That would be nice. Even though I don't look for Linux + photography - related information that often in Dpreview (I do use Linux almost exclusively, but I mostly gather the information I need from Usenet/the sites of various applications themselves), it would be convenient to have those discussions in one place, instead of having to search for them in all forums.
And then compare it to other searches:
Sure, Linux is still not exactly a mainstream OS, and probably fewer still use it for photography - related tasks. On the other hand, some of the existing forums seem to have just a couple of times more posts than the cited quick approximation of Linux-related posts: Leica forum had 61750 posts, Ricoh forum 50167 posts, Pentax forum 42634 and other digicams forum 32915. Combined with the fairly safe guess of Linux still increasing its usage share (albeit slowly) for now, the idea of Linux forum doesn't seem completely absurd to me.
Meanwhile, a search for 'John' in the Open Talk forum returns 374,755 results. So I guess by the numbers there should be a forum for people named 'John'?
Remember the Leica forum only opened 18 months ago, the PC forum started in 1999 (I think).
Actually, iPods have a lot to do with photography. Other than the shuffle, an iPod is very convenient to store and display photos, and prior to the current models, could be used to copy images off memory cards instead of carrying a laptop (although not a particularly effective one since they weren't really designed for that).
True. And my comparison wasn't really completely fair in general, as there are of course many comments about Leica and the others outside their corresponding forums as well (for example, in case of Leica, the total is 93131).
Unfortunately this thread is very likely to be taken over by trolls ... such is dpreview sometimes.
I'm over a year in front of you on this one. Unfortunately my suggestion went into the cyber black hole that is dpreview's suggestion box and was never heard of again.
Well said, Iskender,right on the mark.
Another spoiler. This thread is just a reasonable request for a forum.
Linux runs on PC's, both 32 bit and 64 bit, as well as on all Mac's, Intel and PPC™ architecture, but also Alpha ,mainframes, NASA supercomputers, Sun Spark, game consoles, routers, refrigerators, coffee machines and toasters ;-), almost anything with a CPU.
Please take a look at the search results. 283,719 is not an
Yes exactly - one of Linux's strengths is the range of h/w it runs on. The "PC Talk" forum is based on the outdated assumption that anyone with a PC is using Windows. And simply having one forum for people using the same hardware misses the point that we mainly use different software, and usually face entirely different issues and challenges.
Although there are many sites across the Internet for Linux, very few are particularly good w.r.t. photography. The 18,500 posts referring to Linux on dpreview are spread throughout its forums, showing not only a great interest in Linux, but also a need for one forum in which they should be located. dpreview is probably the leading site for photographic discussion, and having a forum here for Linux, would provide a central point for photographic information pertaining to Linux.
