OTW and non social issue Linux questions

dufeu · l33t Joined: 30 Aug 2002 Posts: 924 Location: US-FL-EST

Or: Where should I post this?

If you bring up Gentoo Forums Forum Index and read the descriptions of Gentoo Chat

Naib · Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 6:12 am Post subject:

You do get serious Linux answers in OTW
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The Doctor · Moderator Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Posts: 2678

Now that is a real tough one. One one hand, it is a Gentoo forum so it is basically an assumption that everyone is using Gentoo.

On the other hand, Off the Wall is really rough. It would be nice to have a forum for the non-Gentoo Linux stuff that isn't so adversarial.

Ether that, or learn rephrase the question into being Gentoo related :wink:

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krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

Even unsaid, someone asking something not gentoo related but linux related (ubuntu users and their friends) generally endup in unsupported, so basically it is the default for linux questions not gentoo related as nobody is mad enough to send anyone in OTW for no real reasons, there should be no case except to make him insane to send someone in OTW, and if you want beat him to death with lot of pain, it would be better to send him in Gentoo french section.

Naib · Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 1:22 pm Post subject:

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mv · Watchman Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 6747

I voted "no", since I think for general linux questions, "unsupported" is the correct forum.
General means: It applies for all distributions or is perhaps about the choice of a distribution.

If you have a particular question about another distribution (like the mentioned Ubuntu), I don't think there has to be a separate forum here: You are better served in a forum/mailing list/usenet of that distribution you have a question about. If the question is about the difference of this distribution with gentoo in a specific point - well, then it is a gentoo related question.

Naib · Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 2:14 pm Post subject:

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Roman_Gruber · Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 7:58 pm Post subject:

Nothing more worse as those folks who come up with gentoo but it is not gentoo.
sabayon, cacluate and wahtever it is called

Really annyoing and you hardly realize it in the first place and those guys do not declare it in the first sentence also.

I never understood the opinion to ask here when it is not gentoo in the first place. The toolchain is different and the portage tree too. So why do they ask always here?

Sadly those things are hardly put in non supported.

I voted yes.

And i hope guys posting will cleary use and see it instantly that the new section is for that.

The new section should be obvious and self explanatory so those calcualte, sabayon wahtever "people" go there.
it annoys me to see something about portage and than i realize the package is not in the tree or it is some sort of shitty unsupported gentoo derivative. last time i checked the other sub gentoo derived distribution forum. Only a few posts and those were poorly answered. But i do not get the point why i install a distro which is hardly used and than bug the main distro gentoo than ! And why installing such a distro without much knowledge. you see it on those posts also from those calculate sabayon and wahtever those are called these days.

xaviermiller · Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 8:10 pm Post subject: