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+Episode: 1913
+Title: HPR1913: The Linux Experiment
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1913/hpr1913.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-18 11:04:35
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+This is HPR episode 1913 entitled The Linux Experiment.
+It is posted by first time post The Linux Experiment and in about 3 minutes long.
+The summary is help us take the Linux Experiment to the next level.
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+You're listening to Hacker Public Radio.
+My name is Tyler and today I wanted to talk to you about a little project of ours called
+The Linux Experiment.
+Back in 2009, while studying at university, some friends and I decided to undertake the
+challenge of running Linux as our primary operating system for a period of four months
+or roughly one school term.
+Reading the original goal of the experiment from the website now, quote,
+His free software ready for the mainstream has Linux progressed far enough in its evolution
+to be a practical desktop environment for those who don't have degrees in computer
+science.
+Can a user really just switch off Windows or Mac and be as productive on a completely
+open source operating system?
+Over the course of these four months, the users will demonstrate, tinker with and use
+Linux as a primary home operating system, utilizing the power of open source operating systems
+and applications to see just how productive they can be.
+This will be made on this very site along the way, providing an in-depth look into how
+each user is adapting to the new environment.
+The trials, tribulations, triumphs, and other nouns beginning with t will all be laid out
+here, bare for everyone to see.
+By the end of the four month cycle, each user has imposed their own goals as to where they
+want to be with Linux.
+Running a server environment, comfortable to tinker with bash commands, time will tell.
+End quote.
+What was interesting about this challenge was that many of us had never even tried Linux
+before, while others had only ever tried it out here and there, so it would truly be
+indicative of an average user experience.
+To help ensure we were all learning, we advised a set of rules to govern our little experiment.
+They read, quote, you must have absolutely no prior experience with the distribution
+you choose.
+You must use the distribution on your primary computer and it must be your primary day-to-day
+computing environment.
+The experiment runs from September 1st, 2009 until December 31st, 2009.
+You must document your experience on at least a weekly basis.
+After committing to a distribution, you may not later change to a different one.
+And so that kicked off our adventure.
+Of course, as the experiment progressed and we got a bit more comfortable with our distributions,
+we threw in a couple of curveballs here and there.
+For instance, at one point, we forced everyone to change the desktop environments for a period
+of time.
+So if you were running KDE, you'd have to switch to something else, like, say, XFCE.
+To our amazement, the Linux experiment was a great success.
+We featured on a number of Linux related websites, as well as excellent MintCast and Larry
+Bushy's going Linux podcasts.
+Feedback poured in from people encouraging us, interested in seeing our day-to-day progress,
+and, as anyone familiar with Linux community already knows, their opinions on how to do things
+differently.
+Since the conclusion of that first four-month experiment, we've conducted two additional
+experiments with different rules and kept up a healthy addition of new posts to the
+website, as many of us continue to use Linux to this day.
+In fact, we have such a good mix of content now that I often find myself googling for a
+solution to an issue only to find that Google returns a link to our own website with
+a fixer work around that we've already written.
+At present, the Linux experiment remains a good resource and a fun place to contribute
+new content to, and it is that latter bit where we want to take the website next.
+Just like the excellent community that spawned its namesake, we want to make the Linux
+experiment more of a collaborative community effort.
+And so here comes our pitch to the HPR listeners, a group already familiar with contributed
+content.
+If you are a Linux user or are thinking about trying your own Linux experiment, we want
+to hear from you.
+If you've ever come across something broken or annoying, I figured out a solution that
+you think others would benefit from, please let us know what it is.
+If you can write a decent sentence or two, then we want to showcase your awesome content.
+So if any of this sounds like something you'd be interested in, then please head over
+to thelinuxexperiment.com and click the right for the Linux experiment link at the top
+to get in touch with us, or simply send an email to editor at thelinuxexperiment.com.
+This has been HackerPublicRadio, I'm Tyler, and we ate the Linux experiment hope to hear
+from you soon.
+Thank you.
+You've been listening to HackerPublicRadio at HackerPublicRadio.org.
+We are a community podcast network that releases shows every weekday, Monday through Friday.
+Today's show, like all our shows, was contributed by an HPR listener like yourself.
+If you ever thought of recording a podcast, then click on our contributing to find out
+how easy it really is.
+HackerPublicRadio was founded by the digital dog pound and the infonomicon computer club,
+and it's part of the binary revolution at binrev.com.
+If you have comments on today's show, please email the host directly, leave a comment on
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