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| Factoid | Value | Author |
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| debian | <alias> relationship | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-18 00:14:55 Last edited by LjL Date: 2007-02-06 01:26:27 Requested 102 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 |
| prefix | <alias> who | Added by Seveas Date: 2007-03-04 12:16:46 Last edited by LjL Date: 2008-01-24 02:30:20 Requested 102 times |
| ops-#ubuntu-devel | <reply>Help! Channel emergency! mneptok, Hobbsee, cjwatson, lamont, kees, darkwing, Unit193, idleone, infinity, Laney, or slangasek! | Added by gnomefreak Date: 2007-04-02 11:59:08 Last edited by dax Date: 2020-06-14 23:47:14 Requested 102 times |
| ultamatix ultramatix | <reply> Ultamatix is not recommended, supported, or needed by Ubuntu. Use of this software may cause damage to your Ubuntu install. Do not suggest its use in this channel. See http://mjg59.livejournal.com/99905.html and !automatix for more info. | Added by Flannel Date: 2008-07-29 20:03:09 Last edited by jussi01 Date: 2008-11-02 12:44:05 Requested 102 times |
| panels-#xubuntu | <alias> xfce4-panel | Added by Amaranth Date: 2009-02-06 22:43:21 Last edited by knome Date: 2011-10-23 00:11:35 Requested 102 times |
| label | <reply> To rename the labels of your partitions, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive. | Added by jrib Date: 2008-06-25 00:23:45 Last edited by jrib Date: 2008-06-25 00:24:29 Requested 101 times |
| fan | <alias> lm-sensors | Added by ompaul Date: 2006-09-16 19:18:29 Last edited by dax Date: 2016-03-30 18:45:13 Requested 100 times |
| sshfs | a !Fuse based filesystem which allows you to mount a remote system over !SSH - See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSHFS for instructions | Added by jpds Date: 2009-02-15 18:29:16 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-03-03 21:45:11 Requested 100 times |
| nickspoon-#ubuntu-offtopic | <deleted><reply> There is no nick! | Added by LjL Date: 2007-04-19 22:15:09 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-09-02 19:11:53 Requested 99 times |
| fr-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> Ce canal est en anglais uniquement. Si vous voulez discuter en francais, merci de rejoindre #ubuntu-fr-offtopic | Added by LjL Date: 2008-10-18 00:59:23 Last edited by Pici Date: 2009-10-04 21:53:25 Requested 99 times |
| membership | <reply>Ubuntu Membership means recognition of a significant and sustained contribution to Ubuntu and the Ubuntu community. For more info see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/NewMember | Added by Mez Date: 2007-01-22 16:02:33 Last edited by IdleOne Date: 2013-12-04 22:29:06 Requested 98 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 |
| kernelparm kernelparam cmdline | <reply> To add a one-time or permanent kernel boot parameter see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBootParameters | Added by hggdh Date: 2019-01-08 19:23:03 Last edited by hggdh Date: 2019-01-08 20:06:45 Requested 97 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 |
| binarydriver-#ubuntu+1 | <deleted><reply> For Ati/NVidia/Matrox video cards, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VideoDriverHowto | The ATI and nVidia binary drivers may not currently be installable. | Added by stdin Date: 2008-10-03 10:02:27 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2012-04-26 17:51:59 Requested 95 times |
| sk | <reply> Žiadame slovenských používateľov aby v kanáli #ubuntu hovorili po anglicky. Slovensky a česky sa dohovoríte v #ubuntu-cz. | Added by jrib Date: 2007-11-20 14:31:39 Last edited by PriceChild Date: 2007-11-28 22:02:28 Requested 94 times |
| mailprotocols imap dovecot pop | <reply> IMAP and POP are protocols for fetching email. The officially-supported server in Ubuntu is Dovecot (packages "dovecot-imapd" for IMAP, and "dovecot-pop3d" for POP) - See also !MailServer for information on the SMTP protocol | Added by LjL Date: 2007-12-11 16:01:36 Last edited by LjL Date: 2007-12-11 16:06:18 Requested 94 times |
| multijava | <reply> To set which java version/implementation is to be used as default, use sudo update-java-alternatives | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-19 08:46:01 Requested 93 times |
| hobbsee | <reply> I phear the stick so shhhhh | Added by ompaul Date: 2007-05-10 14:42:04 Requested 93 times |
| dkms | <reply>DKMS is Dynamic Kernel Module Support. See https://launchpad.net/dkms for more. | Added by elkbuntu Date: 2008-07-27 09:52:47 Last edited by Flannel Date: 2008-07-27 10:06:21 Requested 93 times |
| lococouncil | <reply>The LoCo Council is nhaines, svij, Letozaf, kenvandine, kyrofa, and gsilvapt - they are here to help, just ask! :) You can send them an email at loco-council@lists.ubuntu.com | Added by Pici Date: 2012-10-02 15:48:38 Last edited by wxl Date: 2017-12-27 14:46:35 Requested 93 times |
| speech recognition-#ubuntu-offtopic voice recognition-#ubuntu-offtopic iphone keyboard-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> Dear Aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all. | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-10-03 01:09:52 Last edited by Flannel Date: 2011-08-16 01:49:11 Requested 92 times |
| 19.10 eoan ermine | <reply> Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) was the 31st release of Ubuntu, support ended July 2020. See !eol and https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2020-July/005494.html | Added by dax Date: 2019-05-07 15:02:45 Last edited by hggdh Date: 2020-07-17 19:11:29 Requested 92 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 |
| jabber | a free and open source instant messaging protocol, unlike MSN and AIM. Supporting clients on Linux: Kopete (KDE), Pidgin, Gajim, and Empathy (GNOME), bitlbee (cli/irc). For more info see http://www.jabber.org/ | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-18 17:39:32 Last edited by tonyyarusso Date: 2009-09-28 01:15:28 Requested 91 times |
| cloud | <reply> Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure is a ready to deploy Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) based on OpenStack. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuCloudInfrastructure for further details. | Added by elky Date: 2011-01-03 04:00:07 Last edited by rww Date: 2014-01-26 20:22:26 Requested 91 times |
| eolupgrade | <alias> eol | Added by IdleOne Date: 2012-08-19 16:11:47 Requested 91 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 |
| bacon-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> I've always considered bacon to be the candybar of meats... http://xkcd.com/418/ http://weebls-stuff.com/other-toons/video/Bacon.html | Added by Flannel Date: 2009-01-12 08:57:11 Last edited by Flannel Date: 2015-02-15 05:34:20 Requested 90 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 90 times |
| xchat | <reply> xchat and xchat-gnome are old IRC clients which are not actively maintained outside of Ubuntu/Debian. Some versions of Ubuntu do not include them. Please strongly consider using hexchat instead, which has good upstream support and is widely recommended by the IRC community over xchat and xchat-gnome. | Added by Madpilot Date: 2011-10-28 02:25:13 Last edited by dax Date: 2019-11-11 23:34:44 Requested 90 times |
| palm palmos | <reply> A good guide for setting up Palm devices is at http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/PalmOS-HOWTO.html#PC-CONNECT-USB | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-19 11:43:30 Requested 89 times |
| loco | <reply> Information on Ubuntu Local Community Teams is at http://loco.ubuntu.com/ | Added by bimberi Date: 2006-07-02 12:55:41 Last edited by knome Date: 2011-06-30 23:43:50 Requested 89 times |
| chanserv.py | a ChanServ helper script for !XChat | https://github.com/seveas/chanserv.py | Added by Mez Date: 2007-01-17 06:53:54 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-01-31 06:42:28 Requested 89 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 |
| moonlight silverlight | <reply> For Microsoft Silverlight support, install Moonlight with the following command: « sudo apt-get install moonlight-plugin-mozilla » in a terminal. | Added by Pici Date: 2009-11-10 20:44:21 Requested 89 times |
| bootrepair | <reply> Boot-Repair is a simple tool to repair frequent boot issues you may encounter in Ubuntu. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair for more info. | Added by k1l Date: 2014-11-05 21:27:32 Last edited by Pici Date: 2014-11-05 21:31:43 Requested 89 times |
| subversion | an open source application used for revision control. It is sometimes abbreviated to svn in reference to the name of its command line interface. Look here for a Subversion How To on Ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Subversion | Added by nalioth Date: 2006-08-27 02:03:51 Requested 87 times |
| ocr | <reply> For OCR (optical character recognition) software in Ubuntu, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OCR for packages and instructions. | Added by LjL Date: 2007-09-29 22:03:51 Last edited by jussi Date: 2011-04-28 15:10:43 Requested 87 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 |
| 20.04 focal fossa | <reply> Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) is the 32nd release of Ubuntu and an !LTS release. Download at https://releases.ubuntu.com/focal/ - Release notes at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseNotes | Added by dax Date: 2019-10-17 01:44:25 Last edited by krytarik Date: 2024-04-25 17:34:07 Requested 87 times |
| floodbots floodbot | <reply> FloodBot1,2,3, and 4 are all bots, please direct your questions to the channel. | Added by Pici Date: 2010-02-02 18:51:05 Requested 86 times |
| chat | <alias> #ubuntu | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-18 17:39:48 Last edited by Pici Date: 2012-08-10 13:30:11 Requested 85 times |
| help halp | <alias> ask | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-21 00:28:59 Last edited by Pici Date: 2009-07-09 15:32:16 Requested 85 times |
| banned | <alias> ban | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-30 23:46:02 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-01-02 04:00:58 Requested 85 times |
| intrepix-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> It's spelled Intrepid, unless you're wastrel | Added by LjL Date: 2008-10-28 01:51:53 Requested 85 times |
| my | <reply> bantuan bahasa melayu? sila /join #ubuntu-my | Added by jrib Date: 2008-12-02 15:34:13 Last edited by IdleOne Date: 2011-09-03 21:49:39 Requested 85 times |
| op | <alias> ops | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-08-22 18:31:36 Requested 84 times |
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