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| alot | <reply>Do you like to hug alot? - http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html | Added by mneptok Date: 2010-04-19 18:39:06 Last edited by dax Date: 2016-03-31 15:21:42 Requested 204 times |
| mir | <reply> Mir is a display server developed by Canonical and Ubuntu. From Ubuntu 17.04 ( Zesty Zapus ) onward, emphasis has shifted to embedded devices and applications, notably UBports as stated by Mark Shuttleworth ( https://plus.google.com/+MarkShuttleworthCanonical/posts/7LYubpaHUHH ). Regular Ubuntu 17.10 onwards will use GNOME. | Added by Pici Date: 2008-01-14 19:11:47 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-10-30 06:22:31 Requested 206 times |
| gui | <reply> The graphical user interface (GUI) in Ubuntu is composed of many elements, including the !X server, a window manager, and a desktop environment such as !GNOME or !KDE (which themselves use the !GTK and !Qt toolkits respectively) | Added by LjL Date: 2006-12-14 19:56:09 Requested 208 times |
| rsync | a fast remote file copy and synchronization program - For more see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/rsync | Added by tsimpson Date: 2009-04-01 01:48:03 Requested 208 times |
| addppa | <reply> A !ppa can be added using a single command « sudo add-apt-repository ppa:user/ppa-name » See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu#Adding%20PPAs for more details | Added by oCean Date: 2011-07-10 12:27:52 Last edited by rww Date: 2014-09-10 02:13:04 Requested 208 times |
| lnw | <reply> Want to know the differences between Windows and Linux? This guide, called "Linux is Not Windows" is a pretty good read -- http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm | Added by elkbuntu Date: 2007-09-01 12:32:19 Last edited by elkbuntu Date: 2007-09-01 12:49:34 Requested 209 times |
| composite cube | <reply> Compiz-Fusion (and the older Compiz and Beryl) are window managers that employ the "composite" extension of X to draw windows using graphics cards' 3D hardware. They can additionally provide "desktop special effects" (such as the "cube") by means of plug-ins. Join #compiz-fusion for help and support with advanced features. See also « /msg $nick compiz » and « /msg $nick effects » | Added by LjL Date: 2007-11-21 16:47:18 Last edited by m4v Date: 2013-02-28 16:59:28 Requested 212 times |
| zesty 17.04 zapus | <reply> Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) was the 26th release of Ubuntu. Support ended on January 13th, 2018. See !eol and https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2018-January/000228.html | Added by Pici Date: 2016-10-17 19:53:49 Last edited by dax Date: 2018-01-21 23:51:29 Requested 212 times |
| shockwave | currently only available for Windows. To run it under !Wine, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Shockwave | Added by Hobbsee Date: 2006-06-20 06:42:24 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-03-03 21:40:07 Requested 213 times |
| is a bot is a bot. | <reply> Yes, I can confirm that I am a bot. For more information, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/Bots | Added by LjL Date: 2007-04-20 00:19:46 Last edited by krytarik Date: 2016-11-26 07:33:03 Requested 214 times |
| bionic beaver 18.04 | <reply> Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) was the 28th release of Ubuntu. Support ended May 31st, 2023. See !eol, !pro and https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2023-May/000290.html | Added by Pici Date: 2017-10-25 03:45:45 Last edited by tomreyn Date: 2023-06-02 05:33:05 Requested 214 times |
| weekend | <reply>It's a weekend. Often on weekends the paid developers and a lot of the community may not be around to answer your question. Please be patient, wait longer than you normally would or try again during the working week. | Added by Hobbsee Date: 2007-05-27 13:29:23 Last edited by jussi01 Date: 2010-03-27 14:01:59 Requested 215 times |
| life | something very few people know about in this channel - and anyway, it's probably offtopic, perhaps you want to try #ubuntu-offtopic | Added by LjL Date: 2007-09-22 15:10:06 Requested 216 times |
| cookies | <reply> Cookies are delicious delicacies. | Added by Flannel Date: 2008-07-16 21:18:36 Last edited by Flannel Date: 2008-07-23 12:27:43 Requested 216 times |
| dma | Direct Memory Access/Addressing. It makes hardware transfer data faster, and is supported by most systems since 2002. For more information see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DMA | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-18 21:09:59 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2010-06-12 00:31:46 Requested 219 times |
| mount-#kubuntu | <reply> Partitioning programs !PartitionManager or !GParted (see also "man mkfs" for formatting) - Mount partitions from System Settings -> (Advanced tab) Removable Devices. See also !fstab and !DiskMounter | Added by Jucato Date: 2007-04-29 15:21:48 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2010-10-30 01:48:22 Requested 221 times |
| abs | <reply> Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide, obtainable with ${package-manager} install abs-guide, is a quick and comprehensive guide to bash (command line) scripting in *nix systems. It is also viewable via web at http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ | Added by Myrtti Date: 2008-05-14 10:49:55 Last edited by Myrtti Date: 2008-05-14 10:53:33 Requested 221 times |
| zentyal ebox | a web-based GUI interface for administering a server. It is designed to work with Ubuntu/Debian style configuration management. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Zentyal (Project formally known as eBox - including in Lucid/10.04). | Added by Daviey Date: 2011-05-24 23:17:48 Last edited by Daviey Date: 2011-05-24 23:27:59 Requested 221 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 |
| breezy breezy badger badger 5.10 | <reply> Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) was the third release of Ubuntu. End Of Life: April 13, 2007. See !eol and !upgrade for more details. | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-17 23:17:00 Last edited by Pici Date: 2009-01-16 14:15:43 Requested 224 times |
| uck | a tool that helps you customise official Ubuntu Live CDs (including Kubuntu/Xubuntu and Edubuntu) to your needs. See http://uck.sourceforge.net/ | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-12-07 20:30:37 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-03-03 21:42:49 Requested 225 times |
| canonical | <reply>Canonical Ltd. is committed to the development, distribution and promotion of open source software products, and to providing tools and support to the open source community. It is the driving force behind the Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Edubuntu Operating Systems. Canonical's website is at http://www.canonical.com/ | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-08-03 18:21:47 Requested 226 times |
| ops-#ubuntu-ops | <reply> Thanks for letting us know you are here, someone will be along presently | Added by tsimpson Date: 2010-05-31 16:32:06 Last edited by AlanBell Date: 2014-02-28 13:51:43 Requested 227 times |
| azureus | a popular !bittorrent client written in Java, installation instructions can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AzureusHowTo | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-17 22:54:24 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-01-02 04:20:37 Requested 228 times |
| ltsp | <reply> LTSP is the Linux Terminal Server Project, which adds thin-client support to Linux servers. See chapter 3 of the !edubuntuhandbook, http://www.ltsp.org and/or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Terminal_Server_Project | Added by bimberi Date: 2007-05-09 05:45:11 Last edited by bimberi Date: 2007-05-09 05:51:02 Requested 229 times |
| kidding joke funny | <reply> You might think your joke is funny, but you may confuse new users who follow your advice or irritate people who attempt to answer your question. | Added by tonyyarusso Date: 2006-12-13 06:26:36 Last edited by Pici Date: 2007-11-09 19:33:47 Requested 230 times |
| canibeanop newop newops canihaveops canihaveop canibeop icanhazop icanhazop? | <reply>If you are interested in joining the Ubuntu IRC Team, take a look at both https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/IrcTeam/LaunchpadOperatorApplication and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/IrcTeam/OperatorRequirements for info on the process and requirements. You can also learn about what the job entails from people in #ubuntu-irc. | Added by elky Date: 2009-05-14 21:36:40 Last edited by IdleOne Date: 2014-03-20 02:54:19 Requested 232 times |
| fonts msfonts ttf | <reply> Font installation basics here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FontInstallHowto - No fonts in Flash? Install "ttf-mscorefonts-installer" (from !Multiverse), "gsfonts", and "gsfonts-x11". For the official ubuntu font, see: http://font.ubuntu.com/ | Added by imbrandon Date: 2006-07-13 20:17:25 Last edited by LjL Date: 2012-06-19 14:18:55 Requested 233 times |
| smart | Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology, a monitoring system for hard drives. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Smartmontools | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-23 03:44:57 Last edited by jrib Date: 2013-03-30 11:46:31 Requested 235 times |
| warty warthog warty warthog 4.10 | <reply> Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) was the first release of Ubuntu. End Of Life: April 30, 2006. See !eol for more details. | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-17 23:16:11 Last edited by Amaranth Date: 2007-07-31 14:18:03 Requested 236 times |
| bg | <reply> опитайте #ubuntu-bg за български потребители . try #ubuntu-bg for bulgarian users, and please idle there patiently | Added by apokryphos Date: 2007-02-19 19:34:56 Requested 236 times |
| feeding the troll feedthetroll don't feed the troll botattack | <reply> The above mess was caused by someone who thought it was funny (they're gone now). Please ignore it completely, since discussing it and making a fuss will only make them think they've reached their "fun" goal. | Added by LjL Date: 2007-10-17 17:04:23 Requested 237 times |
| adlens shopping onlinesearch | <reply> To hide online search results in Ubuntu Unity, go to System Settings > Security and Privacy > Search and toggle the option off. | Added by genii-around Date: 2012-09-24 17:47:39 Last edited by rww Date: 2015-01-07 06:32:10 Requested 237 times |
| gnu | <reply> G(NU's) N(ot) U(nix). A project that aimed to develop a complete operating system of Free Software, which Ubuntu is based on. See http://gnu.org | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 16:01:36 Requested 239 times |
| wily werewolf 15.10 | <reply> Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) was the 23rd release of Ubuntu. Support ended on July 28th, 2016. See !eol and https://ubottu.com/y/wily | Added by Pici Date: 2015-05-04 14:33:33 Last edited by dax Date: 2018-01-21 23:50:14 Requested 240 times |
| dk da danish dansk | <reply> For at få dansksproget support til Ubuntu, bedes du venligst gå til #ubuntu-dk. I denne kanal forefindes kun engelsksproget support. | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 00:35:27 Last edited by LjL Date: 2008-10-26 15:51:37 Requested 242 times |
| framebuffer | <deleted><reply> Information about changing your framebuffer modes in GRUB can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FrameBuffer#grub | Added by Spec Date: 2006-09-07 18:25:15 Last edited by Pici Date: 2015-09-14 20:52:56 Requested 242 times |
| codenames name | <reply> Ubuntu has awesome release codenames. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames for more | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-17 23:18:38 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-10-30 06:39:18 Requested 245 times |
| goodquestion gq betterquestion | <reply> Are you sure your question allows us to help you? Please read http://www.sabi.co.uk/Notes/linuxHelpAsk.html to understand how to ask a 'better' question. | Added by LjL-Temp Date: 2008-02-28 00:52:05 Last edited by LjL-Temp Date: 2008-02-28 01:32:09 Requested 245 times |
| debug debugging crash | <reply> For help debugging your program, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures | Added by Spec Date: 2006-07-21 21:41:23 Requested 248 times |
| ldap | <reply> LDAP is the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. For more information, installation instructions and getting clients to authenticate via LDAP see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenLDAPServer | Added by LjL Date: 2006-11-29 23:50:51 Last edited by stdin Date: 2009-02-03 11:24:16 Requested 250 times |
| portforward ports port | <reply> For instructions on how to set up port-forwarding (for games, torrents, webservers) see http://portforward.com - also see !firewall | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-19 10:53:19 Requested 252 times |
| cloak hostmask nicksetup vhost | <reply> To get an Ubuntu member cloak or any other one, first register your nick as detailed at https://libera.chat/guides/registration - For Ubuntu member cloaks, then ask in #ubuntu-irc and link to your Launchpad profile. For general ones, ask in #libera-cloak - See also !membership | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-07-01 02:14:53 Last edited by kryten Date: 2021-05-24 22:54:35 Requested 253 times |
| prayer | <reply> Dear $DEITY, Give me strength to understand and work with users who question my logic, the rules, netiquette, and common sense. Give me resilience to teach them the basics of Linux, Ubuntu, Community Guidelines, and IRC. Allow me not to stray to nitpicking, argument, foul language, or leisurely op abuse. Deliver me my daily xkcd, User Friendly, LWN, /. and Planet Ubuntu, and guard over my encrypted drives. Let it be so. | Added by Myrtti Date: 2008-05-16 11:15:49 Last edited by Flannel Date: 2011-07-02 17:08:55 Requested 253 times |
| mailserver mail server smtp | <reply> Ubuntu supports the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and provides mail server software of many kinds. You can install a basic email handling configuration with the "Mail server" task during installation, or with the "tasksel" command. See also https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MailServer and https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/email-services.html | Added by LjL Date: 2007-12-11 15:58:41 Last edited by knome Date: 2015-07-27 16:43:32 Requested 254 times |
| lilo | an alternative [Li]nux Boot[Lo]ader. Note: it is recommended that you use GRUB on Ubuntu instead. | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-19 12:12:07 Requested 255 times |
| yy.mm | <reply> Ubuntu version numbers are: YY.MM (YY=release year,MM=release month). Each year sees two releases, so just specifying YY is imprecise. See also https://www.ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle | Added by hggdh Date: 2019-01-08 00:40:20 Last edited by hggdh Date: 2019-01-25 22:20:18 Requested 255 times |
| ban banned | <reply> If you are banned from an Ubuntu channel, it is probably because you did not follow the IRC guidelines. For details, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/Guidelines - To try and resolve a ban, please join #ubuntu-ops. | Added by gnomefreak Date: 2006-06-30 22:10:52 Last edited by krytarik Date: 2016-11-27 09:16:37 Requested 259 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 |
| 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 |
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