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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Honda Runs Linux

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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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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 wants to get into the wireless business & while we are more than a little intrigued by the idea, we also have some major questions. We kick around the very real possibility that Google Wireless could become a thing.

Plus a few zero day exploits for OS X, the bad news for RT users & more!

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Report: Google to launch wireless service this year | Ars Technica

Reports about a rumored Google wireless service are cropping up again. The Information (subscription required) is reporting that Google plans to resell Sprint and T-Mobile services as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO).

• Google to Sell Wireless Service in Deals With Sprint, T-Mobile – WSJ

Google drops three OS X 0days on Apple | Ars Technica

In the past two days, Project Zero has disclosed OS X vulnerabilities here, here, and here. At first glance, none of them appear to be highly critical, since all three appear to require the attacker to already have some access to a targeted machine. What’s more, the first vulnerability, the one involving the “networkd ‘effective_audit_token’ XPC,” may already have been mitigated in OS X Yosemite, but if so the Google advisory doesn’t make this explicit and Apple doesn’t publicly discuss security matters with reporters.

Still, the exploits could be combined with a separate attack to elevate lower-level privileges and gain control over vulnerable Macs.

Surface RT Devices Won’t Get Windows 10

In its announcement of Windows 10, Microsoft indicated not all devices would get the updated operating system. Now, Microsoft says its Surface devices running Windows RT won’t be receiving full updates, though it does plan to roll some new functionality into them. “Given that Windows RT and RT 8.1 were designed for power economizing devices sporting 32-bit ARM architecture, and never had the same functionality — to many users’ frustration — as full-blown Windows 8 and 8.1, it comes as little surprise that the RT versions of the operating system should be left out of the latest update loop. In fact, a week before Microsoft’s big Windows 10 reveal on January 21, the company released firmware updates for all three models of its Intel-powered Surface Pro series, but neither of the ARM-based Surface tablets — the Surface 2 or Surface RT — received any new updates this month.” The Surface Pro line of tablets, which run a normal version of Windows, will be getting an update to Windows 10.

Plasma 5.2 – The Quintessential Breakdown | Ken Vermette

KDE is one of the oldest open-source desktop projects which can be found today, and over the years it has established a rich history of highs and lows. During some points it has been the undisputed ruler of the desktop world, while other times it had fallen behind or faced hard trials.

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Coming up this week, we’ll be chatting with Shawn Webb about his recent work with ASLR and PIE in FreeBSD.

After that, we’ll be showing you how you can create a reverse SSH tunnel to a system behind a firewall… how sneaky. Answers to your emails plus the latest news, on BSD Now, the place to B.. SD.

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FreeBSD foundation August update

• The foundation has published a new PDF detailing some of their recent activities
• It includes project development updates, the 10.1-RELEASE schedule and some of its new features
• There is also a short interview with Dru Lavigne in the “voices from the community” section
• If you’re into hardware, there’s another section about some new FreeBSD server equipment
• In closing, there’s an update on funding too

NSD for an authoritative nameserver

• With BIND having been removed from FreeBSD 10.0, you might be looking to replace your old DNS setup
• This article shows how to use NSD for an authoritative DNS nameserver
• It’s also got a link to a similar article on Unbound, the new favorite recursive and caching resolver (they work great together)
• All the instructions are presented very neatly, with all the little details included
• Less BIND means less vulnerabilities, everybody’s happy

BIND and Nginx removed from OpenBSD

• While we’re on the topic of DNS servers, BIND was finally removed from OpenBSD as well
• The base system contains both NSD and Unbound, so users can transition over between 5.6 (November of this year) and 5.7 (May of next year)
• They’ve also removed nginx from the base system, in favor of the new custom HTTP daemon
• BIND and Nginx are still available in ports if you don’t want to switch
• We’re hoping to have Reyk Floeter on the show next week to talk about it, but scheduling might not work out, so it may be a little later on
• With Apache gone in the upcoming 5.6, It’s also likely that sendmail will be removed before 5.7 – hooray for modern alternatives

NetBSD demo videos

• A Japanese NetBSD developer has been uploading lots of interesting videos
• Unsurprisingly, they’re all featuring NetBSD running on exotic and weird hardware
• Most of them are demoing sound or running a modern Twitter client on an ancient computer
• They’re from the same guy that did the conference wrap-up we mentioned recently

Interview – Shawn Webb – shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org / @lattera

Address space layout randomization in FreeBSD

Tutorial

Reverse SSH tunneling

News Roundup

Puppet master-agent installation on FreeBSD

• If you’ve got a lot of BSD boxes under your control, or if you’re just lazy, you’ve probably looked into Puppet before
• The author claims a lack of BSD-specific Puppet documentation, so he decided to write up some notes of his own
• He goes through some advantages of using this type of tool for deployments, even when you don’t have a huge number of systems
• The rest of the post explains how to set up both the master and the agent configurations

Misc. pfSense items

• We found a few miscellaneous pfSense articles this past week
• The first one is about the hunt for the “ultimate” free open source firewall, where pfSense is obviously a strong contender
• The second one shows how to log NAT firewall states
• In the third, you can see how to automatically back up your configuration files
• The fourth item shows how to set up PXE booting with pfSense, similar to one of our tutorials

Time Machine backups on ZFS

• If you’ve got a Mac you need to keep backed up, a FreeBSD server with ZFS can take the place of an expensive “time capsule”
• This post walks you through setting up netatalk and mDNS for a very versatile Time Machine backup system
• With a single command on the OS X side, you can write to and read from the BSD box just like a regular external drive
• Surprisingly simple to do, recommended for anyone with Macs on their network

Lumina desktop preview

• Lumina, the BSD-exclusive desktop environment, seems to be coming along nicely
• The main developer has posted an update on the PCBSD blog with some screenshots
• Lots of new features have been added, many of which are documented in the post
• There just might be a BSD Now episode about Lumina coming up.. (cough cough)

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Mike and Chris share their raw reactions from Apple’s WWDC Keynote, including Mike’s big concerns about Swift.

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Dev Hoopla: WWDC2014

• Apple Introduces iOS 8 | TechCrunch

• Apple meets Dropbox head-on with iCloud Drive | The Verge

• Apple officially introduces iOS 8 “Healthkit” platform & “Health” app | 9to5Mac

• iOS 8 will allow users to install systemwide third-party keyboards | 9to5Mac

• Apple announces new Siri features, including Shazam integration and “hey, Siri” always-on mode | 9to5Mac

• Apple announces HomeKit, an SDK for controlling your home from your iOS device – The Next Web

• Apple Opens Up Touch ID To All Apps | TechCrunch

• Apple – Press Info – Apple Announces OS X Yosemite

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