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My understanding is Microsoft Windows is Little Endian, Unix/Linux (including Ubuntu) is Big Endian.

However, I have Ubuntu as a dual-boot option on my Microsoft Windows laptop, which uses a...

What happens when I double-click a launcher on the desktop?

I want to know if I conceptually understand this correctly:

I have a launcher on the desktop
The desktop is GNOME
I can...

If I double-click a desktop icon which is set to run a command with parameters, such as:

gedit myfile.txt
I've been told that Nautilus is what parses off the parameters and hands the parameters...

What is the "build-essential package"?

I was following the instructions at:
How to set up WUSB600N wireless with Ubuntu
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1132275

and got a bunch of errors when I got to Part 2: Installing the...

Does Ubuntu come with Perl, Python, or REXX?

How does Ubuntu identify a file to be a Perl script, Python script, or REXX script?

May I have a simple "Hello World" example file, and how to...

What are the rules for passing parameters with special characters in them on the command line? Like what if your parameter has a space in it? When do you enclose a parameter in double quotes? How do...

I found "Larry Osterman's WebLog: The Windows command line is just a string..."
http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2007/10/03/the-windows-command-line-is-just-a-string.aspx
who explains:
...

(I'm a complete novice at Linux, but this question is a bit involved. Originally worded as a Windows OS question. I want to learn how Linux handles command line parameters.)

If I launch a process...

I'd like to install Beyond Compare 3 for linux. My download choices are:

TAR.GZ format
Debian package
RPM package

Which of these is the one I want?

I didn't see Beyond Compare 3 listed...

We're going to rewrite the kernel, currently written in Delphi, of our text editor program, to make it unicode compatible, and we're considering the possibility of making it run on Linux too. But...

Where can I find a list of all pre-defined keys? Like CTRL+ALT+UP/DOWN gives me "Desk 1", so I shouldn't use that key sequence in my program.

And how do I mark a thread as "Solved"? Couldn't find...

I found a solution
http://www.watchingthenet.com/restore-panels-in-ubuntu-back-to-their-default-settings.html

ALT-F2
gnome-terminal
[gets the terminal line mode window. Enter these 3 commands:]...

Tried that. No response. I was able to create a blank panel by right-clicking on the lower panel at the bottom of the screen and selecting "New Panel". But it's blank. I'm not sure what things I'm...

I accidentally deleted my panel (at the top of the screen.) I added a button for the System Monitor, but clicked "Add" twice, and tried to delete the extra one, and ended up deleting the entire panel...

Oh yes, I tried sudo, gksudo, gksu, made no difference.

OK is there a way to list just the directory structure without any of the files? (Maybe some other program besides ls?)

There's a package called CodeWeavers CrossOver which allows you to run Windows programs on Linux. (www.codeweavers.com) CrossOver is built on top of Wine, which is a free program. (I'm still not...

I'm looking at the help for ls but not quite sure. I want to make a text file of my directory tree to show someone (including hidden files). I got as far as ls -aR. Gives me a long listing. Not sure...

Tried that several times, didn't help. Also opened gedit and went to EDIT -> PREFERENCES -> PLUGINS, and unchecked everything (not many checked). Rebooted. Still get same thing editing any file with...

Wow that actually worked no problem. So, nano is a different editor. Something wrong with gedit. Some sort of add-on? All I did was upgrade, but it was quite an upgrade, over 200 things installed....

Kind of a moderate newbie to Linux. Ubuntu 8.04, I did an update of the kernel and now I can't edit Grub file menu.lst

I tried: gksu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

and nothing happens for 3 minutes,...

OK I'm going to start a new post as I'm guessing the problem is I can't edit the menu.lst file. I try to manually edit it via gksu /boot/grub/menu.lst, and nothing happens. I suppose that could be...

I installed StartUp-Manager via System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager. When I run it, System -> Administration -> Startup-Manager, I get a brief message that it's doing "perform...

When I boot my computer (dual-boot with Ubuntu & Windows Vista) it starts with the Grub bootloader menu and gives me 10 options:

8.04.2 kernel 2.6.24-23-generic
8.04.2 kernel 2.6.24-23-generic...