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questions about the scope of this site.
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Are questions about other Linux distros acceptable?
Seeing as there is now a Unix and Linux StackExchange site (public beta opens on 17th August) I believe such questions should not be encouraged.
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What's your opinion of X on Y? Questions
Each piece of hardware is generally very specific and the chance of someone else being able to help is ever so slim, such questions could be closed as "too localised". The official description for clo …
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Are Linux Mint (and other unofficial derivatives of Ubuntu) questions on topic?
My gut feeling is that this is okay, providing the question would also apply on Ubuntu.
So for instance that networking question would apply equally to Ubuntu (as it's a derivative) so would be on-to …
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Are we better off with a general "Unix & Linux" stackexchange site?
This was put to a vote, with the following results:
Ubuntu membership against
Linux/Unix membership for
end result: no merge
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Are Linux Mint (and other unofficial derivatives of Ubuntu) questions on topic?
(Inspired by this question about Mint. )
You only have to look at Wikipedia to find a long long list of Ubuntu derivatives - should we allow, or even actively encourage, questions regarding these on …
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RE: Acceptability of Off-Topic Questions
The general view in the community (I think) is that Ask Ubuntu isn't the right place for such questions.
Unlike other Stack Exchange sites we have the Ubuntu Forums which are far better suited to que …
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What's the final word on "What X are available" and "List of X" type questions?
I don't think Ask Ubuntu is the place for them.
Close and lock them all and add a notice to the old ones (like they did on Stack Overflow).
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What's the final word on "What X are available" and "List of X" type questions?
Thinking about this, one of the problems is that these questions often start as valid requests, like this one where someone asks for an alternative to a program that only runs in Windows.
Knowing whe …
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