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Yesterday while researching how to answer a Ask Ubuntu question related to network device offload, came across the following Stack Overflow questions:

  1. Where does the [fixed] in ethtool output come from?
  2. What does the meaning of "[fixed]" string in output of ethtool command. This was linked from the 1st question.

I added my own answer to the 1st question above, since while the existing answer was useful, believed could add some additional information.

Prior to my answer, the 1st question was last modified in 2016, and the the 2nd question was last modified in 2014.

Following my "bump" of the 1st question with a new answer, that triggered the Stack Overflow users to vote-to-close both questions with the reason:

This question does not appear to be about a specific programming problem, a software algorithm, or software tools primarily used by programmers. If you believe the question would be on-topic on another Stack Exchange site, you can leave a comment to explain where the question may be able to be answered.

My question for the moderators of Unix & Linux is do the 2 questions look useful on-topic questions for this site?

If so, I could flag the Stack Overflow questions to ask the moderators to migrate the questions to Unix & Linux.

I wanted to avoid the potential of a rejected migration, hence felt best to ask on meta first.

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I'm afraid it's a moot point: you can't migrate questions that are older than 60 days, let alone a decade or so. However, the questions (question, really, they seem like dupes, right?) do look like they would be on topic here so feel free to ask them and answer them yourself if we don't already have a duplicate.

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  • Thanks for pointing out what I had neglected to realise about the maximum age of migration. I also agree the two questions are duplicates of each other. Given that I don't like others cross-posting, and the Stack Overflow questions are not in a state to be "roombaed", won't post a new question on Unix & Linux as they should remain on Stack Overflow for others to find. Commented Aug 8 at 21:35
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    @ChesterGillon now that they've been closed, it's perfectly fine to post them elsewhere. And it was never cross posting if not done by the same person anyway. So if you want to, it's absolutely fine. Commented Aug 9 at 9:15
  • I have no idea how migrating works internally, but typically it means "copying it to elsewhere" and then "deleting it here". That should work. However when there is a significant number of links to the old location, it might be weise to add a "brigdehead" (verbose redirect) from the old URL to the new one. Commented Aug 21 at 10:33
  • @U.Windl see the link I have in the answer. Migration in the context of stack exchange means copying and deleting as you say but also associating the question with the same user if they have/create an account on the target site. In any case, while obviously anyone can simply copy the question and post it as a new one here, that isn't what is referred to as "migration". Commented Aug 21 at 11:35

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