Greetings LQ! - Member Count Reaches 200,000
 

As many might have noticed the registered member count of LinuxQuestions.org (LQ) has exceeded 200,000. Greetings LQ and regards to the root and the moderators.

On the other hand I couldn't stop wondering how many of them are real (Edit: active) members. This matter has been discussed severeal times in LQ. So I'm not going to start it all over again.

Anyway, for everyone out there LQ has been a great help. I mean everyone. Ones who register only to find an answer, ones hang out all the time, etc and etc. everyone.

Once again great work LQ. Keep it up.


Note: The Wikipedia entry for LinuxQuestions.org is also updated about the member count.

A majority of the members should be real or were real at one time. Inactive members with 0 posts are pruned after so many months, etc by Jeremy every so often.

Take note we are very shy of 2 Million Posts currently as well.. ;)

Yay to us!!! And I have moved this to Website Feedback and Suggestions.

Incidentally, as at 1915GMT:.

Yay to us again!!

I'd like to once again thank each and every of the 200,000 LQ members. You are what make the site. We have a ton in store for you in the near future, so stay tuned ;)

--jeremy

I'm very thankfull to the makers of this forum
 

I came once I asked something, and I'v got and unswer, and solve my problems, so this is realy a perfect site.

tanks to yo.

next thing up: total posts: 2 000 000...

It's a very good site :) well moderated, suitable for all audiance, well populated, and active.

Keep up the good work, whatever you are doing now, just keep on doing it.

Can't wait for that news : )___

I came here for help, and after the warm welcome and solution to my problems, I decided this community was worth it! So here I am ;)

thanx for all fourms
 

thanx for all replayes and you are the community of linux (thnx)

I am a part of it to cool

I just count for one persion like

ever little help's

I'm very pleased. I only just joined. I could have been the 200,000th. Could have won a daft prize, or even a big one.

I don't know much about Linux but I have got started. Before that, I believed in it. The web is democratic in that no-one can fully control it, not even dictators. Software has to go the same way. As a computer teacher (of office stuff) I've been spreading the word for the last three years.

I've even had what I thought was a good Idea, but I'll find a more suitable thread to fit it on.

RussellT

you are user ID 213648

assuming that there is no gap in between members... you where pretty close :)

Ya! Linuxquestions.org is reaching millions...
but many are inactive....why.....???
out of a crowd of 200,000 there are only around 1,000 people active... at a moment of time ...

and those who are....are the ones who are regular...

Whatever may be...this...

LQ has grown beyond boundaries and has evolved into a big and superb FORUM!.....
Congrats..

I believe that LQ has helped me emerge from a newb into a normal Linux user, who is moving into more advanced stuff. I think LQ Rox. I think the best way to learn Linux is to visit LQ. That says it all.

This is a side effect of our popularity. Someone may sign up, post a question once and get an answer. After that, they search the forums and all their problems are answered that way without them ever having to post again. And not everyone is interested in helping others so they don't answer posts.

You know I never understood that, I mean linux is all about collaborating together for the common good. Linux means voluntarism. Everytime I get some help on the forum, I think in my head "I hope one day I can get as good, so I can return the favor". I have helped quite a few people, both here and in person, but to this day, that is one of the main reasons that make me strive to get beter in Linux, and for my own benefit of course :D

I completely agree...

I think, ppl in the Linux community should be helping each other....
To tell you the truth, I am quite a newbie.....but whatever knowledge I have I try to answer the questions "0 replies posts"....

Good job guy's.

I'm a newbie. And so ar many other who visit LQ. So I can't be of much help to others, but I try to be active cause you are doing a great job and I want this site to go on helping people like me.

Oh wow...sure....
If i am capable of it....:)

I'd like to add a link to Linuxquestions.org on my site. Do you have a specific image we can use, or should I just put the link in?

You can use anything here or just use a text link.

--jeremy

Thanks Jeremy!

to all the people who have made this forum so good. WELL DONE.

nice, I didn't know this page existed :)

What members do (or don't do)
 

Yes, statistically, only around 10% of a discussion group make the running.
Newbies and novices generally need to watch what they say. It may not be a case of don't want to help, more, can't help.
But many of the active 10% are performing a really valuable service and it is appreciated.

By way of perspective, I fell behind in fielding emails from my music group. I study them in sequence and got 6 months behind. That's 2000 emails, folks.

My point: if you do something properly, it takes time. You have to be very single-minded to be a serious poster anywhere.
Reading, let alone writing!

LQ has had it's 200,000th member! Hurray!
 

Gradually as Linux is growing a lot more in the developing countries, we will begin to have alot more members who are newbies and will need the help of all of us who have had a prior experience with Linux to also grow to fully appreciate the strength of Linux.

Let's all spread the good news of Linux in everyway possible and LQ will have a lot more active members than inactive.

Martin:Pengy:

200K members - and more
 

Martin

You are so right. Things need to grow

Here is my idea, mentioned earlier. If it's cracked, please let me know.

There are many distributions of Linux and I don't know which, if any, will become dominant or indeed who will merge to become big players.

But if you remember the VHS - Sony\Betamax war in videotape format, the winning player was the one that got to the mass market first - via video rentals rather than the schools market.

So how do you roll out Linux in an easy format? Since making money is not the absolute priority with some developers, why not sell large flash drives ( >=512Mb ) with Linux preinstalled, a simple deal between suppliers?

My concern is not so much with who will win, but with Linux winning over more proprietary brands viz $MS$.

Have I missed something?

As I see it, Rusell, that would be hard to do since different systems has different hardware and needs specific settings. Although what you are thinking of already exists in the form of Live-CD, which is a great thing that really can help people get a clue of what Linux is. When DVD-readers will become faster and faster we may benefit even more from LiveCDs.

Anyway, I too should thank the community here at LQ and even if I have been busy for a while now I try to keep helping out friends and family. Helping other people will not only benefit them but yourself as well, as you will learn more through the teaching. I liked an announcement made by Google earlier when they said that "we have been using open source a lot and now we feel that it is time to give something back to the community" (not their precise words but...). This was refering to the hiring of several programmers intended to improve OpenOffice.org.

It's just human to help each other, and that is why I like open source, that and the freedom of choice.

Live-CD and OT
 

Thanks Epthracis

I had overlooked Live-CD - as the motto at the bottom says: There is more than one way to do it"
I shall spend some time on this.

I have to say I didn't (myself) really understand your point about different hardware and different settings. There are a number of known hardware options which you can approach with different media, ie CDs, DVDs, flash drives. Surely when you introduce an operating system you bring all your own settings with you, so they would be included in the medium (media).

You don't for example when you're within Windows find a file that makes it easy for you to install a rival system. No chance!

Apple sells the operating system with a specific software for the operating system designed for it so it works perfect.

HP, IBM, Toshiba, sell their computer with a preloaded version of windows designed for the computer with the drivers already in place.

Linux comes in a CD that you need to download, burn, partition, install, and configure... There is the problem.

Linux doesn't have scripts that tells it "for this PC, the Toshiba Satellite P30, have the fglrx driver, default configs, radeon framebuffer, madwifi, hid as a module not built in, this and this..."...Should it?

I think, if linux came as an option, or prepackaged, or was on a shelf of your local coffee place, and it would just be a matter of pushing it in the CD drive, it would be more popular.

Well the LiveCD solves a lot of the problem I was talking about. Because an operating system must include different drivers for different devices, that's the main problem with haveing a preinstalled OS on a flashdrive. But you could solve it the way a LiveCD does. The problem here is that when you have it "already fixed for you" you take away a lot of choices. The OS has already been configured for you.

Anyway, the purpose with a LiveCD is not to use it as your daily OS, it is intended just to show you what your OS may look like and how it will work. After you test it with the CD you can then decide however you want to install it on the local drive or not. I like this idea and I am a fan of LiveCDs, you should test them. :)

like many things, you could choose wether it's fixed or not for you.

Or simply choose a distro that doesn't do it for you. Such as gentoo (I'm bad on the gentoo propaganda ;) )

I must admit that i am one of those who just looks for solutions here... but LQ kind of grows on you. Heartiest congratulations to all!

I wonder what the average member joining a day is?

It's somewhere around 200, I think.

Although not common, there are some places you can buy a computer with Linux preinstalled--even at Wal-Mart:

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...uct_id=3762911

The problem is, it's not every walmart store that has a Linspire computer for sale. I can't expect to find a linux computer for sale* inside my area for example.

I am very thankful to the makers of this forum too,and my question is also the same:how many members are real? I always find impossible that some people are members of this forum and they try to convince all the others that windows are better than linux and the like.If they do not estimate linux why did they become members of a linux forum?

Your question intrigues me.

"What members are for real?" ... um, there is no bot.

If you meant, how many in them are actual linux users, that's a good question... I always thought that the people roaming this forum was either comming from BSD, *nix, or Linux.

Sorry for the slow reply. I missed your comment somehow. Anyway, the computers Wal-Mart sells with Linux are online sales only. They do not stock them in stores. Besides, I think most people do not think of Wal-Mart if they want a new computer. Let me add that I found another computer there (I am going to get a low-cost computer for my son) and this one comes preloaded with Xandros Linux.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...uct_id=3762907