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| Factoid | Value | Author |
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| recursive | <deleted><reply> see !recursive | Added by Seveas Date: 2008-01-13 20:26:28 Last edited by LjL Date: 2009-03-13 17:22:55 Requested 11 times |
| recursion-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> see: !recursion | Added by Flannel Date: 2009-01-25 08:12:06 Last edited by Flannel Date: 2009-01-25 08:12:29 Requested 120 times |
| recovery-#ubuntu-touch | <reply> You need to use the right recovery.img for your device when flashing with adb: see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices#Working_with_ubuntu-device-flash | Added by Pici Date: 2015-08-10 15:48:57 Requested 5 times |
| recon-#ubuntu-offtopic | <deleted><reply> recon stands for something related to lousy Internet service providers. | Added by LjL Date: 2007-11-24 04:02:09 Last edited by bazhang Date: 2010-05-18 10:40:06 Requested 22 times |
| realtek | <reply>some help for recent Realtek chipsets can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/RealtekRTL8187b | Added by Seeker` Date: 2008-05-30 05:25:52 Requested 188 times |
| rc | <reply> Ubuntu does not provide a distinct release candidate image. Instead during the week leading up to the release, each image is considered a release candidate. More details at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseCandidate | Added by Hobbsee Date: 2007-10-11 18:14:44 Last edited by k1l Date: 2016-04-15 22:12:56 Requested 47 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 |
| raring 13.04 ringtail | <reply> Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) was the 18th release of Ubuntu. Support ended on January 27, 2014. See !eol, !upgrade and https://ubottu.com/y/raring | Added by Pici Date: 2012-10-18 00:26:11 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-10-30 07:02:54 Requested 573 times |
| rar unrar | a non-free archive format created by Rarsoft. For instructions on accessing .rar files through the Archive Manager view https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FileCompression. There is a free (as in speech) unrar utility as well, see !info unrar-free | Added by Spec Date: 2006-07-31 22:11:25 Requested 1711 times |
| raptors | <deleted><reply>Not as big as you thought they were. But just as dangerous. "... clever girl..." | Added by Madpilot Date: 2009-09-19 07:04:37 Last edited by Pici Date: 2011-04-11 20:14:13 Requested 10 times |
| random-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply>9 | Added by Flannel Date: 2014-11-08 20:21:24 Last edited by Flannel Date: 2014-11-08 20:23:33 Requested 5 times |
| rainbow-#ubuntu-offtopic peace-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> 06G13i05v04e 07p08e03a09c10e 11a 02c12h06a13n05c04e07! 08M03a09k10e 11c02o12l06o13r05s 04n07o08t 03w09a10r11! 02♥ | Added by rww Date: 2011-03-04 06:17:01 Last edited by rww Date: 2016-01-03 01:19:06 Requested 179 times |
| raid lvm fakeraid | <reply> Tips and tricks for RAID and LVM can be found on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SoftwareRAID and http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO - For software RAID, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-19 14:56:48 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2009-04-27 08:47:40 Requested 2474 times |
| ra | <reply> Relationship advice is not available in $chan. If you want to chat about other offtopic matters try #ubuntu-offtopic. If you need to talk something through with a professional counsellor there is a global directory of support services at http://befrienders.org | Added by jpds Date: 2009-12-23 21:52:40 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-03-17 05:33:19 Requested 49 times |
| quietwebchat | <deleted><reply> To ignore joins, parts and quits from being displayed in the freenode webchat, from the menu in the upper left, select options and then tick the "Hide JOINS/PARTS/QUITS" checkbox. This setting applies to all channels that you are in. | Added by Pici Date: 2011-07-19 16:49:32 Last edited by kryten Date: 2021-05-24 22:54:49 Requested 14 times |
| quietirc | <deleted><reply> To ignore joins/parts/quits in your favorite IRC client, see http://wiki.xkcd.com/irc/Hide_join_part_messages | Added by Pici Date: 2013-11-19 16:18:33 Last edited by dax Date: 2019-10-28 14:57:12 Requested 153 times |
| queue newqueue new queue | <reply> The queue of packages awaiting approval to enter the archive (also known as the NEW queue) and scheduled to build it at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/$curDevelLower/+queue | Added by ompaul Date: 2008-02-04 19:55:54 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2010-04-26 23:28:32 Requested 31 times |
| questions-#ubuntu-classroom-chat question-#ubuntu-classroom question-#ubuntu-classroom-chat | <reply> Please ask your questions here in #ubuntu-classroom-chat rather than #ubuntu-classroom (prefix them with "QUESTION: " or the instructor's nickname) | Added by LjL Date: 2006-11-29 22:37:06 Requested 15 times |
| questions-#ubuntu-classroom | <reply> Please ask your questions in #ubuntu-classroom-chat | Added by LjL Date: 2006-11-28 17:29:59 Requested 14 times |
| quantal-#ubuntustudio | <reply> Ubuntu Studio 12.10 Quantal Quetzal is out! Go to http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/12.10/release/ to download! | Added by RaringOne Date: 2012-10-18 17:33:43 Requested 2 times |
| quantal 12.10 quetzal | <reply> Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) was the 17th release of Ubuntu. Support ended on May 16th, 2014. See !eol, !upgrade and https://ubottu.com/y/quantal | Added by Pici Date: 2012-04-23 14:34:44 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-10-30 07:02:47 Requested 385 times |
| quake | <reply> Quake runs natively under Ubuntu - See http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/quake4/Quake4FrontPage/ for details | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 00:37:10 Last edited by dax Date: 2016-03-31 15:41:39 Requested 91 times |
| qtparted | <deleted><reply> QtParted is a !Qt/!KDE !GUI partitioning program. Use !Adept !KPackageKit or !Synaptic to install or type « sudo apt-get install qtparted » in a console. - QtParted is no longer available in Jaunty (9.04) and up, see !PartitionManager | Added by stdin Date: 2009-01-08 12:18:15 Last edited by genii-around Date: 2011-05-27 15:54:59 Requested 23 times |
| qt | <reply> the Qt toolkit (pronounced "cute"), which forms the base of !KDE, is a cross-platform C++ application framework for !CLI and !GUI applications. Install libqt4-dev and see !build to compile Qt4 applications, join #qt for development support | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-19 23:23:17 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-03-09 10:57:39 Requested 264 times |
| qemu | an emulator you can use to run another operating system - see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsXPUnderQemuHowTo | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 21:59:42 Requested 502 times |
| qateam-#xubuntu-devel | <reply> akxwi-dave, slickymaster, flocculant, knome | Added by knome Date: 2016-05-01 20:26:54 Requested 1 times |
| qa | <reply>To change the importance of a bug, you need to be part of the Ubuntu QA team. see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuQA | Added by Hobbsee Date: 2007-01-31 10:29:22 Requested 22 times |
| python | a popular Object Oriented scripting language included in Ubuntu. For more on Python please see http://www.python.org/ or #python | Added by gnomefreak Date: 2008-07-16 13:09:53 Last edited by Pici Date: 2010-10-05 11:55:43 Requested 330 times |
| pwreset | <reply> Forgot your password? See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LostPassword | Added by Corey Date: 2011-05-24 20:01:29 Requested 14 times |
| putty | <reply> PuTTY is an !SSH client for Windows. Please see: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ for it's homepage and downloads. See also !scp (Secure CoPy) | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 15:42:53 Last edited by genii Date: 2009-06-01 13:39:10 Requested 62 times |
| purge-ppa | <reply>To disable a PPA from your sources and revert your packages back to default Ubuntu packages, install ppa-purge and use the command: « sudo ppa-purge ppa:<repository-name>/<subdirectory> » – For more information, see http://www.webupd8.org/2009/12/remove-ppa-repositories-via-command.html | Added by Tm_T Date: 2011-06-14 07:13:09 Last edited by Tm_T Date: 2011-06-14 07:19:19 Requested 1192 times |
| purge | <reply> To purge all removed but not yet purged packages, use the following command: dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/{print $2}' | sudo xargs dpkg -P | Added by Pici Date: 2010-08-30 22:30:22 Last edited by Unit193 Date: 2015-06-07 02:21:14 Requested 83 times |
| purexfce purexubuntu | <reply> If you want to remove all !KDE and !Gnome packages and have a default !Xubuntu system follow the instructions here « http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purexfce » | Added by stdin Date: 2008-07-30 21:41:26 Last edited by knome Date: 2013-02-08 23:37:30 Requested 366 times |
| purelxde purelubuntu | <reply>If you want to remove all !KDE, !GNOME and !XFCE packages and have a default !Lubuntu system follow the instructions here « http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purelxde » | Added by Tm_T Date: 2011-06-10 05:24:01 Last edited by Tm_T Date: 2011-06-10 05:24:56 Requested 121 times |
| purekde | <reply> If you want to remove all !Gnome packages and have a default !Kubuntu system follow the instructions here « http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purekde » | Added by ompaul Date: 2007-10-12 23:32:22 Last edited by pangolin Date: 2011-10-25 00:54:08 Requested 783 times |
| puregnome pureubuntu | <reply> If you want to remove all !Kubuntu packages or !Xubuntu packages and have a default !Ubuntu system, follow the instructions here: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/pureubuntu | Added by PriceChild Date: 2008-02-23 01:00:54 Last edited by IdleOne Date: 2012-11-11 13:34:51 Requested 1078 times |
| puppy-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> No, you can't have a puppy. Much less when you're riotkittie | Added by Pici Date: 2008-11-14 01:17:00 Requested 31 times |
| punctuation | <deleted><reply> Punctuation is good, but its overuse hurts readability. Please refrain from adding many ?'s or !'s to the end of your sentences. See also !enter | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 18:35:00 Last edited by knome Date: 2014-03-19 19:54:39 Requested 142 times |
| pumice | <deleted>almost as abrasive as snuxoll, except it's different because you can throw some pumice at snuxoll | Added by LjL Date: 2009-03-14 16:33:04 Last edited by Pici Date: 2009-05-13 20:04:53 Requested 4 times |
| pulseaudio pulse | <reply> PulseAudio is a sound server intended as a drop-in replacement for !ESD - See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio for information and installation instructions | Added by LjL Date: 2008-02-19 03:58:10 Requested 772 times |
| pudding-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> Here's some pudding just for you! WOOHOO | Added by genii Date: 2019-08-29 01:02:39 Requested 2 times |
| pt-#lubuntu-offtopic | <reply> Neste canal lubuntu, é falado em inglês. Se você está procurando ajuda em português, vá para o canal #lubuntu-pt; digite "/ join #lubuntu-pt" (sem aspas) e pressione Enter. | Added by wxl Date: 2020-12-14 20:21:58 Requested 0 times |
| pt-#lubuntu-devel | <reply> Neste canal lubuntu, é falado em inglês. Se você está procurando ajuda em português, vá para o canal #lubuntu-pt; digite "/ join #lubuntu-pt" (sem aspas) e pressione Enter. | Added by wxl Date: 2020-12-14 20:21:37 Requested 0 times |
| pt-#lubuntu | <reply> Neste canal lubuntu, é falado em inglês. Se você está procurando ajuda em português, vá para o canal #lubuntu-pt; digite "/ join #lubuntu-pt" (sem aspas) e pressione Enter. | Added by wxl Date: 2020-12-14 20:20:20 Requested 3 times |
| pt br portuguese brazil | <reply> Por favor, use #ubuntu-br para ajuda em português. Para entrar no canal por favor faça "/join #ubuntu-br" sem as aspas. Para a comunidade local portuguêsa, use #ubuntu-pt. Obrigada. | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-21 00:53:44 Last edited by jrib Date: 2013-04-08 21:28:26 Requested 5143 times |
| psychology-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> #ubuntu-offtopic is not a counseling/psychological advice channel. If you need to talk to someone about a problem that is affecting you, you would be better served by talking to a qualified person offline. While this is a social chat channel, there are serious limits to our ability and willingness to give social and psychological advice. | Added by dax Date: 2016-08-02 21:50:56 Requested 1 times |
| psp | <reply> For information on using the PlayStation Portable with Ubuntu, please read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PSP | Added by Spec Date: 2008-01-02 20:55:44 Requested 23 times |
| ps3 | <reply> Aside from i386 and amd64 platforms, Ubuntu is also available for alternate platforms. Playstation 3 ( support in #ubuntu-ps3 ) Apple PowerPC ( support in #ubuntu-ppc ) | Added by genii Date: 2009-05-27 18:55:24 Last edited by genii Date: 2009-05-27 19:07:20 Requested 81 times |
| proxy | <deleted><reply> Several Ubuntu channels prohibit access from open proxies and other anonymous connections due to a high level of abuse. The supported ways to hide your IP address on freenode are to use !Tor or get a !cloak | Added by Seveas Date: 2007-02-19 22:15:51 Last edited by Pici Date: 2014-08-07 13:01:46 Requested 1069 times |
| proxies | <reply> "Proxies" are services acting as intermediate agents in various sorts of Internet connections. Examples are TOR, !apt-proxy, and HTTP proxies (such as "squid"). It is possible to install and use Ubuntu via some proxy connections: see FIXME | Added by LjL Date: 2007-12-11 16:24:10 Last edited by Pici Date: 2008-10-08 19:06:56 Requested 48 times |
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