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
Firefox 6 Soon, Firefox-Next PPA, & Mozilla Labs Test Pilot!
Firefox 6 Soon, Firefox-Next PPA, & Mozilla Labs Test Pilot! Whew! Alright, lots of Mozilla Firefox goodness to write about here, so let’s get to it! First off, in case you haven’t yet heard, Firefox 6 should soon be officially announced (August Sixteenth) and should also be available to Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) and Linux Mint 11 (Katya) users with nothing further needed than a standard update once it is added to the official repositories!... 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
Featured Projects Donations
Introduction The guides on this site are utterly worthless without the continued hard work and dedication of the Free and Open Source Software developers and community members that spend their time and resources to keep their respective projects, sites, and so on up and running. If you haven’t already, consider donating some of your hard earned cash to the projects featured here at Ainer.org. If you are on the fence, and have been meaning... Read More
ASUS RT-N16 the Perfect Linux Router
Introduction This is going to be a little different from my normal fair as this is going to be a brief overview of a great little router I recently learned about (and purchased). In the future I may do additional guides on it, but for now I’m just going to give it a good overview in-case anyone is in the market and might have use for it. Before we get into it though, the topic of focus, the ASUS RT-N16, is a Gigabit and Wireless-N compatible... Read More
