Is there a reason why RoboLinux has no forum?

According to Distrowatch it does, but their link goes nowhere. It seems to have no presence here. Google turns up nothing. Am I missing something?

That might be a question better posed to Robolinux. https://www.robolinux.org/contact/

Tecolote,

If you do a search on these forums and elsewhere you will find that Robolinux does not have a stellar reputation, hence the missing forum.

These are two threads from the archives:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...se-4175557585/

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ux-4175517300/

There's also a technical explanation - I think someone from RoboLinux must request, and be willing to maintain a subforum here, else there won't be one.

Originally Posted by beachboy2 Tecolote, If you do a search on these forums and elsewhere you will find that Robolinux does not have a stellar reputation, hence the missing forum. These are two threads from the archives: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...se-4175557585/ https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ux-4175517300/

Not quite sure I see the problem. If its the shareware-style begging for a donation, don't Red Hat and SUSE go the next step, and demand pay-for-play? If it's deception, didn't Ubuntu and Deepin get caught surreptitiously including some sort of spyware not that long ago? None of these seem any worse for it, and I think all have forums. Anyway, thanks for the answer!

Originally Posted by ondoho There's also a technical explanation - I think someone from RoboLinux must request, and be willing to maintain a subforum here, else there won't be one.

Understood. Just seems weird they have no forum at all...anywhere. The one alluded to on Distrowatch:
http://sourceforge.net/p/robolinux/discussion/
goes nowhere so far as I can tell, and Google has nothing to say either. Even Damn Small Linux has a forum, and Distrowatch lists them as 'discontinued'.

Originally Posted by Tecolote Just seems weird they have no forum at all...anywhere.

Ask the developer: https://www.robolinux.org/contact/ (that website! )

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...distro-513876/

Originally Posted by Tecolote According to Distrowatch it does, but their link goes nowhere. It seems to have no presence here. Google turns up nothing. Am I missing something?

RoboLinux provides support in old-fashioned, personal ways: email and telephone, by its creator no less.

Well, I have to say; I've never seen a distro's 'Home page' that looks more like an old inside back page from the UK's discontinued 'Exchange & Mart' printed publication. Where once it was a general trading publication for just about everything imaginable, since being bought out (in 2008) it's gone 'on-line only', and now concentrates exclusively on selling cars instead.

This looks just like that. It's merely a series of 'adverts', and 'soundbites', all blowing RoboLinux's trumpet..... It's the kind of thing which, after a cursory scan (in any printed publication), I rapidly dismiss and turn the page. I've never seen owt that's less calculated to encourage folks to keep on reading.....

That's a bit 'cheeky', too.....leaving part of the code out under pretence of 'encouraging' you to make a 'donation'. Naughty, that.

Originally Posted by mrmazda RoboLinux provides support in old-fashioned, personal ways: email and telephone, by its creator no less.

Well, if he does, then he's 'one-upped' the Zorin brothers, from the Republic of Ireland. Nobody's ever been able to get even a whisper out of them, despite releasing regular new versions.

At least they have a 'forum' (of sorts)..!

[EDIT:-] No, I tell a lie. I've actually managed to unearth an interview with them, from a couple of years ago....

https://itsfoss.com/zorin-os-interview/

That's a 'first'! Just into their teens when the first Zorin OS was released, they had to teach themselves programming/coding from the ground up....

That's quite impressive, really.


Mike.

Originally Posted by Mike_Walsh https://itsfoss.com/zorin-os-interview/ That's a 'first'! Just into their teens when the first Zorin OS was released, they had to teach themselves programming/coding from the ground up....

The one on the right looks like Harry Potter!