Ubuntu Home Server related posts and guides
I recently showed how to install Ubuntu 14.04 Server edition. At least, couple of readers wanted to know how to install Ubuntu Server from USB. Ubuntu USB install is very simple but a lot of Linux newbies do not know how to do this. In fact, my Intel Atom based … read more
Recently, I wrote a tutorial on how to install Ubuntu Server 14.04 Trust Tahr. This post presents a video guide to accomplish the same thing. How to install Ubuntu Server 14.04 Trusty Tahr? Watch this video on YouTube.
In a few days Trusty Tahr will be released into the wild around April 17th, 2014. So I decided I will start writing a series of posts on how to setup a home server using Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr Server Edition. To start of this post shows, how to install … read more
Having covered the step-by-step installation of Sick Beard on Ubuntu, in this post I present an automatic 1-step Sick Beard Installer script for Ubuntu. For simplicity, I am going to call this script AtoMiC Sick Beard Installer (Automated Media Center). Update (April 2015): AtoMiC Script has evolved into AtoMiC ToolKit … read more
Webmin modules extend the features of Webmin. In this post, I will explain how to install Webmin modules and manage them. Webmin simplifies some of the most common system administration tasks by providing a GUI. If you have not yet installed Webmin, please check this post. It comes in handy … read more
DLNA allows you to play home network media on all compatible devices over the network. In this post, I will explain how to compile and install MiniDLNA on Ubuntu (now ReadyMedia) from the Git repository. Previously, I wrote posts on how to install MiniDLNA on Ubuntu 10.04 by downloading the … read more
We recently presented Tiny Tiny RSS to you as a great alternative to Google reader, which is one more way you can extend the functionality of your home server or your hosting space. Hopefully, you already exported your data from Google Reader. In this post, we will show you how … read more
As you may know htpcbeginner.com is committed to expand the applications of your home sever. In this post, we are going to show you how to install Tiny Tiny RSS on Ubuntu. This is right on time to prepare you for the imminent shutdown of Google Reader service. Tiny Tiny … read more
In this post, I will explain how to easily create cron job on Ubuntu and other Linux system with Webmin. Cron allows you to setup time-based job schedule in Unix-like operating systems. Typically they are used to schedule jobs (commands or shell scripts) to run periodically at fixed times, dates, … read more