Questions tagged [scope]
Use this tag when examining what is on-topic or off-topic, and why (i.e scope of the site).
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How do we feel about requests for learning materials?
We recently had a brief discussion in chat about this question which asks for learning materials (specifically, online video courses). I feel that such questions are not a good fit for the site ...
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Did we ever come to a consensus regarding Plan 9 questions?
I've read Are plan9 questions on-topic?, and it seems like there wasn't really a consensus. The discussion was started, but never really finished. Plus, that was a couple years ago, there are new ...
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Are questions specific to a particular OS on topic?
Ok so I realize that this question has been asked a lot... or at least has been asked a lot with respect to Mac Os and Ubuntu. But I haven't been able to really figure out what the correct answer is ...
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What close reason should be selected when migration site is not available?
I frequently run across questions that should be migrated to other sites, but right now the only site we have an option for is stackoverflow.com (as well as unix meta).
Most of the time I want to ...
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Would you be happy to welcome Whonix GNU/Linux users on unix.se?
Speaking as a maintainer of Whonix GNU/Linux which is a derivative of Debian GNU/Linux. Its focus is on anonymity/Tor.
Having a dedicated user support forum for Whonix and teaching Windows users who ...
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Are questions about emacs lisp programming on-topic here?
Since vi/vim questions are considered on-topic here, it would seem fair that Emacs questions would be as well. According to the /emacs tag statistics, we already have a bunch of them, so there's no ...
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circumvention of security or policy
The question Getting internet to Linux VM without being detected by Network made me have a look at the FAQ where I didn't find what I expected to find though. I found it in the Serverfault FAQ:
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Are Skype questions off topic?
FAQ states:
If your question is about:
Using or administering a *nix desktop or server
The Unix foundation underlying MacOS (but generally not frontend application questions)
The ...
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Vim related questions should be asked @ Unix or @ stackoverflow? [duplicate]
On the one hand VIM is something very UNIXish, on the other it exists also in windows and it's very related to programming. So where is the appropriate place to ask such questions?
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Does my question about a Linux program that does signal processing belong here?
I am looking for signal processing software, that runs well under Ubuntu 10.04: question. Does it belong here, or at Signal Processing SE or at Electrical Engineering SE, or maybe somewhere else?
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question closed for off-topic, even though some answers here suggest it is not
I have a sad record. First question asked in this site and it's been voted and closed for off-topic:
Wrong timezone offset. How do I correct it? (help with zic timezone compiler)
A user, @Gilles, ...
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What is the current consensus on programming questions?
I was originally going to ask a question about this, but found its been asked here a lot already (in numerous variation). Since I've now spent the time digging through meta, I'll document what I've ...
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Why was my C programming question closed?
I asked a question on the Main U&L site, and just seen now, that it is closed due to being off topic. To me this question belongs on U&L as I have been working on Ubuntu and found this on my ...
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Are questions about Linux in the context of business or society on topic?
What factors contribute to the expense of migrating to Linux? was recently closed. Defending the closure, Michael Mrozek says
This is also totally off-topic as far as I can tell; it's not about
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Is QNX unix-like?
Is QNX a unix? For the purpose of this site, that is. Is QNX on-topic here?
Related: Are plan9 questions on-topic?
Example: Archive of QNX's use messages?
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Precedence on System Administration questions?
Do we have a precedence on questions that are based more on servers than unix? P.S. I'm specifically thinking that I might want to migrate this question to serverfault
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Are questions about applications not specific to Unix being used on another platform on-topic here?
I'm a little concerned that we're branching into an area that should be out of remit for this venue (specifically, regarding the question https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/33973/cdrdao-verify-...
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Would a question about most useful one-liners be off topic?
I've been looking to compile a list of most useful one-liner commands recently. Personally, I think it would be helpful for a lot of people if they could simply browse through the answers and discover ...
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Are code or design reviews acceptable?
Do we want code or design reviews on this site?
Code reviews expect considerable effort on the part of readers, more than a typical question. Furthermore, they are very open-ended — “I can't see ...
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Where exactly is the border between apple and UNIX?
Here I posted an answer on how to disable mouse and keyboard input using xinput, with the presumption that if the question is about UNIX, X specific answers are good. However, turns out, the OP was ...
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Is accessing unix filesystems from windows ontopic?
How much Windows is ontopic? we decided a while ago that cygwin is ontopic because there isn't usually much difference. But is this question about reading Linux filesystems from a windows system ...
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Book recommendation questions
Like most sites of this nature, we keep getting book recommendation questions. Personally, I massively dislike these questions -- they're completely subjective and have almost nothing to do with our ...
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Hardware recommendations: what's the limit?
A fairly common problem when running an OS other than Windows is finding well-supported hardware. I'm actually surprised we're not getting more questions about this. Well, we've just had one, and I ...
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At what level does "do X for me" become off-topic?
I've recently been hanging around this site because I enjoy problem solving on linux and learn heaps from seeing how other peoples solutions. I'm happy to pitch in to solve others problems, however -...
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What to do about programming questions
I think we have a consensus that programming questions are generally off-topic and belong on Stack Overflow. (I thought this was explicitly mentioned in the FAQ — is my memory failing or did it change?...
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Unix.SE vs ServerFault vs SuperUser vs Android.SE
As far as I can tell from the FAQs, questions about:
unix desktop systems can be asked on SuperUser,
unix servers can be asked on ServerFault,
Android can be asked on android.stackexchange.com
So ...
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Is it ok to ask curiosity questions?
Here's an example question, which passes the What kind of questions should I not ask here? test. For me, it was really a matter of curiosity, because I don't intend to ever use GTK+ 1.x. But that ...
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Cygwin on-topic?
Should we consider Cygwin on-topic here? It's similar to a Linux command-line and has many of the same tools, so lots of answers will probably just be the same as if the user was on Linux. However, it ...
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Migrate Ubuntu-specific questions to AskUbuntu?
There was a comment and a mod flag on this post about possibly asking the question on AU instead. I don't think our previous discussions on this have been particularly clear-cut, so I'm just going to ...
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Are Operating System questions are on topic?
There seems to appear question about operating systems/architecture in general (like spin locks or memory handling). Are those on-topic (and therefore in possible clash with operating system ...
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Are plan9 questions on-topic?
Is plan9 sufficiently unix to be on-topic here?
(I suppose it might not not really be a question of sufficiency; perhaps plan9 is too unix for this site?)
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Should question that could basically only be accurately answered by "the developers" be on topic?
I mean questions like:
Why did work stop on project X?
Why was project X coded this way?
Why was project X packaged this way?
I feel these can only be answered by the original developers 99% of the ...
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Unix C API calls ontopic?
I don't really have a question in mind, but I'm thinking of the kind of things that are covered in APUE(2e) which is POSIX, SUS, etc. C API mostly. Obviously generalized C programming is not ontopic, ...
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Are questions about vi, vim, and other clones on-topic here?
$a = trueOrFalse("are they on-topic?")
$b = trueOrFalse("is this the best site for these questions?")
if (!$a || !$b)
{
pleasePrintBestSiteFor("questions about vi and clones")
}
*it just made ...
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Should "why did project X 'die' " be ontopic?
I notice there have been a couple of questions now about why project this and that failed (Beagle, Hotwire). I understand historical questions, but in general I don't see these being as much of ...
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Do I ask here or on Super User?
I visit Super User now and again, and I get amazed by the amount of Unix & Linux Questions asked there. Seems like many don't know of the existence of this site (or they simply resist?). This ...
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Are career questions on-topic? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
“What jobs are out there?” — are career questions on-topic?
Do we want career-related questions here? They're not liked on Stack Overflow (but there's ...
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Is shell scripting in perl in range of this site?
Is shell scripting in perl in range of this site?
or is perl hacking for SO?
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Should Politics and Idealisms be on topic?
This is not the first question, that basically comes down to the answer having something to do with free software idealism. I'm simply wondering if such questions should really be on topic? they ...
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"How to reinstall Windows?" - on topic?
I'm talking about this question, How to uninstall RHEL from a dual-boot system?. The title makes it look like a Linux question, but reading into the question at hand, and the (accepted) answer, I can'...
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Is this site for me?
I just decided to install some snmp daemon on my ubuntu servers. I tried to start with Ask Ubuntu, and searched for snmp. No hits. I'm exclusively an Ubuntu Linux admin at this point so I figured I'd ...
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"What jobs are out there?" -- are career questions on-topic?
This comes from the question what jobs are out there for NIX nerds?. I personally think this is probably off-topic, and it has two close votes already, but it also has three upvotes so I wanted to ask ...
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Rejecting obvious questions?
Shouldn't we reject questions for which the asking people obviously didn't do their homework?
Like this one: What does ^d mean in ls -l | grep ^d?
Not that I'm really annoyed, but I think it would ...
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Where can I find Software for Unix/Linux that does X?
This question is an attempt to preempt other questions asking for recommendations of software packages that meet some vague or general requirement X.
Questions like (please add more, so this can be ...
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Is it ok to ask bash language questions?
I find myself asking more and more questions that might overlap with SO.
Where should I ask bash questions that focus more on the bash language than they do on unix? Here or on SO?
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Are "show off your DE" questions off topic?
I'm looking to customize my DE, and I would like to ask the community for screenshots + config file examples.
Something like this thread
Would a question like that be on or off topic?
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'Holy Wars' Questions
I don't think that we should encourage questions such as Is GNU/Linux still relevant?. These types of questions bring out strong emotions or exhaustion for people who have been involved in the debate ...
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Are android questions on topic?
As I read Android wikipedia page all I found is that:
It is Linux kernel(who would suspect ;) )
"nor does it support the full set of standard GNU libraries" without mentioning if it is POSIX ...
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Offtopic - A Stance - Programming / Servers / Cross Platform Applications
This encompasses all previous questions. I decided I didn't want to say this more than once, and I've changed my stance a bit.
For the most part it's unix vs windows.
IIRC Windows uses threads where ...
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