I thought I had a suggestion (zero reply queue) but it already exists.

I joined LQ fairly recently after getting directed here repeatedly by Google and always finding the information I wanted. I figured it only made sense to skip the "Googling" step Just keep doing what you're doing, and Happy Birthday!!

I would like to see the following happen:

You can add LinuxQuestions.org as a search engine in Firefox.

I don't think the Linux - Kernel forum gets enough traffic to warrant additional sub-fora at this time. There is a twitter feed available at http://twitter.com/#!/lq_feed which can be filtered as you like. Thanks for the feedback, keep it coming.

--jeremy

Hello...It would be great if we could purchase Linux Distro's here in Australia without having to send overseas for them...

That we we could get our friends to use Linux more..especially if there computer is broken and they have ost their Micro$ disc..
Sometime we can not download Distro's ..
Just a thought..


Thank you ..

Fozzie

Western Australia

A few months ago, I wrote up a quick and dirty shell script that searched for topics on LQ; Sadly, I lost it. I will try to find it again, and if I do, I will create a new thread dedicated to it. If not, I will re-write it.

I may not be that active on these forums (college stuff ), but I usually find the information I need right here on LQ. This site is one of the main reasons why I stuck with GNU/Linux.

As for suggestions, I have this idea to improve those zero reply threads that don't contain enough information. How about an "I have a problem" button. I suppose it could also be called the "Problem Wizard". The button would appear in the user's "LQ UserCP". Here's how it would work:

1. Someone makes a new account here at LQ

2. An e-mail is immediately sent to the new user explaining where the button for the wizard can be found and a description of what it does.

3. When the user clicks the button, they are taken to a form with the following fields:

--OS Name--
*OS (drop list)
*version (drop list)

--Hardware--
*processor (drop list)
*amount of RAM (text field)
*graphics card (drop list)
*network card (drop list)

--Problem Description--
*Problem with... (2 radio buttons: Hardware (short description of what hardware is), Software (short description of what software is)
--*Checkbox block (appears when the user clicks one of the radio buttons, displays appropriate block of checkboxes)
*description (text field)
*optional command output (has 4 radio buttons: lsmod, lspci, lsusb, and other)
--*other (appears only when user clicks the "other" radio button, user enters custom command)
*output (textfield, user pastes output of whatever command they chose)

--Forum--
*Main forum (drop list, user picks main forum to start a new thread in)
*Sub forum (drop list, changes to match the selected main forum)

4. Users clicks the Submit button and a nicely formatted, coherent post is generated. At this time, the user is given the option to go back and change something, or go ahead and start the new thread.


This is just a rough draft, but I think it's a good idea and would help speed up the process of solving problems here on the forums. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "contributing member", but I don't have a lot of time on my hands and I can't code that well (yet!). If selected, I may have to pass it on someone else.

Dude, you know what.... That actually sounds like a damn good idea for the new guys coming to the forums. I definitely second that idea.... Of course, we would need to figure out how it would work, like instead of just one post being generated, it would return a search query. I know what you said sounds almost the same as using the search function, but it would help in cases where the newer guys still don't know how to use code tags, what information is needed for further troubleshooting, etc. Maybe even a mandatory prerequosite checklist when you click "Submit" would pop up if you have less than say, 250 posts or so. Just trying to keep it easy.....

Happy Birthday. I'm a newpie. LQ is a very great site that I like.

Glad to hear! IMHO, these forums are among the best on the internet for linux-related material.

Would be nice if you provide a link to said script

@corp769: The checklist is a nice idea, another is to have a version of the Problem Wizard set up to act sort of like a search front-end on steroids Also, since every thread started with the Problem Wizard would have the same headings, a few server-side scripts could be made to pull some of this information and use it for something. Exactly what, I don't know

One thing that comes to mind is the HCL, which has a few "holes". There are a lot of sub-categories that have 0 entries. In my opinion, if they don't have any entries, then shouldn't they be hidden by default? Anyway, maybe some of those areas could be filled with information from the server side scripts, so users get an idea of what Joe had to go through to get a specific graphics card to work, or which distros support the latest XYZ I/O adapter, etc.

I'm still trying to look dude, I'm currently deployed and it's kinda hard to get enough time to even take a shower sometimes.....

Me too and links to Youtube and the like would be sufficient. Just get them all in one place and catagorized.

Many thanks to all for the knowledge that LQ gives!
Also, a particular thanks to Jeremy that make this happens!

I may only change the graphic layout to improve readability and the look ;-)