What is on Your Mind?

I noticed exactly same thing. It is very nice, that this forum doesn't present so many ads and no pop-ups (which I truly hate). As for increasing number of posters... I guess people that are interested in developing their skills regarding subjects around Unix, scripting, programming etc.. will see that solving other people's problems helps them too. It helps to stay sharp in technology, which you might not use in everyday work, but can save you a lot of time someday. This is why I post here So in my opinion the ones that really want to develop their skills, have great oportunity and environment to do so here. IMO nothing needs to be changed

Yes, it is our policy to not show ads to registered users in the forums. Many forums now charge a yearly fee for registered users not to see ads.

I think there's a gap between newbies and old UNIX users.
I mean, the breach is cultural, it's about the Unix Folklore, I think newbies are missing that.

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- What is the command that will tell me the revision code of a program?
- Yes, that's correct.
- No, what is it ?
- Yes.
- So, which is the one ?
- No. which is used to find the program.
- Stop this. Who are you ?
- who am i

There is also the possibility that we have answered all the questions. Maybe what we need is a way for a guest to indicate that they have found the answer they were looking for by using the search function.

Knowing what people are looking for and not finding could help too. So, search statistics in general sound interesting.

There is a lot of wisdom in this suggestion.

I need to think about how to implement this idea.

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We once had a plugin feature that created a tag of all the Google search terms. Because we get so many (millions) of search engine referrals a month, our database grew too large (and too slow), for this feature. We could rewrite that plugin to prune the database, for starters. But, it seems we need more features that just a list of search terms to satisfy this idea.

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These are good ideas; but it is hard to get these new forums "up and running". It take a lot of work to bootstrap a new forum or subforum.

Then, again, we could search for old threads and mass move them into the new forums, if that helps.

I think if someone were to create a nice, newbie friendly tutorial and course on unix/linux that it could bring more people into the world of unix itself...and if the tutorial is put together by members of this forum than those new people to linux will most likely head to this forum for their questions.

I am pretty much brand new to unix, and am pretty much having to self-learn it for an internship I am currently in and it is incredibly hard to find tutorials and how to's that are easy to understand. Almost everything I find uses terms and ideas that sound like gibberish to a new persons ears. If I didn't have to learn unix for my job than I probably would've given up on learning it by now.