Going Linux

00:00 Going Linux #244 · Computer America #73 00:15 Introduction 03:33 New segment 07:57 Topic: Setting up a VPN on the new Linux Mint 17 10:03 proXPN discount code COMPAM 12:10 proXPN is cross-platform, runs on Linux but is not supported on Linux 12:48 Linux Mint 17 RC 13:22 What is a VPN? 15:40 Must use PPTP for Linux and Android 17:25 openvpn 18:55 Network Manager has PPTP settings built-in 21:29 How does a VPN protect me? 26:46 Are "incognito mode" and/or TOR alternatives to VPN? 28:27 The proXPN interview 29:22 News tips bulletin 36:25 Linux Mint 17 RC in VirtualBox 39:03 Long Term Support: New Mint philosophy 43:28 Improvements in this version of Mint 47:23 Setting up a VPN in NetworkManager 52:19 Improvements in Cinnamon 2.2 58:03 Lee asks for advice “Moving Mother-in-law Off of Windows XP” 64:03 Gnome 3 65:49 Thor asked for help on G+ 74:15 Nancy wants some advice with her Macbook 84:36 London minute 87:43 Coherence and Seamless Mode 79:40 Mark has a recommendation for Mint users 93:50 JackDeth: A message for Charles 98:53 Andrew: Linux on Chromebooks 105:16 Jack: BURG instead of GRUB 109:08 goinglinux.com, goinglinux@gmail.com, +1-904-468-7889, @goinglinux, feedback, listen, subscribe 113:02 End

00:00 Going Linux #243 · Listener Feedback 00:15 Introduction 01:33 Robert: Video for Installing Mint 05:10 Robert: Storing Passwords Securely 10:34 John: Help moving his family to Linux 13:46 John: Solution to Brother MFC printer issue 15:55 Thor: Trying Arch Linux 18:23 Lee: Moving Mother-in-law from Windows XP to Linux 23:32 Nancy: Moving Linux from Lenovo to Macbook 33:17 Sumedh: Struggling with Partitions 39:07 Bob: Has a Windows install that is no longer "Genuine" 45:13 goinglinux.com, goinglinux@gmail.com, +1-904-468-7889, @goinglinux, feedback, listen, subscribe 46:13 End

00:00 Going Linux #242 · Cross-platform Chromebook Apps and Extensions 00:15 Introduction 00:43 Bill's latest distro: CrunchBang 01:39 Vacations (sort of) 02:17 Not dead yet! 03:39 Chromebook: cross-platform apps and extensions 08:09 VNC Viewer 09:51 Chrome Remote Desktop 11:00 Text 11:42 Google Keep 13:13 Voice Recorder 17:04 CloudConvert 18:46 Google+ 20:12 Google Hangouts 22:08 LastPass 25:27 Stitcher 28:05 Feedly 28:50 Box.com 30:21 Dropbox 30:57 SnagIt 34:18 Gmail Offline 39:19 Other resources 40:12 goinglinux.com, goinglinux@gmail.com, +1-904-468-7889, @goinglinux, feedback, listen, subscribe 41:42 End

00:00 Going Linux #241 · Computer America #72 00:15 Introduction 03:44 Larry's secret 07:22 Follow along 08:08 Topic: Everything I learned about switching from Windows to the Mac I learned from Linux 58:43 Mike: I'm spooked! 63:51 Brian: Office on Linux? 76:37 Kenneth: Attempting, unsuccessfully, to go all Linux 84:15 Open ports are a risk, even on Linux. 102:21 Kenneth: More on Office for Linux 105:30 Kelly: Printing tip for Al from 234 107:05 Ken: A tip for users of HP printers 108:25 Ken: Canonical says 'goodbye' to UbuntuOne 109:42 goinglinux.com, goinglinux@gmail.com, +1-904-468-7889, @goinglinux, feedback, listen, subscribe 111:06 End

00:00 Going Linux #240 · Listener Feedback 00:15 Introduction 00:53 Bill is unable to record today 01:04 Lone Marmot: Podcast 239 01:31 David: 239 was wonderful 02:22 Michael: Binary and library file locations may be moving 04:17 Scott: Mapping mouse buttons 05:38 Matt: Has become a Chromebook owner 07:03 Andrew: Linux on Chromebooks 10:53 Mike: Is a little spooked by GnuTLS bug 12:45 goinglinux.com, goinglinux@gmail.com, +1-904-468-7889, @goinglinux, feedback, listen, subscribe 13:50 End

00:00 Going Linux #239 · How Linux Is Put Together 00:15 Introduction 00:45 Chromebook corner 05:34 Bill's latest: Salax 06:47 Rant: DRM on DVDs 09:36 Attribution: Ramesh Natarajan 11:53 root directory (/) 12:15 root user's home (/root) 13:25 user binaries (/bin) 14:16 system binaries (/sbin) 14:47 configuration files (/etc) 17:22 device files (/dev) 18:22 process information (/proc) 19:41 variable files (/var) 20:42 temporary files (/tmp) 21:12 user programs (/usr) 22:38 home (/home) 23:52 boot loader files (/boot) 24:40 system libraries (/lib) 26:28 optional add-on applications (/opt) 27:52 mount directory (/mnt) 28:37 removable media drives (/media) 29:49 service data (/srv) 31:15 dynamic link libraries (/dll) 32:38 Linux is designed to make sense 33:34 goinglinux.com, goinglinux@gmail.com, +1-904-468-7889, @goinglinux, feedback, listen, subscribe 35:23 End

00:00 Going Linux #238 · Computer America #71 00:15 Introduction 03:53 7 Reasons to switch to Linux in April 54:21 Scott comments on Going Linux episode 236 63:54 Ken asked about printers and Linux 68:46 Jim has a simple request 70:20 Daniel has wifi and bluetooth issue 79:24 Jeremy of the “Linux Startup” wants our opinion 84:24 Patricia: Distros for modern laptops 86:25 Charles provided a photo of “Linux in the Wild” 87:33 Jack has a comment about my appearances on Computer America 91:11 Paul asks about system D 97:20 John provided a topic suggestion 103:06 Rich wonders about RAM 106:37 goinglinux.com, goinglinux@gmail.com, +1-904-468-7889, @goinglinux, feedback, listen, subscribe 107:55 End

00:00 Going Linux #237 · Listener Feedback 00:15 Introduction 01:35 Update on Tom: Listen for contact info 05:15 Door-to-Door Geek: Swap space 09:03 Andrew: File systems 09:27 EXT4 10:12 BTRFS 11:22 ZFS 12:34 FAT, FAT32 13:38 NTFS 18:06 Len: Shownotes correction 19:02 Paul: System D 24:08 John: A G+ commented about fixing Linux 26:25 Paul: Who fixes Linux? 28:33 Application pick: Great little radio player 30:26 Application pick: cmd.fm 33:28 goinglinux.com, goinglinux@gmail.com, +1-904-468-7889, @goinglinux, feedback, listen, subscribe 34:29 End

00:00 Going Linux #236 · An Interview with Door-To-Door Geek 00:15 Introduction 06:06 Bill rants: Silverlight -- WHY!? 12:38 Door-To-Door Geek 70:09 goinglinux.com, goinglinux@gmail.com, +1-904-468-7889, @goinglinux, feedback, listen, subscribe 71:05 End

00:00 Going Linux #235 · Computer America #70 00:15 Introduction 12:17 Topic: Who are the people behind Linux? 16:24 Victor: Which Linux distro is the best? 26:32 London Minute 47:32 Steve: Zorin OS is great 54:32 Craig Crossman: Nightclub singer 59:37 Tony: Monitor issues 63:36 Computer America live video 65:37 Matt: Multiple desktops 72:39 Jonathan: Northeast Linux Fest 76:55 Hunter: Gone Linux - Fedora style 78:52 Lee: Opinion on Manjaro and rolling releases 72:03 Mark: Which scanner should I get? 84:06 Another London Minute 90:49 Carlos: Additional info on swap space 98:11 Paul: Long term support vs. community support 105:08 Jared: Show idea - Tomato and DD-WRT 109:35 goinglinux.com, goinglinux@gmail.com, +1-904-468-7889, @goinglinux, feedback, listen, subscribe 111:12 End

00:00 Going Linux #234 · Listener Feedback 00:15 Introduction 00:56 Bill's latest: PC-BSD 01:55 zfs vs. btr fs 04:21 Chrome performance issues? 07:17 Tips for improving browser performance 09:16 Cody: Gone Linux advice 12:37 Gus: Comments about software 14:55 Rich: Why is swap space 2x the amount of RAM? 22:43 Swap space with an SSD 25:22 Al: Print sharing problem 32:39 Kevin: Deserving organizations 35:29 Kelly: Media playback in Mint 16 40:17 goinglinux.com, goinglinux@gmail.com, +1-904-468-7889, @goinglinux, feedback, listen, subscribe 41:55 End

00:00 Going Linux #233 · Linux Software Equivalents in Business 00:15 Introduction 01:56 Troy is the honorary "Chief Executive Minion" for this episode 05:25 PDF Reader: KPDF 06:15 Vector Graphic Design: Inkscape 06:49 Photo editing: GIMP, Cinepaint, myPaint 07:14 Page Layout: Scribus 07:48 Photo workflow: Darktable 08:05 Chat: Pigeon, Empathy, Chatzilla 09:06 Media Player: Banshee, Rythmbox, Audacious, Amarok 09:48 Photo management and organization: Digikam, F-spot, Shortwell, Darktable, Picasa 10:17 Office Suites: LibreOffice, OpenOffice 10:46 Web authoring: Bluefish, Kompozer, nVu 11:45 Web browsers: Firefox, Opera, Chromium, Google Chrome 12:25 Email: Evolution, Thunderbird 13:20 Paint: TuxPaint, myPaint 14:00 CD-DVD Burning: Brasero 15:42 Feed readers: Akgregator, Feedly 16:41 Text editors: Gedit, Kate 18:02 Disk partioners: GParted 18:51 Personal Finance: GNUCash, KMyMoney 19:30 Torrent: KTorrent, Transmission 20:01 Video Players: VLC, Totem 21:07 Audio production: Audacity 21:27 Video editing: Cinellera, Keno, Open Shot, VideoLAN Movie Creator 21:58 FTP transfer: Filezilla 22:20 Music ripping: Sound Juicer 22:49 Tethering DSLR cameras: Entangled 23:40 Scanning: Xsane 24:21 Remote desktop: KRDC, Vinagre 24:53 HP Print Driver: HP Universal Print Driver for Linux 25:51 Desktop notes: Tomboy notes 26:32 Video format conversion: Handbrake, make MKV 27:07 Backup: Simple Backup, Deja Dupe, Back In Time 27:36 Virtual Machines: VirtualBox 29:25 Record desktop sessions: Desktop Recorder 30:01 Beautiful user interface: Compiz, Cairo Dock 32:02 Thanks Troy! 32:21 Hacks, tips and tweaks: Plex 40:10 goinglinux.com, goinglinux@gmail.com, +1-904-468-7889, @goinglinux, feedback, listen, subscribe 41:10 End

00:00 Going Linux #232 · Computer America #69 00:15 Introduction 02:43 Topic: Should I dual-boot Linux with Windows or Mac? 05:12 Tu: Should I try Unix, Linux or Ubuntu? 17:45 What is dual-booting? 19:26 Why would I want to dual-boot? 21:06 What are the alternatives? 27:33 Crossman: "I find, really, no reason left to run Windows" 36:26 The cloud option 39:08 Backup, backup, backup! 40:47 What are “partitions” and do I need them? 41:25 Partitioning looks complicated. Do I really have to do it? 43:16 Is it really difficult to install Linux on a Win8 PC? 46:38 What about installing Linux on a Mac? 54:11 Uwe: Done with Linux 59:29 Tom fills us in on Zorin OS 64:16 Victor won’t get “scroogled” 85:04 Bill discovered that his new computer came with UEFI and Secure Boot, but with Secure Boot DISABLED. Ben commented 85:42 Gus provided a suggestion for screen capture 87:59 Paul has gone Linux, but is a little frustrated 94:21 John is in “virtual” trouble: 99:55 Tony is using Mint 16 and is looking for monitor help 104:52 goinglinux.com, goinglinux@gmail.com, +1-904-468-7889, @goinglinux, feedback, listen, subscribe 118:38 End

00:00 Going Linux #231 · Listener Feedback 00:15 Introduction 00:56 Chromebooks 02:21 Windows 8 tablet 04:31 Robert: Wifi issues with Luna 08:00 John: Burning an ISO 12:24 Andrew: Connecting a phone to Linux 16:44 Hunter: Wubi for Fedora or Arch in Virtual Box 20:43 David: Installing a dedicated home partition 27:55 Mel: Linux Deploy 30:17 Application Pick: Kazam 32:59 PC Linux OS (again!) 33:21 goinglinux.com, goinglinux@gmail.com, +1-904-468-7889, @goinglinux, feedback, listen, subscribe 34:24 End

00:00 Going Linux #230 · 2013 Year in Review 00:15 Introduction 00:42 2013 Review 01:53 A new world record for PCLinuxOS 02:49 New technology before year end 03:37 Steam Box 04:23 Chromebook 10:44 News, highlights and advancements 11:44 Active Linux distributions 21:38 Steam 26:24 Invisible Linux 29:19 Ubuntu Community 36:54 Linux Mint's increase in popularity 38:12 Making money with Open Source 39:54 The battle of the dispay technologies 41:18 $32 Million Kickstarter for a phone 47:32 UEFI 56:40 2013 notable orginizations 57:22 Free Software Foundation 57:56 The Linux Foundation 58:23 Electronic Frontier Foundation 59:12 The Accessible Computing Foundation 61:22 2014 predictions 61:40 More screencasts 62:32 Chromebook corner 65:16 The year of the Linux desktop :) 68:18 goinglinux.com, goinglinux@gmail.com, +1-904-468-7889, @goinglinux, feedback, listen, subscribe 70:02 End