linuxquestions.org — LinuxQuestions.org is proud to announce that it recently reached two milestones. The site now contains over two million (2,000,000) posts and has over two hundred thousand (200,000) registered members. As one of the largest non-distribution specific Linux communities on the web, LQ continues the rapid growth that it has sustained for six years.
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echimuDec 21, 2005
2,000,000 post ? 200,000 users? so what's the big deal and is this is tech news? I guess they are making good money out of it... just type "linux help" in google.com and you will get first ad by linuxquestions.org ... I'm not saying it is bad to make money but then plz stop saying your big community, I think UseNet via google group is the best place to look for answers, just my thoughts..
darkchildDec 21, 2005
LinuxQuesions.org is run by volunteers for no profit, so they are not really making any money from it.
thund3rstruckDec 21, 2005
Definatly no digg... I love linux but the assh**es on that site get off on making you feel stupid. Much better community in alt.linux and comp.os.linux.*
Closed AccountDec 21, 2005
"I've been trying for SIX YEARS to get a 100% functional Linux desktop, and in that time I've tried at least fifteen different distros on probably ten machines." Either you are sponsored by microsoft or you don't know the first thing about linux, i find it interesting that you have had soo many dawnting problems with linux, but when I installed my first distro (knoppix with kernel 2.4 on a KT266a based motherboard) as a complete noob, i had no problems other than learning to compile source code. That was 2 years ago, do you mean to tell me linux hardware support has gotton worse? please. I have since had no major hardware support problems when installing linux on a wide variety of hardware, i've even installed it on my playstation 2! how about you post the hardware specs of the machines you've had so many problems with so we can figure out how to get it working because a large part of open source development is user contribution, have you reported any bugs? until you learn to be patient and cooperative, happy virus scanning!
Closed AccountDec 22, 2005
I'm sick of people bashing linux because of it's hardware support, you _cannot_ blame the community for unsupported devices. You have only the hardware vendors and microsoft coercion to blame for that, you obviously have no idea how hard it is to write drivers for devices without support specifications from the manufacturer, in many cases, it's like trying to read a book in the dark. Thankfully, there are some kind companies that provide native drivers like nvidia and ati, but alot of what is in linux now are drivers coded by community members (can you say intel centrino?) and now that we have cooperation from IBM and HP think of what the linux kernel alone will support by next year! I notice you (Anchoret) still haven't named this elusive hardware, or the distro's which cannot tame it. You cannot expect hw support to magically improve if all you do is troll on digg about how linux does not hold your hand, how about you work with the developers by letting them know you are having problems with said chipset and it gives so and so errors so there can be a chance of this hardware being supported.
Closed AccountDec 22, 2005
In a sense, Linux has better hardware support than windows because it supports so many different platforms (x86, x86-64, PPC, sparc, MIPS, ARM. . .) The same can be said for the BSDs, it cannot be said for windows.
linuxquestionsDec 22, 2005Submitter
echimu,I'm not following your logic at all. As a community, our goal is to help people with Linux. The more people that know about us, the more people we can help. Since generating a profit is not a big concern for us, after we pay expenses we do things like donate to our favorite projects, try to save for more hardware and promote the site. If you've never seen any other community do this, you've just not looked very hard. Why would us trying to help more people instead of putting the money in our pockets not make us part of the community?--jeremy
echimuDec 22, 2005
Okai jeremy thanks for reply back, good to see your explanation, now my thoughts are clear :) Yup I do love Linux and community like you, but most of time I hang around chat rooms and newsgroup but sure I will join LQ sooner or later