Media Server
Have you ever wanted to set up your own video streaming service on your home or work network? This simple guide will help you set […]
Experimenting with Arch: Enabling the AUR
The Arch Linux User Repository (or AUR) is a community driven repository of packages that don’t exist in the official repositories. These provide some nice […]
Gentoo Linux review – Romancing the penguin
When you’ve been running GNU/Linux distributions for an adequate number of years, I do believe you’ll eventually find yourself walking the path to Mount Gentoo […]
KWLUG: FreeSWITCH, FusionPBX and Conference Calls (2017-08)
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of FreeSWITCH, FusionPBX and Conference Calls published on August 14th 2017. You can find […]
Linux DNS and DHCP Server
There are lots of reasons to use Linux for your networking needs both at home and at work not the least of which is the […]
Experimenting with Arch: Starting to Build the System I Want
At the conclusion of my previous post where I successfully installed the base Arch Linux system onto my laptop I was now presented with the following […]
Experimenting with Arch: The Installation
A while back I wrote about playing around with different distributions on an older laptop I had lying around. Well my time with Zorin OS […]
Do you want to write for The Linux Experiment?
Are you a Linux user? Thinking about trying your own Linux experiment? Have you ever come across something broken or annoying and figured out a […]
Fixing error with Google Chrome public key
Recently Google updated the key they use to sign Debian based Google Chrome releases and updates. Unfortunately this means that if you had it already […]
More Housekeeping at The Linux Experiment
We have a lot of posts at The Linux Experiment going back many years now. But what good are posts if you can’t find what […]
New Tutorial Center
As part of the ongoing refresh of The Linux Experiment website we wanted to make it easier to find all of those excellent tutorial posts […]
Optimizing your images
As part of the refresh we’re doing here at The Linux Experiment we wanted to see if we could optimize the image files we serve […]
New look for The Linux Experiment!
It’s been 8 years (8!!!) since the start of The Linux Experiment website and since the beginning we’ve always maintained the same theme for this […]
Let your computer continue to boot even if it can’t mount something in fstab
I have a Drobo, basically a consumer grade NAS or network file share device, that I store the majority of my media and documents on. […]
Open Document Formats: A Successful Transition?
Some Background Years ago I wrote about my interest in switching away from proprietary binary blob formats (primarily things like Microsoft .doc, .xls & .ppt […]
KWLUG: Rust (2017-07)
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of Rust published on July 10th 2017. You can find the original Kitchener Waterloo Linux […]
Off to a rocky start with Zorin OS
In my previous post I mentioned that I installed Zorin OS onto an older laptop I had lying around. Since that post went up I […]
Distro hopping around DistroWatch challenge: Zorin OS
I have an older Lenovo X60 laptop lying around that I don’t really use for anything these days and I decided that it might make […]
KWLUG: Saltstack, XMPP (2017-06)
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of Saltstack, XMPP published on June 5th 2017. You can find the original Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users […]
Using SoundConverter to convert between file formats
SoundConverter is an excellent little utility that makes it super simple to convert from one audio format to another. As an example case I had […]