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One week, three distributions (Day 7: Conclusions)
Well it’s been an interesting week. I’ve gotten to try out three new distributions and share my thoughts with everyone here. My original goal was […]
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One week, three distributions (Day 6: Linux Mint Debian Edition)
To round out the week I installed the newly released Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE). Like the other posts I have made I will walk […]
One week, three distributions (Day 0)
With the recent releases of Linux Mint Debian Edition, Ubuntu and Kubuntu 10.10 I am once again starting to feel that need to hop around […]
10 reasons why Mint might not fail in India
Last evening while reading the SA forums, I encountered a thread about Linux and what was required to bring it to the general public. One […]
eeePC: TrackPad Mouse Clicking in Linux Mint 9
One of the most enraging things I’ve experienced with my Asus eeePC is that the TrackPad can be used to make a left mouse click […]
Setting up a RocketRaid 2320 controller on Linux Mint 9
After the most recently recorded podcast, I decided to take a stab at running Linux on my primary media server. The machine sports a Highpoint […]
Adobe + Linux == Balls
This week, I replaced my increasingly infuriating Kubuntu installation with a fresh install of the beautiful Linux Mint 9 Isadora. Just like the project motto […]
Restore the default Linux Mint 8 theme and colours
After playing with the GNOME Appearance preferences on my new Mint 8 installation, I managed to completely lose the color scheme, window decorators and other […]
Eclipse in Ubuntu-based distributions missing update site list
If any of you are using a Ubuntu-based distribution (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint) and do any sort of Eclipse development, the current 3.5.1 package […]
Trying Mint – I likes what I sees.
While my initial plan for January was to stick with Windows 7 and perhaps try out Fedora 12, a bad DVD interrupted the Fedora install […]
Linux Mint Helena: C’est fantastique!
Last night I upgraded to Linux Mint 8 (Helena), x64 edition. Based on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), Helena has so far proven to be absolutely […]
Successfully completing a school semester with Linux
For those of you who have read my profile, you know that I’m finishing up my math degree. More specifically, I’ve just finished lectures for […]
A lengthy, detailed meta-analysis of studies of GNOME Do
GNOME Do is a fantastic little program that makes Linux Mint a very comfortable experience. At first glance, GNOME Do just looks like a collection […]
Resizing batches of images in Nautilus
If you’re like me, which you either are or are aspiring to be, then you hate having to manually resize dozens of images. Ubuntu, and […]
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 […]
Flash problems in Firefox
I mentioned in the podcast that I was having problems viewing Flash stuff in Firefox and I blamed it on KDE. I may have jumped […]
KDE is a terrible tease and the reason we can’t have nice things
Last night I installed KDE and I was absolutely thrilled. For starters, it has built in widgets, which I absolutely love (when they work, that […]
Well shit, that was easy
One of my big griefs with Mint was that the sound was far too quiet. I assumed this was some sort of hardware compatibility issue. […]
Suriving September with The Linux
It’s been about a month now and my computer hasn’t melted down, so this is a good sign. Additionally, I haven’t been forced to drop […]
The Linux and its ability to brick itself.
Over the weekend, I started a stats assignment that required me to use R. R runs in the terminal, but when you create plots, it […]