BSD Guides News

New Site Features and Improvements

support@bsdguides.org — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:31:59 GMT

As the new year rolls around, we have released the latest version of BSD Guides! With this new release you will find a few design changes for aesthetics ease-of-use. Such improvements include:

A link to the RSS feeds that has been a common request
Page headers to easily distinguish your current location
The guide listing per category or search results should be easier to read
The overall site should be more responsive

Some of the new features that we are excited about include:

Guide favorites -- similar to Digg in that you can save your favorite guides to your profile for future reference. This is in case you reference several guides for your server builds, you can view them all in one place.
Authors now have the ability to edit their posted guide from the site. (All changes must be reviewed and approved by a moderator before they go public).
All of your guides that are posted are now listed in your profile to easily keep track of them
Printer friendly version of each guide
The ability to remove your comment subscriptions for the guides you have commented on
And a ton of administrative features to help the administrators and moderators keep the site going

We would like to thank you for your support and feedback as several enhancements have come because of you. With that in mind, your feedback is continued to be welcomed in order to improve the site's functionaliy!

New Website

support@bsdguides.org — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:34:32 GMT

We are pleased to announce the release of our new website! There have been many improvements on both the management side and the user side. Our aim is to continue making this a community-driven site by allowing you to get more involved. Below are just some of the new features we've implemented:

When you submit a guide it gets added to your queue for you to review before they go "live"
Your profile now supports a paypal link which gets added to the guides you author.
RSS feeds for guides, comments, requests, and news!
Preview your comments before you post them.
Improved overall speed of the site.
User statistics.
And more!

As the website has changed, we are still developing new features and improvements to make things easier for you and for us. Though we still have some undeveloped areas of the site and still have features/improvements to come, we hope you will enjoy the new site and find it even more useful than before. We do ask that if you come across any problems with the site or just have any feedback for us, please contact us. We'd love to hear from you.

Back Online

support@bsdguides.org — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 18:22:15 GMT

We are now back online and providing you with the useful guides you are looking for. Thank you for bearing with us as we went through that long downtime and we'd like to thank all of you that have offered their services to host this site. Your generosity is really appreciated and encouraging. We are still not 100% online as the user's system is currently broken. It didn't make the transition to the new host as well as we'd like it to. So, until we fix it, we have disabled all user features (user accounts, comments, poll, and guide submission). If you have guides ready to submit, you may temporarily email them to us (bsdguides at gmail dot com).

Full of Releases

support@bsdguides.org — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 10:14:03 GMT

If you have been following the varous BSD flavors, you will notice that new releases of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD have become available all within a few weeks' time. You can find the latest releases from each of their sites. FreeBSD just released 6.0, OpenBSD released 3.8, and NetBSD released 2.1.