Ask Ubuntu

Ask Ubuntu
Screenshot of Ask Ubuntu, December 2013
Type of site
Question & Answer
Available inEnglish
OwnerStack Exchange, Inc.
Created byCommunity-authored
URLhttps://askubuntu.com/
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
(Required to track reputation)[note 1]
LaunchedOctober 2010
Current statusOnline

Ask Ubuntu is a community-driven question and answer website for the Ubuntu operating system. It is part of the Stack Exchange Network, running the same software as Stack Overflow.[1]

Members gain reputation based on the community's response (through voting) to their questions and answers. Reputation signifies trust for users in the answers they give. Privileges are given based on reputation levels, with users with the highest reputation having similar privileges to moderators.[2] All the user-generated content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.[3]

The site came out of public beta on 10 October 2010, launching alongside Ubuntu 10.10.[4]

As of December 2021, Ask Ubuntu has about 1.3 million registered users[5] and more than 380,000 questions.[6]


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  1. ^ "Ask Ubuntu - About". Archived from the original on 2014-06-10. Retrieved 2016-08-28.
  2. ^ "What is reputation? How do I earn (and lose) it?". Ask Ubuntu. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  3. ^ "What is the license for the content I post?". Ask Ubuntu. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
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  5. ^ "Users". Stack Exchange. Archived from the original on 2019-03-31. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  6. ^ "Questions". Ask Ubuntu. Archived from the original on 2010-10-15.

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