Gentoo makes Perl upgrades easy
Perl upgrades on Gentoo Linux have been laborious for me in the past, but with Perl 5.24 that was no longer the case. I’ve previously […]
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Gentoo Linux review – Romancing the penguin
When you’ve been running GNU/Linux distributions for an adequate number of years, I do believe you’ll eventually find yourself walking the path to Mount Gentoo […]
Sabayon Linux – Stable if not without polish
I have been running Sabayon Linux (Xfce) for the past couple of months and figured I would throw a post up on here describing my […]
Wireless Networking: Using a Cisco/Linksys WUSB54GC on Gentoo
We live in an old house, which has the unfortunate side-effect of lacking a wired network of any kind. All of our machines connect to […]
Can you install Gnome3 on Gentoo?
So my base Gentoo installation came with Gnome 2.3, which while solid, lacks a lot of the prettiness of Gnome’s latest 3.2 release. I thought […]
Dropbox Meets Gentoo
So I’m a big Dropbox user. I primarily use it to keep my personal info synchronized between my machines (don’t worry, I encrypt my stuff […]
How to update your (whole) Gentoo system
I wrote a simple script that you can download here that makes it easy to update your Gentoo system. It first re-syncs your portage tree […]
Closed source AMD/ATI drivers, wireless networking and Flash in Gentoo
Graphics Drivers Continuing where I left off in my previous posts I now had a somewhat working desktop but a few things still had to […]
Great Success!
Just a quick note tonight – I finally managed to get a bootable Gentoo system installed! After my last post, things were looking pretty grim. […]
Kernel Panic!
So like Tyler, I’ve decided to run Gentoo. Hey, it seemed like a good idea at the time. My experience thus far can be summed […]
How to enable reboot/shutdown in KDE on Gentoo
Yeah… apparently the ability to restart or shutdown your system using a normal user account from within KDE SC is not something that is installed […]
Gentoo (A.K.A. “Compiling!”)
For this version of the experiment I have chosen to try my hand at installing Gentoo. Gentoo, for those who don’t know, or who weren’t […]
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Since my admittedly outdated last post, I’ve been keeping busy in real life – most recently, I was out of the country for seven days, […]
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 […]
Once again, portage perplexes and enrages me
I haven’t needed to reinstall my system nearly as many times as Jon or Tyler, which is a good thing – Linux is supposed to […]
Distribution Upgrades
As with the release of Karmic Koala, the majority of the other distributions we here at The Linux Experiment have decided to run will also […]
KDE on Gentoo: slightly less inflammatory but still difficult
After the shitstorm that was Dana’s post about KDE, I figured I’d go into more details about how my day to day use is going. […]
The problem with Gentoo: my reactions
One of the articles Tyler passed me this morning was a brief post on three problems with Gentoo by Dion Moult. There are a few […]