Something about Gentoo
Gentoo makes Perl upgrades easy
Perl upgrades on Gentoo Linux have been laborious for me in the past, but with Perl 5.24 that was no longer the case. I’ve previously […]
Gentoo
Gentoo Linux review – Romancing the penguin
When you’ve been running GNU/Linux distributions for an adequate number of years, I do believe you’ll eventually find yourself walking the path to Mount Gentoo […]
Wireless Networking: Using a Cisco/Linksys WUSB54GC on Gentoo
We live in an old house, which has the unfortunate side-effect of lacking a wired network of any kind. All of our machines connect to […]
Can you install Gnome3 on Gentoo?
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 […]
Dropbox Meets Gentoo
So I’m a big Dropbox user. I primarily use it to keep my personal info synchronized between my machines (don’t worry, I encrypt my stuff […]
How to update your (whole) Gentoo system
I wrote a simple script that you can download here that makes it easy to update your Gentoo system. It first re-syncs your portage tree […]
Closed source AMD/ATI drivers, wireless networking and Flash in Gentoo
Graphics Drivers Continuing where I left off in my previous posts I now had a somewhat working desktop but a few things still had to […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
End of the road with Gentoo – new year, new experiences
Since my admittedly outdated last post, I’ve been keeping busy in real life – most recently, I was out of the country for seven days, […]
Back to relative stability with Funtoo
In my last post, I’d mentioned that I planned on reinstalling Gentoo to fix several dependency issues that had made upgrading packages an impossibility. I […]
Once again, portage perplexes and enrages me
I haven’t needed to reinstall my system nearly as many times as Jon or Tyler, which is a good thing – Linux is supposed to […]
Distribution Upgrades
As with the release of Karmic Koala, the majority of the other distributions we here at The Linux Experiment have decided to run will also […]
Quick fix: Compiz on Gentoo, resolving text corruption in terminal
This will be a brief reference post mostly for my own benefit, but a good fix for an issue where Compiz shows black boxes or […]
KDE on Gentoo: slightly less inflammatory but still difficult
After the shitstorm that was Dana’s post about KDE, I figured I’d go into more details about how my day to day use is going. […]
Portage drops the canoe, crushing my Gentoo installation
In the process of migrating to KDE as my desktop environment (selected as I have no experience with the newest versions, and I want an […]