Top 5 posts of 2017 – #5: How to play Red Alert 2 on Linux
The fifth most visited post of 2017 on The Linux Experiment was How to play Red Alert 2 on Linux. View it here!
Raspberry down and out for the count
My Raspberry Pi based hosting came to an abrupt end earlier this week as the RPi3 suddenly became unresponsive. Powering off and on the device […]
RPM package queries
This post is just a quick walk-through of some basic commands to help you find information about rpm packages. These commands will work for any […]
Opera – Can’t open user profile directory
I got the following ominous sounding message as I was about to fire up my Opera browser at the office today: I don’t believe I’ve […]
OpenSUSE patch vs update
If you dig into the man pages for zypper, you will notice that zypper provides three distinct options for keeping your OpenSUSE system up-to-date; update […]
How to install Gnome Web (Epiphany) on Red Hat Linux
Accessing internal services on paranoidpenguin.net using self-signed certificates does no longer work in my preferred browser due to HSTS preloading. Instead of actually fixing the issue […]
Satellite 6 Duplicate Host Names with Puppet
Satellite 6, Red Hat’s patch, configuration, and deployment management one stop shop solution is a powerful tool. It is also a formidable and complicated piece […]
KWLUG: Curv, Mattermost (2017-12)
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of Astronomy published on October 2nd 2017. You can find the original Kitchener Waterloo […]
Downtime due to Apache AH00060
To start the weekend off with a bang my Apache webserver failed to revive after the log rotation service had issued a restart. I’m hosting […]
Linux Security
Linux is not a bulletproof operating system, no doubt flaws, vulnerabilities, and exploits exist at this very moment that are unidentified and unpatched. It’s also very […]
Thank you to all of the contributors this year!
As you may know we here at The Linux Experiment want to move things toward more of a community driven experience, where anyone can contribute […]
Working with Linux Files – Access Control Lists
In the last post, we looked at basic file permissions. The ideas covered in that post are probably enough to get you through a large portion […]
Figure out what’s using your bandwidth with NetHogs
Have you ever wondered what applications were using all of your system bandwidth? Well now you can easily tell with a handy command line application […]
Working with files in Linux – File Attributes
In the previous two posts, we’ve looked at file permissions and access control lists. Today let’s take look at file attributes. Whereas, permissions and ACL’s deal with user […]
Working with files in Linux – Permissions
Over the next few posts I’ll be covering three basic elements of files in Linux: Permissions ACL’s (Access Control Lists) File Attributes The ls command […]
Search and replace with Vim and Sed
Using search and replace is a great way to save time when editing large files in Linx. Becoming proficient with this task will increase your […]
Command not found!
So you’re running through some instructions to configure software on your system, or troubleshoot some problem with a service and you see an error at […]
Uncomplicated Firewall… be careful
If like me, you enjoy the simplicity of UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall) on your Ubuntu servers be careful when you turn it on. UFW doesn’t have […]
KWLUG: Large-scale Open Source Storage and Filesharing (2017-11)
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of Astronomy published on October 2nd 2017. You can find the original Kitchener Waterloo […]
Distro Comparison – Looking for the Easiest (2017 Dell XPS 13)
TL;DR: I chose Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS for my new Dell XPS 13, because it was the easiest to set up for my requirements. Results DISTRO […]