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Different flavors of LINUX [on hold]
There is a number of LINUX flavors like
UBUNTU
Red Hat
Fedora
Centos
Oracle Linux
etc...
Application installation process and sometimes their behavior become also different. There is a ...
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Why did I get -2 reputation without telling me why?
my reputation was 910 and when I refresh the page It becames 908, I have checked the achievement and INBOX and no reason is mentioned?
Note: this happened to me several times this week, even when I ...
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How should we word the off-topic reason for learning material?
Background: Add specific close reason and explicit point in the help pages for learning material requests
I think that I made a mistake with my earlier proposal, since I didn't included proof of ...
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Adopt a question
I would like to "adopt" this RHEL5 reverse tethering question, since I am looking for exact the same thing right now.
Is it possible to transfer ownership of that question to me?
Or: Should I ask a ...
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What is the intended difference between the 'wifi' and 'wireless' tags? Should they be merged?
I just asked a question which I tagged with wifi, and was then referred to a possible duplicate which is tagged with wireless.
My first thought was that wireless is probably about all forms of ...
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2014 Community Moderator Election Results
Unix & Linux's 2nd moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 2 new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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How was my suggested edit not useful?
I just suggested an edit to the question Extracting text using sed does not work as expected. After a few minutes I checked back and found that an edit had been committed to the question. It was my ...
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Can the suggestion box be disabled?
When entering a question, StackExchange tries to suggest previous answers. It does so by filling a "Questions that may already have your answer" box between the title and the body of the question. ...
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Why are we answering how to accomplish a task with X, we are answering with Y? [duplicate]
I've seen this couple of times: How to foo the bar with X? X being a requirement of the asker. Now, maybe I'm biased by my participation in Software Recommendations where all requirements of OP should ...
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2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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What do the 3 phases of the election mean?
The 2014 Moderator Election page states:
Every election has three phases:
1. Nomination
2. Primary
3. Election
However, there is no (complete) explanation of the phases; currently -- I presume ...
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Why there isn't enough attention for Network services questions?
This site is for Unix and Linux question and I think that Network Services configuration and management is an important part of it so why the question that related to this domain don't get enough ...
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Please take a look at this vandalism post
It is that time of the day again. Time now is 21:00 CT. There is one particular spam post which occurs exactly around this time every day. The most annoying thing is, it happens on the same answer by ...
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PSA: If you are not going to spend any effort writing an useful tag wiki/excerpt, please don't do it
I've seen this couple of times—people copy information from Wikipedia or somewhere else, and paste it into the tag wiki/excerpt as is. This is not how it was meant to be used! You can't just dump some ...
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What's the diference between kernel-modules, kernel-drivers, drivers and modules?
I was verifying how UL used tags for something and discovered these tags. Ok, I know that Xorg uses the term "drivers" to refer to the software that runs stuff, so kernel-drivers may be a ...
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Is asking “What license should I use” on topic?
So, someone asked this question, and well, it's being closed, but we have a tag licenses that kind of support asking these questions, as shown in the excerpt:
Questions concerning the terms under ...
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Why prettify mistakes `/*` as comment for “shell script”
Specifically this question. Apparently it's interpreting /* as the beginning of a comment which it isn't in any shell I known of (only JS, Java and some C-like language to my limited knowledge do ...
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Can I nominate other people?
The Moderators Nomination have just begin and I'm so excited about this event
my questions are:
How can I know the moderators of the last year?
Can I nominate a moderator ?
Can I nominate other ...
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2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic ...
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2014 Community Moderator Election
The 2014 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three ...
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should questions regarding ubuntu and its derivatives be asked here? [duplicate]
it feels like unix & linux site is more related to unix OSes. Such as *BSD , Solaris etc.
Additionally, some less "user friendly" Linux OSes, can safely find home here. Such as debian, ...
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Shouldn't we all be using “LC_ALL=C” infront of every command prior to posting the output here?
Most shell allow the temporary usage of a different localization for single commands. This is great in the case someone is not using an English locale and is using the output of a command in his/her ...
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How to identify which questions belong to which site?
I am really getting confused which site is used for which purpose. For example, see the questions below.
From SuperUser
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stepping down as moderator
I think the time has come for me to step down as a community moderator here. I never ended up being as active as I intended to be, and now I have a new job which is going to leave even less spare ...
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Shouldn't the question “Output file contents while they change” be tagged “tail”?
Shouldn't the question Output file contents while they change be tagged tail?
I think it would be easier find and much more search engine friendly. I know until the answer was provide the tag would ...
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Assembly language question
Is it okay to ask a question regarding a boot-loader program that has been written in x86 assembly language ?
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New users posts review count calculation
Suppose if I see a first post asked by a new user, I can use the edit button under the question and make the edits. Something as seen below.
However, in the review queue, we have an option as ...
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How do you feel about “GIVE ME TEH CODEZ” questions?
If you don't know what kind of questions these are... well they're essentially the type asking to do their job for them. They have a task to accomplish, the task is to write a script, and they use us ...
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Should “command only” answers be flagged, down voted and deleted?
There are a lot of answers that only provide a one to three line commands and nothing else.
Sometimes this is enough since the question was asked in a way that the answer is only one command.
In ...
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The books tag needs a revision
Per previous discussion and one recent meta question the books seems to be the haven for that kind of question. The tag needs a revision of all its questions and we should check whether they are good ...
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why was this question not closed?
I was surfing through U & L site and stumbled upon this question titled: Recommended reading to better understand Unix/Linux internals. According to the site's rules, the same question would have ...
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Close questions answered by reading the man page [duplicate]
I can't actually see the close reasons menu on this site yet, but
If a question is trivially answered by reading the man page, should it be closed?
This question for example.
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Is U+L good to ask about virtualization and XEN?
I like the SE network and U+L in particular, hence this is my prefered site to ask a question. I am unsure if it is "okay" to ask about a xen virtualization related question. Any advice much ...
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Where should I place questions about freedesktop issues?
My previous question (about icons in a freedesktop compliant desktop), obvously, did not triggered anyone to answer. I suspect this is probably not the best place to ask those questions...
Is there a ...
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Alias tag ps1 to prompt
ps1 should be a synonym of prompt. There are only two questions using it currently.
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Unalias rename and mv
rename, rename.ul (perl one) and mv are essentially different tools of the util-linux package (one of them isn't part of it), that though can do similar tasks (mv can rename files, the same as ...
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Bounty handling: Reward existing answer
I think that it doesn't make any sense to force me to wait three days until I can reward an existing answer. I totally see the sense of this regulation for the other cases.
This is especially bad as ...
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What has happened to flagging?
Maybe it's just a strange coincidence but I haven't seen any flags over the last days. Has there been a huge quality jump or one in flagging lazyness or are the mods on drugs (handling everything ...
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What should the editors tag used for?
What differentiate the editors tag from other tags? It should be about asking for general stuff about editors (ie editor recommendation for an specific task, how to configure the default editor) or ...
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“hdd” should be a synonym of “hard-disk”
There's hard-disk with close to 300 questions about hard disks. There's also hdd with another six questions on hard disks, and I'm not aware of any other common meaning of "hdd".
I propose to ...
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Multipath tag request
Not sure where to ask this, but tag "multipath" is really worth adding, surprised there it's not yet in place. Advice if this sound as a good idea.
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Is the Unix C API still on-topic?
According to Unix C API calls ontopic? and the help center, "UNIX C API and System Interfaces ( within reason )" is explicitly on topic. That within reason links to the meta question.
Mounting a file ...
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Let's burninate [delete] and [remove]
delete and remove seem like the most useless things to me. They fail the adjective test (or whatever it's called): a question tagged with nothing but delete/remove tells you nothing.
Can we burninate ...
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Why do old questions pop up from time to time?
Occasionally when I click the /questions link I'll see questions from long ago float up to the top. I only see it from time to time but I was wondering what caused it. The latest one is this question ...
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Why is the number of votes not clickable on this SE site?
A few days earlier, I came to know about this feature of SO. I am not sure whether it was present earlier also or has been added recently.
The number of votes for each question/answer can be clicked ...
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Unalias libreoffice from the openoffice tag
I suggest unaliasing the libreoffice tag from openoffice. The two codebases are diverging more and more and LibreOffice is getting more attention in most cases. Also see ...
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The blog link still points to the main Stack Exchange blog
Even though the blog is online, the "blog" link in the top bar dropdown still points to blog.stackexchange.com. It should be fixed.
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Call For Papers: the blog is ready!
A little while ago, the new design for our blog went up. I've now published the first post, so let's write! Remember that even if something would be closed on the main site, it might still make a ...
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Is “How do I read/interpret X command output?” a fair question?
I love wondershaper, as it prevents me from abusing my little cheap bandwidth/router, but when I try to know how it does I'm suddenly immersed into tc output which looks alien to me and left me with ...
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Topic clarification: Native Linux tablets
I wanted to know if the following question was on topic here. I asked this on SU somewhile back and it was closed as off topic. The revisions of the question are here, below is the original question:
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