My search for the best KDE Linux distribution
As some of you already know, I am a big fan of the KDE desktop environment (or KDE Workspaces or whatever they’re calling it these […]
A Practical Reference of Linux Commands
Just wanted to share a link to a great table that I found – the practical reference of linux commands is a handy little table […]
The Great Linux Browser War (Well… sort of)
Recently while browsing the Internet I noticed that Mozilla Firefox was taking up an awfully large amount of RAM. In fact it’s RAM use continued […]
Using KDE on Windows
Since the end of The Linux Experiment I have started dual booting my laptop, switching between Kubuntu 9.10 and Windows 7 as needed. While this […]
Enabling Video Thumbnail Previews in Dolphin
Just a quickie here – if you keep video of any kind on your Kubuntu 9.10 system, you may have noticed that the Dolphin file […]
Restore the default Linux Mint 8 theme and colours
After playing with the GNOME Appearance preferences on my new Mint 8 installation, I managed to completely lose the color scheme, window decorators and other […]
Eclipse in Ubuntu-based distributions missing update site list
If any of you are using a Ubuntu-based distribution (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint) and do any sort of Eclipse development, the current 3.5.1 package […]
Trying Mint – I likes what I sees.
While my initial plan for January was to stick with Windows 7 and perhaps try out Fedora 12, a bad DVD interrupted the Fedora install […]
The Linux Experiment Podcast #3: The End of the Experiment
Hosts: Dana H, Dave L, Jake B, Jon F, Sasha D & Tyler B Missing in action: Phil D Show length: 0:54:52 Description: The third […]
Pulse Audio Nonsense
Just a heads up: This isn’t the kind of post that contains answers to your problems. It is, unfortunately, the kind of post that contains […]
Kubuntu 9.10 (Part II)
A quick “solution” to my graphics and desktop effects woes
Kubuntu 9.10 (Part I)
After giving up on installing openSUSE 11.2 (the installer insisted on failing during the partition stage) I am now successfully dual booting Windows 7 and […]
Finally Synching my Blackberry on Linux
Some readers may recall all of the attempts that I’ve made in the past to synchronize my Blackberry with Mozilla’s Thunderbird email and calendar client. […]
End of the road with Gentoo – new year, new experiences
Since my admittedly outdated last post, I’ve been keeping busy in real life – most recently, I was out of the country for seven days, […]
Filling a Zune from Linux
Thinking that I was up for a challenge, I decided to spend the day figuring out how to put the music in my Banshee library […]
The end of the long road
Well it’s official, the year is now 2010 and we still don’t have flying cars. The End 2010 also marks the end of The Linux […]
Setting up an LVM for Storage
Recently, I installed Kubuntu on my PC. Under Windows, I had used RAID1 array to create a storage volume out of two extra 500GB hard […]
XBMC Camelot
In my daily RSS feeds I read about the release of the newest version of XBMC, formally the Xbox Media Center, so I decided to […]
Linux Saves the Day
Earlier this week I had an experience where using Linux got me out of trouble in a relatively quick and easy manner. The catch? It […]