* Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-27 16:51:27 +0100]: > OpenLaptops is a place for people to share experiences about their laptops, > and > help others with similar problems on similar laptops. It is to talk about new > issues with power saving, and mobile gaming. It is here to supplement tuxmobil > and other sites that give great articles and generic responses people have > about laptops. It is just a place for discussion about laptops, not a place to > read about them. > > To understand why we are doing this, it might be better to explain were it > came > from. My first laptop was an Asus M6N, great laptop, but not the greatest > linux support when it came out (and still not all there). A guy from New York > create a forum for people to share experiences about the Asus M6N, I was one > of > the first to extend the forum to the Asus M6Ne lines, and not it is for the > entire M6* line of laptops. Well the original creator of the site had passed > on > the privileges when it got rid of his Asus and went with the another brand > laptop. Over the course of the year, I have notice that we are getting new > users, but we are also losing members as they are getting new laptops, with > the > lost members, you lose the knowledge they acquired about general configuration > of linux on a laptop. > > Me and another member of m6n forum got together and decided move that board to > a more generic forum, on that allows members to stay on the forum as the move > from one laptop to the next. I know that my next laptop won't be another Asus, > and I will still like a community to get support, and have it be from the > people I already know and sort of trust, instead of a completely new forum, > were I don't know who really knows what. > > We are coming here today to > introduce to y'all the site, and hopefully get a few people that have some > time > on their hands to add another forum to their plethora of sites they visit in a > day. Whether it is just to stop in and see what's going, or you have your on > laptop, and just haven't been able to find help in certain topics for your > laptop, or maybe become actively involved in helping others with their > laptops. > > We hope to see a few of y'all in the board, and are welcome to ideas and > suggestions. > > http://www.openlaptops.org > > Regards > Nico
Thanks, Nico - I like it - Just registered. -- Regards, Dave -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
