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jack | <reply> The JACK Audio Connection Kit is a sound server meant for professional applications, allowing different audio protocols and applications to interconnect in nearly unlimited ways. This is the core of Ubuntu Studio's audio workflow. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/What%20is%20JACK for more information on JACK in general. | Added by wxl Date: 2017-03-16 23:23:12 Requested 14 times |
itunes | not available on Linux, but there are many audio player alternatives (see !players). For Daap clients (sharing music with other iTunes clients on the network), install banshee | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-18 21:42:50 Requested 333 times |
isitout outyet is it out yet releasetime isitoutyet countdown-#ubuntu-release-party isitout? | <reply> For all I know, the latest Ubuntu release is $curStableNum ($curStableLong). You can double-check this on the https://ubottu.com/y/announce *archives* and subscribe for future release notifications. | Added by LjL Date: 2008-10-30 01:48:02 Last edited by tomreyn Date: 2023-10-12 15:21:31 Requested 2588 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 |
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 |
ipv6 ipv6disable | <reply> For an introduction to IPv6 and information on tunneling IPv6 through IPv4 connections, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IPv6 | To disable IPv6 see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WebBrowsingSlowIPv6IPv4 | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-18 21:06:12 Last edited by stdin Date: 2009-01-07 13:09:43 Requested 939 times |
ipod iphone | <reply> For information on how to sync and add tracks to your iPod, see the guide at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IPodHowto - For the iPhone and the iPod Touch, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PortableDevices/iPhone - See !RockBox for information on liberating your iPod | Added by Madpilot Date: 2006-08-08 05:27:49 Last edited by LjL Date: 2009-03-26 03:03:20 Requested 1976 times |
inx | <deleted><reply> INX is an Ubuntu derivative, "Is Not X" - see http://inx.maincontent.net/ and Launchpad - Support in #inx (not in Ubuntu channels) | Added by ompaul Date: 2008-12-12 21:53:24 Last edited by Pici Date: 2009-05-18 23:54:56 Requested 1 times |
investigation | <alias> botabuse | Added by somerville32 Date: 2007-01-02 06:50:51 Requested 0 times |
inteunity-#ubuntu-se | <reply> Ubuntu 11.10 använder normalt sett GNOME 3 med skalet !unity. För att använda GNOME Shell istället, installera paketet "gnome-shell" och möjligtvis även "gnome-tweak-tool". För GNOME Fallback mode, som liknar GNOME 2, installera "gnome-panel". Båda paketen placerar alternativ i sessionsmenyn vid login. | Added by pangolin Date: 2012-01-29 14:48:04 Requested 3 times |
inteunity | <deleted><reply> Ubuntu 11.10 använder normalt sett GNOME 3 med skalet !unity. För att använda GNOME Shell istället, installera paketet "gnome-shell" och möjligtvis även "gnome-tweak-tool". För GNOME Fallback mode, som liknar GNOME 2, installera "gnome-panel". Båda paketen placerar alternativ i sessionsmenyn vid login. | Added by pangolin Date: 2011-10-23 16:33:49 Last edited by pangolin Date: 2011-10-23 16:44:34 Requested 2 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 |
intel | <deleted><reply>Ubuntu 9.04 has a known regression for some Intel graphics support. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/IntelPerformance and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1130582 for more information. | Added by Madpilot Date: 2009-05-21 03:42:07 Last edited by gpc Date: 2011-01-29 23:16:52 Requested 569 times |
installing install netinstall installguide d-i oeminstall oem diskless netboot installation nocdinstall | <reply> Ubuntu can be installed in lots of ways. Please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation for documentation. Problems during install? See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommonProblemsInstall - See also !automate | Added by LjL Date: 2006-06-26 00:19:47 Last edited by Flannel Date: 2018-02-24 20:32:24 Requested 3374 times |
installation | <alias> installing | Added by gnomefreak Date: 2006-07-04 20:12:51 Requested 0 times |
inkscape | <reply>Inkscape is a powerful vector graphics drawing application - see http://www.inkscape.org/ for more | Added by Madpilot Date: 2006-06-20 10:01:03 Requested 75 times |
imap4rev1 | a broken and unsupported option in Evolution. IMAP supports all IMAP servers, and should be used instead. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324118 for more information. | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-08-12 16:40:07 Requested 2 times |
ifrename | <reply> ifrename allows you to rename interfaces at boot based on various criteria such as driver, mac address, etc. 'man ifrename' and 'man iftab' for details on configuration. | Added by imbrandon Date: 2006-06-27 04:00:58 Requested 5 times |
identify | <reply> You can identify to NickServ automatically when connecting to Libera. See https://libera.chat/guides/sasl for more information. When identifying manually, do NOT send the command from a channel tab, as a typo will give away your password. If that happens, identify and then type «/msg NickServ set password <newpass>» in the server tab as soon as possible. | Added by LjL Date: 2008-02-09 03:30:18 Last edited by kryten Date: 2021-05-24 22:54:37 Requested 174 times |
ichthux | <deleted><reply> Ichthux (Linux for Christians) is an unofficial Kubuntu derivative. See http://www.ichthux.com/ | Added by LjL Date: 2006-12-19 02:18:04 Last edited by dax Date: 2016-04-02 04:19:39 Requested 12 times |
iceweasel | <reply>Iceweasel's homepage is http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ with more detailed information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceweasel | Added by Hobbsee Date: 2006-11-29 03:21:05 Requested 83 times |
ibus | <reply> IBus is used to allow multilingual input such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean (CJK), Devanagari and Dravidian characters in !GUI applications - see also: !SCIM. For more info on Ibus see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ibus | Added by tsimpson Date: 2010-06-03 15:20:31 Last edited by Flannel Date: 2010-08-22 05:19:43 Requested 98 times |
hud | <deleted><reply> Ubuntu 12.04 LTS includes the first step in a major new approach to application interfaces, the Head-Up Display, or HUD, which will ultimately replace menus in Unity applications. See http://ubottu.com/y/hud for the background on this and discuss it in #ubuntu-offtopic | Added by bazhang Date: 2012-01-24 16:20:34 Last edited by Pici Date: 2012-08-28 18:23:15 Requested 41 times |
hr croatia croatian | <reply> Odgovarajuci kanal za Hrvatski jezik je #ubuntu-hr, molimo Vas da se pridruzite tom kanalu ukoliko trebate pomoc za Ubuntu, hvala. Croatian language support in #ubuntu-hr | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 17:06:01 Last edited by ompaul Date: 2008-02-16 13:52:03 Requested 112 times |
hotornot | <reply> We tend to strongly discourage hot-or-not style discussions about women, as they're known to discourage female geeks from participating in communities. Female participation in geek communities is really low (less than 2% on average :( ), so lets not discourage any more! See also !girls and !women for more information on how to help stop this tragedy. | Added by elkbuntu Date: 2008-11-25 08:53:16 Last edited by elkbuntu Date: 2008-11-25 08:54:12 Requested 11 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 |
hdbug | <reply>Ubuntu does *not* modify the settings that affect HD lifespans by default. An analysis from an Ubuntu Technical Board member and ACPI expert can be found at http://mjg59.livejournal.com/77672.html (See https://launchpad.net/bugs/59695 and http://tinyurl.com/2vyrft for more information) | Added by Pici Date: 2007-10-31 14:56:09 Last edited by IdleOne Date: 2012-10-13 23:22:53 Requested 48 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 |
gtk | <reply> GTK is the !GIMP toolkit, which forms the base of !GNOME and is used by many applications to provide a !GUI | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-19 08:29:10 Requested 384 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 |
grue | <reply>The grue is a sinister, lurking presence in the dark places of the earth. Its favorite diet is adventurers, but its insatiable appetite is tempered by its fear of light. No grue has ever been seen by the light of day, and few have survived its fearsome jaws to tell the tale. | Added by Madpilot Date: 2006-12-01 07:01:30 Last edited by Pici Date: 2009-11-24 17:10:42 Requested 123 times |
grub recoveringgrub grub floppy bootfloppy mbr fixmbr grubrepair fixgrub grub2 | <reply> GRUB2 is the default Ubuntu boot manager. Lost GRUB after installing Windows? See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestoreGrub - For more information and troubleshooting for GRUB2 please refer to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 | Added by Madpilot Date: 2006-06-22 09:44:20 Last edited by genii-around Date: 2013-02-23 17:22:10 Requested 14156 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 |
gobuntu | <deleted>a freedom-focused flavour of Ubuntu intended for experienced Linux enthusiasts. See http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/gobuntu for more information and download mirrors.. | Added by Spec Date: 2007-10-16 20:06:59 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-01-02 03:05:38 Requested 78 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 |
gnome2 | <reply> The GNOME Foundation has ceased support for GNOME 2, and as such it is not in Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot). See !notunity for an alternative desktop experience. | Added by Pici Date: 2011-10-13 18:30:20 Requested 124 times |
gnewsense | <alias> derivatives | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-09-05 01:04:58 Last edited by kryten Date: 2017-04-07 20:34:03 Requested 76 times |
gmail | a webmail service. For information on using it with Evolution see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingGmailWithEvolution | Added by bimberi Date: 2006-07-28 02:16:53 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-10-30 06:53:43 Requested 70 times |
gksudo gksu | <reply> gksudo was a way to run graphical applications as root. It should no longer be used. Use !pkexec instead. | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-18 15:46:23 Last edited by hggdh Date: 2018-08-29 19:39:52 Requested 2019 times |
git | a distributed revision control/software code management project created by Linus Torvalds. For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software) | Added by Pici Date: 2008-05-14 19:11:29 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-03-03 21:44:57 Requested 189 times |
gimp | an advanced image manipulation application for Ubuntu. See http://www.gimp.org for tutorials and more information. | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-19 13:28:30 Requested 348 times |
gdm2setup | <reply> Up to Oneiric, GDM was used as the login manager. You can configure your GDM options, including the wallpaper and theme, with gdm2setup. See https://launchpad.net/gdm2setup for more information and installation instructions.~ | Added by knome Date: 2011-08-27 21:18:55 Requested 3 times |
gdesklets | <deleted><reply> gDesklets provides an advanced architecture for desktop applets -- tiny displays sitting on your desktop in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness. Homepage is http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org/ | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-19 14:53:11 Last edited by dax Date: 2016-03-31 15:40:38 Requested 102 times |
games nexuiz wow warcraft et fun doom doom3 | <reply> Information about games on Ubuntu can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Games and http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php and http://www.penguspy.com/ | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-19 14:02:03 Last edited by Pici Date: 2010-11-28 15:38:44 Requested 2321 times |
fsf | The Free Software Foundation. See http://www.fsf.org/ | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-18 16:01:34 Requested 23 times |
fsck | the FileSystem ChecKer, which runs automatically when you boot if you didn't shutdown cleanly. Type "man fsck" for information on running it manually. The command "sudo touch /forcefsck && sudo shutdown -r now" will force a reboot and a filesystem check; "sudo touch /fastboot" will skip a filesystem check at next reboot | Added by LjL Date: 2006-12-13 20:01:03 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-05-04 07:55:19 Requested 1048 times |
frostwire | a totally open source !bittorrent client, based on Vuze, the Azureus BitTorrent Engine. For installation help, please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FrostWire | Added by Hobbsee Date: 2006-06-26 15:50:29 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-09-07 11:28:42 Requested 917 times |
freespeech free speech freedomofspeech freedom of speech | <reply> Please don't pepper the channel with cries of buzzwords like "free speech!", especially when you don't know what they mean or if they're applicable to the current situation. | Added by tonyyarusso Date: 2008-01-01 20:07:55 Last edited by dax Date: 2016-03-31 15:45:40 Requested 87 times |
freenx nx | <reply> FreeNX is advanced remote desktop technology. For more information and install instructions, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeNX | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 00:42:35 Requested 822 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 |
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