What is most popular communication tool among Linux users?

TimeZone · 08-01-2016, 01:59 PM

Hi,

I want to create a Cyber Security Community where Cyber Security and IT experts could communicate and share they information, but I am wondering what would be the best communication tool?
I know Slack is very popular, but I wonder are System Administrators and Linux users use Slack at all? Or they love IRC so much.

Please, let me know what you guys are using

HMW · 08-02-2016, 06:49 AM

Umm... I like to keep things simple, therefore I use e-mail, ENCRYPTED e-mail.

I use this service: https://tutanota.com and am very happy with it, because getting people to understand and install gpg has proved to be impossible!

Best regards,
HMW

rtmistler · 08-02-2016, 07:33 AM

I use email and my voice mostly.

Habitual · 08-02-2016, 09:37 AM

"users". Harumph.
#slack
Cloud-hosted "messaging app for teams" doesn't exactly scream "Security".
"System Administrators", "Cyber Security and IT experts".

That's a lot of buzz words, Not sure what the question is.
Mailing lists are common.
IRC for the hard-core. I go where ever I need to go.

Michael Uplawski · 08-02-2016, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Habitual

Mailing lists are common.

And they were when we discussed a lot of this stuff twenty years ago. There are still some Mixmasters around, even mail2news is working... remember Usenet? Nostalgia.

Does that exist in the English language.., an expression which is repeated all the time by “the old age” and those who wish they belonged to the old age, to express that “everything was better in the past”. In German, this has been ridiculed, but in France it is becoming admissible again, even with the (shiver) youngsters...

Everything was better in the past.

Habitual · 08-02-2016, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Michael Uplawski

And they were when we discussed a lot of this stuff twenty years ago. There are still some Mixmasters around, even mail2news is working... remember Usenet? Nostalgia.

No one ever suggests mailing lists for "help". I guess it's the culture of expectation.

273 · 08-02-2016, 02:58 PM

That's hilarious, Slack [the product, not the PV OS]. Well, sadly, it isn't but I wish it were.
Is this what it comes to? "Which product do you wish to be?". "Which advertising-company survey do you wish to become part of in order to just communicate?".
I am in tears.
Use F****** email, the telephone, IRC, SMS, some random other chat!
I give in, go sell yourselves to the latest product*...

*Those who know better are, of course, exempt.

jamison20000e · 08-02-2016, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Michael Uplawski

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Everything was better in the past.

Except getting to school...

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replica9000 · 08-02-2016, 06:34 PM

Is this communication in the workplace? As a home user? Or just in general?

I prefer forums. For sharing information, forums are a good tool for me. Members and even non-members can access useful information.

I've tried to get into IRC, but it seems not many people use it anymore (people are there, but no one actually chats). I haven't used Slack.

jamison20000e · 08-02-2016, 07:49 PM

Search the "clouds,,," e.g: https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Main_Page
http://www.lshift.net/work/open-sour...curial-server/
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Zaqar
https://www.skype.com/en/
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/p...es/bones.shtml
&c...

TimeZone · 08-06-2016, 02:03 PM

thank you guys