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Topic: New 'Help & Support' forum structure

With many users now changing their APT sources to point to Debian's testing and unstable repositories, it has been suggested that a new forum be created to cater for these users. After a discussion between the moderators, it was decided that the former 'Help & Support' forum be renamed to 'Help & Support (Stable)' and a new 'Help & Support (Testing/Unstable)' forum be created.

This has now been implemented and new forum can be found here: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/forum … gunstable/

If anyone has any questions about this, please do not hesitate to ask. smile

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Re: New 'Help & Support' forum structure

Sorry, my bad smile

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Re: New 'Help & Support' forum structure

Sweet a new forum section to moderate! XD

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Re: New 'Help & Support' forum structure

anonymous wrote:

Sweet a new forum section to moderate! XD

Now you will have over 9000 posts in no time tongue

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Re: New 'Help & Support' forum structure

Nice one, thank you for implementing this suggestion smile

I'd encourage all users running testing/unstable to post in this new forum. I might do a bit of a search and try to move a few of the more relevant past support requests over to it.

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Re: New 'Help & Support' forum structure

We should work on making a couple comprehensive stickies in the stable help forums about how to get the various wifi and sound cards working. It seems like every day there are more and more threads that say "Hey I'm new to #! and I love it but my wifi and/or sound card isn't working." Most of the time it's just because alsa likes to send sound out the hdmi port, or some one needs to install a different broadcom driver etc.

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Re: New 'Help & Support' forum structure

Maybe a sticky for video cards too?  We seem to get a lot of threadlets about these.

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Re: New 'Help & Support' forum structure

Well we have a sticky about NVIDIA at least.

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Re: New 'Help & Support' forum structure

Whilst we're at it, a sticky for cpufrequtils and the like too? If we would gather all that info from the posts above etc in some nice sticky posts, I think we'd greatly reduce the number of questions along the lines of what mynis01 said.

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Re: New 'Help & Support' forum structure

A lot of information is already in the Quick Reference thread FWIW...

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Re: New 'Help & Support' forum structure

anonymous wrote:

A lot of information is already in the Quick Reference thread FWIW...

Yes, I was thinking that myself reading this thread. You do a fantastic job with it smile

A big red arrow that points to the search functions wouldn't go astray either wink To many stickies can become very messy and distracting when browsing in a forum.

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Re: New 'Help & Support' forum structure

omns wrote:

To many stickies can become very messy and distracting when browsing in a forum.

My thoughts too. Also it would be kinda ridiculous to have stickies pointing to stickies pointing to stickies etc.

If only the forum had a sort of "universal" sticky that would be visible in all forum sections.

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Re: New 'Help & Support' forum structure

^ You mean like the wiki link that's TDC on every page? tongue

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Re: New 'Help & Support' forum structure

Kinda. And technically there already is a always visible link to the Quick Reference. Though I have a feeling that its title is not quite as straight-forward as "Having problems with hardware ABC? Click here!".

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pvsage wrote:

^ You mean like the wiki link that's TDC on every page? tongue

What's a wiki? wink (/sarcasm) Even corenominal has acknowledged that the wiki is a bit of a mess. Quick reference is far more useful smile

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Re: New 'Help & Support' forum structure

Forgive me if it's there and I missed it, but I didn't see anything for samba in the quick reference.  That would be very useful.

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Re: New 'Help & Support' forum structure

There might be something in the old Quick Reference thread. Otherwise feel free to make a new howto on setting up Samba smile

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Re: New 'Help & Support' forum structure

If I only knew how . . .

(I've read and tried to follow a bunch of instructions and have yet to read a simple set up instruction that starts from zero and ends with a basic file sharing set up that allows simple sharing with all computers on a network like windows systems do without much effort and doesn't involve tons of reading and deciphering the configuration file.  In fact, what would really be outstanding is to have something similar to the printing setup or dropbox setup options when installing #!, but sets up basic filesharing for a set folder.)