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iplayfast
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 Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 6:26 pm Post subject: Slashdot caught wind, it's starting!!! |
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Funny they don't talk about the new version so much as the Unreal Tournament 2003 demo on the new versoin.
Thanks DRobbins for not announing it until after the forum watchers had gotten their downloads  |
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Naan Yaar
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| Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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More of a chat topic.
Moving to Gentoo Chat. |
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pjp
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I'd remove it until the Slashdotians went away.
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echeslack
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| Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| kanuslupus wrote: | | I'd remove it until the Slashdotians went away. |
hey, even if its just because of the demo, its not a bad thing for gentoo to get some good press on a huge site
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phong
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Mr. Hand: "Hi Mr. Ibiblio! I brought a friend along. His name is Slashdoto."
Mr. Ibiblio: "I don't like him Mr. Hand. He's gonna be mean to me."
Mr. Hand: "No he won't, he just wants some of your bandwidth."
Mr. Ibiblio: "No no, oh nooooooooooooooooooOOO!" *splat*
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pjp
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| Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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| echeslack wrote: | | hey, even if its just because of the demo, its not a bad thing for gentoo to get some good press on a huge site |
True. I was mainly thinking of bandwidth wasted on people only looking for UT. How much 'exposure' to Gentoo will these users really get?
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iplayfast
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| Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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Expect the forums to become quite busy over the next while.
I think maybe a FAQ of Common problems would be a useful doc to have. |
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pjp
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| Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| iplayfast wrote: | | I think maybe a FAQ of Common problems would be a useful doc to have. |
The FAQ is at least one such document. The Gentoo Linux User Documentation Resources are also useful. Frequently both resources are skipped in favor of posting questions they answer.
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iplayfast
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| Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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| kanuslupus wrote: | | iplayfast wrote: | | I think maybe a FAQ of Common problems would be a useful doc to have. |
The FAQ is at least one such document. The Gentoo Linux User Documentation Resources are also useful. Frequently both resources are skipped in favor of posting questions they answer. |
Ha, I'm guilty as charged. I glanced at the FAQ and saw the first question, how do you pronounce Gentoo, and I assumed that the rest of the questions also weren't technical.
On the other hand, half the reason I like gentoo is the forum. The users are SO NICE , they help out newbs like me, even if the question being asked is rather niave (eg. wheel what's that ?) |
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rac
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| Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| iplayfast wrote: | | Ha, I'm guilty as charged. I glanced at the FAQ and saw the first question, how do you pronounce Gentoo, and I assumed that the rest of the questions also weren't technical. |
I think you're confusing the official Gentoo FAQ with the Gentoo Forums FAQ, which was written entirely by forum participants, and to which everyone is encouraged to contribute by posting to this thread.
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iplayfast
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| Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| rac wrote: | | iplayfast wrote: | | Ha, I'm guilty as charged. I glanced at the FAQ and saw the first question, how do you pronounce Gentoo, and I assumed that the rest of the questions also weren't technical. |
I think you're confusing the official Gentoo FAQ with the Gentoo Forums FAQ, which was written entirely by forum participants, and to which everyone is encouraged to contribute by posting to this thread. |
No, I've never heard of the forum faq until now. And in looking at it, it appears that the questions and answers are mainly about how to use the forum itself, not gentoo....
Oops, I did it again  . Reading a bit more, it get's more technical. (shesh, I should RTFF).
This is a good thing. I think it needs to be more obvious. (maybe renaming to Tech-FAQ would help). |
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rac
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| iplayfast wrote: | | No, I've never heard of the forum faq until now. And in looking at it, it appears that the questions and answers are mainly about how to use the forum itself, not gentoo.... |
Yeah, actually I overstated that case. The first section "Gentoo Forums FAQs" was written by participants in that thread I linked to - the rest of it is the phpBB FAQ.
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pjp
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You also didn't 'follow' the links in my post, otherwise you'd have realized I was referring to the forum FAQ 
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Y'know, speaking of faqs (and in this case, the Gentoo.org one, not the forum one--I remember back in the good old days--err, 6 months ago or so? At that point, almost everyone using Gentoo was a fairly experienced Linux user, and the mailing list either had rather complex questions, or funny stories. (I am, by the way, the first one who PUBLICLY admitted that a bootstrap had died after a few hours because I'd accidentally left a :wq in e/tc/make.conf. After that, hoardes of imitators also 'fessed up.)
Seriously, one could see that Gentoo was beginning to become popular when half of the questions on the list (this was stage two, I guess--for one thing it was before the forums) were answered in the faq. I don't think this is a bad thing--newcomers often don't realize that they should check faqs and other online docs before posting questions. Nothing horrible about that, it's part of being a newcomer.
It says something good about the distro I think--that these newcomers are enjoying it enough to try to make it work when it doesn't go right for them out of the box.
Philosophically yours,
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JyZude
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| Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 1:11 am Post subject: Slashdotting still going on? |
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| Has news about the UT2003 iso spread to any other gaming-related websites? ibiblio.org is even busier a day after it was announced on Slashdot than before! Perhaps the gaming community is going for the iso rather than waiting in line at FilePlanet or whatever for the win32 version. Anybody know? |
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