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Well, it's just about that time of year again. It's time for the annual Linux Fest Northwest! If you happen to find yourself in the Pacific Northwest (or Cascadia if you prefer) come April 30th through May 1st (and within commuting distance of Bellingham, WA) do yourself a favor and show up for at least one day of this neat regional Linux Expo!

Yesterday, XBMC Media Center's Private Package Archive (PPA) sneakily came through with an update for the current stable release (10.0 Dharma). Today, we find out that this incremental update from 10.0 to 10.1 brings with it several bug fixes, as well as updates for the various included add-ons in its repositories.

OilRush, a GNU/Linux native game featuring both real time strategy (RTS) and tower defense game play elements has become available for pre-order! This is the first game (of hopefully many) that will utilize the newly developed, multi-platform (GNU/Linux, Android, Playstation 3, Windows, and soon Macintosh), Unigine engine.

With the right skin (Simplicity), XBMC Media Center provides a highly polished (second to none) front-end for any media playing computer along with oodles of art, posters, ratings, trailers, lyrics, plot summaries, TV guide like functionality, and so many more bits of supplemental information that I cannot feasibly cover them all here.

Clement Lefebvre has announced the code name for Linux Mint 11 and has stated that it will be using Gnome 3 but without the Gnome Shell as its desktop environment.

Ikey Dhorety was hired to work full-time at Linux Mint last month. As a result the "new bugs" have been taken from four-hundred and fifty and reduced to zero. Overall bugs are reportedly also seeing additional focus now as a result of Ikey working full time.

Yesterday, Amazon.com went live with their free unlimited instant movie and TV streaming service for Amazon Prime Members ($79.00 a year). Amazon.com's Unlimited Instant Video service uses Adobe Flash and is compatible with GNU/Linux based operating systems (such and Linux Mint and Ubuntu).

....with that in mind, that I am excited to feature a preview of the new skin which the authors of Shade are now developing, Simplicity! While it is still in early development (about a month now), and only just approaching its first public beta, Simplicity is already showing signs that it may well surpass Shade in most, if not every, way.

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)! For those that may not know, remote desktop sharing which, is also known by names such as Virtual Network Computing (VNC), desktop sharing, Remote Desktop Connections (RDC), and others, is a great way to both work on your own or another’s computer when it is inconvenient or inaccessible to access it locally. Conversely, it also offers a terrific way to receive support if you're new to, or learning about, using Linux Mint or any other piece of software (as we all get stuck from time to time)!

Linux Mint will serve just about anyone admirably. It is based on the very popular Ubuntu (which in turn is based on the rock solid Debian), but includes an additional layer of testing, more conservative changes from each version to the next (every six months), and has an even more robust set of software installed by default.

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 Mint Debian Edition (LMDE).

Greetings, this is an updated Install, Setup, and Configuration guide for Sick Beard on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. This guide should also be easily adapted to other GNU/Linux distributions like Linux Mint 9, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, and Lubuntu and somewhat close for Debian Squeeze, Sidux, and any other Debian (and even Gnome) based distos. This guide will be actively maintained and updated throughout the two year life of the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS release.

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).

Before we get into it though, the topic of focus, the ASUS RT-N16, is a Gigabit and Wireless-N compatible router that uses a Linux kernel based firmware (essentially, the operating system) by default. The default firmware (or, operating system) on the router can be replaced with a different operating system (OS) such as TomatoUSB.