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Ubuntu Cosmic Cuttlefish 18.10 is now released, and posts about it are (generally) No Longer Offtopic
As of about 17:47 UTC on October 18, 2018, Ubuntu Cosmic Cuttlefish 18.10 has been officially released. The corresponding release announcement email that went out to the ubuntu-announce mailing list ...
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Should we have a "Culture Tour"?
The Welcome Tour takes new users through the mechanics of the SE sites.
Should we have an additional tour that explains key behaviours that are expected of the AskUbuntu community?
Things like:
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Should I edit or re-ask my question?
If I edit my question after attempting to fix a problem and the problem still exists does my question still get answered or do I have to re-ask the question?
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Posting extra answer to support existing answer
Here's the situation:
A question has answer A which explains something fairly well
I already have an answer there with alternative solution B
However, I see that A can be explained in more detail ...
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ubuntu-minimal vs Minimal Ubuntu
There has been a recent announcement of an official Minimal Ubuntu stream with a raw image as well as support on various clouds. There is also an ubuntu-minimal package which has existed since trusty....
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Preformatted text horizontal scrolling - bug or feature?
AskUbuntu help recommend to style pre-formatted text and console output with
#four spaces
But sometimes it results in scrolling text. See this question as an example. The problematic line (as ...
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EOL Notice: Artful Aardvark (17.10) reached End of Life on July 19, 2018
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that will be reaching End of Life.
The following versions of Ubuntu and derivatives are officially past end of life as of July 19, 2018:
Artful ...
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What do we do about the links to apps.ubuntu.com?
For years now, we have added links to apps.ubuntu.com with pretty little icons and banners. Recent consensus is that we should stop adding those links (I agree).
However, the existing links had at ...
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The criteria for choosing the top question
I can't understand, how the top questions of week/month are chosen. There is a question with more up-votes and it's in a lower rank than a question with fewer up-votes. On the other hand, a higher, ...
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Tag synonyms: [gnome-shell-extension] and [gnome-extensions]
I just found out there's a gnome-extensions tag.
I think it's just a synonym of the older and well-documented gnome-shell-extension tag. So gnome-extensions should be merged with gnome-shell-...
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Please read complaints of rep 1 users more carefully
Edit:
My apologies to Karl Richter and Waltinator!
This post was not meant as an attack on you personally at all but more of a "call to arms" to the community at large to try and understand ...
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Is this question appropriate here?
I asked the following question:
Cannot assign address inside a Docker container
do you think it would be more appropriate for Stack Overflow, or SuperUser? Or is this the right site?
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Ubuntu Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS is now released, and posts about it are (generally) No Longer Offtopic
As of about 23:00 UTC on April 26, 2018, Ubuntu Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS has been officially released. The corresponding release announcement email that went out to the ubuntu-announce mailing list is ...
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Tag synonym request [fc] -> [history]
Consider the description for history:
The history command can be used to retrieve commands you have previously typed in a shell.
However, fc and related variables FCEDIT and HISTSIZE exist in bash....
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How to install a downloaded .deb file along with its dependencies in a system with an internet connection (offline?)
Despite the teaser in this Meta question's title, the title of the question that was closed is How to install a downloaded .deb file along with its dependencies in a system with an internet connection,...
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