Something to do with Linux
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 […]
Linux
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 […]
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 […]
Create a GStreamer powered Java media player
For something to do I decided to see if I could create a very simple Java media player. After doing some research, and finding out […]
How to Compile Banshee 1.9.0 on Ubuntu 10.04
Regular readers of this site will know that I’m no fan of Rhythmbox. When I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 on my desktop PC, I decided […]
Create a GTK+ application on Linux with Objective-C
As sort of follow-up-in-spirit to my older post I decided to share a really straight forward way to use Objective-C to build GTK+ applications. Objective-what? […]
Django Development on Ubuntu 10.04
When I’m not rocking out my ninja-like linux skillz here at The Linux Experiment, I like to spend my spare time working on SlightlySauced, a […]
Setting up an Ubuntu-based ASP.NET Server with Mono
Introduction: In my day job, I work as an infrastructure developer for a small company. While I wouldn’t call us a Microsoft shop by any […]
Samsung Captivate SGH-i896 Meets Linux
Yesterday, I picked up the newly launched (in Canada) Samsung Captivate. So far, I’m extremely impressed with the device. The super amoled display is gorgeous, […]
VOIP with Linode, Ubuntu, Asterisk and FreePBX
Overview and Introduction I’ve been dabbling with managing a VOIP server for the past year or so, using CentOS, Asterisk and FreePBX on a co-located […]
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 […]
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 4: Ubuntu 10.10)
Continuing where we left off I am now ready to report my first impressions of Ubuntu 10.10. I should start by apologizing a little bit, […]
One week, three distributions (Day 2: Kubuntu 10.10)
As noted in my previous post I have decided to try out a mini experiment wherein I test out three recently released distributions (Kubuntu 10.10, […]
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 […]