The tag permissions is used for all questions relating to system permissions, whether it's filesystem permissions, permissions to burn DVDs, etc. We also have the rights tag which contains questions that would be part of permissions anyways. Can we make rights a synonym of permissions>

I've seen this for a while now. We are (miss)using the custom close reason: Has anyone spoted the problem here? As you can see, both say the same with different wording. Why should we close it with a custom reason instead of the already loaded ones? Same happens with Android questions (that...

I am a new person in Tegra Linux development. I have Tamontem NG Evaluation board with Tegra 3 Chip. I installed L4T sample file system from NVIDIA tegra Resources (https://developer.nvidia.com/linux-tegra) and installed the file system as described in the documentation provided in NVIDIA site. A...

Someone posts an answer. Then someone posts another answer, not cotemporaneously, which provides information lacking from the first answer. I don't include totally different ways of doing things: someone asks for modifying a file and there are different answers, one with sed, another uses awk, a ...

I am trying to play a midi file from http://per.kentel.pagesperso-orange.fr/marivonnig11.htm namely, http://per.kentel.pagesperso-orange.fr/sons/marivonnig1.mid $ timidity --verbose marivonnig1\ \(1\).mid Requested buffer size 32768, fragment size 8192 ALSA pcm 'default' set buffer size 32768, ...

My opinion is If we have improve option in the wiki tags then if some wiki suggested tags needed a few word more suggestion then reviewer can do that If you would like to do so.

Sorry if somebody finds it abusive I just went through the question and the edited post. The user with edit privilege (according to my view) is not doing what edit is supposed to. How come the one with high reputation only edit tags leaving so much of grammatical error unchanged, but the one wit...

i have installed ubuntu 12.04 32 bit os on my Virtual machine.I have allocated 2GB ram to it. But the Vm is running very slow and left side taskbar is not visible.when i place my cursor on the taskbar a blak colored square is getting highlighted. Could you please suggest me on ways to resolve thi...

I've seen that more often that most, multi-boot, triple-boot, dual-boot are usually about the boot process. Shouldn't we synonymize them all?

This particular instance type mounts two ephemeral drives, in /dev/ and /mnt/. I have to create working directories for one of my services in these paths at startup or the services won't launch. Sometimes this script below works, sometimes it does not. I suspect it's a race between the folder bei...

I'm trying to configure how Ubuntu manage the PPA's and third party repositories with pinning packages. BUT! Sadly it seems that all my efforts are being ignored. I created a file pinning using vim: sudo vim /etc/apt/preferences.d/pinning then put a simple rule like: Package: * Pin: release c=...