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LQ ISO has been updated. As the title indicates, it's now GeoIP aware. What does this mean for you? When browsing LQ ISO for mirrors, ones that are in the same country as you will now appear first. Additionally, the main link which was random before, will now be randomly selected only from the country you are in. Of course, the full list of mirrors is still available so you retain the choice to pick whichever mirror you'd like. Thanks again goes to david_ross who has been helping more and more with the coding around here.
As you probably know, we recently had a nice push on cutting down on the number of 0 reply threads. That push is something I'd like to see continue indefinitely. Seeing how well that worked however, it might not be bad to have a single short term initiative from time to time that focuses on different parts of the site. This blog entry details what I'd like the first short term initiative to be. Let's see how fast we can get the LQ Wiki to 3,000 legitimate articles. Participating in the LQ Wiki is extremely easy and allows you to help us build the largest general Linux knowledgebase on the web. If you'd like to help but don't know where to start, here is a list of Most Wanted Pages. Thanks!
I am happy to announce that another distribution has joined LinuxQuestions.org. Please welcome Ubuntu. Participating in the Ubuntu forum will be ubuntu-geek and linuxpeach. I'd like to thank Mako and Ryan for working with me to make this happen. Welcome to LQ!
Since it recently hit half a million downloads, I figured I'd remind everyone about LQ ISO. LQ ISO now has over 115 distribution versions available from over 350 mirrors. If you're looking for a place to find fast Linux download mirrors, LQ ISO is for you. Don't forget to tell others who you recommend Linux to about LQ ISO. If you see your favorite distribution version or mirror missing, please use the suggest feature. Thanks.
Just a reminder to all the members who like getting stuck into a problem. You can instantly hit a search of all threads which have not yet recieved any response. It'd be great to be able to see the number of pages freeze in it's steps with all the avid members of LQ.org having a bash at a thread that they might otherwise have not answered. Answering zero reply threads can be a great way to learn about new parts of linux. Instead of reading a post and maybe thinking "I don't know anything about that." and moving on, if the question seems reasonable, it can be good to take the initiative to do a little research. Not just to help someone else out, but to increase your own knowledge of something you'd not touched before.
Just wanted to let everyone know that we've posted the first in a series of audio clips that were recorded at the SCALE 3X conference. Thanks to Harold, who recorded these. Stay tuned for the rest, which we'll be posting over the coming days.
The polls are closed and the results are in for the 2004 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards. I'd like to congratulate each and every nominee. Winners will be receiving an email in the next 48 hours or so and will be able to pick their award up at LinuxWorld. We'll also be sending out small logo's that can be put up.
Browser of the Year - Firefox (77.12%)
Distribution of the Year - Slackware (19.36%)
LiveCD Distribution of the Year - Knoppix (57.69%)
Database of the Year - MySQL (53.51%)
Desktop Environment of the Year - KDE (58.25%)
Window Manager of the Year - Fluxbox (31.14%)
Office Suite of the Year - OpenOffice.org (84.85%)
Word Processor of the Year - oowriter (63.75%)
Spreadsheet of the Year - oocalc (57.57%)
Audio Multimedia Application of the Year - XMMS (45.83%)
Video Multimedia Application of the Year - mplayer (49.85%)
Security App of the Year - nmap (37.14%)
Hardening App of the Year - SELinux (68.65%)
Editor of the Year - vi/vim (36.37%)
Web Development Editor of the Year - Quanta (50.88%)
IDE of the Year - Kdevelop (37.77%)
Mail Client of the Year - Thunderbird (47.60%)
Open Source Game of the Year - Frozen Bubble (25.52%)
Commercial Game of the Year - UT2004 (38.86%)
Windows on Linux App of the Year - Wine (42.59%)
File Manager of the Year - Konqueror (30.59%)
Messaging App of the Year - Gaim (56.00%)
Graphics App of the Year - GIMP (72.82%)
MTA of the Year - PostFix (45.57%)
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