Something posted by our Guinea pigs
Great Success!
Just a quick note tonight – I finally managed to get a bootable Gentoo system installed! After my last post, things were looking pretty grim. […]
Guinea Pigs
Bye Bye Bodhi
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 […]
Kernel Panic!
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 […]
Linux from Scratch: A Cautionary Tale, Part 2
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 […]
Linux From Scratch : The Beginning…
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 […]
Linux from Scratch: A Cautionary Tale, Part 1
And I’m started with Linux from Scratch! Here are some helpful pointers for anyone considering running LFS on their own. Caution: this is highly nerdy […]
How to enable reboot/shutdown in KDE on Gentoo
Yeah… apparently the ability to restart or shutdown your system using a normal user account from within KDE SC is not something that is installed […]
Gentoo (A.K.A. “Compiling!”)
For this version of the experiment I have chosen to try my hand at installing Gentoo. Gentoo, for those who don’t know, or who weren’t […]
Experiment 2.0
As Jake pointed out in the previous post we have once again decided to run The Linux Experiment. This iteration will once again following the […]
Preparing for a new experiment
We’re currently in discussions to begin a new Linux Experiment for 2011. Stay tuned to the website as we should have new posts, a new […]
Ubuntu 11.10’s WiFi crashes my router
No seriously, it does. Whenever it makes a connection to the router it causes it to enter some bad state wherein it refuses to allow […]
How to install sun-java6-jdk and Netbeans in Ubuntu 11.10
If you’ve recently upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 and are a developer you may notice some things missing. For one there is no longer an option […]
Richard M. Stallman: Troll
If you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you may not be aware that Steve Jobs, co-founder and legendary CEO of Apple […]
Fix for mount error(12): Cannot allocate memory
Do you have the following situation: You’ve got a share on Windows (XP, Vista, 7) that you’re trying to access from a Linux system, in […]
On Veetle, Linux Mint, and ICEauthority
Like most people, I use my computer for multimedia. Recently I’ve discovered a multi-platform program called Veetle. It’s a pretty good program, but I ran […]
Ubuntu 11.04 Installer Fail
So I decided to take a go at Ubuntu 11.04 in a virtual machine before taking the leap and installing it for real. As I […]
Big distributions, little RAM 3
Once again I’ve decided to re-run my previous tests this time using the following distributions: Debian 6.0.2 (GNOME) Fedora 15 (GNOME 3 Fallback Mode) Fedora […]
Linux Multimedia Studio on Ubuntu 10.04
Recently, Tyler linked me to Linux Multimedia Studio, a Fruityloops-type application for Linux. Since I’m big into music recording and production, he figured that I’d […]
Fix PulseAudio loopback delay
Sort of a follow up (in spirit) to two of Jon’s previous posts regarding pulse audio loopback; I noticed that there was quite a bit […]
Two monitors. Different resolutions. One desktop.
If you’ve ever tried to set up two monitors on Linux you’ll know that its a relatively painless process. The only issue that I’ve found […]