Category Archives: Linux Mint 11

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 →

Linux Mint 11 comes with a wide array of software, but a lot of the traditional GNOME games, like Chess, are missing. Which is something of an embarassing shortfall, really, because both Mac OS X and Windows 7 come with … Continue reading →

Linux Mint 11 comes with the built-in GNOME Document Viewer application, which is pretty good for viewing PDF files. But it you need to install Adobe Reader 9.4 for some reason (such as a PDF file that only works with … Continue reading →

Wine is a compatibility layer that lets you install Windows programs on Unix-like systems, including Linux Mint 11. Using Wine, it’s possible to install Apple’s Safari 5 browser on a Linux Mint system. Granted, I’m not sure why you’d want … Continue reading →

Samba has a vast array of options and configuration settings, but here we’ll show you how to set up and configure a basic Samba server with one user on a Linux Mint 11 system. First, you’ll need to install Samba. … Continue reading →

Linux has always had strong support for SSH, and Linux Mint 11is no different. Today we’ll walk through a basic installation of an SSH server, and some basic security configuration as well. The default SSH server package for Linux Mint … Continue reading →

Linux Mint 11 comes with the Banshee Media Player. However, most of the previous version of Linux Mint have used the Rhythmbox Media Player, and you might prefer Rhythmbox over Banshee. Fortunately, it’s quite simple to install Rhythmbox on Linux … Continue reading →

Audacity is useful digital audio-editing application, available for free on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and BSD. It’s quite easy to install on Linux Mint 11. Merely use this command from a Terminal window: sudo apt-get install audacity This will … Continue reading →

The popular Handbrake video conversion application has sometimes had difficulty running on new version of Ubuntu, but the current version of Handbrake, 0.9.5, works just fine on Linux Mint 11. Best of all, the installation only takes a few Terminal … Continue reading →