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nouveau	an open-source nvidia driver included by default since Ubuntu 10.04. Currently, 3D rendering is only partially supported. More information can be found at http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ \| See !nvidia for the closed-source Nvidia driver.	Added by Hobbsee Date: 2007-08-09 09:03:42 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-05-23 22:49:26 Requested 157 times
xp	<reply> XP, or "eXtreme Programming" is a style of programming, for more information see: http://www.extremeprogramming.org/	Added by Spec Date: 2007-07-17 21:04:07 Last edited by Spec Date: 2007-07-17 21:04:51 Requested 62 times
usn	<reply> Please see https://usn.ubuntu.com/ for information about recent Ubuntu security updates.	Added by ompaul Date: 2007-06-26 23:19:27 Last edited by Pici Date: 2018-05-07 18:31:40 Requested 169 times
noroot supportroot	<reply> We do not support setting a root password. You're free to do it on your own machine, but please don't offer instructions on how to set a root password or ask for help with setting it. See !root and !wfm for more information.	Added by ompaul Date: 2007-06-23 15:35:34 Last edited by IdleOne Date: 2011-02-27 16:08:33 Requested 370 times
zfs	<reply> For information concerning ZFS and Ubuntu, see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZFS	Added by Spec Date: 2007-06-06 23:57:50 Requested 179 times
virtualization	<reply> There are several solutions for running other operating systems (or their programs) inside Ubuntu, while using the native CPU as much as possible: !kvm is the preferred approach in Ubuntu. See also !QEmu (with !KQemu), !VirtualBox, !VMWare, as well as !WINE and !Cedega for Windows applications	Added by jrib Date: 2007-06-03 00:54:45 Last edited by Myrtti Date: 2008-07-07 22:31:09 Requested 90 times
tv tvcard tv card dvb tuner	<reply> http://www.linuxtv.org/ has extensive information about using TV cards under Linux. Available viewers for analog cards: Zapping, tvtime (GTK/GNOME), Kaffeine, kdetv (KDE), xawtv, motv. For digital cards: Me-TV (GNOME), Klear (KDE), dvb-utils. For both analog and digital cards, !MythTV is a powerful framework. Your card may work the !IVTV drivers. See also !TV-Out	Added by LjL Date: 2007-05-29 19:19:48 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-11-10 22:29:00 Requested 497 times
night	<reply> It's the middle of the night in the US and Europe, and surrounds. This means that a lot of people are likely asleep, therefore there are less potential people who can answer your question. Please be patient, and consider asking at a time when more people will be awake. This is particularly true in the quieter channels.	Added by Hobbsee Date: 2007-05-27 13:30:59 Last edited by Hobbsee Date: 2007-05-27 13:35:36 Requested 105 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
intelhda snd_hda_intel hdaintel	<reply> For fixing your Intel HDA sound this page has useful information https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto	Added by LjL Date: 2007-05-20 14:18:38 Requested 738 times
unix	<reply> UNIX is an operating system created in the '70s, which has many direct derivates and inspired systems like Minix and !Linux. Most "UNIX-style" systems try to somewhat adhere to the POSIX standard.	Added by ompaul Date: 2007-05-15 23:00:01 Last edited by LjL Date: 2007-09-22 14:55:29 Requested 127 times
tex latex	a language for describing a document, commonly used especially for scientific publishing. Information and instructions for installing TeX and other related packages can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LaTeX	Added by LjL Date: 2007-05-12 00:23:42 Requested 147 times
thunar	a file manager for !Xfce. It is a lightweight alternative to !Nautilus and is quite similar. More info at: http://thunar.xfce.org/index.html - Want to Replace Nautilus with Thunar? See http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/nonautilusplease	Added by elkbuntu Date: 2007-05-01 14:11:07 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-03-03 21:43:12 Requested 67 times
filesystems	<reply> ext3 and ext4 are the default filesystems in Ubuntu (and many other Linuxes). Alternative Linux filesystems include reiserfs and xfs. fat32 and ntfs are DOS/Windows filesystems. hfs and hfs+ are filesystems for the Mac. More info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems	Added by Seveas Date: 2007-04-27 00:36:30 Last edited by Myrtti Date: 2011-01-05 12:49:11 Requested 30 times
kompozer	a WYSIWYG HTML editor for easily creating web pages, and the continuation of the dead Nvu project. It is available in !Universe on !Gutsy and later releases. Note that there is a GTK incompatibility in !Intrepid and !Jaunty, so users of those releases should use the !PPA at https://launchpad.net/~giuseppe-iuculano/+archive/ppa instead.	Added by tonyyarusso Date: 2007-04-23 01:47:58 Last edited by tonyyarusso Date: 2009-10-24 19:23:53 Requested 169 times
debootstrap	used to create a !Debian or Ubuntu base system from scratch, without requiring the availability of !dpkg or !APT. It does this by downloading !.deb files from a mirror site, and carefully unpacking them into a directory you can eventually !chroot into. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebootstrapChroot for more information	Added by LjL Date: 2007-04-22 15:12:30 Last edited by Hobbsee Date: 2008-01-02 14:49:58 Requested 115 times
bug-#ubuntu-devel	<reply> If you find a bug in Ubuntu or any of its derivatives, please file a bug report at: http://bugs.ubuntu.com/ IRC is not a good medium to report bugs and this channel is for development coordination.	Added by Seveas Date: 2007-04-20 21:46:35 Requested 12 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
slow	<reply>The Ubuntu repositories and ISO mirrors are currently under heavy load. Please consider using !torrents to download ISO images, and be patient with APT updates. Also, try changing !mirrors	Added by LjL Date: 2007-04-20 00:05:06 Last edited by mneptok Date: 2009-10-03 18:35:39 Requested 400 times
meetings-#edubuntu meeting-#edubuntu	<reply> Edubuntu meetings are (usually) held weekly on Wednesdays, alternating between 12:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC. « @schedule » may show when the next one will be, otherwise check the !fridge. All welcome!	Added by bimberi Date: 2007-04-19 06:35:59 Last edited by bimberi Date: 2007-05-02 22:57:54 Requested 6 times
mozillateam	<reply> Information on the Ubuntu Mozilla team can be found at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam	Added by gnomefreak Date: 2007-04-18 19:00:09 Requested 1 times
dhcp	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, a protocol for automatic IP assignment from a router. Ubuntu uses dhclient as a DHCP client but other ones (and DHCP servers too) can be obtained from the !repos. More info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHCP	Added by tonyyarusso Date: 2007-04-12 20:24:23 Last edited by tonyyarusso Date: 2007-04-12 20:25:10 Requested 188 times
seamonkey	<reply> Seamonkey, formerly known as "Mozilla Application Suite", is available at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/ with install instructions for ubuntu at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=186011	Added by Seveas Date: 2007-03-31 13:52:30 Requested 41 times
nvu	<reply> kompozer is a WYSIWYG HTML editor for easily creating web pages, and the continuation of the dead Nvu project. It is available in !Universe on !Gutsy and later releases.	Added by tonyyarusso Date: 2007-03-31 06:17:02 Last edited by genii-around Date: 2011-05-27 15:52:57 Requested 96 times
jigdo	the jigsaw downloader for building cd isos. for more information see http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/	Added by Hobbsee Date: 2007-03-30 04:16:41 Requested 33 times
radeon	<alias> ati	Added by gnomefreak Date: 2007-03-27 00:56:48 Last edited by dax Date: 2019-10-10 18:43:04 Requested 2 times
kickstart	<reply> Ways to automate installation of Ubuntu on multiple machines are described at https://help.ubuntu.com/14.04/installation-guide/amd64/apb.html - See also !cloning	Added by LJL Date: 2007-03-21 01:00:32 Last edited by Jordan_U Date: 2014-12-04 23:22:27 Requested 6 times
automate	<reply> Ways to automate installation of Ubuntu on multiple machines are described at https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/installation-guide/i386/apb.html - See also !cloning	Added by LJL Date: 2007-03-21 01:00:24 Last edited by Pici Date: 2015-09-28 14:51:35 Requested 1019 times
gps maps	<reply> Street mapping and GPS navigation software available for Ubuntu includes Navit, MoNav (http://code.google.com/p/monav/), Gosmore (free vector maps from OSM), GpsDrive (GTK, raster maps, free), !GoogleEarth (Qt, proprietary vector maps, proprietary)	Added by LjL Date: 2007-03-18 14:13:20 Last edited by bazhang Date: 2011-04-30 11:45:36 Requested 16 times
roadnav	<deleted>a free street mapping and GPS navigation program with spoken directions, using free data available from the U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER, at http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/) and the OpenStreetMap project (at http://www.openstreetmap.org/) - An !Edgy compatible package can be downloaded at http://roadnav.sourceforge.net/	Added by LjL Date: 2007-03-18 14:09:53 Last edited by dax Date: 2019-11-27 20:44:10 Requested 17 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
irda	<reply> Information about using IrDA interfaces under Ubuntu can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IrdaHowto	Added by LjL Date: 2007-02-14 17:20:14 Requested 49 times
eff	The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a non-profit advocacy and legal organisation with the stated purpose of being dedicated to preserving free speech rights. http://www.eff.org/	Added by elkbuntu Date: 2007-02-07 12:56:19 Requested 5 times
metisse	<deleted><reply>Metisse is Mandriva's composite window manager. For more information, see http://www.mandriva.com/projects/metisse	Added by apokryphos Date: 2007-02-03 16:28:34 Last edited by IdleOne Date: 2013-03-23 02:46:33 Requested 14 times
spec	<reply> A spec is the details (specifications) of the components that make up software or a device. See: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+specs for specifications in Ubuntu.	Added by Spec Date: 2007-01-26 18:21:47 Requested 38 times
virtualizers vm virtualizer virtual machine virtual virtualisation virtualiser virtualisers	<reply> There are several solutions for running other operating systems (or their programs) inside Ubuntu, while using the native CPU as much as possible: !QEmu (with !KQemu), !VirtualBox, !VMWare, as well as !WINE and !Cedega for Windows applications	Added by LjL Date: 2007-01-23 16:27:34 Last edited by LjL Date: 2007-11-04 01:47:09 Requested 912 times
plg	<deleted><reply> Project Looking Glass is an environment with 3D windowing and visualization capabilities. Web site: https://lg3d-core.dev.java.net/ - Demo: http://wwws.sun.com/software/looking_glass/demo.html - Live CD: https://lg3d-livecd.dev.java.net/ - Binary Builds: https://lg3d-core.dev.java.net/binary-builds.html	Added by LjL Date: 2007-01-20 16:53:07 Last edited by jussi Date: 2011-04-28 15:18:27 Requested 18 times
usersplanet	<reply> A new aggregation of blogs from Ubuntu users was set up. This differs from Planet Ubuntu (found at http://planet.ubuntu.com), and you do not need to be an official Ubuntu member to join. Please see http://ubuntuweblogs.org/ to discover and http://ubuntuweblogs.org/submit.html to submit your Ubuntu-related weblogs.	Added by tonyyarusso Date: 2007-01-19 07:14:44 Requested 11 times
partner partners	<reply> Canonical's partner repositories provide a location for software vendors to publish applications. The repo itself can be added by running this in a !terminal: « sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ $(lsb_release -sc) partner" »	Added by PriceChild Date: 2007-01-16 21:37:44 Last edited by genii-around Date: 2012-11-09 20:42:46 Requested 661 times
support-#ubuntuforums	<reply> This is the Ubuntu Forums Community Chat, and is mainly used for offtopic conversations. If you are looking for support, please try #ubuntu. Thanks!	Added by Seveas Date: 2007-01-15 22:18:18 Last edited by Myrtti Date: 2012-06-30 19:41:36 Requested 703 times
lsb	<reply> The Linux Standard Base, or LSB, is a joint project by several Linux distributions under the organizational structure of The Free Standards Group to standardize the internal structure of Linux-based operating systems. The LSB is based on the POSIX specification, the Single UNIX Specification, and several other open standards, but extends them in certain areas.	Added by Hawkwind Date: 2007-01-15 09:14:12 Requested 63 times
support-#xubuntu	<reply> As most of the Ubuntu channels, #xubuntu is English only. A list of the localized Ubuntu channels can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/ChannelList#IRC.2BAC8-ChannelList.2BAC8-Local.Local_Ubuntu_channels. These channels will most probably be able to give Xubuntu support too. For alternative Xubuntu support options, please see http://xubuntu.org/help/.	Added by somerville32 Date: 2007-01-11 08:54:11 Last edited by Unit193 Date: 2015-12-01 20:48:06 Requested 15 times
testing-#xubuntu	<reply> For information on how to help test the next release of Xubuntu, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Testing	Added by somerville32 Date: 2007-01-11 03:42:24 Last edited by knome Date: 2011-09-06 12:10:03 Requested 16 times
gtalk	<reply> Google Talk (GTalk) is an instant messaging program from Google. Currently, Google does not have an official standalone GTalk client for Linux, but supports connections from third-party clients such as !Pidgin and !Kopete \| See http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html for more information	Added by somerville32 Date: 2007-01-09 08:44:17 Last edited by stdin Date: 2008-11-13 04:33:22 Requested 32 times
autostart-#kubuntu	<reply> Use the tool in System Settings -> (Advanced tab) Autostart, or System Settings -> Startup and Shutdown, to make programs automatically start in KDE session. See !boot for managing which non-interactive programs start at boot	Added by fdoving Date: 2007-01-03 22:27:00 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2010-10-30 01:32:29 Requested 345 times
investigation	<alias> botabuse	Added by somerville32 Date: 2007-01-02 06:50:51 Requested 0 times
kbuildsycoca kmenu_update kbuildsyscoca kmenuupdate kmenu update	<reply> If your K menu is out of date, like after installing an application and not finding it in the K menu, you should type "kbuildsycoca" in a terminal to rebuild the KDE configuration cache	Added by LjL Date: 2006-12-29 17:19:44 Last edited by Jucato Date: 2007-02-19 13:24:03 Requested 24 times
cubuntu	<deleted>an unofficial command-line based Ubuntu derivative. It includes a browser, an email client, a media player and many other useful applications. For installation instructions, see http://alecjw.googlepages.com/cubuntu-commandlineubuntu	Added by LjL Date: 2006-12-28 21:34:32 Last edited by topyli Date: 2011-10-28 19:39:24 Requested 27 times
deluge	a Bittorrent client, created using Python and GTK+, intended to bring a native, full-featured client to !GTK environments such as GNOME and Xfce. See http://deluge-torrent.org/ for more information or the package 'deluge-torrent' in the package repositories.	Added by LjL Date: 2006-12-28 20:42:49 Last edited by Unit193 Date: 2016-10-10 01:54:32 Requested 162 times
o4o offtopic-#kubuntu-offtopic offtopic4offtopic offtopic-#xubuntu-offtopic offtopic-#ubuntu-offtopic religion sex ot4ot 040 drugs politics-#ubuntu-offtopic rock&roll-#ubuntu-offtopic suicide	<reply> Some topics are controversial and often end in negativity. Take care on subjects like war, race, religion, politics, gender, sexuality, drugs, potentially illegal activities and suicide. The topics are not banned; stating your position is ok, but trolling, baiting, hostility or repetition are not. If you are asked to stop, do so politely. Disputes to !appeals, please adhere to the !Libera	Added by LjL Date: 2006-12-21 03:36:09 Last edited by kryten Date: 2021-05-24 22:54:05 Requested 3488 times