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Taking Wine for a spin
Wine, or W.I.N.E. Is Not an Emulator, is a set of compatibility libraries that allow some Windows applications to run pseudo naively on Linux by […]
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Podcast Feedback
Feel like being heard? Submit your questions, comments, rants and more to feedback@thelinuxexperiment.com and we might just include you in the next podcast 😉 If […]
Tips & Tricks for Fedora (and others!)
I honestly can’t remember how I stumbled across this website but there is a lot of useful information there. Rather than go through the 14 […]
GNOME slip ups; a KDE perspective
My beefs with GNOME, from a KDE perspective
The road to GNOME
As you know we are all going to be transitioning from our current desktop environment (DEs) to something new. I did a bit of quick […]
Top 10 things I have learned since the start of this experiment
In a nod to Dave’s classic top ten segment I will now share with you the top 10 things I have learned since starting this […]
Update: I can have my cake and eat it too!
If you have been following my posts on here you’ll know that I have a very… fragile setup. I am doing everything in my power […]
Setting up some Synergy
Last night I was able to set up a neat little program that I think you should all know about! Synergy allows you to set […]
New rule added to the experiment
We took a quick vote and decided to add a new rule to this ongoing experiment. Rule #5 now states: After committing to a distribution […]
Another kernel update, another rebuild of my kernel
Seriously, this is getting annoying… And just when I thought it couldn’t get anymore annoying… it seems as though there isn’t a kmod-catalyst for the […]
We’re so popular!
Well, OK, not really. Today was the first time I actually went and took a look at the site statistics since we launched about 2 […]
How I solved my audio problems
Short answer: IRC and #fedora Long answer: As you may recall I have been without sound for quite some time now. Finally getting sick and […]
Programming on Linux
Now that school as resumed I am getting to spend a lot of time with my Linux install doing day to day productive tasks. The […]
My audio doesn’t work anymore
Yup. Not sure why. It just happened. I have tried messing around in my audio settings and still nothing. In fact the only audio device […]
Armacycles Advanced
This afternoon Phil, Jon, Sasha and myself engaged in a little Tron-esque gameplay thanks to the awesome 3D recreation known as Armacycle Advanced or sometimes […]
Day 12, my current software setup
It has been almost half a month since the experiment has begun and I think everyone is just getting to the point where they can […]
The trouble with patching your kernel to fix a problem…
If you remember a while back I was having a world of trouble trying to get my ATi drivers to play nicely with my desktop […]
Alien, OpenPGP & Wine
Now that the horrors of installation and setup are a part of the past I have been spending my time delving deep into the desktop […]
Fedora FAQ
I just wanted to quickly mention this awesome website, http://www.fedorafaq.org/. While it only covers up to Fedora 10 most of what it says is still completely accurate. It has helped me quick a bit get my system up and running, most recently allowing me to use Window’s fonts in Linux!