[SOLVED] New Google+ Community for Slackware...

Originally Posted by stf92 Thanks, TobiSGD. I've look everywhere on the page (https://accounts.google.com/SignUp?s...419&lp=1&hl=en) but it is definitely not there. May be when you already have another Google account?

You can't just leave that blank?
I think it's optional as long as you enter the captcha.

Originally Posted by qunying [OT] I used to think like you, but then land line phone is too expensive compare with cellular one. So now I have a cellular one (pre-paid, seldom make calls) and use it as a land line replacement, I always forgot to bring it with me.

If in my country it also is less expensive, but let's compare assuming zero incoming calls and 100 outgoing calls per month for each phone, the fix line and the cellular, I would also use it. But I use to travel in plublic transport vehicles. And when one hangs up the other's phone rings. So, you have not a single minute of peace. Also, if the service is now so cheap, it is because of the great number of people who has contracted it. For me, it is one of the greatest examples of a need being invented.

Originally Posted by piratesmack You can't just leave that blank? I think it's optional as long as you enter the captcha.

Yes, I just tried it and left it blank. But I now see it's the same [...] as facebook and twiter.

In the wee hours of this morning, the community broke the 500 member mark.

It appears to be growing and evolving in way that people often communicate around a coffee house firepit, singing koombaya songs and sharing anectdotal items of interest to fellow songsters and latte lovers.

I know that for me, I never expected to be apprised and alerted to so many options and tools and other items of interest in the Slackware community.

To be sure (and thankfully so), the G+ Slackware Linux Community has not developed as yet another help site, or forum for tutorial and howto documentation, but rather, a friendly sort of place where people share their experiences, development projects, and humorous anecdotes about Slackware.

Yes we get some of that here, but the visual element involved and the "wall" type display of items that folks are sharing with each other is unique - irrespective of the capabilities that places like faceplant or Linkedin groups try to afford their users.

I think it's evolving into a truly cooperative sharing environment of ideas and resources that serves to strengthen the bond of Slackers everywhere.

I'll prolly report back again when the community's membership hits the 1k mark. In teh meantime, checkout some of the kewl things that others have shared with us all - you don't even have to join to check it out!

Kindest regards,

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