Finally Up and Running
As you may recall, last night, I ruined my system by manually editing the xorg.conf config file according to a sketchy tutorial on the Debian […]
Gnome
Graphical Woes and a Bricked System
Today’s big task was to get rid of the Windows 3.1 look of the default GNOME theme by installing the Compiz Fusion window manager. First, […]
The Need for a Password Manager
On my Windows machine, I use a free program called KeePass to manage all of my passwords. It creates an encrypted file that contains all […]
Coming close
The experiment is set to begin in less than 10 days and now is the time to settle on all of those little decisions that still need to be made.
KDE 4.3 vs. Gnome 2.26: Slap fight!
Ding! Let the fight begin. In one corner, we have the only desktop environment I’ve used in Linux – Gnome 2.26, the standard for Ubuntu […]
The Showdown: Fedora 11 vs Mandriva 2009.1
The Final Contenders
Well here we are. After a couple of weeks of research I have finally narrowed down my choice to either Fedora 11 or Mandriva 2009.1 to use during the course of this experiment. The two distros are both very mature and feature rich which makes this choice extraordinarily difficult. To help alleviate some of this I have decided to square them off head to head in a series of different areas. So without further ado let’s start this.
Better than Indy’s own
Hi, sports fans! (That’s right, I’ve decided to start addressing you all with stupid and arbitrary tag lines… please deal with it.) Since Jon has […]