So my first 'professionally published' article is now live. Over at Ars Technica, they took a somewhat informal review of PC-BSD (a nice KDE based FreeBSD derivative) and with some editing, turned it into a front page feature article. Have a look :P
I hope to feature a number of different operating systems and distributions over there, but try to keep things positive by focusing on the specific features that make each distro unique, rather than simply comparing them to existing projects. This should allow wider exposure for a lot of open source projects, not just the KDE ones. Did you guys know that AtheOS (now known as Syllable) produced a KHTML-derived browser that wrapped the Qt calls into it's own toolkit before even WebKit came along? I'm curious if it still exists or whether they've adapted to use WebKit as well...
Anyway, I'm not going to blog about each and every article I publish over there - but I figured that the first one was noteworthy enough to mention. Cheers folks :)
Edit: I didn't quite expect this response... first live article hits osnews, digg frontpage, slashdot, and many more places. I've had wider coverage on a review of PC-BSD than I've had on any of my Road articles so far, which looks good for future KDE material I post via Ars. Reception has been mostly positive in the forums, except for those that degenerate into linux-vs-bsd or distro-vs-distro type arguments... :) I'll quote myself from earlier... "Wheee!"
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