Monday 31 January 2011

The rolandh31 forums

As my forum at doesn't seem to be generating quite as much interest or registered users only 2 apart from my user account and a test user account that I use for testing changes out, I'm giving the forums until the end of March to generate registered users and   active threads other than the ones that I'm starting to try and get people using the forums.

If things don't change by the end of March then I'll discontinue the  forums and just concentrate on the blog.

I'd like to give my loyal blog readers the chance to change outcome of my forums, the blog has had a huge surge in viewers/visitors with 200 hits yesterday and as I write this post I'm on a record breaking 533 hits on my site which is the biggest ever recorded hits since I started the blog and would like the forums to have a shot at the success that the blog is currently having.

So readers please register and use the forums and prove to me that they deserve a chance at success.

Roland

OpenSuse 11.4 Milestone 6 Released

With the announcement that OpenSuse 11.4 has hit Milestone 6 I thought that I would start a series of posts on penSuse 11.4 M6.

The OpenSuse 11.4 Portal can be found here, the openSuse 11.4 M6 press release can be found here and finally the OpenSuse 11.4 M6 iso can be downloaded from here.

The big news with OpenSuse 11.4 is that it will include KDE 4.6.0, this is a welcomed addition as OpenSuse 11.3 was supposed to include KDE 4.5 but it never made it into the release and it had to be installed as a software update that  could never get to work properly.

OpenSuse 11.4 M6 is availablee to download now from, OpenSuse 11.4  RC1 is scheduled for release on 02/10/11 and the final release is scheduled for release in March.

Once My download allowance resets on 02/03/11 I'll download 11.4 M6 and install it on my Netbook so watch this space for a full review of openSuse 11.4 M6 soon. In the mean time visit the OpenSuse 11.4 Portal and download the OpenSuse 11.4 M6 iso and create your very own OpenSuse 11.4 M6 DVD and try out this release of OpenSuse.

In the meantime feel free to talk about everything relating to in the OpenSuse 11.4 M6 thread in my forum

Roland

Free Forum Hosting

If you are looking to run your own online forum then there are a lot of free hosting services out there this google search lists all the free hosts out there.  My chosen free forum host is freeforums.org.  You get a lot for free and there is a paid upgrade that gives you a custom domain, removes all adverts and copyright and gives you a forum backup option. I'm currently on the free option as my forum hasn't really taken off enough to require most of the paid upgrade options yet.

So if you are considering setting up a forum  for your blog, community group, sports team or website and want to give it a go without committing to anything paid until you know that it will be worth the money then try freeforums.org as you get your forum for free an can expand it with any of the paid upgrades that you require.

Roland

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