Ubuntu Alternatives, Xfce, & Having A Go With Fedora 16!
Ubuntu Alternatives, Xfce, & Having A Go With Fedora 16! A little over a year ago I fired up the then latest version of Fedora (13) and found much that I liked. Ultimately though, it just wasn’t the right tool for the job and I ended up going back to Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Fast forward another year, a few more releases have come out from Fedora, and Canonical has been making some choices that, while likely great long-term for Ubuntu, are... Read More
An Introduction to Giganews’ & Golden Frog’s VyprVPN!
An Introduction to Giganews’ & Golden Frog’s VyprVPN! So recently I wrote up a little news article covering the three year retention mark for Supernews. In this article I also went into the reasons why Supernews (and not Giganews) is Ainer.org’s recommended Usenet service. Two caveats were also listed as to why one might choose Giganews over Supernews, despite Supernews generally being the superior (and our recommended) deal... Read More
Couch Potato Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint!
Introduction Howdy! It’s finally time for my Couch Potato guide! Huzzah! Anyway, I’m excited to get this guide out to you all as Couch Potato is a great program and is right up there with Sick Beard in terms of ease of use, flexibility, and robustness. I had originally planned to wait until Couch Potato’s Management section was implemented more fully, but I started testing the program as it was and found it already incredibly useful.... Read More
SABnzbd+ Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint!
SABnzbd+ Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint! Introduction Welcome! This update should be fairly straight-forward as SABnzbd+ and its package on Ubuntu and Linux Mint are quite mature at this point. This guide will be written using Ubuntu’s now-stardard Unity shell interface for the GNOME desktop environment. This guide should also be almost one-hundred percent the same if you’re using Unity 2D instead.... Read More
XBMC Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint
Introduction Well, it’s a new year and this is my first major guide of twenty-eleven. It hasn’t even been a year since my first guide (SABnzbd+ for Linux Mint 9) but my approach and continual development of this site has become something I wouldn’t have even imagined just twelve months ago. I’m very appreciative of all the support and feedback I’ve received as well as the Free and Open Source community at large which... Read More
Desktop Sharing Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Linux Mint and Ubuntu
Introduction Hello! This will be a quick little guide on getting remote desktop sharing setup so that you may both receive and provide remote desktop support to or from your friends and family (or do anything else that a remote desktop connection may be useful for)! This is really a simple setup but before we get into it I have some quick information about this guide! It was written for Linux Mint 10 (Julia) but should be close for both Linux Mint... Read More
RAID 5 & 6 Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)
Introduction For this guide, I’ll be addressing not a neat application (at least not directly), but rather a neat way to potentially combine your existing storage solutions while also adding some protection from a catastrophic disk failure. RAID 5, under Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx), will be the prime focus of this guide and we will make heavy use of the awesome Gnome Disk Utility tool (courtesy of Red Hat). For those of you who do not know,... Read More
Sick Beard Install, Setup, and Configuration Guide for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)
Introduction Retired Notice, this guide has been retired. Please see the current guide here. Greetings, this is an updated Install, Setup, and Configuration guide for Sick Beard on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx). This guide should also be easily adapted to other GNU/Linux distributions like Linux Mint 9 (Isadora), Linux Mint 10 (Julia), Xubuntu, Kubuntu, and Lubuntu and somewhat close for Debian Squeeze, aptosid, Linx Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) and... Read More
SABnzbd+ Install, Setup, and Configuration Guide for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
Introduction Retired Notice, this guide has been retired. Please see the current guide here. This is my long time coming, (updated) Install, Setup, and Configuration guide for SABnzbd+ on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx). This guide should also be easily adaptable for Ubuntu derived distributions (distros) like Linux Mint 9 (Isadora), Linux Mint 10 (Julia) and somewhat close for Debian and Debian based distros like Debian Squeeze, aptosid, and Linux... Read More
Sick Beard Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint
Introduction Retired Notice, this guide has been retired. Please see the current guide here. Welcome! This guide is written with a heavy heart. Despite all hope Newzbin has been (at least temporarily) nerfed. This guide is dedicated to Newzbin’s memory, innovation, and awesome service. This guide is also written with hope that by some stroke of rational, technologically understanding, jurisprudence the site’s appeal will actually succeed.... Read More
