Comments on: Winning Formula

By: Matthew Flaschen

Matthew Flaschen — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:02:14 +0000

“Props also to the KDE team for rightly deserving the Free Software Project Of The Year award for their incredible work on KDE4. ”

They’re kidding, right. KDE is a wonderful software project, but KDE 4 certainly isn’t their finest moment.

By: Shannon VanWagner

Shannon VanWagner — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:40:48 +0000

There are other distros out there that have pretty good forums but I have to agree that ubuntuforums.org wins the prize for holding a wealth of helpful information and attracting experts de-plenty to help with any problem.

The ubuntuforums.org is one of the main reasons that I recommend Ubuntu to people that are new to GNU/Linux.

Google search term(not like you really need to use it):

put keywords here site:ubuntuforums.org

ubuntuforums.org leads the way!! Nice Job!! Great Work!!!

Shannon VanWagner GNU/Linux Enthusiast http://humans-enabled.com

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:08:49 +0000

Gratulations to Ubuntu and KDE. The perfect Linux Desktop for me.

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Peng’s links for Tuesday, 13 January « I’m Just an Avatar — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:54:18 +0000

[...] Bacon: Winning Formula. The guys and gals over at the Ubuntu Forums (which is oddly borked for the time being, but I think [...]

By: Zac

Zac — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:14:43 +0000

Ubuntu – Kick ass in 2009!

By: Ryan Troy

Ryan Troy — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:32:11 +0000

Thanks for the recognition Jono. It’s truly a day for celebration, we’ve come along way in the last 4 years. We look forward to 2009. While were on the topic of forum bragging we also one “best community” from arstechnica.com in 2005

ubuntu-geek

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:07:23 +0000

Some other interesting numbers - assuming ubuntu's install userbase is a million, then it is growing at 1.5k installs a day.

I took this data from popcon (looked at how "dpkg", one of the most installed packages, was progressing).

By: jono

jono — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:58:57 +0000

Heh, I agree its less but just say the words “only 1000 are logged in” – thats still a lot of people!

By: ethana2

ethana2 — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:25:54 +0000

That's good to hear.. Next time I have a question Google can't answer me I'll probably just go straight there instead of bothering with irc, for obvious reasons..

I don't suppose you could merge ubuntuforums and brainstorm right into launchpad as ubuntuforums is its own distinct organization, right?

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:19:04 +0000

Keep in mind that on average, only 1k people are logged in, and 13k are not logged in.

So 750,000 registered with 1k regularly logged in = think of how much is that for the non-logged in ones...