Tutorial – The Linux Experiment

Media Server

August 21, 2017 Luke R 0

Have you ever wanted to set up your own video streaming service on your home or work network? This simple guide will help you set […]

Experimenting with Arch: Enabling the AUR

August 20, 2017 Tyler B 0

The Arch Linux User Repository (or AUR) is a community driven repository of packages that don’t exist in the official repositories. These provide some nice […]

Linux DNS and DHCP Server

August 14, 2017 Luke R 0

There are lots of reasons to use Linux for your networking needs both at home and at work not the least of which is the […]

Experimenting with Arch: Starting to Build the System I Want

August 13, 2017 Tyler B 0

At the conclusion of my previous post where I successfully installed the base Arch Linux system onto my laptop I was now presented with the following […]

Experimenting with Arch: The Installation

August 12, 2017 Tyler B 2

A while back I wrote about playing around with different distributions on an older laptop I had lying around. Well my time with Zorin OS […]

Fixing error with Google Chrome public key

August 7, 2017 Tyler B 0

Recently Google updated the key they use to sign Debian based Google Chrome releases and updates. Unfortunately this means that if you had it already […]

Optimizing your images

July 29, 2017 Tyler B 0

As part of the refresh we’re doing here at The Linux Experiment we wanted to see if we could optimize the image files we serve […]

Let your computer continue to boot even if it can’t mount something in fstab

July 23, 2017 Tyler B 2

I have a Drobo, basically a consumer grade NAS or network file share device, that I store the majority of my media and documents on. […]

Using SoundConverter to convert between file formats

May 15, 2017 Tyler B 0

SoundConverter is an excellent little utility that makes it super simple to convert from one audio format to another. As an example case I had […]

Blast from the Past: Create a GTK+ application on Linux with Objective-C

March 15, 2017 Tyler B 0

This post was originally published on December 8, 2010. The original can be found here. Note that while you can still write GTK+ applications on Linux […]

Blast from the Past: How to migrate from TrueCrypt to LUKS file containers

March 13, 2017 Tyler B 1

This post was originally published on June 15, 2014. The original can be found here. Note that there are other direct, compatible, alternatives and proper […]

Using a swap file instead of a swap partition in linux

March 11, 2017 Tyler B 4

Historically linux distributions have created a dedicated partition to be used as swap space and while this does come with some advantages there are other […]

Blast from the Past: VOIP with Linode, Ubuntu, Asterisk and FreePBX

March 1, 2017 Jake B 0

This post was originally published on October 29, 2010. The original can be found here. Overview and Introduction I’ve been dabbling with managing a VOIP server […]

Blast from the Past: Compile Windows programs on Linux

February 26, 2017 Tyler B 0

This post was originally published on September 26, 2010. The original can be found here. Windows?? *GASP!* Sometimes you just have to compile Windows programs from […]