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As jrg♦ said (pinned in main chat): Hey folks who use "canned" comments: If you see one thats already there that expresses the same general idea, don't add another one. Thanks. :) This has been happ …

Derivatives like Mint and Backtrack are not the same as Ubuntu. They use different packages, from different software sources and typically built differently. They are configured differently. Their pri …

Often people who come here and say they need urgent help really are in the right place, because they don't need urgent help. Serious Urgency Suppose someone needs help quickly because: They need to k …

As terdon says, bash scripting differs from some other programming tasks in that writing shell scripts is a core part of system administration on Ubuntu and other Unix-like operating systems. Not ever …

This is a response to the general question, and not specifically to the example. The whole Stack Exchange system is a bit complicated, so if the example involved a new or new-ish user, it was probably …

Since 12.10 is non-LTS and 13.04 is non-LTS and 13.04 will be end-of-life in a week, it might seem like 12.10 must have been end-of-life a long time ago. But that is not the case. 12.10 is supported t …

I'm sorry to see you step down as a moderator, though (like terdon) I understand the reason. You've made Ask Ubuntu and numerous people's lives better through your contributions and interactions on A …

Humor? Or no humor? Either way works for me. In all seriousness, though, here are some hilarious meta posts: Ubuntu misspellings Are there any memes on Ask Ubuntu? Ten tips to handle your questi …

If it's helpful and good quality, it's fine. If the answer that recommends a different distro is high quality and contributes in some significant way to the question, leave it alone. This may occasion …

In review, I've seen a number of edits that were good ...except for the edit summaries. Bad summaries are most often something like, "Improved question." This is a bad summary because any editor assu …

I think customizing Ubuntu is a way of using Ubuntu. In particular, it is a way of making changes to an Ubuntu system. If someone wants to add Debian repositories to an Ubuntu system, we help them wit …

We have 57 posts tagged warning. Should they be retagged to remove it? warning is not as bad as the banned error tag. error roughly meant "Something happened!" There are just a few common meanings o …

I clicked Reject and Edit while reviewing the post. Although the rejection is shown as being done by the Community bot, I'm the one who's responsible for your edit being rejected (whether or not that …

It is as you say: your post has been edited. Every question and answer on the site has a revision history, which shows each version of the post and provides comparisons between them. This is the revi …

We have 51 questions tagged frequency. This seems like an extremely general, cross-cutting concept that isn't useful as a tag. However, most questions tagged frequency are questions about CPU frequenc …