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Factoid	Value	Author
sorry	<reply> It's ok, I am only a bot so I cannot stay mad at you. For apologising to humans though, take a read of https://web.archive.org/web/20170201184826/http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2009/07/20/on-apologies/	Added by Amaranth Date: 2007-08-10 23:05:06 Last edited by tonyyarusso Date: 2017-05-22 21:48:30 Requested 544 times
adduser users user useradd	<reply> To add new users to your Ubuntu system, follow the instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AddUsersHowto - For administrative privileges, users need to be made members of the group "sudo" - See !sudo	Added by LjL Date: 2006-11-24 17:00:44 Last edited by jrib Date: 2013-06-27 20:30:10 Requested 536 times
bye	<reply> Au revoir!	Added by LjL Date: 2008-01-22 03:51:40 Last edited by LjL Date: 2008-01-22 04:09:41 Requested 533 times
hi-#xubuntu hi-#lubuntu hello-#xubuntu	<reply> Hi!, Welcome to $chan! Feel free to ask questions and help people out. The channel guidelines are at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/Guidelines. Enjoy your stay!	Added by Seeker` Date: 2010-09-28 11:58:56 Last edited by IdleOne Date: 2013-03-27 17:01:15 Requested 530 times
gpgerr badsig ppagpg	<reply> Getting GPG errors after adding custom repositories? Find the GPG keyword for the repository (it's 437D05B5 for the standard ones) and run « sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com <key> »	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-29 17:03:36 Last edited by nhandler Date: 2010-11-30 02:27:36 Requested 529 times
irssi	a terminal based IRC client. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Irssi for help. See also !screen	Added by imbrandon Date: 2006-06-28 01:58:13 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-03-03 21:41:12 Requested 526 times
requirements reqs specs	<reply> Hardware requirements to install, boot and comfortably use Ubuntu are listed at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements - For a !flavor with lower requirements, see !Xubuntu or !Lubuntu	Added by LjL Date: 2008-01-23 15:51:02 Last edited by nhandler Date: 2010-09-30 02:29:08 Requested 526 times
laptop notebook	<reply> Laptop support information can be found on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportMachinesLaptops - http://www.linux-laptop.net/ - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam - http://tuxmobil.org	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 01:06:13 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-10-30 06:49:35 Requested 523 times
splash splashscreen	<reply> To change the Gnome splash screen, use gnome-splashscreen-manager or change the GConf key /apps/gnome-session/options/splash_image using !gconf-editor.	Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-19 13:16:53 Last edited by Myrtti Date: 2009-06-19 09:05:35 Requested 520 times
pony-#ubuntu-offtopic	<reply>PONY! Ponyponyponyponypony! http://windowseat.ca/images/monster_pony.jpg - NO PONIES FOR YOU!	Added by Spec Date: 2007-10-31 20:04:16 Last edited by elky Date: 2010-04-28 11:26:05 Requested 520 times
mythtv	a TV framework for Linux - Instructions for using with Ubuntu at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV - For discussion and specific support of MythTV, try #mythtv-users	Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-19 13:14:52 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-11-10 21:49:07 Requested 517 times
tor	<reply> Tor is a program to route connections through several servers for anonymity. It is in Ubuntu's repositories, but the Tor Project recommends using their Tor packages due to past issues with Ubuntu's. For setup info, see option (2) of https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en	Added by LjL Date: 2007-11-04 23:20:20 Last edited by ezri Date: 2016-03-09 21:22:05 Requested 516 times
screencast record desktop screencasts	<reply> Some programs to capture your screen are Kazam, Vokoscreen & Simple Screen Recorder. Also ffmpeg/libav with x11grab option on the command line. Also see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScreenCasts.	Added by jrib Date: 2007-06-02 14:03:35 Last edited by Pricey Date: 2014-01-16 16:29:46 Requested 515 times
schedule-#ubuntu+1	<reply> A schedule of $curDevelLong ($curDevelNum) release milestones can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseSchedule	Added by Pici Date: 2008-04-04 19:29:38 Last edited by rww Date: 2015-03-15 04:26:29 Requested 514 times
gnome3	<reply> GNOME 3 is the desktop environment on which Unity is based. To use GNOME Shell instead of Unity, install the "gnome-shell" package and investigate "gnome-tweak-tool". GNOME 3 is not supported under Natty/11.04, and may break your system if installed from alternate sources.	Added by Pici Date: 2011-04-28 14:20:10 Last edited by pangolin Date: 2011-10-19 15:07:19 Requested 513 times
im instant messaging instant messenger msn aim icq chat clients messenger	<reply> The Empathy Instant Messenger is installed by default and supports MSN, XMPP (Jabber, GTalk and variants), AIM, Gadu-Gadu, Novell Groupwise, ICQ, YIM, IRC and others. See also !Kopete and !pidgin	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 17:40:54 Last edited by topyli Date: 2011-09-23 17:07:40 Requested 512 times
browsers http browser lynx links2 konqueror	<reply> Some of the Web Browsers in Ubuntu's repositories include: Firefox (XUL, Gecko), Rekonq (KDE, WebKit), Konqueror (KDE, KHTML/WebKit), Chromium (GTK+, WebKit), Epiphany(GTK+, WebKit), Arora (Qt/KDE, WebKit), Midori (GTK+, WebKit), w3m (terminal-based), links2 (terminal-based or graphical, see !manpage), edbrowse (terminal-based). Along with many others.	Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-18 16:42:31 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2012-02-11 23:09:20 Requested 510 times
pie-#ubuntu-offtopic sugar-#ubuntu-offtopic	<reply>PIE PIE PIE, mmm PI PI PI http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3663/3358637054_9f756a3615.jpg	Added by Seveas Date: 2008-02-03 19:43:21 Last edited by rww Date: 2015-03-15 01:41:36 Requested 505 times
gender	<reply>yes, I can confirm I am a female bot :)	Added by jussi01 Date: 2009-02-03 08:13:42 Requested 504 times
qemu	an emulator you can use to run another operating system - see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsXPUnderQemuHowTo	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 21:59:42 Requested 502 times
sysrq reisub	<reply> In an emergency, you may be able to shutdown cleanly and reboot by holding down Alt+PrintScreen and typing slowly, in succession, S, U and B. For an explanation, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key	Added by ompaul Date: 2008-09-12 20:29:51 Last edited by dax Date: 2019-10-03 18:24:32 Requested 502 times
appeal appeals	<reply> If you disagree with a decision by an operator, please first pay #ubuntu-ops a visit. If you are still unhappy, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/AppealProcess for the steps you should take. If you feel the need to discuss the channel rules, please contact the ops on IRC or via the email address on the aforementioned page.	Added by elky Date: 2009-04-25 19:01:44 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2010-02-17 16:55:11 Requested 502 times
forums forum ubuntuforums	<reply> The Ubuntu Forums can be found at https://ubuntuforums.org - Kubuntu Forums are found at https://www.kubuntuforums.net - There is also an #ubuntuforums channel on Libera IRC.	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-17 23:06:55 Last edited by kryten Date: 2021-05-24 22:54:17 Requested 497 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
ops-#ubuntu-offtopic	<reply> Help! Channel emergency! (ONLY use this trigger in emergencies) - Amaranth, tonyyarusso, Nalioth, Madpilot, gnomefreak, elky, Pici, Gary, Myrtti, ikonia, Flannel, lhavelund, phunyguy, h00k, funkyHat, Tm_T, hypatia, seednode, Menzador	Added by tsimpson Date: 2010-05-02 22:12:54 Last edited by dax Date: 2020-06-14 23:46:48 Requested 491 times
motu	short for Masters of the Universe. The brave souls who maintain the packages in the Universe section of Ubuntu. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 00:48:20 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-10-30 06:39:22 Requested 485 times
cz czech cs	<reply> České uživatele žádáme, aby mluvili v kanále #ubuntu anglicky. Česky je možno se domluvit v #ubuntu-cz. Děkujeme.	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 16:18:29 Requested 485 times
gnash	<reply> Gnash is an open-source Flash replacement. It is still beta software. For current status or for more info http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/	Added by nalioth Date: 2006-12-24 19:11:58 Last edited by pangolin Date: 2012-02-09 18:09:58 Requested 484 times
hate	a thing we don't encourage - why waste your energy‽	Added by ompaul Date: 2007-02-04 18:29:41 Last edited by rww Date: 2014-09-10 18:37:34 Requested 482 times
xrandr	<deleted><reply>XRandR 1.2 is the new method of running dual screens in !X. Information/HowTo here: http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12	Added by Hobbsee Date: 2008-04-16 06:34:51 Last edited by dax Date: 2019-10-17 20:23:57 Requested 482 times
pdf acrobat	<reply>The Portable Document Format is created by Adobe; PDF files are viewable in Ubuntu with Xpdf, Okular, Evince and also Adobe Reader (free download, but closed source)	Added by bimberi Date: 2006-07-31 07:34:53 Last edited by jussi Date: 2011-04-28 15:21:23 Requested 476 times
pong	an old atari game. It's fun!	Added by imbrandon Date: 2006-08-27 09:10:43 Requested 475 times
politics	<reply> Please take political discussion to ##politics. Thank you!	Added by somerville32 Date: 2007-01-10 00:33:38 Last edited by tonyyarusso Date: 2007-06-14 21:01:31 Requested 475 times
oneiric oneric ocelot	<reply> Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) was the fifteenth release of Ubuntu. !End-Of-Life on May 9th 2013, see https://ubottu.com/y/oneiric for more details.	Added by Pici Date: 2011-03-07 17:33:42 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-10-30 07:02:40 Requested 475 times
in india	<reply> #ubuntu-in is the channel for Ubuntu in India	Added by ompaul Date: 2008-06-07 21:56:20 Last edited by ompaul Date: 2008-06-07 21:57:25 Requested 473 times
saucy salamander 13.10	<reply> Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) was the 19th release of Ubuntu. Support ended on July 17th, 2014. See !eol, !upgrade and https://ubottu.com/y/saucy	Added by Pici Date: 2013-04-25 16:29:47 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-10-30 07:03:01 Requested 471 times
wiki	<reply>https://wiki.ubuntu.com - Ubuntu development documentation wiki. If you are looking for system help, please refer to https://help.ubuntu.com/community - the Ubuntu community documentation.	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 01:04:09 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-10-30 06:39:24 Requested 468 times
md5sum checksum	<reply> To verify your Ubuntu ISO image (or other files for which a checksum is provided), see https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/how-to-verify-ubuntu	Added by Hawkwind Date: 2006-10-21 05:40:18 Last edited by hggdh Date: 2020-08-15 00:12:40 Requested 463 times
xen	<reply> XEN is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of performance and resource isolation. Information on installing it for Ubuntu can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Xen	Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-18 20:52:39 Last edited by Pici Date: 2007-11-11 01:19:25 Requested 461 times
steam	<reply> Valve have officially announced that they are developing Steam and are working with !ubuntu during their development, see http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/steamd-penguins/ for further details, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valve for install instructions, you can also join #ubuntu-steam for discussion.	Added by gnomefreak Date: 2006-06-21 03:00:16 Last edited by genii-around Date: 2013-02-12 02:25:54 Requested 461 times
behelpful	<reply> As our !guidelines say, "When helping, be helpful". If you're not familiar with the issue at hand, let someone else handle it instead of making !offtopic comments or jokes.	Added by rww Date: 2011-07-17 23:29:29 Requested 461 times
desktop desktops	<reply> A desktop environment is what "puts the pieces of a !GUI together". The available desktop environments in Ubuntu are !GNOME (ubuntu-desktop), !KDE (kubuntu-desktop), !Xfce (xubuntu-desktop), !LXDE (lubuntu-desktop), IceWM, !Fluxbox, WindowMaker (wmaker), FVWM and others - See also !Flavors	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-19 11:23:31 Last edited by IdleOne Date: 2013-02-11 03:18:14 Requested 459 times
ro romanian romania	<reply> Daca doriti ajutor sau doriti sa discutati despre Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu, intrati pe #ubuntu-ro	Added by zorglu_ Date: 2006-10-08 20:21:21 Requested 456 times
leet 1337	<reply> 1337 i5 nigh-inc0mpr3h3n5ib13 70 u5 n00bs, 4nd n0b0dy c4r35 if UR 4 1337 h4x0r. Giv3 i7 4 r357.	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-10-22 20:34:05 Last edited by Pici Date: 2012-08-07 15:38:27 Requested 446 times
sabdfl sabdlf markshuttleworth mark mark shuttlworth mark shuttleworth shuttleworth	<reply> Mark "sabdfl" Shuttleworth is our favourite cosmonaut, the founder of Canonical and the primary driver behind Ubuntu. You can find pieces of his thinking at http://www.markshuttleworth.com	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-23 11:44:04 Requested 444 times
pae	<reply> Ubuntu provides only PAE-enabled kernels for 32-bit systems now. Some older CPUs may have issues with it. For more info and troubleshooting, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PAE	Added by Myrtti Date: 2010-03-30 20:27:56 Last edited by krytarik Date: 2016-11-21 06:22:02 Requested 439 times
foo baz foo2	[baz\|bar\|wibble]	Added by LjL Date: 2007-09-22 14:37:00 Last edited by Pici Date: 2014-06-19 15:50:27 Requested 437 times
girl girls	<reply> Girls exist on the internet. See http://www.escapistmagazine.com/print/17/27 \| http://www.xkcd.com/322/ \| For more interesting reading: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/	Added by Hobbsee Date: 2007-08-12 09:12:44 Last edited by Pici Date: 2008-08-08 15:33:44 Requested 435 times
cli	<deleted><reply>The linux terminal or command-line interface is very powerful. Open a terminal via Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal (Gnome) or K-menu -> System -> Konsole (KDE). Guide: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal or type in it: man intro	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 16:19:48 Last edited by ikonia Date: 2014-07-19 14:37:06 Requested 433 times
scanning xsane scan sane	<reply> Scanning software: Simple-Scan (GNOME), Xsane, the GIMP (GNOME), Kooka (KDE). For instructions see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ScanningHowTo and to see supported hardware: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsScanners - See also !OCR	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 20:33:36 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-01-02 04:13:46 Requested 431 times