Going Linux, Once and for All
With the linux experiment coming to an end, and my Vista PC requiring a reinstall, I decided to take the leap and go all linux […]
Over one month later and I STILL cannot install Fedora 12
Thanks to incompatibilities with ATI’s catalyst drivers and the newest version of Xorg used in Fedora I am still unable to install Fedora 12 on […]
Linux: 12 Weeks of School Later
Finished Exams Rather than just copy Sasha’s previous post, I will do my best to try and tell the story through the eyes of a […]
Debian Device Driver Check
Just wanted to bring this website that I found today to everybody’s attention. It’s an online tool that checks if your hardware is supported by […]
Wait, that can’t be right
I found an interesting bug in Mint today. It happened after I changed my monitor setup without restarting X. It looks like my panel froze […]
Linux Mint Helena: C’est fantastique!
Last night I upgraded to Linux Mint 8 (Helena), x64 edition. Based on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), Helena has so far proven to be absolutely […]
How is it doing that?
Just about everything that I’ve ever read about media playback on Linux has been negative. As I understand the situation, the general consensus of the […]
Phoenix Rising
As we prepare to bring The Linux Experiment to a close over the coming weeks, I find that this has been a time of (mostly […]
A Tale of Two Fonts
I set my system font to Dingbat, which worked perfectly in every application except for Open Office. The strange part is that the font worked […]
This… looks… awesome!
Looks being the key word there because I haven’t actually been able to successfully run either of these seemingly awesome pieces of software. Amahi is […]
Coming to Grips with Reality
The following is a cautionary tale about putting more trust in the software installed on your system than in your own knowledge. Recently, while preparing […]
Successfully completing a school semester with Linux
For those of you who have read my profile, you know that I’m finishing up my math degree. More specifically, I’ve just finished lectures for […]
Why Linux is great for web development
Linux is great for web development, but not necessarily for the obvious reasons. The reason I find developing websites and server programs much better on […]
A lengthy, detailed meta-analysis of studies of GNOME Do
GNOME Do is a fantastic little program that makes Linux Mint a very comfortable experience. At first glance, GNOME Do just looks like a collection […]
Today, the search engines…
I would just like to point out that thanks to you the readers, who I’d like to reinforce are fantastic and have been a huge […]
Back to relative stability with Funtoo
In my last post, I’d mentioned that I planned on reinstalling Gentoo to fix several dependency issues that had made upgrading packages an impossibility. I […]
Eclipse… Again
Man I’m beginning to sound like a broken record. Last night I reinstalled my Debian system. Somewhere along the line, I made a mess with […]
Fedora 12: Drenched in glory
Let me start off by saying that my experience thus far (over the last 24 hours) with Fedora 12 – Constantine has been the complete […]
Unstable & Not Ready – Uninstalling Fedora 12 24-Hours Later
Well it has been 24 hours since I first installed Fedora 12 and I am ready to uninstall it. Even after trying to enable 3D […]