Anyone who wants a Linux sub forum please vote.

[stdPikachu]

Here be beauty, there be pie charts.

 

[jæd]

TBH, I'd rather see a "Numptys arguing endlessly about 'Win V Mac' like some tedious, stuck record from the land of 'Oh dear God not this same stupid argument over and over and over a-fucking-gain'" sub-forum.

Not quite sure if the title's snappy enough though...

Ars Tech have a "Battlefront" Forum that serves this purpose. It works quite well to draw fan-boys away from real discussion.

 

[jayeola]

Wow, this is great! Can I start a flame war? Slackware and Unbuntu sucks!

 

[editor]

Well, The People have spoken and they say "Naaay."

 

[jayeola]

alright then, what about an emacs vs. vim forum?

 

[jæd]

Well, The People have spoken and they say "Naaay."

Thats because they are horses... Baaa...!

 

[cybertect]

alright then, what about an emacs vs. vim forum?

Now you're talking.

 

[jayeola]

(setq inhibit-startup-message t)
(server-start)
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
(add-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions 'comint-watch-for-password-prompt)
(split-window-vertically)
(shell (rename-buffer "root"))
(defalias 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)

Bring it on!

 

[DotCommunist]

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

my $day = 'today';

sub Our_Camel
{
print 'Our Camel, Who art at #!/usr/bin/perl,'."\n";
print "Hallowed be Thy Name.\n";
print "Thy Script Will Run.\n";
print "Larry's Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.\n";
print "Give us this day our daily coffe.\n";
print "And forgive us our errors,\n";
print "as we forgive our scripts when they abort.";
print "And lead us not to a single way of thinking,\n";
print "but show us that TMTOWTDI. Amen.\n";
}

while($day)
{
&Our_Camel;

we should have a PerlPoetry forum

 

[gnoriac]

There is a difference between linux and the rest - it's free so you're not putting money in the pockets of Gates or Jobs. Of course you can get Windows for free but in the case of linux it's genuinely so.

I know nobody can accurately define what u75 is all about, but you'd think there'd be more enthusiasm on here for it inasmuch as it's sticking up 2 fingers to 'the man', apologies if I made anyone throw up with that phrase. Are there any bigger, more popular sites than u75 that reject advertising completely? Yet there seems to be an attitude equating a not-for-money OS with commercial ones from companies with rather odious business practices.

The thing I think that holds linux back from widescale adoption is that even with user-friendly distros like ubuntu you still have to go into terminal every now and then, which for most people is decidedly unfamiliar territory (and I'm pointing out the unfamiliarity thing cos anyone who's a serious level windows user will have to know their way around entering DOS commands and editing the registry), so I think a sub-forum for linux in which what experts we have here shared their knowledge with the rest of us would be a truly excellent move forward.

 

[jæd]

Why not just a non-Windows forum for both Mac, Limux and everything else...?

 

[jæd]

I know nobody can accurately define what u75 is all about, but you'd think there'd be more enthusiasm on here for it inasmuch as it's sticking up 2 fingers to 'the man', apologies if I made anyone throw up with that phrase. Are there any bigger, more popular sites than u75 that reject advertising completely? Yet there seems to be an attitude equating a not-for-money OS with commercial ones from companies with rather odious business practices.

Yes... U75 imagines itself to be some kind of lefty subvesive website, but it still supports the "Man".

 

[EastEnder]

There is a difference between linux and the rest - it's free so you're not putting money in the pockets of Gates or Jobs. Of course you can get Windows for free but in the case of linux it's genuinely so.

I know nobody can accurately define what u75 is all about, but you'd think there'd be more enthusiasm on here for it inasmuch as it's sticking up 2 fingers to 'the man', apologies if I made anyone throw up with that phrase. Are there any bigger, more popular sites than u75 that reject advertising completely? Yet there seems to be an attitude equating a not-for-money OS with commercial ones from companies with rather odious business practices.

The thing I think that holds linux back from widescale adoption is that even with user-friendly distros like ubuntu you still have to go into terminal every now and then, which for most people is decidedly unfamiliar territory (and I'm pointing out the unfamiliarity thing cos anyone who's a serious level windows user will have to know their way around entering DOS commands and editing the registry), so I think a sub-forum for linux in which what experts we have here shared their knowledge with the rest of us would be a truly excellent move forward.

I think you may have missed the point a bit...

No one's dissing Linux - I use it all the time and think it's superb, and there's plenty of others here who do to.

Thing is, there's a vast plethora of Linux orientated BB's, interest groups, etc, out on t'internet. U75 is eclectic, broad appeal, techies & luddites alike, etc. IMHO, there's just not enough hard core *nix'ers on u75 to warrant a dedicated sub-forum. Not to mention that sub-forums invariably, albeit unintentionally, create cliques. A general purpose s/ware forum may be perused by all and sundry, it's not overly intimidating to the technically challenged - such people might even end up reading a thread about Linux because it's in the non-specific s/ware forum.

 

[gnoriac]

I think you may have missed the point a bit...

No one's dissing Linux - I use it all the time and think it's superb, and there's plenty of others here who do to.

Thing is, there's a vast plethora of Linux orientated BB's, interest groups, etc, out on t'internet. U75 is eclectic, broad appeal, techies & luddites alike, etc. IMHO, there's just not enough hard core *nix'ers on u75 to warrant a dedicated sub-forum. Not to mention that sub-forums invariably, albeit unintentionally, create cliques. A general purpose s/ware forum may be perused by all and sundry, it's not overly intimidating to the technically challenged - such people might even end up reading a thread about Linux because it's in the non-specific s/ware forum.

No, I wasn't suggesting anyone *was* dissing linux (well 1 or 2 other OS fanatics do ) and there are loads of very good sites around, but I do tend to use u75's techie forums to ask questions on this and other free/OS source because I find it more comprehensible in terms of attitude and stuff.

Dunno that there aren't enough etc., another discussion board I used to use a lot is an ex-pats one, thaivisa .com, and they've had a healthy linux subforum there for a good while. There are probably even less techies as a % amongst the ex-pat crowd.

Rather than intimidating, I think it would actually open things up to other people who haven't considered it before, seeing how much legally-free goodies there are around. Depends on attitude I think, if bad attitudes like condescension from the experts are seen as out-of-order...

 

[stdPikachu]

Rather than intimidating, I think it would actually open things up to other people who haven't considered it before, seeing how much legally-free goodies there are around. Depends on attitude I think, if bad attitudes like condescension from the experts are seen as out-of-order...

Wouldn't have the Linux questions knocking about amongst the windows, Mac, BSD, BeOS, RISCOS and DOS questions bring it to a wider audience though? If people see a techie forum with a name they don't understand, they're not going to bother going in. If they're continually seeing posts about some cool new free software (and how it's broken on them ) they might actually pluck up the courage to give it a whirl at some point, knowing they won't have to descend into the geek clique to get help with it. More friendly and social the way it is IMHO.

 

[jæd]

Wouldn't have the Linux questions knocking about amongst the windows, Mac, BSD, BeOS, RISCOS and DOS questions bring it to a wider audience though? If people see a techie forum with a name they don't understand, they're not going to bother going in. If they're continually seeing posts about some cool new free software (and how it's broken on them ) they might actually pluck up the courage to give it a whirl at some point, knowing they won't have to descend into the geek clique to get help with it. More friendly and social the way it is IMHO.

The Linux orientated posts are quite few and far between, and usually obscured with blizzards of Xp related posts... Having a seperate forum would show that there's more interest in it...

 

[EastEnder]

The Linux orientated posts are quite few and far between, and usually obscured with blizzards of Xp related posts... Having a seperate forum would show that there's more interest in it...

Very, very occasionally I used to comment on the odd "fashion" related thread in Sobbing & Nobbing.

Since the Threads & Dreads sub-forum appeared, I've not gone anywhere near such threads. I can't remember the last time I castigated one of the fairer urbs for having too many shoes.

Why the hell would I choose to enter a fashion orientated sub-forum? It has nothing to do with me, it's an alien landscape.

A Linux sub-forum, whilst infinitely more interesting to those of an erudite persuasion, would nonetheless end up alienating many non-techies in the same way as the fashion sub-forum alienates people who like beige.

 

[jæd]

Very, very occasionally I used to comment on the odd "fashion" related thread in Sobbing & Nobbing.

There were "fashion" threads in the Banging & Boo-hoo-ing forum...? I never saw any... Good thing they moved...

 

[subversplat]

we should have a PerlPoetry forum

That's very inefficient script.

 

[ChrisC]

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[ChrisC]

There is a difference between linux and the rest - it's free so you're not putting money in the pockets of Gates or Jobs. Of course you can get Windows for free but in the case of linux it's genuinely so.

I know nobody can accurately define what u75 is all about, but you'd think there'd be more enthusiasm on here for it inasmuch as it's sticking up 2 fingers to 'the man', apologies if I made anyone throw up with that phrase. Are there any bigger, more popular sites than u75 that reject advertising completely? Yet there seems to be an attitude equating a not-for-money OS with commercial ones from companies with rather odious business practices.

The thing I think that holds linux back from widescale adoption is that even with user-friendly distros like ubuntu you still have to go into terminal every now and then, which for most people is decidedly unfamiliar territory (and I'm pointing out the unfamiliarity thing cos anyone who's a serious level windows user will have to know their way around entering DOS commands and editing the registry), so I think a sub-forum for linux in which what experts we have here shared their knowledge with the rest of us would be a truly excellent move forward.

Thats my point exactly. Although a OS's forum would also be a good move. This forum is far to generalized.

 

[Sunray]

I like generalisation.