Re: Musings on debian-user list

If it's any consolation, I'm a newbie and I actually chose Debian as my
first real Linux install even though I heard it was tougher for newbies to
learn. To me it represented one of the purest distros of Linux and I don't
mind putting in the time/research. A few days ago I installed Ubuntu on the
girlfriend's laptop and my (admittedly very limited) Debian knowledge came
in handy. I even chose "Clearlooks" under Preferences->Appearance for her
laptop, so that she gets accustomed to a standard Debian Gnome desktop
environment as it is my plan to eventually get her over to Debian.
Muahahaha (evil laugh).

Mark

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Javier Barroso <javibarroso@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Michael Pobega<pobega@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 0, Javier Barroso <javibarroso@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Tim Beauregard<tim.beauregard@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
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I recently re-subscribed having been off for about four years. The
changes I have noticed are:

1. Much less traffic. I previously got 250+ posts per day. Now
50-100.
Could this be due to the development of ubuntu?

After read this thread, only to be informative, from ubuntu-users
bird, debian-user has more posts until now (2004-10 - 2009-07):

DEB: 192759
UBU: 189287

[1] http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/about


Yeah, but you have to keep in mind that Ubuntu's mailing list isn't the
community's main way of keeping in touch. They use their forums[2] more
than
anything.

[2] http://ubuntuforums.org/

Of course, there winning them :). I don't like forums, but I recognize
that ubuntu forums are very useful (and responsive). They win even
linuxquestion.org!!

DEB: 16405 members, 39581 threads, 239727 posts
UBU: 881,910 members, 1114360 threads, 7131124 posts
LQ: 411919 members, 736562 threads, 3615492 posts


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