few friends of mine are creating a linux forum and they need a few people with certain skills, they have debain and unbuntu trype stuff but as far as gentoo and red hat and open suse they have never used them and neither have i.
um i was asking if we could get some help like a start up guide for the forums. or if someone is really good with the disrtos to post stuff, alot of questions lol
thank you open suse forums love your site alot of good info
On Fri, 08 May 2009 19:26:01 +0000, dpropes wrote:
> few friends of mine are creating a linux forum and they need a few
> people with certain skills, they have debain and unbuntu trype stuff but
> as far as gentoo and red hat and open suse they have never used them and
> neither have i.
Seems like a backwards approach, really. If they want to learn about
Linux, don’t create yet another new community of Linux forums and try to
get people to come over to them, they should get out in the forums that
already exist and use those to learn what they want to learn by asking
questions of the experts that are there.
Post informations, questions, get help and help other user…i like your idea but i think there are too many linux forums. It is better to focus our energy as split it up!
>they should get out in the forums that
>already exist and use those to learn what they want to learn by asking
>questions of the experts that are there.
My thoughts exactly. If they want to create a page that points to all the
various forums of the various distributions, I can see that. What I can’t
see is creating YASF (Yet Another Support Forum) to try to pull away from
the knowledge pools that already exist for the distributions. It’s the
underpinnings of these openSUSE forums…we brought together a group of
separate discussion forums and combined them into one entity to help that
knowledge pool grow and give it a single home to reside.
Lol no pay however it more of putting my information out there, is it better to have one site that has a answer or several sites that have totally diffrent answers. well that depends on who you ask
but honestly, there are so many distros, not just open suseit more of a help all sort of thing, if your good with open suse and can post info or any distro really then it will help
if you can go to one site and find all the information u needed that would be nice, but that not how things are. sometimes it takes research adn that what forums are many diffrent angles of research
thank you for all the help you might bring or can offer
I will just wish you “Good Fortune” in your endeavors of creating a Forum. If it provides a Service, fills a need, than it deserves to be there. As for dilution of the Support pool concept, I like the Ocean view better. It is a wide World out there, perhaps your mouse trap will be better than the present ones.
thank you, and on topic i actually never used open suse till 11 i grew up with mandrake and now use mostly Debian, my wife uses ubuntu, but i used open suse on mon the live cd was slow, but the install itself was easier then one would expect, now im no expert, but its nice, dual boot of course
> if you can go to one site and find all the information u needed that
> would be nice, but that not how things are. sometimes it takes research
> adn that what forums are many diffrent angles of research
are you saying that researching your own problem is a bad idea?
> Seems like a backwards approach, really. If they want to learn about
> Linux
BINGO! neither learning about Linux nor helping others to has anything
to do with their goal of attracting a crowd and then selling ad space
so they can stuff their own pockets while volunteers do all the work
of answering questions…
just another way to rip off the less than nimble minded…
I think you used the wrong missing organ as your moniker H_B. Though I do agree that the Worldwide shortage in Brains is a serious issue. You and your fellow Zombies H_B, must keep close watch on its docile herd of “brains”. Would not want any of them roaming off in the search of greener pastures. Once the brains are gone, all that is left is slow starvation.
What fractionates a community is being unpleasant to people for the purpose of feeding a Superiority Complex. I have read many of your posts, many if not most, are just being snarky without having substance or assistance. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
u never visted the site pre-phpbb failure there were no ads and even if there were it only pays .003 cents a click
so not really that big of a idea,
i do find this funny, i told a co-worker that the biggest difference between windows and linux is the community, it a helping a progressive community, now i see his point some people are just closed minded and are wishful thinkers
o well. open suse is nice been playing around with it still a personal fan of debian, being that i used it more,
On 5/10/2009 3:46 AM, dpropes wrote:
>
> i do find this funny, i told a co-worker that the biggest difference
> between windows and linux is the community, it a helping a progressive
> community, now i see his point some people are just closed minded and
> are wishful thinkers
>
It really has nothing to do with close minded or wishful thinking. You
are getting backlash because of the fact the you are coming to a
pre-exisiting community trying to get members to leave to start up your
community. You are muddying the waters of help by starting yet another
community that is already being helped in distro non-specific forums
such as Linux Questions and Linux Forums. Let alone you are coming on
the forums after agreeing to the Terms and Conditions and breaking them
by creating this post instead of contacting staff first.
On 5/10/2009 11:32 AM, 69_rs_ss wrote:
> On 5/10/2009 3:46 AM, dpropes wrote:
>>
>> i do find this funny, i told a co-worker that the biggest difference
>> between windows and linux is the community, it a helping a progressive
>> community, now i see his point some people are just closed minded and
>> are wishful thinkers
>>
> It really has nothing to do with close minded or wishful thinking. You
> are getting backlash because of the fact the you are coming to a
> pre-exisiting community trying to get members to leave to start up your
> community. You are muddying the waters of help by starting yet another
> community that is already being helped in distro non-specific forums
> such as Linux Questions and Linux Forums. Let alone you are coming on
> the forums after agreeing to the Terms and Conditions and breaking them
> by creating this post instead of contacting staff first.
>
Don’t forget the fact that it seems like you are spamming forums like
Crunchbang Linux, Linux Questions, Arch Linux, Fedora, etc. All the same
1st post.
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