Questions tagged [tags]
Tags are keywords or labels that categorize and group your question with other, similar questions.
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How should we use [fingerprint]s?
There's a suggested edit to the fingerprint wiki defining it as the biometric fingerprint. But the actual use is rather mixed: there are several questions talking about key fingerprints (~1/3rd of the ...
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Tag statistics - what does 'Score [NN] Posts [NN] Posts % [NN] mean?
I was wondering what the statistics stand for that are shown on my main profile page related to the "Top tags":
Score [NN] Posts [NN] Posts % [NN]
N = number
I am especially curious about the Score ...
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Should we add a [trackpad] tag?
I think we should add a tag for trackpad - as a tag synonym of touchpad. "Trackpad" is in common usage, partly due to Apple. But we only have a tag for touchpad.
I noticed there were over 20 ...
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The [X] tag should be aliased to [X11]. (Agree / disagree?)
Questions tagged x
This tag can be used for questions regarding the X Window System. For X Version 11 you can use the tag x11.
I guess people know they are running X, but they are less confident ...
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What is the [history-expansion] tag for, and does it add any value?
While reviewing existing tags (I was looking for Incident Response/Investigation related subjects) I came across the history-expansion tag. Without a wiki definition I had to look at questions already ...
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What can the Kali-Linux tag excerpt say to help those askers?
Following on from Why are Kali questions hated so much? and Why I closed the "Why is Kali so hard" question, and in the spirit of making things better, let's do something about the tag ...
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What's the return status of the exit code?
Which do we want to keep and which should be synonymed to the other?
return-status, with 118 questions, says:
Use this tag If your question revolves around determining or utilizing the return ...
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Suggested change of tag definition for Anaconda
Seems like the vast majority of questions here with the tag anaconda refer to issues with the Anaconda Python and R Data Science package, yet the formal definition of the anaconda tag here is "...
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Reconsider the “buffer” tag?
This tag is for questions about kernel buffer caches, including pipe buffers. These are used to store the recently accessed files and/or frequently accessed files.
Many questions use the cache tag ...
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Tag to use for `/usr/bin/install`
The install tag has the description:
DO NOT USE THIS TAG. Use /software-installation or /system-installation instead.
If this tag should not be used AT ALL, should its questions (63 of them) be ...
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Wrong prompt when editing questions with disallowed tag
When editing a question with tag that isn't allowed, the message below is shown which incorrectly uses 'Your answer' instead of 'Your edit':
Oops! Your answer couldn't be submitted because:
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Tag-merge syscalls -> system-calls
There are two tags that seem to be split with the same meaning,
syscalls
system-calls
Perhaps the top could become a tag-synonym of the bottom?
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Make “historical-unix” history!
history has over 300 questions about “The history of Unix systems and their main components”. There's also historical-unix which has 24 questions but no usage guidance or tag wiki – which is also ...
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New tag for Clear Linux
There are tags for distro-specific questions like
arch-linux, manjaro, mandriva
linux-mint, - debian, ubuntu, lubuntu, xubuntu, kubuntu, chrubuntu, ubuntu-mate, elementary-os, kali-linux
fedora, ...
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Update [epiphany] tag to [gnome-web], with [epiphany] as a synonym
The GNOME web browser is no longer called Epiphany, it is called GNOME Web, so the tag should be gnome-web. This follows the example of gnome-keyring and so on.
Epiphany is still the "code name" so ...
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Remove /duplicate tag
Questions with the tag duplicate cover duplicate files, duplicate packages, duplicate lines and many more. Even if restricted to a specific usage, I can't think of any advantage of this tag, so I ...
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Alpine and Alpine-Linux tag
I frequently observe that people inadvertently choose the tag alpine (an email client) instead of alpine-linux. See the recent question sshpass not functioning in alpine linux.
I suggest to remove ...
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Are tag wikis mostly just for Stack Overflow?
The idea of "tag wikis" that I've always had has been, more or less, just a quick definition of terms, perhaps with a distinction made between the tag under discussion and another similarly named tag ...
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Tag not available
Problem: I just noticed that there’s a high-avability tag with 1 follower, no tag wiki and no usage guidance. It’s obviously a mis-spelling of high-availability (which doesn’t exist as a tag).
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Should journald be part of logs tag
I do know there is a special tag for systemd-journald, but I believe it to be special case of logging, synonym of logs.
My issue being in the definition of logs (emphasis mine):
Configuring or ...
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Are polkit and policykit tags not the same?
What is the difference between policykit and polkit tag?
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Set the display-settings tag in order
The display-settings tag is used in a pretty generic way by people who want to change something related to their display, whether it's monitor arrangement, GPU tuning, window manager decorations, etc. ...
asked Oct 24 '17 at 22:46
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“You … you complete me” said the autocomplete tag
Calling all those interested in helping the site and potentially gaining a tag editor or research assistant badge!
We have a tag with an old, copy-pasted excerpt & wiki that could use some ...
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Controlling the control flow tag
I recently added Usage Guidance and the first version of a tag wiki for control-flow. A few (about 6) questions using this tag actually refer to the similarly-named but distinct concept of terminal ...
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Can you polish up the chrome tag?
Calling all those interested in helping the site and potentially gaining a tag editor or research assistant badge!
We have a tag with an old, copy-pasted excerpt & wiki that could use some ...
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Removal of the [failure] tag
Speak now if you want to defend the failure tag. I believe it to be a meta-tag that:
does not "describe the content of the question"
can't work as the only tag on a question
commonly means different ...
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Tag synonyms: xattr vs. extended-attributes
I wanted to search for questions on extended attributes, then I found that there seem to be at least two tags: xattr and extended-attributes.
The mentioned tags seem to refer to the same topic, but ...
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Do we need multiple multi-monitor tags?
Inspired by a recent MSO question, I looked here and found two possibly-overlapping tags:
dual-monitor
multi-monitor
Should we merge them and make dual-monitor a synonym of multi-monitor?
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Tag related to ASLR
Yesterday I asked this question(Memory Randomization in Linux) on Unix and Linux forum and I found it a little difficult to select the tag for it. Though I used the tags /stack and /memory but I ...
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Get rid of the [efi] tag?
Questions tagged efi are effectively a subset of questions marked uefi. I can't find an "official" definition of the term EFI. UEFI of course stands for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface. So I ...
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“log” tag should be made a synonym of “logs”
43 questions are tagged with log and 1004 questions are tagged with logs which also has a nice description to come with.
I propose that log be made a synonym of logs as it is more established and ...
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Should the tags /scripting and /shell-script be merged?
There are these two - scripting and shell-script. Moreover,
scripting is synonymous with script and non-interactive
shell-script is synonymous with bash-script and shell-scripting
I'm wondering what'...
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Delete the /career tag
The career tag has only 9 questions and most of them are closed (7 out of 9) because they are off-topic. Career questions belong to the Workplace Stack Exchange. Should we delete this tag to not ...
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This criquet needs help!
After we decided we don't need version specific tags, nothing had changed:
debian got an average of 1 question/day in the last 30 days
In the last 24 hours, it got 6 questions.
jessie has an worse ...
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Adding a tag which refers to the best answer in the case of /sed and /awk when there is also /text-processing?
Here is an edit suggestion which adds a sed tag to a question: https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/177179
This question does not mention sed anywhere and originally only had the awk ...
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aws-cli usage questions go…?
I suppose if you're using an API to run the CLI, that could be asked in Stackoverflow, but might not be best.
I don't have the question handy, but saw that a question was closed as off topic because ...
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The tag 'windows-subsystem-for-linux' is too long; the maximum length is 25 characters
What tag name should we use for Windows Subsystem for Linux?
The right answer is of course windows-subsystem-for-linux, except that it's too long: tags are limited to 25 characters.
WSL is an ...
asked Nov 14 '16 at 22:29
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The uphill battle for /alpine
On this site, Alpine can refer to Alpine Linux, a Linux distribution, or to Alpine, an email client (an open source rewrite of Pine). Until a few minutes ago, both used the tag alpine. Out of 26 ...
asked Sep 27 '16 at 0:23
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Unplug the /wireless tag from /wifi
I've been working recently with content falling under the heading Radio Frequency. I've noticed the tag wireless is synonymous with wifi. In fact, it defaults to wifi, and this is reasonable ...
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Auditing the /audit and /auditd tags
We've long had a tag auditd about Linux's audit framework, in addition to audit, which is about the concept of auditing in general. We now have an additional tag linux-audit.
Is there any reason to ...
asked Aug 1 '16 at 23:42
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Please blacklist the /parallel tag
We've decided to disambiguate the tag parallel. We've made some headway on retagging the existing questions but it would help if there weren't new questions with the tag.
Please blacklist parallel ...
asked Jul 31 '16 at 21:03
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Please merge [vim-navigation] into [vim]
I'm pretty sure that “Vim Navigation” isn't a phrase. It's just navigation in Vim. So the tag vim-navigation isn't refering to a particular software package or anything, it's just redundant with vim. ...
asked Jul 23 '16 at 12:49
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Questions incorrectly tagged [streams]
I have noticed that most of the questions tagged as [streams] are about I/O in general rather than the STREAMS framework that the tag's wiki describes. Perhaps the tag is a little ambiguous?
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When should [download] be used?
I wanted to ask when the tag download should be used?
To me it seems to be a rather useless tag since in the 150 question nearly half seem to be about wget and the other half about curl.
And some ...
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nc tag: should it cover ncat, netcat, and/or socat?
I just created the nc tag wiki. In the guidance section, I only talk about nc, but in the description part I breezily list ncat, netcat, and socat as similar programs.
My question is whether I should ...
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Quality-based tag for novice questions
After cleaning up a few facepalm coding questions from novices, I failed to find an existing appropriate tag to distinguish such questions. Quality-based tags do exist however, (i.e. the "humor" tag),...
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Remove [localhost]
I just recently answered a question that was tagged with localhost. It's the only question that uses this tag but the tag doesn’t add anything to the question.
The tag seems to have been created ...
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Proposed Tag for configuration files which override or merge
I've come up with a tag (per-directory-settings) for questions about configuration files that override or merge over one another based on an answer to this question if you think the name of it sucks, ...
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Can we merge the macintosh and the osx tag?
Can we merge macintosh and osx where osx is the master tag? Those tags seem to have the same meaning, and it is unnecessary to have both.
