Since the beginning of the show, we’ve had project #1 & that project will finally be coming to a close. Recent changes in the MacOS system & key applications require the user to learn a new workflow, so Chris & Noah have begun the daunting task of converting Chris’ wife & long-time Mac user, Angela, to Linux.

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Freya on a Mac

Your Mac must not have a Core 2 duo or Solo (or older) processor – only the past couple years of Macs, which have 64-bit EFI, are supported.

Dual Boot Arch and Mac OS X

This tutorial is pretty specific to my latest configuration, but it seems like there might be some people out there who could benefit from my experience. If you have a [1] Macbook Pro 8,2 (the 8,3 model should work as well), with [2] two internal hard drives, and want to [3] dual boot OS X and Arch Linux, utilizing [4] whole disk encryption in both systems… you’re in the right place!

There won’t be much explanation here because most of the in depth explanation has already been described in previous posts. They are linked below in case you get lost for reference to provide additional direction in case you get lost.

• Part 0 — Preparation

• Part 1 — Encryption

• Part 2 — Installation

• Part 3 — Finishing Touches

• Part 4 — Boot Loader

• Part 5 — Graphics

• Dual Boot on MBP 8,2 w/ Two Internal Drives

The rEFInd Boot Manager

This page describes rEFInd, my fork of the rEFIt boot manager for computers based on the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) and Unified EFI (UEFI). Like rEFIt, rEFInd is a boot manager, meaning that it presents a menu of options to the user when the computer first starts up, as shown below.

• rEFInd – ArchWiki

rEFInd is a UEFI boot manager. It is a fork of the no-longer-maintained rEFIt and fixes many issues with respect to non-Mac UEFI booting. It is designed to be platform-neutral and to simplify booting multiple OSes.

gummiboot

gummiboot is a simple UEFI boot manager which executes configured EFI images. The default entry is selected by a configured pattern (glob) or an on-screen menu.

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Runs Linux

Honda Runs Linux

Sent in by sent by Billy R.

I was watching this video about modern robots and 6:00 minutes in (when they’re showing the Honda Asimo) I noticed that Honda was using Ubuntu! Huge fan of the show and I thought you guys might find that pretty cool. Keep up the good work!

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Desktop App Pick

TimeShift

TimeShift for Linux is a application that provides functionality similar to the System Restore feature in Windows and the Time Machine tool in Mac OS. TimeShift protects your system by taking incremental snapshots of the file system at regular intervals. These snapshots can be restored later to bring your system to the exact state it was in at the time when the snapshot was taken.

Snapshots are taken using rsync and hard-links. Common files are shared between snapshots which saves disk space. Each snapshot is a full system backup that can be browsed with a file manager.

Weekly Spotlight

osTicket

osTicket is a widely-used and trusted open source support ticket system. It seamlessly routes inquiries created via email, web-forms and phone calls into a simple, easy-to-use, multi-user, web-based customer support platform. osTicket comes packed with more features and tools than most of the expensive (and complex) support ticket systems on the market. The best part is, it’s completely free.

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Our Past Picks

These are the weekly picks provided by the Jupiter Broadcasting podcast, the Linux Action Show.

This site includes a separate picks lists for the “Runs Linux”, Desktop Apps, Spotlight Picks, Android Picks, and Distro Picks.

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It’s an open-source world: ​78 percent of companies run open-source software

• 78 percent of respondents said their companies run part or all of its operations on OSS and 66 percent said their company creates software for customers built on open source. This statistic has nearly doubled since 2010, when 42 percent of respondents in the Future of Open Source survey five years ago said that they used open source in the running of their business or their IT environments. This is an all-time high.

• 93 percent said their organization’s use of open source increased or remained the same in the past year.

• 64 percent of companies currently participate in open source projects – up from 50 percent in 2014. Over the next 2-3 years, 88 percent are expected to increase contributions to open source projects.

• Open source has become the default approach for software with more than 66 percent of respondents saying they consider OSS before other options.

• The Ninth Annual Future of Open Source Survey | Black Duck

Chrome Starts Pushing Java off the Web

Chrome 42, released to the stable channel today, will take a big step toward pushing old browser plugins, including Java and Silverlight, off the Web. Those plugins use a 1990s-era API called NPAPI (“Netscape Plugin API”) to extend the browser, and with Chrome 42, that API is now off by default.

ZFS may be officially included in Debian

Libdvdcss and ZFS soon in Debian?

We received legal advice from Software Freedom Law Center about the
inclusion of libdvdcss and ZFS in Debian, which should unblock the
situation in both cases and enable us to ship them in Debian soon.

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Google has big changes planned for Chrome users, Tumblr’s big year & making solar panels more efficient with Blu-Ray discs.

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Google Chrome will block all NPAPI plugins by default in January, drop support completely in September | VentureBeat | News Briefs | by Emil Protalinski

Google today provided an update on its plan to remove Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) from Chrome, which the company says will improve the browser’s security, speed, and stability, as well as reduce complexity in the code base. In short, the latest timeline is as follows: Block all plugins by default in January 2015, disable support in April 2015, and remove support completely in September 2015.

For context, Google first announced in September 2013 that it was planning to drop NPAPI. At the time, Google said anonymous Chrome usage data showed just six NPAPI plugins were used by more than 5 percent of users, and the company was hoping to remove support from Chrome “before the end of 2014, but the exact timing will depend on usage and user feedback.”

While NPAPI usage has continued declining since then, the drop has not been as quick as Google hoped. The latest usage data (for October 2014) shows the following launch percentages:

• Silverlight (11 percent of Chrome users, down from 15 percent)
• Google Talk (7 percent of Chrome users, down from 8.7 percent)
• Java (3.7 percent of Chrome users, down from 8.9 percent)
• Facebook Video (3 percent of Chrome users, down from 6 percent)
• Unity (1.9 percent of Chrome users, down from 9.1 percent)
• Google Earth (0.1 percent of Chrome users, down from 9.1 percent)

The above six are part of a small number of popular plugins currently whitelisted and allowed by default in Chrome (Silverlight is primarily used by Netflix users, but the company is slowly shifting to HTML5). In January 2015, Google plans to remove the whitelist, blocking all plugins by default.

Users will still be able to allow NPAPI plugins for specific sites by clicking on the “Plug-in blocked” message in the URL bar and choosing “Always allow plug-ins on [website].” Here is how that looks:

In April 2015, this will no longer be an option as NPAPI support will be disabled by default in Chrome and Google will unpublish extensions requiring NPAPI plugins from the Chrome Web Store.

Tumblr Overtakes Instagram As Fastest-Growing Social Platform, Snapchat Is The Fastest-Growing App | TechCrunch

With 1.35 billion active monthly users, Facebook continues to be the world’s largest social network by some margin, but when it comes to picking up new users, it appears to have reached a saturation point. Research out today from the Global Web Index notes that Tumblr’s active user base in the last six months grew by 120%, while Facebook’s grew by only 2%.

And in overall member growth, Pinterest took the lead with 57% growth while Facebook’s member base grew by 6%.

Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and even Google+ all grew faster than Facebook.

A More Efficient Solar Panel Can Be Made With Old Blu-Ray Discs

A group of researchers at Northwestern managed to make more efficient solar panels based off of the patterns on Blu-ray disc. They began by cutting off the edges a Blu-ray copy of the 1992 Jackie Chan flick _Police Story 3 _and opening up the disc. (It’s actually not a bad movie, especially for those of you into Hong Kong capers.) The researchers were after the quasi-random nanostructure that encode the data on the disc. _IEEE Spectrum _explains why the way data is stored on Blu-ray makes it relevant to solar panels, especially compared to other DVDs.

The researchers then used the open face of the Blu-ray disc to make a mold that was stamped over solar panels, giving the panels the same nanostructure pattern as the original disc. The Blu-ray-patterned solar panels ended up being 12 percent more efficient than smooth ones.

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HashKey: a dedicated 1-key keyboard for the hashtag by Ben Gomori — Kickstarter

We’re finally giving the hashtag its own key. The HashKey is the world’s first one-key USB keyboard – dedicated solely to the hashtag.

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We take a trip down memory lane and dig back into our closets to take a look at the classic hardware and software of yesteryear. We’re going back 15 years, to 1995, to reminisce about our roots as young tech geeks, and think about just how far our personal computing technology has come within our lifetimes.

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