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Is there a valid explanation for close this question?
Could I please ask if there are legitimate reasons (within the rules and scope of U&L) as to why this was closed: Linux/In*x open source driver projects group?
The comments and official close ...
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Please remove adds intermingled with questions!
I recognize that SO as an organization may be searching for additional revenue streams at the moment but adds intermingled with questions is going to drive people away.
Adds that get in the way while ...
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2025: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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Please enable the new Copy Button feature on Unix & Linux
One of the features added in the October 2025 Community Asks sprint is a Copy Button for code blocks:
Copy Button on Stack Overflow - As of
today, users will be able to copy blocks of code directly ...
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Rename the grub2-mkconfig tag to grub-mkconfig
grub2-mkconfig is intended for questions about the grub-mkconfig command (without the 2), which seems confusing to me. Could it be renamed to grub-mkconfig?
See How to rename a tag? for the technical ...
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Can I use the Unix Stack Exchange icon in my open-source theme for profile links?
I'm contributing to an open-source Hugo theme and would like to include a small icon linking to users' Unix Stack Exchange profiles. The icon would be used solely for this purpose and would not imply ...
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Why is it preferable to keep a tangentially-related tag?
This question, Use shell reserved word if hidden by an alias, is about a problem in Zsh that also affects Bash, so it's tagged shell zsh bash
However, the question doesn't actually mention Bash and ...
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Version-specific tags for ImageMagick
Should the tag ImageMagick be split into two tags, for versions 6 and 7?
The syntax of those versions is mightily different but looks deceivingly similar.
So, answers for version 6 will misguide users ...
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To the programmer getting unbalanced parentheses errors
... your lost right curly brace it's here on Unix & Linux SE.
Please collect it or it will be thrown away by our janitorial staff at the end of the day.
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Error when submitting a tag wiki edit initially
When attempting to submit a tag wiki edit suggestion, an error occurs that forces me to wait another 30 seconds before retrying the edit submission. After waiting, submitting the tag wiki edit works, ...
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Disambiguate [tag:volume]
I've added descriptions for
audio-volume
volume
I also audited all the questions in volume. I would suggest renaming volume to storage-volume and making volume a synonym for it.
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Consider a migration of two Stack Overflow questions about ethtool to Unix & Linux?
Yesterday while researching how to answer a Ask Ubuntu question related to network device offload, came across the following Stack Overflow questions:
Where does the [fixed] in ethtool output come ...
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displaying "Unanswered Questions"
There are many questions with many tags that I never heard even the name of before.
So, trying to find questions where I hopefully could do some help, I clicked "Unanswered Questions", but ...
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When does a critique become a rant?
I think we do not want a world where these are actually the same.
The answers would be obviously very useful for people trying to formulate critiques, but without the intent to rant.
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Why is a definition for a tag not wanted?
I submitted an edit suggestion for the nas tag:
Guidance:
Network-attached storage
Wiki:
See Wikipedia: Network-attached storage
However, these were rejected as "The edit does not improve the ...