Something to do with Linux
The Fedora Megapost
Tyler B tries to install Fedora, get his ATi graphics card to work correctly, patches the kernel, enables Synaptics touchpad tap-click support and finally has everything working!
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Graphical Woes and a Bricked System
Today’s big task was to get rid of the Windows 3.1 look of the default GNOME theme by installing the Compiz Fusion window manager. First, […]
Sitrep – Fedora: 1. Dana’s patience: 0.
As you might be able to tell from the title of this post, I feel like I’m fighting an uphill battle here. Through hummus. In […]
Disabling the PC Speaker Beep
If you’re like me, you’re still working on your certification as a Linux God. Until graduation day comes around, and you throw your penguin-festooned mortar […]
The Need for a Password Manager
On my Windows machine, I use a free program called KeePass to manage all of my passwords. It creates an encrypted file that contains all […]
Getting Up and Running with Debian
Considering that it was my first experience with Linux, the installation of Debian actually went rather smoothly. I popped in the Debian live disc, rebooted […]
Fedora HOOOOOOOO!
Hi, everyone! Dana here posting from a successful installation of Fedora 11. I’m a little disappointed that I didn’t get the option to install KDE […]
From rage to less rage
Today was installation day – that is, get my Gentoo system up and running to begin its full-time use. I have several pictures of the […]
Calm before the storm
Less than two days before the experiment starts, and I’m getting things ready ahead of time – my schedule this week is packed with fixing […]
Hello, World!
Hi Everyone, This is my very first post for The Linux Experiment. The time is ticking before the experiment begins, so I guess it is […]
Of filesystems and partitions
For a Windows or Mac user the filesystem is something they will probably never think about in their daily computing adventures. That is mostly because there really isn’t a choice in the matter. As a Windows user the only time I actually have to worry about the filesystem is when I’m formatting a USB drive. For my hard drives the choices are NTFS, NTFS, and.. oh yeah NTFS. My earliest recollection of what a filesystem is happened when my Windows 98 machine had crashed and I had to wait while the machine forced a filesystem check on the next start up. More recently FAT32 has gotten in my way with it’s 4GB file size limitation.
Back and ready for action
I’m back from an intensely relaxing and awesome holiday in our nation’s capital, Ottawa. I’d forgotten how close it was in proximity to Quebec – […]
Coming close
The experiment is set to begin in less than 10 days and now is the time to settle on all of those little decisions that still need to be made.
I hereby welcome myself
Hi everybody! I’m Sasha, and I’ve joined the project experiment. I will be running some Linux distribution, essentially chosen without any forethought or regard for […]
KDE 4.3 vs. Gnome 2.26: Slap fight!
Ding! Let the fight begin. In one corner, we have the only desktop environment I’ve used in Linux – Gnome 2.26, the standard for Ubuntu […]
The Distributions of Debian
Like many of the other varieties of Linux, Debian gives the end user a number of different installation choices. In addition to the choice of […]
Which download to pick?
Without getting into a GNOME vs KDE debate which of these do you think I should get? I’m leaning toward the DVD because as I see it the Live CD is worthless – I’m going to be installing it one way or another. Then again I’m going to have an internet connection during install, is downloading the extra 3.5GB of DVD really worth it when compared to the CD based ones?
The Showdown: Fedora 11 vs Mandriva 2009.1
The Final Contenders
Well here we are. After a couple of weeks of research I have finally narrowed down my choice to either Fedora 11 or Mandriva 2009.1 to use during the course of this experiment. The two distros are both very mature and feature rich which makes this choice extraordinarily difficult. To help alleviate some of this I have decided to square them off head to head in a series of different areas. So without further ado let’s start this.
Another one bites the dust
Mandriva vs Linux Mint: who will win?
The Shorter List
Debian, you are dead to me
Why its just not making the cut: As I am somewhat familiar with Ubuntu and have read about its relation to Debian, I feel as though Debian is just simply not that different.