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Q When I start or stop my PC, I see a lot of messages saying “OK” and “Started something or other”. What are they, and what are the commands for them?
A (Thanks to DuckHook in the Ubuntu Forums) Those are all of the different services that collectively make up what you think of as a simple computing session. The green “OK” means that the services were all started properly or stopped properly.
If you want to see these same service notifications in log format, open a terminal and type: dmesg
Q I just installed Lubuntu on my old laptop, and I want to install all kinds of apps on this laptop, especially a C compiler.
A (Thanks to Topshiho in the Ubuntu Forums) Install build-essential.
Q Has anyone ever tested a notebook HP250 G5 with Ubuntu 16.04?
A (Thanks again to DuckHook in the Ubuntu Forums) The usual method to test for compatibility is to run a LiveUSB on the thing to see. The last time I tried this at Best Buy, the sales staff were very accommodating. After all, would they prefer that you try out a floor model, or buy and then return to them a used and opened product under their 30-day return policy?
Q I have cloned my system to another HDD using the Windows program, MiniTool Partition Wizard. It is a double-boot system, Ubuntu/Windows 7. Computer boots directly into Windows 7. If I hit an F2 button to select booting options, there is Ubuntu option but nothing happens if I select it.
A The content of the partitions is the same, but their UUIDs have changed. In Ubuntu, the UUIDs of the partitions to be mounted are stored in a file called fstab. The Original Poster, petrokh, reported that fixing the entry for the swap partition allowed Ubuntu to boot.
Top questions at Askubuntu
My source for this was The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, which has gone on hiatus until it can get more contributors.
Please see: https://community.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-contributors-to-the-ubuntu-weekly-newsletter/1539
Tips and Techniques
Bionic Beaver?
Those of us with long memories, from my small corner of the world, remember our very own Bionic Beaver. But not fondly.
Ontario is Canada's most populous province, and it has lots of schools. About half as many as Texas.
Soon after microcomputers appeared, the Ontario Ministry of Education decided that computer literacy would be an important skill – and this skill would be best developed using a made-in-Ontario hardware and software combo.
The result was a computer called the Icon, produced locally. IBM was distracted by the IBM PC, so it gave the Ontario effort the amount of attention it deserved.
The Icon had some good points, but it was never adopted by another jurisdiction, and never made it outside the education sandbox.
The local system integrator was eventually taken over by Burroughs, which merged with Univac to form Unisys. The relevant Wikipedia article is “Unisys ICON”.
And, oh yes, the nickname for the beast was the Bionic Beaver.