Category Archives: Linux Mint 9

Cover image copyright Silverrose1 | Dreamstime.com A few eagle-eyed readers noticed that I managed to sneak in one more book before 2013. This is THE LINUX MINT BEGINNER’S GUIDE, an introduction to Linux Mint. If you’ve never heard of Linux … Continue reading →

The thing about modern graphical operating systems is that finding the MAC address of the computer’s network adapter is often quite counter-intuitive. Fortunately, the command line makes it easy. To find the MAC address on a Linux Mint 9 system, … Continue reading →

Linux Mint 9 doesn’t really come with a good built-in photo management application. Fortunately, Google and Microsoft are mortal enemies, which means that it’s quite easy to install Picasa on Linux Mint 9. To install Picasa on Linux Mint 9, … Continue reading →

VLC Media Player is a handy program that can play numerous forms of video, and runs on just about any OS platform. Best of all, it’s free, and it works just fine with Linux Mint 9. Installing VLC Media Player … Continue reading →

There is, unfortunately, no native version of the video-ripping utility Handbrake available for Linux Mint 9. However, it is possible to install the nightly development version of Handbrake with a few Terminal commands. Note that the development version contains experimental … Continue reading →

The Samba software lets you turn your Linux Mint 9 machine into a file server that can, with proper configuration, share files with Windows machines, Macs, and other Linux systems. Samba has a vast array of options and configuration settings, … Continue reading →

Wine is a compatibility layer that lets you install Windows programs on Unix-like systems, including Linux Mint 9. Using Wine, it’s possible to install Apple’s iTunes jukebox software on a Linux Mint system. The implementation isn’t quite perfect, but it … Continue reading →

Wine is a compatibility layer that lets you, in theory, run applications written for Windows on a Unix-like system (though depending on the application, it can take some tweaking, and some applications just won’t work properly). Wine installs quite easily … Continue reading →

One of Linux’s more useful features is its ability to permit secure, encrypted remote access. Secure Shell technology (SSH) permits you to control a remote computer without having actual physical access to the machine. SSH’s network traffic is encrypted, and … Continue reading →

If you want to try out Linux Mint 9 on a Virtualbox virtual machine, the experience will go much more smoothly if you install the Virtualbox Guest Additions on your Linux Mint 9 virtual machine. Here’s how to do it. … Continue reading →