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| 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 |
| blueprints blueprint | <reply>An explanation of what a blueprint is can be found at https://help.launchpad.net/Blueprint. Want to suggest or discuss ideas of a future project/feature? With Launchpad you can track blueprints (feature specification summaries) from discussion through review, approval, and implementation. See https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ | Added by tonyyarusso Date: 2008-01-15 05:57:37 Last edited by IdleOne Date: 2011-06-11 23:53:22 Requested 21 times |
| bluetooth | <reply>For instructions on how to set up bluetooth, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BluetoothSetup | Added by Madpilot Date: 2006-06-28 11:00:53 Requested 1310 times |
| bofh | <reply>You can find the BOFH and the PFY at https://bearbin.net/bofh and http://theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh/ | Added by Seveas Date: 2007-11-11 20:52:01 Last edited by dax Date: 2016-04-02 04:18:20 Requested 15 times |
| boot init smartbootmanager boot floppy bum | <reply> Boot options: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions - To add your own startup scripts, use /etc/rc.local - See also !grub and !dualboot - Making a boot floppy: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto/BootFloppy - Also see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SmartBootManagerHowto | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-19 15:24:07 Last edited by dax Date: 2016-03-29 05:39:13 Requested 2470 times |
| bootchart | <reply> bootchart charts your machine at boot time, to install >> sudo apt-get install bootchart << the graphic is in /var/log/bootchart after the next reboot | Added by ompaul Date: 2008-02-24 21:34:35 Last edited by ompaul Date: 2008-02-24 21:35:27 Requested 104 times |
| bootinfo | <reply> Boot info script is a useful script for diagnosing boot problems. Please run the script following the directions here: http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/ and then !pastebin the RESULTS.txt for us to use to help diagnose your problem. | Added by IdleOne Date: 2011-05-05 00:52:49 Last edited by IdleOne Date: 2015-01-06 20:49:53 Requested 336 times |
| bootinfoscript | <reply> To diagnose boot issues, you can use the Boot Info Script available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/ Run the script with !sudo and then look at RESULTS.txt (or !pastebin it for others to look at). | Added by IdleOne Date: 2011-05-05 00:47:20 Requested 21 times |
| bootlog | <reply> To show errors during boot and shutdown, edit the kernel command line: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBootParameters and replace "quiet splash" by "debug systemd.log_level=info". Disable "Full screen logo" and "Fastboot" options in your BIOS setup, or hit 'Esc' when the logo shows on power up. | Added by hggdh Date: 2019-07-29 16:30:49 Last edited by tomreyn Date: 2023-10-26 12:36:26 Requested 59 times |
| bootoptions bootoption | <reply> For a list and explanation on some of the boot options, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions See also !nomodeset. | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-19 11:32:08 Last edited by oCean Date: 2011-06-26 12:00:40 Requested 665 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 86 times |
| borg | <reply> borg is a fast backup tool with incremental backups: https://www.borgbackup.org/ (Ubuntu packages: borgbackup, borgbackup-doc, and borgmatic) | Added by hggdh Date: 2019-03-12 22:41:29 Requested 23 times |
| boss-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> http://instantboss.org/ | Added by IdleOne Date: 2014-07-23 00:42:28 Requested 3 times |
| botabuse bot abuse fishing msgthebot askthebot msg the bot msgbot investigate investigation pm the bot messagethebot message the bot bot-abuse abusethebot | <reply> Please investigate me only with "/msg $nick bot" or in #ubuntu-bots. Search for factoids with "/msg $nick search <pattern>" | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-07-26 21:48:13 Last edited by krytarik Date: 2016-11-27 08:17:56 Requested 8076 times |
| botbugs | <reply> Bugs in or wishlist items for the Ubuntu IRC Bots can be filed at http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-bots - For requesting new factoids, see !usage | Added by Pici Date: 2011-06-28 12:39:34 Requested 3 times |
| botclone botcloning | <reply> $nick uses Limnoria, which is available in the main !repositories, with additional plugins that are available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-bots - For further assistance or to help out with ubottu development, please join #ubuntu-bots | Added by stdin Date: 2008-07-24 01:34:39 Last edited by krytarik Date: 2023-03-24 02:18:03 Requested 419 times |
| botdoc | <reply> Documentation on the custom plugins for ubottu and clones is located at https://ubottu.com/devel/wiki/Plugins | Documentation for the official !Supybot plugins is located at https://ubottu.com/devel/supydoc/ | Added by tsimpson_ Date: 2010-10-21 19:00:40 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-10-30 07:04:41 Requested 13 times |
| bothelp | <reply> For ubottu usage instructions see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBots | For help with ubottu plugins for supybot, please ask in #ubuntu-bots | Added by stdin Date: 2009-03-15 13:32:10 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-10-30 06:45:41 Requested 28 times |
| botsnack | <reply> Yum! Err, I mean, APT! | Added by Amaranth Date: 2006-08-05 08:42:05 Last edited by Pici Date: 2009-08-06 13:34:26 Requested 3953 times |
| botsnack-#ubuntu-offtopic | <deleted><reply> Yum! Err, I mean, APT! | Added by Pici Date: 2009-06-19 14:00:19 Last edited by Pici Date: 2009-08-06 13:34:00 Requested 23 times |
| boys-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> ♪ Bad boys, bad boys, watcha gonna do, watcha gonna do when they come for you ♫ | Added by Seveas Date: 2007-01-12 02:37:17 Requested 67 times |
| boys-#ubuntuforums | <reply> ♪ Bad boys, bad boys, watcha gonna do, watcha gonna do when they come for you ♫ | Added by PriceChild Date: 2007-01-16 16:39:09 Requested 17 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 |
| breezy breezy badger badger 5.10 | <reply> Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) was the third release of Ubuntu. End Of Life: April 13, 2007. See !eol and !upgrade for more details. | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-17 23:17:00 Last edited by Pici Date: 2009-01-16 14:15:43 Requested 224 times |
| brokenmsn | <deleted><reply> MS upgraded their MSN Messenger servers, causing newest 3rd party clients unable to connect. Workaround for pidgin 2.5.2 users is « sudo apt-get install msn-pecan » Restart pidgin, create an account of type wlm and supply your MSN credentials | Added by Tm_T Date: 2009-01-12 16:34:49 Last edited by dax Date: 2016-02-22 00:20:24 Requested 31 times |
| brokenusplash | <reply> Supported screen resolutions are sometimes detected incorrectly, causing the splash screen to not appear and slowing down boot. Edit /etc/usplash.conf and change "xres" and "yres" to a resolution that your graphics system certainly supports, then run « sudo update-usplash-theme usplash-theme-ubuntu » | Added by LjL Date: 2007-11-27 00:05:09 Requested 21 times |
| brokenusplash-#kubuntu | <reply> Supported screen resolutions are sometimes detected incorrectly, causing the splash screen to not appear and slowing down boot. Edit /etc/usplash.conf and change "xres" and "yres" to a resolution that your graphics system certainly supports, then run « sudo update-usplash-theme usplash-theme-kubuntu » | Added by LjL Date: 2007-11-27 00:05:36 Requested 1 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 |
| btrfs | <reply> Btrfs is a filesystem available for Ubuntu. It is not recommended by default, and should not be used for important data. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/btrfs | Added by LjL Date: 2011-11-06 15:30:17 Last edited by dax Date: 2016-04-08 06:46:24 Requested 132 times |
| budgie | <reply> Ubuntu Budgie is a community !flavour of Ubuntu featuring the Budgie desktop. Its first official release is 17.04. As with all development versions, for questions involving Ubuntu Budgie $curDevelNum support, visit #ubuntu+1. Ubuntu Budgie 16.04 and 16.10 are not supported by the Ubuntu project. https://ubuntubudgie.org/ | Added by SonikkuAmerica Date: 2016-12-14 19:28:19 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-05-25 14:41:50 Requested 45 times |
| bug | <reply> If you find a bug in Ubuntu or any of its official !flavors, please report it using the command « ubuntu-bug <package> » - See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs for other ways to report bugs. | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-17 23:24:59 Last edited by hggdh Date: 2019-04-04 16:54:48 Requested 1535 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 |
| bugresponses-#ubuntu-bugs | <reply> Several templates for Bug Squad bug responses are available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Responses | Added by IdleOne Date: 2011-06-26 23:41:17 Requested 1 times |
| bugs filebug bugtracker features bus | <reply> If you find a bug in Ubuntu or any of its derivatives, please report it using the command « ubuntu-bug <package> » - See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs for other ways to report bugs. | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-17 23:25:05 Last edited by Unit193 Date: 2016-06-24 20:02:48 Requested 3859 times |
| bugs-kubuntu bugs-#kubuntu bugs-#kubuntu-devel bugs-#kubuntu-offtopic | <reply> If you find a bug in Kubuntu, please follow the instructions at https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Bugs/Reporting to report the issue to the developers. | Added by tsimpson Date: 2012-11-07 13:56:03 Requested 72 times |
| bugstatus | <reply>You can find out about how Ubuntu uses bug statuses here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status | Added by jussi Date: 2010-06-13 13:46:20 Requested 4 times |
| build-dep builddep | a handy APT tool that will try to automatically install build (compile) dependencies for you. In the terminal: sudo apt-get build-dep package | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-18 16:47:16 Requested 26 times |
| buildcomm | <reply> For procedures and general help with community building you can look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity or join #ubuntu-community-team | Added by jussi Date: 2010-08-24 05:33:15 Requested 1 times |
| bumblebee | <reply> The Bumblebee Project aims to support NVIDIA Optimus technology under Linux. The Bumblebee website can be found at http://bumblebee-project.org/ | Added by knome Date: 2014-01-04 20:24:47 Requested 109 times |
| bunnies | <deleted>z0mg! fluffy bunnies! Guaranteed to bring out the tweenage girl in everyone: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Widget+Background:+Fluffy+Bunny+?content=74480 | Added by elkbuntu Date: 2008-06-03 08:11:24 Last edited by Pici Date: 2013-11-07 01:35:43 Requested 4 times |
| buntudot | <deleted><reply> http://www.buntudot.org is a 3rd party *buntu news website with articles, reviews, how-to’s, and links for all the buntu's ( not affiliated or run by Canonical Ltd. ) <deleted>buntudot.org also runs a 3rd party Repository of ubuntu software see : http://www.buntudot.org/howtos/buntudotorg-repositories/ | Added by imbrandon Date: 2006-07-13 21:25:27 Last edited by nhandler Date: 2010-04-26 02:46:26 Requested 5 times |
| burners burn burner burning cdrw | <reply> CD/DVD burning software: k3b (KDE), brasero (GNOME), gnomebaker, xcdroast, wodim (command-line) | To burn ISO files, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 21:35:32 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-04-23 23:42:28 Requested 1340 times |
| burniso | <reply> To burn an ISO image of a CD in Linux, Mac OS or Windows, read the howto at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto | Added by thoreauputic Date: 2006-06-22 14:17:16 Requested 139 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 |
| 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 |
| bzrmerges | <reply> are always committed at once - without specifying any file - e.g. bzr commit -m "your merge comment" | Added by gnomefreak Date: 2007-08-27 19:29:46 Requested 1 times |
| ca | <reply> Canadian Ubuntu users can be found in #ubuntu-ca aussi #ubuntu-qc | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 16:39:09 Last edited by genii-around Date: 2011-06-06 02:25:18 Requested 106 times |
| cadence | <reply> Cadence is an application for managing Jack in KXStudio and its repositories. Due to the nature of its intrusive configuration, it causes compatibility issues with Ubuntu's audio configuration, particularly !ubuntustudio-controls. For this reason, adding the KXStudio repos to any Ubuntu install is highly discouraged. | Added by hggdh Date: 2019-04-13 19:21:49 Requested 4 times |
| cairo-dock | <deleted>a MacOS X -like dock for the gnome desktop, see www.cairo-dock.org | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-08-09 12:28:37 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-04-11 19:57:26 Requested 39 times |
| cake-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> The cake is a !pie! | Added by Pici Date: 2007-12-18 15:52:54 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-02-11 21:29:48 Requested 410 times |
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