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google earth	<deleted><reply> Google Earth is now available, for free (only as in price), for Linux, too. To download it see http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html - A package for Ubuntu is available in the !Medibuntu repository	Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-18 16:38:45 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-03-03 21:38:20 Requested 292 times
lies	<reply> Mostly just statistics and factoids, but also windicators!	Added by LjL Date: 2008-01-07 15:24:59 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-06-16 05:04:01 Requested 289 times
emerald	an obsolete window decorator for compiz. It's unsupported and unmaintained, making issues with it very hard to diagnose and fix. There are no known, supported alternatives.	Added by Myrtti Date: 2009-05-19 12:46:47 Requested 283 times
brainstorm	<deleted><reply> Post your ideas for Ubuntu at http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com and vote for the ones you like!	Added by PriceChild Date: 2008-03-01 16:35:56 Last edited by bazhang Date: 2013-09-15 12:08:25 Requested 274 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
mythbuntu	<reply> Mythbuntu was a former Ubuntu flavor centered upon setting up a standalone MythTV system (http://www.mythbuntu.org). MythTV can still be installed from the Ubuntu repositories or from the Mythbuntu !PPAs linked on https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu. For MythTV discussion and support, try #mythtv-users	Added by PriceChild Date: 2007-06-28 00:42:41 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-11-10 21:58:51 Requested 196 times
persistence	<reply> To have some persistent storage when using a Live CD, follow the instructions on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDPersistence	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-19 15:11:04 Requested 191 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
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
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
pici	<deleted>stuck in a factoid factory! Send help!	Added by Pici Date: 2007-10-17 17:36:26 Last edited by Pici Date: 2014-07-22 13:04:22 Requested 153 times
cinelerra	<deleted><reply> Cinelerra is a video editor and compositor that cannot be included in Ubuntu for legal reasons. Install instructions can be found on http://cvs.cinelerra.org/getting_cinelerra.php#ubuntu	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-19 08:27:22 Last edited by dax Date: 2016-03-31 15:35:12 Requested 148 times
libsslbug sslbug heartbleed	<reply> A fix for the recent OpenSSL vulnerabilities (2014-0076 & 0160) has been pushed to the Ubuntu repositories. See http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2165-1/ and http://heartbleed.com/ for more information.	Added by PriceChild Date: 2008-05-14 01:47:38 Last edited by rww Date: 2014-06-02 06:36:09 Requested 119 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
blender	a free application for 3D modelling, animation, rendering, etc. You can install it from Ubuntu's repositories, and tutorials are at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro	Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-19 12:25:52 Requested 106 times
aptproxy apt-proxy	<reply> apt-proxy is a program that acts as a local apt repository server for a LAN, only fetching from the internet when required. To set it up see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptProxy	Added by bimberi Date: 2006-10-27 04:06:15 Requested 104 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
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
openweek open week uow	<reply>Ubuntu is hosting a series of introductory sessions for people who want to join the Ubuntu community, which all takes place in a week. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek for schedules, logs, and instructions.	Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-11-25 21:27:11 Last edited by Mez Date: 2008-08-07 22:33:03 Requested 95 times
highno	<reply> A higher version number does not mean that it's better. Especially with packages such as the linux kernel. The packages in the Ubuntu repositories are stable and will work fine. You should have a better reason than "newer" when considering compiling from source or using 3rd party repos.	Added by PriceChild Date: 2007-07-27 20:06:24 Last edited by PriceChild Date: 2007-07-27 20:06:36 Requested 89 times
landscape	<reply> Landscape makes the management and monitoring of Ubuntu systems simple and effective by combining world-class support with easy to use online management tools. https://landscape.canonical.com/	Added by Pici Date: 2009-03-04 19:42:41 Requested 88 times
bzr	Bazaar-NG, a decentralized revision control system designed to be easy for developers and end users alike. Decentralized revision control systems give people the ability to work over the internet using the bazaar development model. See http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/bzr.dev/en/mini-tutorial/ for a quickstart guide.	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-19 11:20:37 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-09-09 04:47:36 Requested 83 times
activedirectory ad	<reply> You can learn more about ActiveDirectory intergration at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ActiveDirectoryWinbindHowto	Added by imbrandon Date: 2006-06-23 22:07:05 Requested 82 times
autofs automount	<reply>Automount is the modern way to mount directories over a network. It is much easier to manage and more economic in bandwidth than static mounts via fstab. For more info - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autofs	Added by Pici Date: 2009-09-23 23:29:54 Requested 80 times
restoregrub recovergrub	<reply> Lost GRUB after installing Windows? See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestoreGrub	Added by ikonia Date: 2011-11-30 12:28:24 Requested 79 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
oracle	<deleted><reply> If you -must- install oracle .... here's a good place to start: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/linux/xe-on-kubuntu-087822.html	Added by Spec Date: 2006-07-19 22:24:00 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-05-26 15:26:51 Requested 74 times
modeline	<reply>A Modeline is a config line in the X server configuration file that gives info about a connected display and how to drive it at a specified display resolution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFree86_Modeline for more details. Here are 2 links to generate modelines which fit your monitor: http://bohne-lang.de/spec/linux/modeline/ and http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl	Added by zorglu_ Date: 2006-10-22 20:21:59 Last edited by PriceChild Date: 2007-04-04 02:26:21 Requested 74 times
studiorepo	<reply>All Ubuntu Studio packages are included in the official Ubuntu repos. However, Ubuntu Studio 7.04 had its own custom addon repository. This is no longer supported or available.	Added by gnomefreak Date: 2007-10-16 13:16:46 Last edited by jussi01 Date: 2008-05-18 21:01:47 Requested 71 times
dock docks	<reply> Ubuntu includes several dock-like navigation bars. Some options are: avant-window-navigator, cairo-dock, docky (formerly part of gnome-do), stalonetray, simdock, kdocker, kooldock.	Added by rww Date: 2011-04-11 20:02:34 Requested 70 times
classroom	<reply> The Ubuntu Classroom is a project which aims to tutor users about Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu through biweekly sessions in #ubuntu-classroom - For more information visit https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Classroom	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-07-14 18:53:27 Requested 59 times
voip	<reply> VoIP is Voice over IP. The default VoIP client for Ubuntu is !Ekiga. There is also an xmpp voice component in !Empathy. Kubuntu Clients include Kphone and Twinkle. Proprietary Clients include !Skype and Gizmo5. VoIP server applications include Asterisk and Yate ( both in repositories ), FreePBX, and SipX.	Added by genii Date: 2009-11-12 21:12:45 Last edited by genii Date: 2009-11-12 21:45:39 Requested 57 times
loffice openoffice libreoffice	<reply> LibreOffice is a Free and open source office suite that includes word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, vector drawing and database components. To install: "sudo apt-get install libreoffice". User help available in #libreoffice.	Added by Jordan_U Date: 2011-09-18 17:50:51 Requested 52 times
winkey	<reply> To use the windows key as a modifier in a keyboard shortcut you can edit the shortcut settings manually in gconf-editor. The windows key is represented as "<super>". Metacity shortcuts can be found in the /apps/metaicty/* gconf keys.	Added by bimberi Date: 2006-11-23 02:18:53 Last edited by jrib Date: 2007-05-13 23:11:53 Requested 51 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
lost+found lost	where !fsck places any files it gleans from a corrupt filesystem. These are files which had become unlinked from their parent directories.	Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-19 13:12:22 Requested 48 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
mirrorstatus	<reply> A list of official repository mirrors and their statuses can be found at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors	Added by Pici Date: 2009-10-07 23:59:20 Requested 47 times
testing	<reply> To test your hardware, you can use the packages memtest86+ (for memory, can be started from the !GRUB boot menu), smartmontools (for hard drives), cpuburn (which MIGHT damage your processor if cooling is not adequate!). Additionally, lm-sensors can be useful to monitor temperatures and fan speeds - See also !benchmark	Added by LjL Date: 2012-01-21 13:04:52 Last edited by LjL Date: 2012-01-21 13:06:05 Requested 44 times
torrents-#kubuntu	<reply>Kubuntu $curStableLong ($curStableNum) torrents can be obtained at http://torrent.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/$curStableLower/release/	Added by LjL-Temp Date: 2008-04-24 16:28:20 Last edited by IdleOne Date: 2012-10-14 19:52:31 Requested 42 times
rm	<reply> The Unix 'rm' command removes files and directories from the filesystem. It is an extremly powerful tool, and you should not run 'rm' commands unless you fully understand them. Do not run arbitrary 'rm' commands you see online. For a beginning guide on using terminal commands, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 19:07:55 Last edited by k1l_ Date: 2016-02-22 21:54:28 Requested 41 times
enablesources chrepo	<reply> Enable the standard Ubuntu repositories by going to System > Administration > Software Sources - See !repositories for detailed information	Added by LjL Date: 2008-01-26 03:07:22 Last edited by LjL Date: 2008-01-26 03:07:45 Requested 34 times
extras	<reply> extras.ubuntu.com is an external !repo for new software made available after the Ubuntu release. This repository is not part of the Ubuntu distribution and the software is completely unsupported by the Ubuntu team, but the original authors may offer some support.	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 19:32:42 Last edited by elky Date: 2010-09-24 03:33:30 Requested 31 times
ddebs	<reply> Debugging symbol packages (ending in '-dbgsym') are available in a separate !APT repository at ddebs.ubuntu.com - more info at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Debug%20Symbol%20Packages	Added by Hobbsee Date: 2007-01-22 04:07:44 Last edited by hggdh Date: 2019-03-03 23:10:15 Requested 30 times