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Today's Date: 01-31-2017

Activity since: 01-18-2017
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Title: "Windowmanagers - a Slow Marathon with Breaks" (Date Posted 01-31-2017 by ondoho)
o 0 Replies, 56 Views, Last Post: 11:46 AM, 01-31-2017 by ondoho
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ks-4175598645/

Title: "Backing up and package question" (Date Posted 01-31-2017 by cliffhanger)
o 0 Replies, 69 Views, Last Post: 10:57 AM, 01-31-2017 by cliffhanger
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...on-4175598643/

Title: "how to open cd contents in gnome desktop" (Date Posted 01-31-2017 by sabsac)
o 3 Replies, 70 Views, Last Post: 11:27 AM, 01-31-2017 by Keith Hedger
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...op-4175598638/

Title: "Uninstall pulseaudio" (Date Posted 01-31-2017 by Keruskerfuerst)
o 0 Replies, 74 Views, Last Post: 10:19 AM, 01-31-2017 by Keruskerfuerst
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...io-4175598636/

Title: "Script to freeze top row on all .xlsx files" (Date Posted 01-31-2017 by trickydba)
o 8 Replies, 113 Views, Last Post: 11:25 AM, 01-31-2017 by trickydba
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...es-4175598635/

Title: "Script to freeze top row on all .xlsx files" (Date Posted 01-31-2017 by trickydba)
o 6 Replies, 54 Views, Last Post: 10:32 AM, 01-31-2017 by trickydba
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...es-4175598639/


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Title: "Deleting Old DNS Entries in Vyatta" (Date Posted 01-31-2017 by mike.reid)
o 56 Views
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ta-4175598631/

Title: "Setting Serial Port RTS Line to proper state prior to deep sleep" (Date Posted 01-31-2017 by Sysware21)
o 89 Views
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ep-4175598615/

Title: "Help installing Canon MG5620 printer" (Date Posted 01-30-2017 by crgibson)
o 117 Views
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...er-4175598592/

Title: "Samba Excel Saves go into the recycle bin" (Date Posted 01-30-2017 by keirvt)
o 132 Views
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...in-4175598583/

Title: "Make Plymouth Theme Accept Disc Encryption Password" (Date Posted 01-30-2017 by Jeff91)
o 143 Views
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...rd-4175598551/

Title: "TigerVNC 1.7.1 security update" (Date Posted 01-30-2017 by burdi01)
o 181 Views
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...te-4175598544/


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Title: "bash shell script read file line by line." (Date Posted 01-20-2004 by Darren[UoW])
o 1739490 Views, 57 Replies, Last Post: 07:07 PM, 04-17-2016 by Norseman01
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...y-line-136784/

Title: "Learn the DD command" (Date Posted 09-11-2005 by AwesomeMachine)
o 1488430 Views, 852 Replies, Last Post: 11:41 PM, 10-05-2016 by AwesomeMachine
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ommand-362506/

Title: "how do I get apt-get to completely uninstall a package?" (Date Posted 10-02-2004 by muxman)
o 1303680 Views, 32 Replies, Last Post: 06:54 AM, 09-16-2016 by JeremyBoden
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ackage-237772/

Title: "What programs would you like to see ported to Linux?" (Date Posted 10-19-2003 by jeremy)
o 1070358 Views, 6173 Replies, Last Post: 02:29 AM, 01-31-2017 by WaterCatapult
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-linux-105955/


-- Threads with the most replies --

Title: "MLB.TV in Linux" (Date Posted 04-06-2006 by Fugazi)
o 4910 Replies, 688110 Views, Last Post: 01:31 AM, 10-06-2016 by daftcat
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-linux-432479/

Title: "This is my Slackware desktop..." (Date Posted 05-13-2009 by w1k0)
o 2907 Replies, 588594 Views, Last Post: 08:03 PM, 01-25-2017 by jmccue
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...esktop-725754/

Title: "Requests for -current (20151216)" (Date Posted 12-16-2015 by rworkman)
o 2007 Replies, 214468 Views, Last Post: 05:24 AM, 01-31-2017 by atelszewski
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-a-4175561577/

Title: "The mass exodus if Slackware uses Systemd" (Date Posted 10-26-2014 by UnixPhilosophy)
o 1686 Replies, 121373 Views, Last Post: 12:18 PM, 02-19-2015 by jeremy
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...md-4175523380/


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Question: What is your favorite desktop distro?
o 'Ubuntu ' (0 Votes)
o 'Debian ' (3 Votes)
o 'Linux Mint ' (2 Votes)
o 'CentOS ' (1 Votes)
o 'Fedora ' (1 Votes)
o 'OpenSUSE ' (1 Votes)
o 'Arch ' (2 Votes)
o 'Manjaro ' (0 Votes)
o 'PCLinuxOS ' (0 Votes)
o 'Puppy' (0 Votes)
View Poll Results: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...p?t=4175598338

Question: Which one do you prefer?
o 'Openbox ! ' (3 Votes)
o 'JWM !' (1 Votes)
View Poll Results: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...p?t=4175598007

Question: Should all be multiple choice?
o 'Yes ' (9 Votes)
o 'No ' (5 Votes)
o 'Some' (9 Votes)
View Poll Results: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...p?t=4175596354

Question: Have You tried run Slackware live?
o 'Yes, and I like it a lot ' (10 Votes)
o 'Yes, but I don't know what to do with it or I don't like it ' (3 Votes)
o 'No, I didn't know there is an true Slackware live media' (5 Votes)
View Poll Results: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...p?t=4175595855

Question: Preferred combination of stable/current and ktown?
o 'Stable ' (22 Votes)
o 'Stable + ktown ' (3 Votes)
o 'Current ' (18 Votes)
o 'Current + ktown (latest) ' (8 Votes)
o 'Current + ktown (testing)' (1 Votes)
View Poll Results: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...p?t=4175595779


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