LinuxChix

LinuxChix

http://www.linuxchix.org/

LinuxChix takes a slightly different approach to helping new users learn the ropes in Linux. Though it takes a uniquely female-centric view, its founder explains the philosophy best.

I started LinuxChix because I got tired of seeing new users being browbeaten for asking “stupid” questions. I got tired of seeing people respond to perfectly valid questions with “RTFM”, or “we’re not a Linux help channel”, and other such not-terribly-useful things. I got tired of the locker-room mentality of the more popular online Linux forums.

I started LinuxChix as an attempt to create a more hospitable community in which people can discuss Linux, a community that encourages participation, that doesn’t allow the quieter among us to be drowned out by the vocal minority.

There is a growing misconception that this vocal minority is representative of the Linux community in general, and I wanted to do my part in making sure that new Linux users realize that this is not the case. The vast majority of the people in the Linux community are good, friendly, helpful, generous people. These people don’t have time to sit and post on a web-based Linux forum, however, because they’re too busy out there trying to get real work done. The result is that the popular web-based forums tend to be populated largely by people who have little better to do with their time.

This is truly an informative site, taking a kinder gentler approach to Linux for *all* users.