Why Linux is great for web development
Linux is great for web development, but not necessarily for the obvious reasons. The reason I find developing websites and server programs much better on […]
Month: November 2009
A lengthy, detailed meta-analysis of studies of GNOME Do
GNOME Do is a fantastic little program that makes Linux Mint a very comfortable experience. At first glance, GNOME Do just looks like a collection […]
Today, the search engines…
I would just like to point out that thanks to you the readers, who I’d like to reinforce are fantastic and have been a huge […]
Back to relative stability with Funtoo
In my last post, I’d mentioned that I planned on reinstalling Gentoo to fix several dependency issues that had made upgrading packages an impossibility. I […]
Eclipse… Again
Man I’m beginning to sound like a broken record. Last night I reinstalled my Debian system. Somewhere along the line, I made a mess with […]
Fedora 12: Drenched in glory
Let me start off by saying that my experience thus far (over the last 24 hours) with Fedora 12 – Constantine has been the complete […]
Unstable & Not Ready – Uninstalling Fedora 12 24-Hours Later
Well it has been 24 hours since I first installed Fedora 12 and I am ready to uninstall it. Even after trying to enable 3D […]
Fedora 12 Graphics [Update]
I stumbled upon this news thread which mentioned open source ATI driver support through the use of the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package. Promptly installing this yum install […]
Installing Fedora 12
With the recent release of Fedora 12 it is high time that I upgrade from my existing Fedora 11 install to the new wonders that […]
Configuring BlueZync and Failing at Barry
After successfully compiling and installing the BlueZync for Thunderbird plugin last night, I decided to take a shot at actually synchronizing my Blackberry with Thunderbird. […]
Going Linux podcast
Just wanted to take a quick moment to thank the gentlemen over at Going Linux for mentioning us on their most recent podcast. They certainly […]
Twelve to twelve
Well, it’s official – twelve more days remain until the November 17 release of Fedora 12 (Constantine). I, for one, can hardly wait – Fedora […]
(Finally) Installing Bluezync for Thunderbird
After some constructive comments from Henrik, the developer of the BlueZync plugin for Thunderbird, I decided to take another shot at getting Blackberry sync working […]
Once again, portage perplexes and enrages me
I haven’t needed to reinstall my system nearly as many times as Jon or Tyler, which is a good thing – Linux is supposed to […]
Making glut.h work in Fedora 11
As part of a computer graphics course I am taking at university I need to be able to develop C/C++ applications using openGL and the […]
Back at Square 1
This morning I reinstalled my Debian system. I began by downloading an ISO for the current Debian Stable build (called Lenny), and installing it with […]
Reinstalling Linux
Generally, after using a Windows machine for close to a year, it gets bogged down and slow and benefits greatly from a reinstall. After about […]
Resizing batches of images in Nautilus
If you’re like me, which you either are or are aspiring to be, then you hate having to manually resize dozens of images. Ubuntu, and […]
Distribution Upgrades
As with the release of Karmic Koala, the majority of the other distributions we here at The Linux Experiment have decided to run will also […]