You’ll know when to use it.

Listen up, Kubuntu: the enraging tale of sound over HDMI
Full disclosure: I live with Kayla, and had to jump in to help resolve an enraging problem we ran into on the Kubuntu installation with […]
You’ll know when to use it.
Full disclosure: I live with Kayla, and had to jump in to help resolve an enraging problem we ran into on the Kubuntu installation with […]
With the third edition of The Linux Experiment already underway, I decided to get my new laptop set up with an Ubuntu partition to work […]
Greetings everyone! It has been quite some time since my last post. As you’ll be able to read from my profile (and signature,) I have […]
My laptop’s graphics card has never had the best support on linux and has now approached the point in its life where even ATI has […]
I’ve had a few nasty experiences this week with Linux and figured I’d vent here. Unlike my previous efforts with Linux From Scratch and Gentoo, […]
The laptop that I’m writing this post from has a really annoying strip of touch-response buttons above the keyboard that control things like volume and […]
As you may be able to tell from my recent, snooze-worthy technical posts about compilers and makefiles and other assorted garbage, my experience with Linux […]
If you run into the following error trying to build LFS from a Ubuntu installation: make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build/Versions.all’, needed by […]
So my base Gentoo installation came with Gnome 2.3, which while solid, lacks a lot of the prettiness of Gnome’s latest 3.2 release. I thought […]
I’ve decided to try and upgrade my LFS system to the latest version of KDE (4.7.3 as of the time of this writing) and correspondingly […]
I’ve now been actively using my (Beyond) Linux from Scratch installation for about a week now, and it’s actually pretty neat to have something working […]
Using the instructions from the BLFS book with the latest available 3.6 build of Firefox, I was able to achieve success. I figured I’d try […]
So I wanted to install XMMS in Linux From Scratch, as it’s one of the more reliable MP3 players and one of the first multimedia […]
kdebindings Are you running into the following problem when compiling kdebindings? Well, you’re probably not, because you picked a saner distribution than LFS, but here […]
Fixing libmng with -fPIC In preparation for getting KDE4 (and Qt4, and all the other dependencies) working with my Linux from Scratch install, I noticed […]
If you’re going through the Beyond Linux From Scratch guide, and run into this error while compiling qca-2.0.3 (and I assume many other versions of […]
Ah Linux One website lists ten reasons to use linux my favourites of which are “Linux is easier to use than Windows” and “Linux is […]
So like Tyler, I’ve decided to run Gentoo. Hey, it seemed like a good idea at the time. My experience thus far can be summed […]
What Next? Chroot Once you get into the chroot environment, you will get the incredibly annoying PC speaker beep every time you foul up a […]
Hi Everyone, If you don’t remember me, I’m Dave. Last time for the experiment I used SuSE, which I regretted. This time I decided to […]