Setting Up Nextcloud as a Dropbox Replacement on a Dynamic IP Addressed Linux Home Server with a Valid SSL Certificate
Like most of you I have a free Dropbox account that I use to shuffle some files back and forth between devices, as well as […]
Debian
Find services that require a restart
Ubuntu offers a live patching utility that allows kernel patches to be installed without requiring a system restart to be applied. Read more about online […]
Blast from the Past: The Distributions of Debian
This post was originally published on August 21, 2009. The original can be found here. Like many of the other varieties of Linux, Debian gives […]
Blast from the Past: Going Linux, Once and for All
This post was originally published on December 23, 2009. The original can be found here. With the linux experiment coming to an end, and my […]
Blast from the Past: Coming to Grips with Reality
This post was originally published on December 8, 2009. The original can be found here. The following is a cautionary tale about putting more trust […]
Blast from the Past: How is it doing that?
This post was originally published on December 15, 2009. The original can be found here. Just about everything that I’ve ever read about media playback […]
Big distributions, little RAM 9
It’s been a while but once again here is the latest instalment of the series of posts where I install the major, full desktop, distributions […]
Big distributions, little RAM 8
It’s been a while but once again here is the latest instalment of the series of posts where I install the major, full desktop, distributions […]
Big distributions, little RAM 7
It’s been a while but once again here is the latest instalment of the series of posts where I install the major, full desktop, distributions […]
A tale of a gillion installs
Install number one: LMDE 201303. Â I was hoping for the best of both worlds, but I got driver issues instead. Â LMDE has known ATI proprietary […]
So many flavours – with bonus privacy rant!
It’s interesting reading the old Linux Experiment first posts when people were contemplating which distro to install.  It’s been 4.5 years since then and the […]
Limit Bandwitdth Used by apt-get
It’s easy. Simply throw “-o Acquire::http::Dl-Limit=X” in your apt-get command where X is the kb/s you wish to limit it to. So for example let’s […]
Big distributions, little RAM 4
It’s that time again. Like before I’ve decided to re-run my previous tests this time using the following distributions: Debian 6.0 (GNOME) Kubuntu 11.10 (KDE) […]
Big distributions, little RAM 3
Once again I’ve decided to re-run my previous tests this time using the following distributions: Debian 6.0.2 (GNOME) Fedora 15 (GNOME 3 Fallback Mode) Fedora […]
One week, three distributions (Day 7: Conclusions)
Well it’s been an interesting week. I’ve gotten to try out three new distributions and share my thoughts with everyone here. My original goal was […]
One week, three distributions (Day 6: Linux Mint Debian Edition)
To round out the week I installed the newly released Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE). Like the other posts I have made I will walk […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]