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| doesn't work-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply>Doesn't work is a strong statement. Does it sit on the couch all day? Does it want more money? Is it on IRC all the time? Please be specific! Examples of what doesn't work tend to help too. | Added by Flannel Date: 2014-04-22 02:57:13 Requested 6 times |
| isitout-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> Yes, and sit out you shall. | Added by Flannel Date: 2014-04-17 08:21:53 Requested 36 times |
| cod | <deleted>a type of fish | Added by rww Date: 2014-04-17 06:03:52 Last edited by rww Date: 2014-04-17 06:08:49 Requested 1 times |
| mre | <reply> Micro Release Exceptions are approved by the Ubuntu Technical Board on a per-package basis for packages that cannot be acceptably handled through the Stable Release Update (!sru) process. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/MicroReleaseExceptions for more information. | Added by rww Date: 2014-04-12 22:33:56 Requested 3 times |
| hack | <deleted><reply>When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the technical bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the transistor, the separate and equal station to which the laws of Moore and of Mealy's Machine entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should delcare the causes which impel them to the singularity. <deleted><reply>We hold these truths to be tautological, that all processes are created equal, that they are endowed by their Programmer with certain unreducable flags, that among these are const, static, and the pursuit of reentrancy. | Added by Flannel Date: 2014-03-30 23:48:40 Last edited by Flannel Date: 2014-03-30 23:49:35 Requested 1 times |
| hack-#ubuntu-offtopic | <deleted><reply> im in ur base hackin ur d00dz | Added by Flannel Date: 2014-03-30 23:38:15 Last edited by Flannel Date: 2014-03-30 23:48:23 Requested 2 times |
| trim ssd | <reply> Many Solid State Drives support TRIM, which allows the drive to do garbage collection and improves performance. Ubuntu 14.04 activates it by default. For older versions, see http://askubuntu.com/a/19480 for information on activating it. | Added by rww Date: 2014-03-29 05:24:27 Last edited by rww Date: 2014-05-16 00:45:48 Requested 114 times |
| foocoin bitcoin dogecoin cgminer | <reply> Ubuntu's repositories do not include clients for most cryptocurrencies. You will need to use a !PPA or !compile from source to get them. Since neither of these options is officially supported, consider asking your cryptocurrency's IRC channel (see !alis) for help. | Added by rww Date: 2014-03-09 02:08:12 Requested 14 times |
| bing-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> ban | Added by rww Date: 2014-03-07 05:22:34 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-01-18 01:48:12 Requested 11 times |
| oh | oh my! | Added by AlanBell Date: 2014-02-14 20:45:05 Requested 22 times |
| systemd | the default init system for Ubuntu 15.04 onwards. For information on transitioning from upstart to systemd, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemdForUpstartUsers For a guide to basic service management with systemd, see https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-systemctl-to-manage-systemd-services-and-units | Added by Pici Date: 2014-02-14 14:10:03 Last edited by dax Date: 2016-05-23 04:54:25 Requested 221 times |
| lts-hardware | <reply> If you experience issues with the LTS kernel, please check https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack to see if you may upgrade to a newer kernel and X stack. | Added by rww Date: 2014-02-05 03:18:31 Requested 1 times |
| xmir | <deleted><reply> XMir is an X server that runs on top of Mir. It permits applications that know how to speak the X protocol but don't know how to speak to Mir (ie, approximately all of them at present) to run in a Mir-based environment. ( http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/26254.html ) | Added by ldunn Date: 2014-02-01 23:03:27 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-10-30 06:17:06 Requested 8 times |
| kylin ubuntukylin | <reply> Ubuntu Kylin is a variant of Ubuntu that focuses on Chinese users. It is an official part of Ubuntu. For more information, see http://www.ubuntukylin.com/ | Added by rww Date: 2014-01-19 07:10:14 Last edited by krytarik Date: 2018-04-30 16:42:01 Requested 105 times |
| jono-#ubuntu-offtopic | <deleted><reply> John O'Bacon is the former ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlYk4RlOnJY ) Ubuntu Community Manager at Canonical. When he's not writing blog posts and tweeting, he spends time manufacturing all the bacon on the planet while singing for death metal bands. | Added by rww Date: 2014-01-14 06:08:20 Last edited by rww Date: 2014-05-20 19:04:36 Requested 11 times |
| xterm-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> If with all the cute terminals that are around you're still using xterm, then you deserve any problem you're experiencing with it. Go away. | Added by rww Date: 2014-01-05 00:42:05 Requested 5 times |
| choices-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> Choices are a curse of capitalism, trapping you in a paroxysm of indecision. Best to have One Way to Do Things. See also !unity, !gnome, and !python | Added by rww Date: 2014-01-05 00:38:59 Last edited by rww Date: 2014-03-30 21:46:05 Requested 9 times |
| wayland | <reply> Wayland is a display server protocol (an alternative to X11) and library. Unlike Xorg, Wayland provides no central server component, but desktop environments' compositors make use of it (e.g. mutter, kwin, weston). For more info, see https://wayland.freedesktop.org and !xwayland | Added by IdleOne Date: 2014-01-04 22:11:49 Last edited by hggdh Date: 2019-07-16 16:51:35 Requested 103 times |
| optimus | <reply> Ubuntu uses nvidia-prime to support optimus videocards. | Added by knome Date: 2014-01-04 20:24:59 Last edited by k1l Date: 2016-03-15 22:51:02 Requested 31 times |
| bumblebee | <reply> The Bumblebee Project aims to support NVIDIA Optimus technology under Linux. The Bumblebee website can be found at http://bumblebee-project.org/ | Added by knome Date: 2014-01-04 20:24:47 Requested 109 times |
| people | <reply> Mostly !trolls, but sometimes other kinds of !people. | Added by aubade Date: 2013-12-28 21:37:56 Requested 9 times |
| ubuntu-gnome | <reply> Ubuntu GNOME is a supported !flavor of Ubuntu that uses !GNOME as the default desktop environment instead of Unity. For more info or to download, see http://www.ubuntugnome.org/ or https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/OneStopPage | Added by IdleOne Date: 2013-12-24 02:03:19 Requested 61 times |
| hello-#xubuntu-devel hi-#xubuntu-devel | <reply> Hello! Welcome to $chan! Please note that this channel is for Xubuntu developer coordination. For support questions, please use #xubuntu. Offtopic chatter in #xubuntu-offtopic. | Added by knome Date: 2013-12-11 23:47:19 Last edited by knome Date: 2014-04-18 13:10:56 Requested 5 times |
| 42-#ubuntu-offtopic | <deleted>the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. | Added by Jordan_U Date: 2013-12-11 06:10:11 Last edited by Jordan_U Date: 2013-12-11 06:11:16 Requested 0 times |
| maas | <reply> Metal as a Service is a dynamic server provisioning service for scalability. See more about it at https://maas.ubuntu.com. | Added by h00k Date: 2013-12-09 21:06:45 Last edited by h00k Date: 2013-12-09 21:09:49 Requested 41 times |
| lovetoo-#ubuntu-bots | <reply> Bots need lovetoo | Added by Pici Date: 2013-12-03 16:59:20 Requested 1 times |
| love-#ubuntu-bots | <reply> Bots need love too | Added by Pici Date: 2013-12-03 16:57:14 Requested 3 times |
| bang-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply>Ooh to the eeh the ooh the ahah to the ting to the tang the walla walla bing bang! | Added by IdleOne Date: 2013-11-30 23:15:43 Requested 1 times |
| debian-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> Ubuntu and Debian are closely related. The former hates the latter and wants to kill it, while the latter despises the former and wants to destroy it. Both suck on each other's blood. | Added by LjL Date: 2013-11-19 21:41:22 Requested 8 times |
| quietirc | <deleted><reply> To ignore joins/parts/quits in your favorite IRC client, see http://wiki.xkcd.com/irc/Hide_join_part_messages | Added by Pici Date: 2013-11-19 16:18:33 Last edited by dax Date: 2019-10-28 14:57:12 Requested 153 times |
| elementary | <reply> elementary OS is an Ubuntu derivative that is supported in their own IRC channel #elementary on irc.freenode.net - See https://elementary.io/ for more information on this distribution. | Added by genii Date: 2013-11-17 07:10:48 Last edited by kryten Date: 2021-05-24 22:54:33 Requested 283 times |
| roadmap-#xubuntu-devel | <reply> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/ | Added by knome Date: 2013-11-15 07:20:08 Requested 1 times |
| meeting-#xubuntu-devel | <reply> Next scheduled Xubuntu community meeting and the agenda can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Meetings | Added by knome Date: 2013-11-14 15:23:06 Requested 2 times |
| team-#xubuntu-devel | <reply> bluesabre, jphilips, knome, krytarik, ochosi, pleia2 and Unit193 | Added by knome Date: 2013-11-14 15:17:40 Last edited by krytarik Date: 2021-04-23 01:03:33 Requested 259 times |
| h8-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> Hate is a thing we don't encourage - additionally, I hate HATE HATE HATE you for using txtspk, GRRRRR! | Added by LjL Date: 2013-11-07 21:47:02 Requested 1 times |
| zram | <reply>zRAM is a module of the Linux kernel which increases performance by avoiding paging on disk and instead uses a compressed block device in RAM, useful on systems with less RAM, and SSDs. Install zram-config to enable zRAM. | Added by IdleOne Date: 2013-11-04 22:09:52 Requested 16 times |
| chat-#xubuntu | <reply> #xubuntu is the Xubuntu support channel, for all Xubuntu-related support questions. Please use #xubuntu-offtopic for other topics (though our !guidelines apply there too). Thanks! | Added by knome Date: 2013-10-21 20:40:20 Requested 4 times |
| trusty tahr 14.04 | <reply> Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) was the 20th release of Ubuntu. !End-of-life was April 25th, 2019. Paid support (ESM) is available. See also !esm, !eol, !eolupgrade | Added by Pici Date: 2013-10-18 19:43:30 Last edited by dax Date: 2019-04-28 03:57:26 Requested 684 times |
| unpythonic-#python | <reply> This channel only deals with Pythonic constructs. If you want do discuss un-Pythonic constructs or topic, please join #python-unpythonic (but remember our Guidos apply there too) | Added by LjL Date: 2013-10-16 17:13:25 Requested 0 times |
| nomir | <deleted><reply> for more information about why Mir will not be included as default in ubuntu 13.10 see http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/10/01/xmir-update-for-ubuntu-13-10/ and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/13.10/NoDefaultQ%26A | Added by IdleOne Date: 2013-10-02 15:33:14 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-10-30 06:17:31 Requested 3 times |
| rat-#ubuntu-uk | <reply> rat is The Real Ale Train. A yearly Ubuntu UK loco event to celebrate friends, trains and ale. Saturday 10th September 2016, Hampshire, UK: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-uk/3350-real-ale-train-2016/ | Added by jussi Date: 2013-09-16 08:27:09 Last edited by dax Date: 2016-04-04 15:45:14 Requested 43 times |
| canibeanop-#ubuntu-offtopic | <deleted><reply>Maybe. | Added by Flannel Date: 2013-08-18 01:02:30 Last edited by Pici Date: 2014-01-08 19:42:14 Requested 7 times |
| support-#kubuntu-offtopic | <reply> The official Kubuntu support channel is #kubuntu. Also see http://kubuntu.org/support and http://kubuntuforums.org and http://askubuntu.com | Added by jussi Date: 2013-08-15 12:52:52 Requested 4 times |
| stats-#ubuntuforums | <reply>Some fun statistics for this channel can be found at https://unit193.net/pisg/ubuntuforums.html | Added by IdleOne Date: 2013-08-03 05:39:51 Last edited by kryten Date: 2017-02-23 00:02:33 Requested 14 times |
| path | <reply>The $PATH variable tells the shell where to look for the commands you tell it to run. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables#File-location_related_variables | Added by Pricey Date: 2013-05-30 22:47:48 Last edited by AlanBell Date: 2013-11-27 11:22:08 Requested 65 times |
| tempopabuse-#ubuntu-offtopic | <deleted><reply> rww is a bad op. | Added by IdleOne Date: 2013-05-25 05:30:30 Last edited by rww Date: 2016-02-11 08:08:12 Requested 6 times |
| saucy salamander 13.10 | <reply> Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) was the 19th release of Ubuntu. Support ended on July 17th, 2014. See !eol, !upgrade and https://ubottu.com/y/saucy | Added by Pici Date: 2013-04-25 16:29:47 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-10-30 07:03:01 Requested 471 times |
| torrents-#xubuntu torrents-#xubuntu-offtopic torrents-#xubuntu-devel | <reply> Xubuntu $curStable ($curStableNum) torrents can be downloaded from http://torrent.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/$curStableLower/release/desktop/xubuntu-$curStableNum-desktop-i386.iso.torrent and http://torrent.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/$curStableLower/release/desktop/xubuntu-$curStableNum-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent | Added by knome Date: 2013-04-25 13:21:05 Last edited by knome Date: 2013-04-25 13:30:41 Requested 16 times |
| release-#xubuntu | <reply> Xubuntu releases a new version every 6 months. Each version is supported for 9 months (regular releases) to 3 years (long-term suppport (LTS) releases). More info at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases & https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeBasedReleases | Added by knome Date: 2013-04-24 13:54:47 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-10-30 06:46:16 Requested 4 times |
| war-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> Make code, not war. | Added by elky Date: 2013-04-15 02:23:38 Requested 19 times |
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