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Unofficial Ubuntu Linux Forums

Posted by timothy on from the keep-it-friendly-in-there dept.

ubuntu-geek writes "The Unofficial Ubuntu Linux forum (ubuntuforums.org) was created to fill a niche in the Ubuntu Linux Community. New and Current Ubuntu users who do not wish to receive large amounts of email from the mailing lists can benefit from this resource. There is a special forum that grabs posts from the Official Ubuntu Users mailing list allowing complete interaction."

14 comments

  1. What's with all the Ubuntu stories? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    There have been more Ubuntu stories over the past couple of months than every other distro put together, and it's only a relatively new distro. What gives? Has it already amassed the hundreds of thousands of users necessary to make an unofficial forum big news? Someone's just dumped a copy of phpbb on a new domain a couple of days ago. How is this "stuff that matters"?

    1. Re:What's with all the Ubuntu stories? by Miffe · · Score: 0

      And they haven't even made a release yet.

    2. Re:What's with all the Ubuntu stories? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      Ubuntu has went from 0 to position #8 on distrowatch in the last month thats some news IMO... The mailing lists are crawling with users..

    3. Re:What's with all the Ubuntu stories? by Gaima · · Score: 3, Interesting

      It's not as if Ubuntu is some major step forward, or different in such a way as to make it especially news worthy.
      Don't get me wrong, it's great it's free free, and that they'll send you a free CD, or so it says.
      A formalised "Code of Conduct" sounds a good idea, but is that any different from the social contracts other distros have formalised?
      The LDFLAGS they set which is the basis for the excellent start up times is a neat trick, and certainly unique in my limited experience of binary based distros, but if it's so great someone else will copy it.
      How is another debian based distro going to change the face of GNU/Linux?

      Perhaps I'm slightly biased, as a die-hard Gentoo user, I just don't get the point.
      p.s. most of my apps now start as fast as lightning, thanks Ubuntu :)

    4. Re:What's with all the Ubuntu stories? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      heh..i must be running a myth..

    5. Re:What's with all the Ubuntu stories? by Cthefuture · · Score: 5, Informative

      Yes, it's that good. It's still growing but it's worth a try.

      This is the first distro that has even come close to competing with Windows while still having the Linux feel/flavor. I don't know if that was their intention but usually the best stuff is so good that it far exeeds its original intention.

      One of the main things I like about Ubuntu is that the base install doesn't include ten thousand various apps and fill the application menus with thousands of icons and other choices that I'll never use.

      If you look at the Windows model, when you need some application, you realize you need it, install it, then it shows up in the menus. Too many Linux distros install too much crap all at once. I end up never using the GUI because all the menus are cluttered with crap I never use. Ubuntu provides a clean office-oriented base install without too much crap. I can then install the crap I want from Ubuntu/Debian's huge repository.

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    6. Re:What's with all the Ubuntu stories? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      They have only made a prerelease. Warty Warthog is going to be released on October 20th. http://wiki.ubuntulinux.org/WartyWarthog_2fRelease Schedule

    7. Re:What's with all the Ubuntu stories? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      The LDFLAGS they set which is the basis for the excellent start up times is a neat trick, and certainly unique in my limited experience of binary based distros, but if it's so great someone else will copy it.

      So what sort of LDFLAGS is Ubuntu using? I couldn't find any with Google.

    8. Re:What's with all the Ubuntu stories? by Mornelithe · · Score: 1

      LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"

      Big ass discussion here.

      I tried it on zsh myself and didn't notice too much of a difference (perhaps a little faster), so take it all with a grain of salt. It's quite likely that people will 'see' speedups because they expect to see them instead of actual improvements.

      But, it can't hurt (as long as you don't mind slower compilation), so you might as well give it a try.

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    9. Re:What's with all the Ubuntu stories? by Mornelithe · · Score: 2, Insightful

      But distrowatch just measures how many times people visit the Ubuntu distrowatch page to find more information. Arguably, the many articles on Ubuntu would direct more people to find out information, thereby increasing the distrowatch position.

      So if you do a news article about the ranking jump, you'd essentially be doing an article about the fact that there have been a lot of Ubuntu articles recently.

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  2. Mailinglists, forums and.. by noselasd · · Score: 1

    NNTP News. Why not nntp news group rather ? Mailing lists f*cks up threading and what not. Web forums are usually slow. So why not
    a nntp forum, or better webforum/mailinglist and news gateways.

    1. Re:Mailinglists, forums and.. by cloudless.net · · Score: 3, Informative

      Newsgroup:
      nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user

      Web interface:
      http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user

  3. Ubuntu Linux Comunity? by jotaeleemeese · · Score: 1

    Judging by the length of the comment thread that is only the poster.....

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