Slackware Forums

I think that the Slackware forums should be separated into sections, such as:

Howto
Newbie
Desktop
Package Management
Kernel/Hardware
X11
Network/Server
Multimedia/Games
Laptop

Misc...

Etc...Etc

it's getting kind of crowded and since this forum is used a lot by slackware users since there is not an official Slackware forum per say...

Wow, really. Slackware that intense? It deserves its own general forum? Seperated into subforums?

That sounds like its own website there. Might as well have www.slackware.linuxquestions.org

Originally Posted by slantoflight That sounds like its own website there. Might as well have www.slackware.linuxquestions.org

Sounds good! Slackware is worth it. It has ~160000 posts, that is less then 'Linux general', but more than any other forum.

Can anyone else say, "overkill?" I think it's fine the way it is.

BTW--The Slackware forum IS the Official Slackware Forum.

Originally Posted by Oinopion Sounds good! Slackware is worth it. It has ~160000 posts, that is less then 'Linux general', but more than any other forum.

Yes but, as your sig suggests:

--> Simplicity is divine

Yeah, your're right. More subforums wouldn't make big diffrence and we have a good search engine on this forum.

But binding www.slackware.linuxquestions.org with slackforum would be nice, IMHO.

Originally Posted by Oinopion Sounds good! Slackware is worth it. It has ~160000 posts, that is less then 'Linux general', but more than any other forum.

It has so many posts and threads because it's been around longer than all of the other Distro subforums except LFS.

I really don't think it should be split up, it would only cause more confusion on our members part. It's fine the way it is.

I'd agree with Drew, but am interested in what other regular users of the LQ Slackware forum think about the topic.

--jeremy

Originally Posted by jeremy I'd agree with Drew, but am interested in what other regular users of the LQ Slackware forum think about the topic. --jeremy

Well, www.slackwarequestions.org seems to be available...

Well I guess I made a mistake. I did not mean a separate forum, but more of subforums for the subforum Slackware.
There already is a subforum for Slackware installation. I was just thinking of a few more to tidy things up a bit. For example, a lot of people are having questions with X11 and the new x.org 6.9/7.0. If no one answers for a while, it might be moved to the second, third page and be forgotten.

This -----> www.slackwarequestions.org was not my idea. The forum is doing a great job as is, but I was wanted to make it seem like the slackware forums is not a big mixed bag of information. Kind of like a tray with tray dividers to that everything doesn't mix together was my idea.

example:

Linux - Distributions
---Linux from Scratch
---Slackware
------Slackware Installation
------X11
------Kernel/Recompile
------Network/Server
------Option...
------Option...
---Debian
---Arch
---Redhat
and so on...

There is always a danger that if we do it for Slack, the rest of them will want it. But it's not a bad idea although I would suggest that if we do go down the subforum route, that they largely mirror the existing forums/subforums:
Hardware
Software
Networking
-->Wireless-Networking
and so on

At the current time I don't think the amount of traffic warrants additional subforums. If that changes some day we'll certainly reconsider.

--jeremy

but how about the idea of <distroname>.linuxquestions.org? It would make acessing the distro forums simple, and AFAIK, it wouldn't put a huge load on the servers.

Originally Posted by microsoft/linux but how about the idea of <distroname>.linuxquestions.org? It would make acessing the distro forums simple, and AFAIK, it wouldn't put a huge load on the servers.

I second the motion.

We're actually getting away from things like that for a couple of reasons. That being said - we may have something in store that will make things easier in this regard.

--jeremy