Questions tagged [scope]
questions about the scope of this site.
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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) is now released and is no longer off-topic
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (a.k.a. Resolute Raccoon) is now released. As of April 23, 2026 at 17:37 UTC, posts about it are no longer off-topic on Ask Ubuntu. As usual, posts still need to meet the other ...
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End of Life Notice: Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) reached End of Life on January 15, 2026
This will be enforced starting from January 15, 2026 and onwards.
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that will be reaching, or have reached, the end of their life cycle. These releases ...
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Is DGX OS 7 on-topic on Ask Ubuntu?
I'm possibly interested in asking a question about NVIDIA DGX OS 7.
While it's listed as "a customized installation of Ubuntu Linux with system-specific optimizations and configurations, ...
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Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) is now released and is no longer off-topic
Ubuntu 25.10 (a.k.a. Questing Quokka) is now released. As of October 9, 2025 at 09:51 UTC, posts about it are no longer off-topic on Ask Ubuntu. As usual, posts still need to meet the other ...
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End of Life Notice: Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) reached End of Life on July 10, 2025
This will be enforced starting from July 10, 2025 and onwards.
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that will be reaching, or have reached, the end of their life cycle. These releases are ...
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Can Ubuntu Cinnamon be added to the list of official flavor?
Ubuntu Cinnamon has been an official flavour of Ubuntu since Ubuntu Cinnamon 23.04.
Can we add it to the list of official flavours in the On Topic help page?
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Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) is now released and is no longer off-topic
Important: MAJOR Known Issues with 25.04 Installs and Upgrades - Known Active Issue by Thomas Ward.
From that post:
For now, the moderation team is going to be closing or dupe-closing the vast ...
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Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat) is now released and is no longer off-topic
Ubuntu 24.04 (a.k.a. Noble Numbat) is now released. As of "Thu Apr 25 15:20:52 UTC 2024", posts about it are no longer off-topic on Ask Ubuntu. As usual, posts still need to meet the other ...
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Are questions about configuring KDE On-topic on Ask Ubuntu?
Recently, I came across a post which went like:
How can I configure KDE to look like this:-
Although, the question was closed as Off-topic because the poster was on Manjaro, it strikes my mind that ...
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I know how everyone can be happy!
Unicorns for everybody!
.... not really.
I'm talking about our long trail of "list of X" that predate the site since immemorial times. As you can see in previous discussions people doesn't ...
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Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) is now released and is no longer off-topic
Ubuntu 23.04 (a.k.a. Lunar Lobster) is now released. As of today (April 20th, 2023), posts about it are no longer off-topic on Ask Ubuntu. As usual, posts still must meet the normal requirements for ...
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Suggestions for revising the "on-topic" policy for programming questions
@BeastOfCaerbannog and I were having a chat discussion today debating the role of "general" programming questions here on Ask Ubuntu. The current on-topic help text includes:
Questions you ...
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Question about deprecated releases in a container
This question (starting container process caused: error loading seccomp filter into kernel: loading seccomp filter: errno 524: unknown) is on-topic, right? The host OS is Ubuntu 20.04, and the ...
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Ubuntu 22.10 has been released, and posts about it are no longer (generally) off-topic
As of Thu Oct 20 19:13:20 UTC, 2022, Ubuntu 22.10 has been released and posts about it are no longer off-topic purely for being about 22.10 (of course, posts still should meet all the other criteria ...
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A 404 error occurs on the about page
In the second slide of the about page, the link to the "official Ubuntu derivatives" gives a 404.
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