Category Archives: Linux Mint 10

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 →

From time to time you may need to extract the sound from a video file. Fortunately, using the ffmpeg program, it’s quite simple to take the sound from any video file and store it as a separate file. The ffmpeg … Continue reading →

Banshee 2.0 just came out, and if you want to try it on Linux Mint 10, you can upgrade with only a few Terminal commands. (Note that this will only work if you already have an older version of Banshee … Continue reading →

Firefox 4 came out today, and you may want to try it on Linux Mint 10. Linux Mint is based upon Ubuntu, and it used to be extremely difficult to upgrade Ubuntu to a new version of Firefox. You generally … Continue reading →

The Handbrake team released version 0.9.5 of the popular video conversion application Handbrake yesterday. Previous Handbrake releases have (occasionally) been hit or miss on Ubuntu-based systems, but the latest version is a breeze to install on Linux Mint 10. It … Continue reading →

Here’s how to install Google’s lightweight Chrome browser on Linux Mint 10. First, visit the Google Chrome website: http://www.google.com/chrome Click on the Get Google Chrome button, which will take you to the download page. Select the 32-bit or the 64-bit … Continue reading →

I’m not a big fan of Real Player, but there are some forms of streaming media that you must use with Real Player. (Language textbook publishers, in particular, seem very fond of doing their audio lessons in Real format.) So, … Continue reading →

With Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, and Apple’s iPad, eBooks are emerging more and more into the mainstream. And if you have a lot of eBooks, managing them can becoming something of a challenge. Fortunately, the Calibre eBook management … Continue reading →

The Clementine music player is a free and cross-platform port of the popular Amarok music player. It’s only up to version 0.6, but has many useful features. And if you want to install it on Linux Mint 10, it’s quite … Continue reading →