on tildeverse was suggested
    me by @yeti, after I had advanced the hypothesis of self-hosting a
    generic *bsd newgroup on UnitedbSD forum.

    What do the community and the admins think about that? Would it be a
    viable option?

    Thanks in advance.
    Cheers :)
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  • From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to tilde.meta on Mon Feb 28 13:41:20 2022
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  • From deepend@deepend@tilde.club to tilde.meta on Thu Mar 17 22:59:51 2022
    On 2/28/22 5:15 AM, snowcrash wrote:


    What do the community and the admins think about that? Would it be a
    viable option?


    I know I would be open to such a group.
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  • From klu@klu@cosmic.voyage to tilde.meta on Sat Mar 19 07:21:31 2022
    deepend <deepend@tilde.club> writes:

    On 2/28/22 5:15 AM, snowcrash wrote:


    What do the community and the admins think about that? Would it be a
    viable option?


    I know I would be open to such a group.

    I run a home FreeBSD server for many years now. I'd be interested to
    subscribe.
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  • From James Tomasino@tomasino@cosmic.voyage to tilde.meta on Sat Mar 19 12:02:35 2022
    On 2022-03-18, deepend <deepend@tilde.club> wrote:
    On 2/28/22 5:15 AM, snowcrash wrote:


    What do the community and the admins think about that? Would it be a
    viable option?


    I know I would be open to such a group.
    I would also happily add a bsd group.
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  • From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to tilde.meta on Sat Mar 19 13:33:54 2022
    klu@cosmic.voyage writes:

    deepend <deepend@tilde.club> writes:

    On 2/28/22 5:15 AM, snowcrash wrote:


    What do the community and the admins think about that? Would it be a
    viable option?


    I know I would be open to such a group.

    I run a home FreeBSD server for many years now. I'd be interested to subscribe.

    See ...

    https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/686-idea-hosting-a-unitedbsd-newsgroup/21

    ... or subscribe directly to news://retrobsd.ddns.net (port 119).
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  • From snowcrash@snowcrash@tilde.pink to tilde.meta on Sun Mar 20 18:11:57 2022
    On 190322 12:02, James Tomasino <tomasino@cosmic.voyage> wrote:
    On 2022-03-18, deepend <deepend@tilde.club> wrote:
    I know I would be open to such a group.
    I would also happily add a bsd group.

    Hi; as yeti mentioned, I eventually opted for hosting my INN
    newsserver[1]. This was something I had been thinking about for some
    time, as a fun project, so the bsd newsgroup was merely a pretext to
    set it up. I'm fine with creating a tilde.bsd newsgroup for tilde users:
    it would serve a different purpose than alt.unitedbsd, which is better
    suited as a fallback platform for that forum.

    I'm inclined to have tilde.bsd hosted on tilde.club, considering by
    server runs on a SBC and that my Internet connection isn't that great.

    However I could add news.tilde.club as a peer in my incoming.conf; and
    just pull tilde.bsd (or even everything!) if you fed me news. That would
    be really nice, what do you think?

    [1]https://retrobsd.ddns.net/38a43f.htm
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  • From RSS is not dead@rss@not.dead to tilde.meta on Fri Mar 25 03:49:00 2022
    On 2/28/22 12:15, snowcrash wrote:

    Greetings.
    As I see a significant portion of tildes community is interested or
    involved in BSD projects, given the relative scarcity of fora and other
    Q&A platforms focusing on BSD, I thought it could be a good idea to
    host a _tilde.bsd_ group here and see if it manages to attract some
    users. The possibility of having this hosted on tildeverse was suggested
    me by @yeti, after I had advanced the hypothesis of self-hosting a
    generic *bsd newgroup on UnitedbSD forum.

    What do the community and the admins think about that? Would it be a
    viable option?

    Double thumbs up.

    I just happen to be coding a cryptography package for BSD ports. I don't
    know which is more onerous--BSD ports or Debian packages--but I will
    know by the time I am done. We could even talk about the optimal way to package up BSD ports for submission.

    So I already have a conversation starter despite the group not existing yet.

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  • From James Tomasino@tomasino@cosmic.voyage to tilde.meta on Fri Mar 25 13:58:49 2022
    On 2022-03-25, RSS is not dead <rss@not.dead> wrote:
    On 2/28/22 12:15, snowcrash wrote:

    Greetings.
    What do the community and the admins think about that? Would it be a
    viable option?

    Double thumbs up.

    Cosmic has created a tilde.bsd group and set it to peer based on the
    positive feedback here. Other node operators, do your thing. :)
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  • From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to tilde.meta on Fri Mar 25 18:36:36 2022
    James Tomasino <tomasino@cosmic.voyage> writes:

    Cosmic has created a tilde.bsd group and set it to peer based on the
    positive feedback here. Other node operators, do your thing. :)

    \o/
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  • From klu@klu@cosmic.voyage to tilde.meta on Sun Mar 27 07:12:59 2022
    RSS is not dead <rss@not.dead> writes:

    On 2/28/22 12:15, snowcrash wrote:

    I just happen to be coding a cryptography package for BSD ports. I
    don't know which is more onerous--BSD ports or Debian packages--but I
    will know by the time I am done. We could even talk about the optimal
    way to package up BSD ports for submission.

    So I already have a conversation starter despite the group not existing yet.

    About packages/ports - I'd like to mention NetBSD's port system
    pkgsrc. What's amazing is that pkgsrc is cross-platform. One can use it
    on BSDs (including MacOS!) and Linux.

    To me, only having to learn and get familiar with one system, and carry
    over that knowledge everywhere else is huge. I have success using it on
    both Linux in work and MacOS at home.

    Also pkgsrc can be used in very restricted environment, like, even when
    you don't have root priviledge. pkgsrc can bootstrap itself up and not
    to rely on host system's compiler toolchain.
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