LinuxForums.org

LinuxForums.org

Type of site	Linux Internet forum
Available in	English
Dissolved	May 2020; 2 years ago (2020-05)
Owner	MasMedia
Created by	Jason Lambert
Registration	required to post not view
Launched	2001; 22 years ago (2001)
Current status	Defunct

LinuxForums.org was an Internet forum for Linux users needing free help and support with their Linux distributions and software, and computer hardware. It was owned by MAS Media Inc. With more than 200,000 registered members, it was one of the most active Linux forums and free software community sites on the Internet.

Support was given in different ways in specific forums, such as on a distribution level (for major distribution such as Red Hat/Fedora Core, Ubuntu, Suse, Slackware, Debian, Gentoo, Arch), but also on an operational level (for areas such as Wireless, Applications, Servers, Networking, Desktop / X Window, Programming & Scripting).

In November 2008 the forum changed ownership and did a complete overhaul of the site.

Breach and shutdown[edit]

In May 2018, the Linux Forums website suffered a data breach which resulted in the disclosure of 276k unique email addresses.^[1]

Since May 2020, the website has been offline. No explanation has been provided.

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