http://tnerd.com/2009/03/01/top-10-freenode-channels-offering-real-time-help-on-open-source-technologies/ (Technology, as it happens, When it happens!) Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:40:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://tnerd.com/2009/03/01/top-10-freenode-channels-offering-real-time-help-on-open-source-technologies/comment-page-1/#comment-55799 JK Wood Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:39:11 +0000 http://tnerd.com/?p=2882#comment-55799 If Debian and Ubuntu have such great help channels, then why the heck do we keep getting refugees from there in ##slackware? Traffic doth not a help channel make. I've popped into both multiple times to ask a distro-related question, and have either been ignored or attacked on both occasions. If you want a real objective measure of the most helpful channels, you'll need to have at least 24 hours experience in all of them. Watch who gets helped, and who gets ignored. Count percentages. I personally would argue that ##slackware, #slamd64, and #freedroid have all been immensely more helpful to me than any of the channels on your list, and I strive to this day personally to make sure that they stay that way. If Debian and Ubuntu have such great help channels, then why the heck do we keep getting refugees from there in ##slackware? Traffic doth not a help channel make. I've popped into both multiple times to ask a distro-related question, and have either been ignored or attacked on both occasions. If you want a real objective measure of the most helpful channels, you'll need to have at least 24 hours experience in all of them. Watch who gets helped, and who gets ignored. Count percentages. I personally would argue that ##slackware, #slamd64, and #freedroid have all been immensely more helpful to me than any of the channels on your list, and I strive to this day personally to make sure that they stay that way.

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