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 […]
Articles by Tyler B
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 […]
KWLUG: Functional Programming and Haskell (2017-05)
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of Functional Programming and Haskell published on May 1st 2017. You can […]
KWLUG: OSSIM, A Brief History of Linux and Open Source (2017-04)
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of OSSIM, A Brief History of Linux and Open Source published […]
Alternative software: QupZilla Browser
I’m back at it, looking for the latest open source alternative software gem. This time around I’m trying out the QupZilla web browser. Never heard […]
Blast from the Past: Create a GTK+ application on Linux with Objective-C
This post was originally published on December 8, 2010. The original can be found here. Note that while you can still write GTK+ applications on Linux […]
Blast from the Past: How to migrate from TrueCrypt to LUKS file containers
This post was originally published on June 15, 2014. The original can be found here. Note that there are other direct, compatible, alternatives and proper […]
Using a swap file instead of a swap partition in linux
Historically linux distributions have created a dedicated partition to be used as swap space and while this does come with some advantages there are other […]
KWLUG: Roundtable (2017-03)
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of Roundtable published on March 6th 2017. You can find the original […]
Blast from the Past: Do something nice for a change
This post was originally published on October 6, 2010. The original can be found here. Open source software (OSS) is great. It’s powerful, community focused and, […]
Blast from the Past: Compile Windows programs on Linux
This post was originally published on September 26, 2010. The original can be found here. Windows?? *GASP!* Sometimes you just have to compile Windows programs from […]
Blast from the Past: Very short plug for PowerTOP
This post was originally published on July 4, 2010. The original can be found here. Recently I decided to try out PowerTOP, a Linux power […]