> I am from P.R.China and like to discuss kernel with you,especially kernel
> threads.
No. This is totally off topic and out of place for this list and this user
has been removed.
I realize that this list has been very quiet in recent months, and so maybe
it is time for a meta-discussion on the purpose of this list. The list
should serve the purpose of its users: is it doing that right now? I am not
sure that it is. This is not the only free software-related mailing list
that has this problem right now -- I have noticed recently that many good
lists are quiet. So "build it, and they will come" is not entirely true --
at least for mailing lists.
This list has more subscribers than ever, but I get a sense that nobody
knows what to say. Back about 2 years ago when there were only about 50
people on the list, a hardcore group of ~10 contributors put out about 25
messages a week. I don't think this list has to increase traffic to
25,50,100 messages a week (I couldn't handle it right now!), but not having
a sense of who is on this list and why they are here is not good, either.
Do people no longer have an interest in creating art-related projects with
Linux-based systems, or do they have nothing to say about it, or do they
just not know about this list? How can we improve things? For the people
subbed to the list right now: why are you subscribed, when you could just as
easily read the WWW archive of the list? What do you want to get out of this
list; what expectations do you have for it?
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