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Peter.O
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448 votes
10 answers
1.4m views

How to get to the GRUB menu at boot-time?

202 votes
3 answers
56k views

Why is a virtual terminal "virtual", and what/why/where is the "real" terminal?

153 votes
12 answers
204k views

A command-line clipboard copy and paste utility?

117 votes
3 answers
48k views

What is the difference between "man" and "info" documentation?

90 votes
11 answers
129k views

How to cleanly launch a GUI app via the Terminal?

59 votes
3 answers
39k views

How to stop Gedit, Gvim, Vim, Nano from adding End-of-File newline char?

56 votes
4 answers
22k views

How to cancel the currently-applied remaining sudo time-out?

49 votes
13 answers
159k views

Locale settings are not right. How can I reset them?

44 votes
1 answer
8k views

Many directories have a ".d" suffix/extension. What does it mean?

40 votes
3 answers
22k views

What is the maximum length of command line arguments in gnome-terminal?

32 votes
1 answer
60k views

Virtualbox install 12.04 guest: "pae not present"

30 votes
2 answers
17k views

In htop, I sometimes see lists of 64 processes, identical for all but the PID. What are they?

28 votes
6 answers
9k views

What causes Nautilus to restart whenever I kill it?

28 votes
4 answers
26k views

Is the difference between sudo and gksu the same as the difference between sudo -i and sudo -s?

24 votes
4 answers
36k views

What do the abbreviations "etc" and "usr" mean?

24 votes
3 answers
30k views

What is the difference between the alternative and desktop cd images?

24 votes
1 answer
7k views

In 'apt-cache depends' output, what is the meaning of Suggests, Recommends, |, <>?

23 votes
1 answer
58k views

How, in a script, can I determine if a file is currently being written to by another process?

22 votes
3 answers
23k views

What is the relationship between MIME types and File .extensions?

22 votes
3 answers
31k views

How to run multiple user X sessions on the same computer, at the same time?

18 votes
3 answers
7k views

Why is there 4.86(maybe 15.1) GB of USED-space on a newly partitioned and formatted 298 GB drive (as ext4 by Gparted)

16 votes
5 answers
31k views

How to make a bootable ISO image from a bootable DVD?

16 votes
1 answer
39k views

'htop' does not show the correct CPU%, but 'top' does

15 votes
1 answer
6k views

What Terminal command will dump all Gconf keys and values? ie the ones seen in gconf-editor

14 votes
3 answers
17k views

Inconsistent copy and paste behaviour. Is there a fix?

14 votes
3 answers
3k views

Can Nautilus display a .desktop file by its real name?

14 votes
2 answers
3k views

Can a single Nautilus window be started with multiple tabs?

13 votes
4 answers
25k views

How to scroll in the Terminal app "top"?

13 votes
4 answers
5k views

Nautilus sorts the Name-column "mysteriously". How can I change the collating sequence?

13 votes
5 answers
3k views

Can I migrate a VirtualBox Ubuntu Guest to a *real* Hardware Box?

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