On 07/20/2010 08:11 AM, dwgallien wrote:
Would someone please explain the difference in purpose between this mailing list and the openSUSE forums? I try to provide assistance on both, but do notice there is often overlap, i.e., occasionally questions posted here have been previously asked/answered at the forums and vice-versa. (I ask the question only in the interest of everyone's most efficient use of time.)
Thanks.
Dennis Gallion
I have found distro forums are inconvenient and rarely have any useful information. Very few of the people with the skill, knowledge and intelligence to actually provide good information are listed as contributors in the opensuse forum entries I've seen. Further, if you find a relevant thread, you can never be assured you have found the "right thread" in forums to know whether you can expect any help or if you are just on a dead thread. Or if your question has already been answered in another thread under another title and you can expect no feedback at all. At least with the mailing list, the author of the answer is usually pissed enough that you failed to read his answer the first time, he will tell you so and direct you to where you can find the answer :p Dissemination of information in the one-to-many realm is best handled in a mailing list format for linux distributions or a wiki. Forums are best suited for motherboard manufacturers answering specific questions about BIOS upgrades or the like. Distro forums inevitably just turn into a mish-mash collection of loosely related information that are impossible to navigate. For example, of the 50 or so suse forum threads I've run across in google, only 2 contained relevant and technically correct information, the rest were nothing but a collection of guesswork that looked like they caused more confusion than anything else. My .02 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org