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[sloopy]

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 13:11, Norberto Quintanar wrote:
> --- Clinton MacDonald <> wrote:
> > Mr. Lyons:
> > 
> > Earlier, I made a mistake:
> > 
> > > Robert Lyons wrote:
> > >> Does anybody know of a Yellow Dog forum that I can get to in
> > >> addition to the mailing list, or an IRC chat?
> >  >
> > > These lists are the best *free* source of support
> > > that I know of. You can search the List archives
> > > (another great resource) from the top of any
> > > Yellow Dag Linux page:
> > 
> > It turns out that there *is* an IRC channel for YDL:
> > 
> >  From <http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/>:
> > 
> > A YDL User Channel
> > 
> > There is now a Yellow Dog Linux IRC channel on the FreeNode IRC
> > Network 
> > in addition to channels for many other open source projects.
> > #yellowdog 
> > can be accessed via an IRC client such as "XChat" at
> > 'irc.freenode.net'.
> > 
> > Best wishes,
> > Clint
> 
> IRC tends to be for script-kiddies.  I've gleaned much more from the
> YDL lists themselves than from chatting with some wanna be l33t
> script-kiddie.  There is a reason for the axiom, always get it
> straight from the horses mouth.  What better place to get YDL info
> than from the YDL lists?
> 
> 

well not all of irc is script kiddies... especially on freenode, and in
the #yellowdog channel there is usually an employee of TSS there to
answer questions, give information, and just be around for moral
support... they do an excellent job for the limited resources they are
working with, and should be commended...

sloopy.