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April 23rd, 2006, 10:53 AM
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Spliting the Linux Forum
The Linux forum is a very general place- anything from KDE questions to kernel questions would be asked in there. I think that spliting it into a Desktop Linux Forum (KDE, Xfce, Gnome) and a General Linux Forum (kernel, installation, bugs) would be good.
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April 23rd, 2006, 01:20 PM
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Interesting proposal. The desktop aspects are usually distro-agnostic (even OS-agnostic, since much of the same desktop software is used on the BSDs, Linux, and some true Unixes). If we did this, would that "desktop stuff" forum be for desktop Linux or desktop-*nix in general?
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April 23rd, 2006, 02:08 PM
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People tend to confuse the two aspects, particularly newbies. Traffic is low in addition. I recommend a voluntary tagging system however. If we get the majority of threads in a format like this:
[kde] issue with artsd [gnome] panel keeps exiting [multimedia] gentoo - can't configure alsa If mods renamed a few to be like this, perhaps users might pick up on it and try to post like that
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April 24th, 2006, 02:13 AM
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Brilliant. It could be taken one step further: a drop-down box below the Thread Title box. I don't know how hard it would be to add to vBullitin, but there are a lot of Forums that could benefit from that.
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April 24th, 2006, 02:15 AM
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Well, there is a *nix forum. But I think that the seperation is arbitrary. If a fix works on KDE in Linux, it most likely would work on *BSD as well. That is another good argument for having the desktop stuff seperate from the linux stuff.
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April 24th, 2006, 06:00 AM
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I personally don't think there's enough traffic in the Linux forum to warrant a separation. I like LP's tagging idea, however.
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April 24th, 2006, 11:23 AM
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I also like LP's tagging idea. However, if a user asks how to (for example) set up Arabic language support of KDE in the Linux forum, nobody might know how. There may be Arabic users in the Unix forum, however, who would never get to the linux forum. KDE is _not_ linux any more than Photoshop is Windows.
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April 24th, 2006, 11:30 AM
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Personally I'd be happy with keeping them the way it is, i'm subscribed to BSD, Linux and Unix anyway. While you have a fair point, I don't think it would be necessary to do a `POSIX forum`.
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