jcd writes:
"I'm rather excited to get going with Soylent and to watch it grow. Nay, help it grow. I have lurked in /. for more than a decade (note: I'm not the same username over there, I know, how sneaky), and always wished I could have been involved with the beginning. So this is a great opportunity, and I joined as soon as I saw what Soylent was doing. Not to mention the fact that I felt right at home with the old style. It's very comfortable.
So here's a question for everyone. Are we going to be the same as slashdot? A clone that focuses as entirely as possible on tech related news? Or will we branch out to other topics? I'm interested to see either way. I posted a comment to this effect in one of our two existing polls, and it may be a community-wide assumption, but I do think it merits a discussion."
(Score: 5, Interesting) by DECbot on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:36PM
Back on /. I completely missed the whole debate between init/systemd/upstart until after Ubuntu admitted defeat and adopted systemd for the next LTS. And I was a little peeved that C++11 only had a blip of a news article with little discussion. You'd figure things like this matter to slashdot readers, but hardly any discussion if it even got posted at all. And when was the last time any RFC were discussed? I go to a news aggregator so I don't need to check 50 different sites for updates. I figure major nerd news would come through the /. pipe.
The OSX/Windows/Linux(flav'o'week)/BSD debate is entertaining, but there's no real content anymore. We realize they are each a different tool on the belt, and you have to use the one that fits best (or the one management shoves down your throat). Metro is aggravating to a developer, but in end it doesn't matter because he's still using the same dev tools. Going back to systemd, you would think it would be a big deal on /. because of the binary log files--but I don't recall seeing it until after its ratification.
To me, it seems like the devs and sys admins checked out of /. years ago--or at least news important to them. Big changes in admin and developer tools should be on a news site for admins and developers.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Thursday February 20 2014, @06:08PM
You're spot on with that, the whole systemd discussion got lost in the flame wars between Android and IOS and Windows. Yet it was very significant, the wholesale gutting and replacement of key of 'Nix with hardly any of that debate hitting slashdot.
And what did hit slashdot was late to the party, and quickly descended into name calling.
The only insight that came from the brief exposure systemd did get on slashdot was that the changeover "was not for you". It was done for big corporate reasons and big military reasons, and big spy reasons, by Red hat and Lennart Poettering, and Joe Linux user was just along for the ride.
The key take away was that Linux was being "corporatized".
But boy did you have to dig to arrive at that, and boy did the discussion get nasty.
Discussion should abhor vacuity, as space does a vacuum.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2014, @03:58AM