Welcome to the elementary Forum

Welcome to the LQ elementary forum. This distro forum is the result of a recent LQ Distribution Forum Policy Change. See http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ge-4175511318/ for more information on that change.

--jeremy

That's great news. Thanks very much for answering the request.

Question for the moderators: why is elementary OS referred to as "elementary (*)"?

See here:

Originally Posted by jeremy A quick update on our Distribution Forum Policy here at LQ. As many of you know, to have a dedicated distro forum, someone who is officially associated with the distro must participate here at LQ. That's true for all current active distro fora (Linux From Scratch, Slackware, Debian, Arch, Red Hat, Mandriva, VectorLinux, Fedora, DamnSmallLinux, ROCK, MEPIS, Ubuntu, Suse/Novell, Puppy, Zenwalk, Incognito, Linux Mint, Sabayon, Calculate, Gentoo, Bodhi, NetSecL, Linux Deepin, Studio 13.37, Mageia, Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre, Zorin OS, Rogue Class at the time of this post). To better serve the LQ community, we have decided to relax that policy slightly. Moving forward, we'll create a non-official distro forum for any distribution in the top 10 at distrowatch. That forum will be marked with an (*) to indicate that there is no official participation and the forum will have a sticky with an explanation. The policy for participating for other distros (or for distros marked with an *) will not change in any way. If you have any questions or suggestions relating to the distibution forum policy, please let us know. This change will result in the creation of the following non-official distribution fora: elementary CentOS If you know anyone associated with either distro and think they'd like to participate (it does not have to be a main developer or project founder, just someone approved by the distro), let us know. We plan to create the non-official distro fora tomorrow. On that note, if you know someone associated with any distro that isn't currently participating at LQ, put us in touch. All are welcome. --jeremy

EDIT
Sorry, wrong thread.

Posted my reply in wrong place:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...8/#post5205804

in regards to "official" participation... maybe have another indicator of something like "no recent participation"... I mean, if an approved representative of a distro hasn't shown up in over a year (or two, etc)... does it still count?

elementaryOS is a decent distribution, but lacks any real forum. The only thing going for them is an IRC channel.
Being listed as #8 at Distrowatch, I find the lack of an official forum confusing as best.

Originally Posted by verndog elementaryOS is a decent distribution, but lacks any real forum. The only thing going for them is an IRC channel. Being listed as #8 at Distrowatch, I find the lack of an official forum confusing as best.

I have trouble believing that it is at 8 in the first place.

Features nautilus-elementary. Last supported ubuntu version from the dev is karmic (better known as 9.10 or kinky kitten). Gee a file manager that has had no support for just short of 5 years.

Can't say I am unwilling to run unsupported packages but don't think I want my file browser in that catagory.

EOS have a forum, it's just not intuitive to get there.
In a certain way, it is good for only "real" questions get asked; less hassle for moderating threads hé!

There's "unofficial" one here:
http://www.elementarynow.com/

It looks like the elementaryOS developers have no interest in this forum. In my humble opinion, it's safe to just remove it, the more so since on the main hangout place "Google Plus", the LQ forum has been deemed "ugly" (sic). These young punks don't know how to appreciate a good thing.

www.ElementaryNow.com is probably most active and flexible forum for this distro.
If EOS has a Google+ "forum", good for them! Haven't seen it yet.
But ElementaryNow is independent of the distro, so, should be more "objective".
Do prefer the later and the one here to any other form.
Google+ is somewhat ackward (to say the least).

Thanks for the feedback. Since official participation is no longer a hard requirement for a distro forum here at LQ, we have no plans to remove the elementaryOS forum.

--jeremy

Hi, I am a new member and an enthusiastic Elementary Freya user since a few months. I am happy to find a dedicated Elementary forum here . Tried to register the Elementary Now forum, but that did not work for unknown reasons. Sent an mail to them but without answer. Also the layout of Elementary Now forum is not easy to read, this forum is.

So I hope to find answers here.

Thanks!

Elementary's homepage can be a bit tricky for newcomers.
Another place to try is the ElementaryNow site.
Plenty of info. there too!

Welcome to LQ forums FrSu, hope you find some answers.

For me it is the other way around. Homepage is quite good readable, Elementary Now I find more difficult to read.

Fortunately Elementary Freya is very clean, stable and quite fast.