Category5 Technology TV - Ubuntu 12.10 vs Zorin OS 6 Ultimate

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This episode is sponsored in part by: ESET NOD32 Antivirus, Thermaltake, Netflix, Eco Alkalines and Cordery Electric.

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Robbie Ferguson and Abigail Smith present from the Category5 studios in Barrie, Ontario.
Introducing Abigail Smith.
{play 4:31}Viewer Postcards
{play 8:50}Prize Giveaway: The upcoming giveaway of a Tt eSPORTS Chao DRACCO Signature Headphones, and giving away five 1-year licenses of ESET NOD32 Antivirus 5.
{play 12:46}Viewer Question
Viewer Question: I have a D-Link DNS-320 ShareCenter NAS unit. I can access it from my Linux computer by going to smb://hostname/sharename, but how can I add it to /media/NAS?
- Accessing a network share in Linux.
- Creating a mountpoint on Linux in the /media folder.
- Understanding the basics of what a mountpoint is.
- Editing your /etc/fstab file.
- Creating an smbfs mounted connection using fstab.
  Robbie's entry looks like this: //10.0.0.5/category5 /media/NAS smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/cred-file,uid=demo,gid=users 0 0
- Installing smbfs so you can mount network attached storage via the SMB/SAMBA protocol.
- Creating a credentials file for your smbfs mountpoint to store your username and password.
  Please do be mindful that creating a plain-text credentials file could reveal your NAS username and password to a malicious user who has physical or remote access to your computer system. Be sure to always use a strong password on your NAS which is not used elsewhere (eg., don't make your NAS password the same as your online banking or root password!)
- Testing your fstab changes by mounting your entries on the fly with sudo mount -a.
Viewer Questoin: How can I move menu items around in Gnome? For example, moving iScreenshot from Accessories to Graphics.
Viewer Question: When I install Windows 8 in Ubuntu 11.10, my pointer doesn't work. How can I use it?
Viewer Question: How can I add your feeds for video to XBMC?
{play 32:00}Top Stories from the Category5.TV Newsroom.
{play 38:11}Feature: Ubuntu 12.10 and Zorin OS 6 Ultimate: which looks and feels better straight out of the box?
- Links:
  Ubuntu: ubuntu.com
  Zorin OS: zorin-os.com
- Both Zorin OS and Ubuntu Linux solicit donations in order to download their distribution.
- Linux is not an elitist operating system to install: even a novice user could install Linux on their computer system with minimal effort.
- A side-by-side installation of Ubuntu 12.10 and Zorin OS 6 Ultimate. They both take about the same amount of time to install, and are both very easy to install. Zorin OS asked a few less questions (eg., "Do you want MP3 support" - of course I do, so Zorin OS Ultimate Edition just installs it, no questions asked).
- The Ubuntu Unity interface is a much different interface than what we're used to.
- Zorin OS 6 Ultimate feels very much like Windows 7 out of the box—very easy to transition over to Linux since the interface is familiar.
- Using Zorin Look Changer to make your Zorin OS system look like Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Unity, Mac OS X or Gnome 2.
- What Linux is: a free (as in freedom) operating system which can replace Microsoft Windows on your computer.
{play 54:21}Prize Giveaway: Tt eSPORTS Chao DRACCO Signature Headphones.
Viewer Picture: Dennis Kelley sent in a picture of himself watching Category5 in Texas.
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