Features
Slashdot features discussion forums on a variety of technology- and science-related topics, or "News for Nerds", as its motto states. The site is well known for its bias towards the open source software movement. Articles are divided into the following sections:
- Apple – news related to products from Apple Inc., such as Mac OS X or iPhone.
- Ask Slashdot – articles that seek advice from users about jobs, computer hardware, software glitches, philosophical problems, or more.
- Book Reviews – original book reviews on (not necessarily) tech books.
- BSD – news about the various modern versions of UNIX derived from the UCB distribution.
- Developers – news about software or programming.
- Features – original, feature-length articles.
- Games – gaming news.
- Geeks in Space – a web audio broadcast featuring several of the editors of Slashdot (outdated; no new episodes have been posted recently).
- Idle – miscellaneous and humorous articles, pictures, and videos.
- Interviews – interviews with various people related to science and technology.
- Information Technology (IT) – anything that people with "Information Technology" in their job description might be interested to know.
- Linux – news specific to the Linux operating system (any variant or distribution).
- Politics – news typically relevant to politics of the United States, but occasionally featuring international political news. It was originally created to cover the 2004 United States Presidential Election.
- Polls – a poll is usually run on the site in the right-hand margin, asking users their choice on a variety of topics. In the earlier years of the site, one of the options that could be selected was CowboyNeal, the handle of Jonathan Pater, an administrator of the site. This became known as the CowboyNeal option. During the summer of 2005, he stopped being in charge of the polls, and as a result the CowboyNeal option all but disappeared.
- Science – news on science-related topics (e.g. cool technology, space telescope observations, interesting medical research).
- Your Rights Online (YRO) – news on topics pertaining to internet privacy and digital rights.
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