Something to do with open source software
Twelve to twelve
Well, it’s official – twelve more days remain until the November 17 release of Fedora 12 (Constantine). I, for one, can hardly wait – Fedora […]
Open Source Software
Making glut.h work in Fedora 11
As part of a computer graphics course I am taking at university I need to be able to develop C/C++ applications using openGL and the […]
Back at Square 1
This morning I reinstalled my Debian system. I began by downloading an ISO for the current Debian Stable build (called Lenny), and installing it with […]
Reinstalling Linux
Generally, after using a Windows machine for close to a year, it gets bogged down and slow and benefits greatly from a reinstall. After about […]
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 […]
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 […]
Learning to live with XFCE
There’s no doubt that when I initially switched from GNOME to XFCE, I was pretty angry. But hey, you can’t stay mad forever – In […]
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. […]
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 […]
OH GOD WHAT THE HELL LINUX!!!11
Well, again, it’s been a little while since my last post. I hope you all enjoyed the podcast that we put out the week before […]
Getting KDE on openSUSE is like playing Jenga
As part of our experiment, everyone is required to try a different desktop manager for two weeks. I chose KDE, since I’ve been using GNOME […]
GNOME slip ups; a KDE perspective
My beefs with GNOME, from a KDE perspective
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 […]
GUI Failure
Now that I’m running the Testing repositories, I actually get regular updates. Today, there were 15 available for my system. However, when I started the […]
XFCE: A Bitch Session
After a full day of using XFCE as my new desktop environment, I have just a few complaints, handily summarized in the following ordered list: […]
Testing out Testing
With everybody switching up their desktop environments this week, I decided that I’d take a shot at installing XFCE on my system. My initial research […]
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 […]
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 […]
Climate Change
Here at The Linux Experiment we are all about shaking things up. After all, we have committed to using Linux for four whole months just […]