Someone out there must tickle PeterH or someone else to keep this Freebsd desktop version moving along. I love it so much. I only wish I could help, but all I can do is shout out that I love DBSD.

I tried offering my help, I'm not a developer but a system administrator under Linux systems (though I program a bit too) but I do like this project, I had an account I think since 2008 or 2007 which I lost the password but due to some administration problems in peter's website (server) I couldn't retrieve or get a new password, so I had to get a new one I think from last year.

I think the best thing We can do is to create another project with his work (svn) and fork it, I bought a domain in order to do so, but as peter has mentioned before there is one big stone always, People who do this kind of projects do it because they love to do this kind of things and there is not a remuneration ($$$) but what people can offer through donations and if there is not too much who can afford to have such infrastructure running.

I my self find no time at this moment to start a project like this, even just to setup the main web page and forums is a big not to say a huge work. Documentation, coding, tracking system, etc. I'm at this point since my last post to him developing coding skills but this things take time.

What is needed? coders who can implement new features to the operating system, I've talk to one here in the forum too and I think he's a good one but he's human too and has lot of problems at this point, and even though he can code a lot and good code, one person won't get the time to code everything it is just impossible, I think the main issue in this project is coders and without them this is not going any further.

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Jorge;

If you're still interested, let's take this to email for a bit. I have some ideas which won't cost us too much time and should give us a decent idea of the "feasibility" of moving forward on something.

My background is in product & program management in the closed-source world so, I can't code either. But, here's the thing: F/LOSS projects have been around long enough now that there are a lot of mentors out there who can, at least, warn us of pitfalls & point us to ideas that have worked in the past. And F/LOSS begets F/LOSS.

In general terms, the way I see it is that the first step is to see who here has interest in continuing the development of DBSD. The second is to do an "inventory" of what those interested parties can bring. Most likely, we won't have enough resources from here, specifically. But we don't need to. If we can pull together a scope of the project we're talking about, then we can go out into the greater F/LOSS community to find "fresh blood."

Let me know.

Best,
-Craig

I'm really interested in doing some work in this project either by forking it or by taking charge of it. Let me know your ideas, I have a copy of the last work peter did to his sources and some ideas from other projects to build a BSD system, I'm working right now in a website (general website) but we need people who can work in order to have everything up and running quickly and with good support to the users.

The domain I bought for this project is http://www.smartbsd.org.

Best Regards,
joag

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