One week, three distributions (Day 0)
With the recent releases of Linux Mint Debian Edition, Ubuntu and Kubuntu 10.10 I am once again starting to feel that need to hop around […]
Articles by Tyler B
Do something nice for a change
Open source software (OSS) is great. It’s powerful, community focused and, lets face it, free. There is not a single day that goes by that […]
Compile Windows programs on Linux
Windows?? *GASP!* Sometimes you just have to compile Windows programs from the comfort of your Linux install. This is a relatively simple process that basically […]
Trying out the Chakra Project
After a little bit of pressure from the people responding to my previous post (My search for the best KDE Linux distribution), I have finally […]
Big distributions, little RAM 2
As a follow up to my previous post I have decided to re-run the tests, this time with the updated distributions (where available of course). […]
Very short plug for PowerTOP
Recently I decided to try out PowerTOP, a Linux power saving application built by Intel. I am extremely impressed by how easy it was to […]
The Linux Experiment Podcast #4.1: We are Linux Mint Fanboys
Hosts: Dana H, Dave L, Jake B, Jon F, & Tyler B Missing in action: Phil D, Sasha D Show length: 0:54:52 Description: The fourth […]
Fixing gnustep-devel in Ubuntu 10.04
When Ubuntu 10.04 was released it represented the most modern incarnation of Canonical’s premier Linux desktop distribution. However not all things were better in this […]
Fix ATI vsync & video tearing issue once and for all!
NOTE: ATI’s most recent drivers now include a no tearing option in the driver control panel. Enabling it there is now the preferred method. Two […]
Vorbis is not Theora
Recently I have started to mess around with the Vorbis audio codec, commonly found within the Ogg media container. Unlike Theora, which I had also […]
Big distributions, little RAM
As you know I am currently running OpenSUSE 11.2 on my laptop. While I have enjoyed my time using it, I have noticed that this […]
My search for the best KDE Linux distribution
As some of you already know, I am a big fan of the KDE desktop environment (or KDE Workspaces or whatever they’re calling it these […]
The Great Linux Browser War (Well… sort of)
Recently while browsing the Internet I noticed that Mozilla Firefox was taking up an awfully large amount of RAM. In fact it’s RAM use continued […]
Using KDE on Windows
Since the end of The Linux Experiment I have started dual booting my laptop, switching between Kubuntu 9.10 and Windows 7 as needed. While this […]
The Linux Experiment Podcast #3: The End of the Experiment
Hosts: Dana H, Dave L, Jake B, Jon F, Sasha D & Tyler B Missing in action: Phil D Show length: 0:54:52 Description: The third […]
Kubuntu 9.10 (Part II)
A quick “solution” to my graphics and desktop effects woes
Kubuntu 9.10 (Part I)
After giving up on installing openSUSE 11.2 (the installer insisted on failing during the partition stage) I am now successfully dual booting Windows 7 and […]
The end of the long road
Well it’s official, the year is now 2010 and we still don’t have flying cars. The End 2010 also marks the end of The Linux […]
XBMC Camelot
In my daily RSS feeds I read about the release of the newest version of XBMC, formally the Xbox Media Center, so I decided to […]
Over one month later and I STILL cannot install Fedora 12
Thanks to incompatibilities with ATI’s catalyst drivers and the newest version of Xorg used in Fedora I am still unable to install Fedora 12 on […]