Category Archives: Linux Mint 13

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 →

WordPress is a content management system that powers quite a variety of websites, first developed in 2003. In WordPress’s early days, it tended to run only personal blogs and smaller sites. However, the software improved considerably with every version, and … Continue reading →

FTP stands for “file transfer protocol”, and it allows you to transfer files to a remote computer. FTP has been around forever, and it has a number of pros and cons. Since FTP is so old, it is supported on … Continue reading →

SSH stands for “secure shell”, and is a network protocol that allows you to securely send commands to a remote machine. SSH is pretty secure, but it does have one weak link – the password. If someone cracks your SSH … Continue reading →

If you prefer Opera 12 over Firefox, Opera is quite simple to install on Linux Mint 13. First, download and install the .deb package directly from Opera’s website. Opera has superb Linux support, with dedicated packages for fourteen Linux distributions, … Continue reading →

It’s relatively easy to configure Samba using command-line tools and by editing the /etc/samba/smb.conf file. However, the learning curve is rather sharp. If you want a more graphical interface, there’s a program called SWAT, the Samba Web Administration Tool. SWAT … Continue reading →

Skype released version 4.0 of its client for Linux, which is good news, since the Linux client has been stuck on 2.1 for years. If you want to use Skype 4.0 on Linux Mint 13, it’s quite easy to install. … Continue reading →

It is not intuitively obvious how to assign Linux Mint 13 a static IP address to one of its network adapters (such as the network adapter in an Acer laptop or an HP desktop system) from the command line. However, … Continue reading →

One of the most common uses of a Linux Mint 13 machine – whether a server or a desktop – is to share files across the network. If you’re not familiar with the term, “file sharing” means to make a … Continue reading →

SSH stands for “secure shell”, and it is a network protocol that allows you to securely send commands to a remote machine. The “secure” part comes from the fact that the connection is encrypted, which means that an attacker cannot … Continue reading →