Bug 201366 - out-of-date link to DaemonNews leads to spam
Summary: out-of-date link to DaemonNews leads to spam
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Website (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Many People
Assignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody)
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Reported: 2015-07-05 21:24 UTC by Alison Winters
Modified: 2015-07-14 11:50 UTC (History)
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Description Alison Winters 2015-07-05 21:24:45 UTC
There are several out-of-date parts of the website, but perhaps the worst is the link to DaemonNews, which now appears to be some kind of spam website.

Page:
http://www.freebsd.org/advocacy/myths.html

Paragraph starting:
"The *BSD projects cooperate in other areas as well."

I would suggest the whole paragraph could be removed. The whole section could use an update, too, since FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD have been split for over 20 years now. Aside from Dragonfly and perhaps PC-BSD i don't really think anything else has a lot of mindshare today.
Comment 1 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-07-14 11:46:01 UTC
A commit references this bug:

Author: brueffer
Date: Tue Jul 14 11:45:00 UTC 2015
New revision: 46967
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46967

Log:
  Remove link to the defunct DaemonNews site; adapt BSD fork timescales.

  PR:		201366
  Submitted by:	Alison Winters

Changes:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/advocacy/myths.xml
Comment 2 Christian Brueffer freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-07-14 11:50:28 UTC
Thanks for the notice Alison, I hopefully addressed the issues in the committed change.  I think keeping the entry around is still useful, this myth really does pop up frequently.  Since PC-BSD (and pfSense etc) are not really forks in the sense of the article, I left them out.

Please let us know in case you have further comments, thanks!