For questions regarding the function of the entire operating system and issues that affect users system-wide.
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Super slow and laggy?
I'm a native Windows user, running 7 Home Premium atm. In the past I installed Ubuntu 10 on my netbook I believe, but was a bit 'scared' by it.
Anyways, I made a partition on my desktop pc, 100gb and ...
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Will Ubuntu One support OS Settings sync?
Being new to Linux and to Ubuntu, I've taken quite some time to tune it to my needs on my netbook. As I'm now convinced by the OS, I plan to install it on my desktop in the next few days. I was hoping ...
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System Monitoring Tools For Ubuntu
I am looking for System Monitoring tools which are GUI and Cli or Web Based which include Basic Functions such as
CPU Usage
Ram Usage
Swap Usage
Disk Usage ( Space / I/O )
Heat Monitoring
I know ...
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How to back up a system?
If I want to make a backup of my entire OS (including but not just my home directory), how do I go about this?
Is it as simple as backing up everything in / and then when if I suffer a crash, just ...
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How I do a system restore?
Problem I Faced
I installed something that crashed my Wifi drivers that I compiled earlier.
Un-installing the same package doesn't helped.
Finally, I re-compiled my wifi drivers and things are good.
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Easy backup/restore of installed system?
Is there any easy and open source backup/restore solution for installed (after clear install) Ubuntu system, like Acronis Home backup ?
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What are “/run/lock” and “/run/shm” used for?
i just want to know where & how /run/lock & /run/shm can help our PC .
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 56G 13G 41G 24% /
udev ...
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How can I can clone or ghost my system drive to restore it to a bigger HD?
How can I can clone or ghost my Ubuntu System drive to restore it to a bigger HD?
something like norton ghost does with NTFS or FAT on Windows
GREAT Thanks
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How many maximum CPUs does Ubuntu support by default?
I think this is kernel dependent and probably will change over time depending on the kernel a release uses, correct me if wrong
I'd like to know two things for all the currently supported Ubuntu ...
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Is there a way of leveling/compressing the sound system-wide?
As a Laptop user, I'm sure that a lot of people, even the ones using Netbooks would have already gone through this problem. Especially when listening to podcasts, and using it as an example, the sound ...
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Find (and reinstall) packages with corrupted files (without breaking anything)
I usually prefer to fix a Linux system than to reinstall from scratch. My computers have seen many distribution upgrades and a list of PPAs or third-party repositories. APT usually makes sure that ...
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Is it possible to add custom items to System Settings window?
For example, how to add a "Startup Applications Preferences" launcher to this Window?
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How to see what's going on during shutdown
Since a few weeks, Ubuntu freezes almost everytime when I shut it down.
I know it because the shutdown animation stops and nothing is responsive: Ctrl+Alt+Del or AltGr+Syst+reisub don't make any ...
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Whats the difference between Unix, Linux and Ubuntu?
What is Unix, Linux, Ubuntu?
Are they the same thing or different versions or completely different stuff?
This has always made me confused, any explanation would be great.
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best way to backup a whole dual-boot system [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to make a disk image and restore from it later?
I finally have my PC exactly the way i want it, i have spent many hours installing and reinstalling Ubuntu and ...
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Is there a system-wide equalizer for PulseAudio or ALSA? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there any Sound enhancers/equalizer?
I often want to tweak the sound quality, but have found no other way than to install plugins for each piece of software. ...
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Appropriate size for / root partition
I'm about to re-install my system. I like to keep a separate /home and / root partitions. I've been using (K)Ubuntu for around a year now and my / partition (almost 36Gb) never climbed over ~13Gb of ...
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How can I install Ubuntu in BlackBerry Playbook?
I have a Blackberry Playbook. I loved the Blackberry OS at first, but now I feel constrained by the lack of applications and functions. I assume that, by installing Ubuntu on my tablet, will give me ...
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Installed Ubuntu with WUBI, how can I completely remove Windows Vista?
I just installed Ubuntu 12.04.1 yesterday, and I'm happy with how it's working. I think I installed it as a dual system though, because Ubuntu and Vista shows up when the system boots up.
I ...
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Security camera system server
I'd like to setup a Security Camera system which is captures and stores video streams into Ubuntu Server From 2 wireless Cameras.
Which type of motion-detecting wireless camera you suggested?
Are ...
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What is the Linux drive naming scheme?
In Windows; you have the C: drive. This is the primary drive upon which Windows is installed.
However, Linux uses a different naming scheme; sda and sba 1,2,3,4, etc. Can anyone give me a brief ...
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Getting “System program problem detected” pops up regularly after upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04
This started to happen immediately after I had rebooted the first time after doing a system upgrade to 12.04 from 11.10. It first starts with a dialogue that says "System program problem detected". ...
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Does changing the theme improve system performance?
I really have this feeling that after changing the theme on my Ubuntu (10.10 - but it also happened on a different version) the system is much quicker, or to say more precisely, the system is not ...
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Ubuntu desktop suddenly points to home folder
As of now, my desktop has begun showing the contents of my home folder (~) instead of the contents of ~/desktop. I must have changed something, but I have no idea what, or what I was doing exactly ...
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How to disable hibernating?
Whereas many questions are geared towards implementing hibernation, mine is how to disable it.
I've just encrypted my swap partition, and I such my system can still hibernate, but cannot resume ...
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Where are passwords saved?
Okay...
This is a weird question to ask but where are the passwords saved??
I mean they must be somewhere for comparing everytime...
So..where are they saved??
System passwords and also the ...
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privacy feature in 12.04 doesnt work? [duplicate]
I noticed my recent documents folder is showing recent activity.So I go to system settings,click privacy,set it to all for forget activity,click delete history and set record to off.Long story short ...
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Running 12.04 on a Dell Inspiron 1545 having random system lockups
I just reinstalled a fresh 12.04 because I couldn't even get booted on my previous installation anymore.
I just installed 8GB of ram on this laptop, but the problem happened even before this, and all ...
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2answers
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proxy authentication in system settings but with a twist
We have a password policy that enforces the users to use special characters in their passwords. Hence some passwords will be Gt4@gj#k for example.
Now to specify the system wide proxy settings (Why ...
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1answer
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Grub won't load Windows 7 (unknown file system)
I recently installed 11.10 on a new partition on my Windows 7 PC, and it works perfectly. But when I want to boot Windows 7 from the grub boot menu, it just says unknown file system, grub rescue.
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1answer
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Update has caused my system to start in text mode
Tonight My system informed me of an update, having preformed the update I was asked to restart the system. Now on start up I'm now presented with the linux console, asking for my user name and ...
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Wireless Connection not dectected in 12.10 [closed]
I am using 12.10. I go to the network manager applet on the top panel and it cannot detect a wireless network. The computer used to have other Linux distributions and connected to the Internet ...
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Lost 'System Settings' on Ubuntu Precise Pangolin x86_64
I am new here. I was facing issues with emacs-snapshot sourced from a PPA, so I tried following these instructions (blindly =/), and
sudo apt-get remove `apt-cache search emacs | awk '{print $1}'` ...
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What does it mean when there is a path like /dir/dir/program.attribute?
In the question above i was trying to pose an example. I don't know how effective I was in doing so... I just want to understand how there can be what appear to be "hidden" files that exist. Are they ...
