{"id":12291,"date":"2012-06-03T18:05:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T23:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=12291"},"modified":"2012-06-03T18:05:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T23:05:05","slug":"firefox-menu-freedos-bash-mint-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/03\/firefox-menu-freedos-bash-mint-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox menu, FreeDOS, bash, Mint, question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big new of the day in the OpenSource world is that FreeDOS&#8217;s web site, revised and updated, is out of Beta and fully up and running, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedos.org\/\">here<\/a>. If you click through you&#8217;ll find an update on a number of recent changes and updates to the operating system.<\/p>\n<p>Just in case you need to know how to figure out what day of the week it is using only bash scripting (including some awk) click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxjournal.com\/content\/calculating-day-week\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently Windows users have something Linux users don&#8217;t.  But there&#8217;s a fix, so it no longer matters:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YLRdqrCNwaU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It is done.  Almost.  As predicted here on this blog but denied by many, it is probably true that with Windows 8, <a href=\"http:\/\/linux.slashdot.org\/story\/12\/05\/31\/190217\/red-hat-will-pay-microsoft-to-get-past-uefi-restrictions\">new hardware will be required by Microsoft to refuse to run Linux<\/a> unless you mess with it a lot.  This will make the act of simply installing Linux on that hardware hard enough that a lot of potential newbies will not bother. Also, it may make dual booting difficult (I&#8217;m just guessing at that).<\/p>\n<p>Mint 13 is <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2031\">out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody know how to make a G5 boot to an install CD? A way that works?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big new of the day in the OpenSource world is that FreeDOS&#8217;s web site, revised and updated, is out of Beta and fully up and running, here. If you click through you&#8217;ll find an update on a number of recent changes and updates to the operating system. Just in case you need to know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/03\/firefox-menu-freedos-bash-mint-question\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Firefox menu, FreeDOS, bash, Mint, question<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4015,422,866,57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-3cf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}