PGP can refer to two things:
The Pretty Good Privacy software originally written by Phil Zimmermann, and now owned by Symantec.
The formats for keys, encrypted messages and message signatures defined by that software. These have now been formalised as the OpenPGP standard.
The GPG software i...
What is GPG?
GPG, or GNU Privacy Guard, is a suite of cryptographic software. It can be used to encrypt or sign data and communications to ensure its authenticity.
This type of cryptography is based on key pairs. A public key is hosted on a key server (e.g. keyserver.ubuntu.com) and the private...
community accepted answer
Summary
You do not need to use your real name in the Ubuntu Community and when contributing to the Ubuntu project.
However, you do need to use a real legal identity to contribute to certain Canonical upstream projects (or have agreed a suitable alternative).
Ubuntu C...
Not only that, but it's a terrible nuisance when you try to run the app as a regular user afterward - all of the config files are owned by root and can't be modified.
I was playing around with these settings and couldn't get it to work. Just curious as to why ....
Simple test commands output:
richard@ubuntu:~$ echo $GREP_OPTIONS
richard@ubuntu:~$
richard@ubuntu:~$ ls | grep o
Desktop
downloads
Dropbox
ebooks
workspace
richard@ubuntu:~$ ls | grep o --co...
community accepted answer
Summary
You do not need to use your real name in the Ubuntu Community and when contributing to the Ubuntu project.
However, you do need to use a real legal identity to contribute to certain Canonical upstream projects (or have agreed a suitable alternative).
Ubuntu C...
I was playing around with these settings and couldn't get it to work. Just curious as to why ....
Simple test commands output:
richard@ubuntu:~$ echo $GREP_OPTIONS
richard@ubuntu:~$
richard@ubuntu:~$ ls | grep o
Desktop
downloads
Dropbox
ebooks
workspace
richard@ubuntu:~$ ls | grep o --co...
