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I not too sure what the "Request" section would look like but a "search" ability like in the current forum is required (for searching previous postings/answers to the same /similar questions.

While some new users may not be bothered to search for previous similar topics , frequent users (answering postings) make use of the search function to either provide answers in the form of links or cut and paste previous replies.

Yes I agree search is very important, thank you for suggestion! :)

a tag function to identify the requests would be great too

Sounds like a stack overflow sort of clone.
If that is the intent, I would try to get some UX pointers by just comparing the software you build with theirs (search, tags, links, featured requests, etc).

I do think that there should be some space for open discussion which based upon the term "request" would not fit this new site too well.
If you do not intend for this new site to have many ill-defined discussions I would recommend providing another outlet for information such as having a recommended IRC channel or something similar.

I still think you should look into the server speed problem. I am now downloading slax iso and it is downloading hardly at 20 KB/s at average. This is very poor. I checked the download speed of Ubuntu, just to be sure it isn't problem with my connection, and it is downloading at 2 MB/s.

I know you can't compare to Ubuntu resources regarding hardware, but tens of kilobytes isn't good enough nowadays.

I can confirm that the connection speed is bad at the moment. I've asked network admin to investigate the issue.

(5) @ Prcek

I think connections are affected by connections between countries / servers. In all the way downloading from slax server usualy give me the maximum speed (from my connecetion).
I just tested and slax.iso is downloading at 200kb+/s

You tested by comparing to Ubuntu but possibly you are mirrored to the closest server which could be in a country much closer to you (as compared to slax).

But having said that , I am in South east asia and 200kb+/s from slax is normal . My maximum connection is between 200kb/s to 220 kb/s.

Should be better now.

... I have mirrored the Slax-7.x(-development) sections at:
hxxp://fluxflux.net/mirror/index.php?dir=ftp.slax.org

Manfred

Hi Tomas,

I am a researcher and I wonder if the Slax 7.0 I can use LATEX, and R INKSCAP pjroject?

Regards

Well neither latex nor inkscap is included, but you can install slackware package or make a module for it.

@Tomas M: this new layout of the website is amazing. Congrats for the hard work!

I like the new design very much, but there is one little problem.

On the blog, you can't seem to open posts by clicking on the title...

Actually there is no need to do so, the posts are entirely visible at the blog page, no need to open them unless you want to see comments.