My Mailman 3.0 hosting service is crap but I'm stuck with them.... One of my listserv members is getting bounce messages that looks like he's trying to use the domain registrar's SMTP service. He's not technology savvy and wouldn't know or know how to set his email client's SMTP gateway. The domain registrar company is trying to help but all they're seeing is a message come to them and -- obviously -- has no privileges to use their SMTP server. The Mailman hosting company is essentially throwing a tantrum that it's not their fault, etc. etc. How does Mailman 3.0 send out message set to a listserv? I had imagined it was simply configured to use a static SMTP gateway but it looks like something is rewriting it or a configuration variable is not populating properly, etc. Any help is appreciated.

I was just curious why you guys started using FOSS software. At first I had to do work for school and we were supposed to use MS office, though the problem was all I had was "MS Works", the thing was almost impossible to use, so I found out about Open Office, (Libre Office is what to use now).

One day, my Gramma gave my family a Mac G5, the one that looks like a lamp. My sister had a ipod touch, but it wouldn't work on the old thing. So I learned more about linux, and that it was a Power PC and needed an OS just for PPC. I evently managed to get Debian to load onto it after getting lucky on pressing buttons to force the mac to load a different OS. I got my own computer when my Mom dropped her laptop, though it had Vista and was unusable, so I loaded Linux Mint on it. Now after taking a programming class at my school, I want to learn more about programming beyond Visual Basic. Why did you start using GNU/Linux?

I am just starting to learn Linux, and I find it fascinating so far! I had an idea. Someone should set up an IRC channel for other people trying to learn Linux. We can experiment and try different things, and encourage each other to dig around and learn. There could also be a volunteer who has Linux experience to help others where they can. What do you think?

Starting this in the interest of discussion.

Do you think should everything be 100% GNU?

Are you a moderate?

My personal stance is that the freedom of the platform on which you "compute" is ultimately what's important. The "free" status of an odd application is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. Efforts are better spent making sure that the infrastructure is Open and Free, that nobody is dependent on non-libre software to function the tasks that they need to.

For example: Things that don't fall into this realm of infrastructure, like games, are freedom less important than the importance of FLOSS game engines and libraries, like OpenAL/OpenGL and SDL.

While I prefer FOSS software where it can be applied, I don't mind "open source"

I'm just wondering if theres any school who currently uses Linux Distributions for educational purpose and/or free Software. I'm currently in 10th Grade at school(British a-levels) and as a member of the PC-Club i'm occupied with our Computer Systems. Currently we've got some Debian Servers running, mainly for our education-platform called IServ and theres plenty of free & open software preinstalled on every machine at school (like libre office, gimp). I thought it would be nice to run 100% linux machines at school, one argument to convince schools administration are the licensing-fees of windows machines, but i'm afraid i need some more arguments pro free-software. It would be great if everyone shares their experience with linux at school.

Greetings, mrw1llowfield

I've been using dropbox for a while and just recently decided to find another way to sync files across my computers. Is there a free implementation of dropbox available?

This weekend I will be installing linuxfromscratch on my primary computer, using the updated liveCD a friend on IRC made. Any advice? is this recommended?

Firstly, let me start off by saying "Hello". I am DSMcGuire (known to everybody else as Daniel McGuire), I am 18 and I am currently in College in my second year of ICT and I am the only one that uses Linux... Only a few more even know what it Linux is! But I digress...

Apart from using Linux ([L]ubuntu mainly) I also try to get involved with it as much as possible hence me being part of the Lubuntu Comms team. Our main objective for the Comms Team is to get the word out about Lubuntu over the internet, only being a Linux user for a year I think this is a good place to start.

Now, onto why I even made this post;

My main focus latetly has been getting new users onto (Lubuntu) Linux and sub reddits like this will only make that job just a little bit easier. Linux users, no matter what level, need a place where they can go to get support. We only really ever focus on experienced users facing horrendous problems so places like this sub reddit are SO needed.

So I just wanted to say thank you to all who help out in the sub-reddit and I hope it really flourishes!

Daniel McGuire

Hey guys! Basically, what the title says. Have a bunch of experience with Linux from a user/developer standpoint, much less (but still some) administration. Also, Python scripting. Hope I'll be able to help :)

Great to see a subreddit like this.

I'm 15 years old, been using GNU/Linux for arround 4 years, started with Ubuntu and Mandriva and used hell lot of distros, from Debian to Haiku, OpenBSD, Gentoo or FreeBSD. I currently run Mint in my laptop and Arch in my desktop: thinking about switching to Gentoo in the Desktop again.

I'm also interested in Programming and Game Development, used a lot of languages too and mostly interested in Functional Programming (Haskell, Clojure, etc.) and Machine Learning (Artificial Intelligence).

Although I'm not an expert, obviously :P

Pretty much what the title says - I started playing with Linux around 2000, and switched to using it fulltime in 2004, when I was a freshman in college.

I like to think I'm one of the more level-headed Linux fans out there - I use it to get real work done at my job all the time. I'm one of the two guys running Linux on my workstation in a mostly-Windows environment, I've gotten pretty good at co-existing with the world of Windows.

Hey guys! First off, I am super excited to see something like this on reddit. I find it absolutely fantastic that there are still younger people interested in GNU/Linux.

I would like to tell you a bit about my sojourn to where I am today. I was always curious about computers, had spent many many years playing with old DOS machines, eventually I got a Windows 98 computer, and the internet, and then lost track of time and before I new it, I was 20. haha

Anyways, in about 2006, I got curious about this "Linux" thing I had heard so much about. I actually got curious enough to download an ISO of Ubuntu over a dial-up connection... I installed it, and then said "Well, what in the name of God do I do with it." Of course, I used Google, but I could only learn so much from reading man pages, forums, blog posts, etc. So I went out and I found myself a shell account. I happened to stumble upon Cluenet.org, got myself a shell, and then realized that the community there was a wonderful tool. I was even then one of the oldest members, many of them were aged 13-15 when I joined, but they all had the desire to learn some Linux skills, so we all got along pretty well. Eventually, I started hosting and admining a shell server for Cluenet, and after learning many many obscure concepts about LDAP and Kerberos, I helped the founders rework some of the core network. As a reward, I was given an administrative position, and became one of the Cheif Technical Administrators (Made up title they came up with for me haha) for the group.

And when I sit here today, looking back on those days, I realize that the journey that led me to being able to configure and compile the Linux kernel manually, or configure apache2 for virtual hosting, or the fact that I have had servers running in other countries with uptime measured in years, well, that all started because I was curious. I also have to think of all the younger people that were curious too. Some of them work for the likes of Intel, or Amazon. Some have gone on to prestigious CS courses at UIUC, Kettering, UCLA. Some of them have gotten fat and lazy, but can code the fat off of their bodies.

So, I am not trying to plug anything, but I do happen to have some things to offer you guys. First off, I have my knowledge. Second, I have a shell server network that, if anyone decides they want to use, is available. And finally, I offer you my best wishes, Linux, and the software it runs, will offer you a world of knowledge, a unique way of thinking, and hopefully desirable job skills.

I use CrunchBang on this computer, and Gentoo on my laptop. I use Google Chrome, about the only nonfree app I ever use, for its app store. However I consider it mixed source because of its open source counterpart, chromium. My goal is to learn enough about web development and GNU/Linux system administration to either get me a job or for me to make something useful on my own :) What improvement I would like to see in purely "free" software is for quality firmware and drivers to be available, and for it to finally gather a crowd of non-geeks(my little brother uses debian, and for the most part he is computer illiterate aside the fact he has the mere ability to click stuffz :)

Hope this subreddit goes somewhere, I finally have a place to discuss without criticism of either my age or my ideology :D

I've been using Gnu/Linux and Unix in general (BSDs) since I was 11.None of my peers in high school use Linux, and nobody I've ever met has ever dabbled with BSD or even less mainstream distros (like Plan9).

I've only had two outlets for discussing Linux. The internet (with presumably older users) and older people in the real world.

It will be interesting to see how this subreddit turns out, but since it's called gnugeneration perhaps it should not be described as a "Gnu/Linux" subreddit. A few BSDs still use a lot of GNU software, and pretty soon we'll even have GNU/Hurd out to play with.