84:46 minutes, 38.9 MB — Download or play

This week, it’s the show we recorded twice. Topics are: SCO-bashing, MS-bashing, lots of releases (including PROJECT COPY-LINUX), anecdotes and other stuff. As well as a beer review and comic book recommendation.

Introduction and Housekeeping (02:40)

• We recorded this episode twice due to a technical error during the first recording
• Fab is wearing no shirt (cause it’s bloody hot)
• Beer review: Foster’s Lager
• We got a letter from Campbell Barton who works on the Peach open movie project; he says some of the guys were listening to our show while rendering and they offer us two review copies of the DVD — awesome!
• We talk about the OLPC maybe going evil and RMS trying to rescue it from Windows XP Monochrome Edition:

Releases and News Stories (12:41)

• Kiwi Linux 8.04
• OpenBSD 4.3
• Rocks Cluster Distribution 5.0
• easys GNU/Linux 4.1
• gNewSense 2.0
• Mandriva Linux 2008.1 “Xfce”
• Slackware Linux 12.1
• Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1
• Puppy Linux 4.00
• OpenSolaris 2008.05
  
  
• Big hardware vendors push OEMs for Linux compatibility
• Sweet: The new Eee PC 900 will be released tomorrow in the US
• SCO really embarasses itself in court — Ars Techica calls their CEO “deluded”
• From Tom McCarthy: Microsoft designs backdoor dongle for the Police — note the “pre-crime” angle in this writeup
• Intel and Cray team up to create Linux-powered super-mega-über-computers
• Adobe “opens” FLV & SWF file formats; at least they wave the licensing fees
• MySQL says they’ll remain open source — looks like someone is backpaddeling all of a sudden

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (46:08)

• Fab will review SymphonyOne next week
• We are still having massive fun playing GTA IV — if you want to meet up with us in multiplayer, leave us a message here (and don’t mess with Dan in GTA, he’s tough as nails!)
• Tip of the Week: Fab recommends the Dark Tower comic books by Steven King & Marvel
  
  
• Drew has some tips for going back to Firefox 2 on his site mybrainrunslinux.com
• gideon recommends a native Linux space MMORPG: Vendetta Online
• Sean Eggleston has a question about streaming video from his server to his desktop which we attempt to answer (during this we mention FUPPES as an alternative to MediaTomb)
• Owen says the newest iTunes works in Wine now; he also gives us a link for using your iPhone in Ubuntu
• Alan Clements tells us about the Octothorpe again
• Gregor gives us reasons for why he thinks the Firefox beta in Hardy isn’t such a bad idea
• Darth Orange comments on Fab’s Mac menu rant from last week
• Abhorsen sends us an amazingly funny email about our Vyatta/Viagra gags from last week
• Dallis Brockway shocks us with the news that our show is on the Zune Marketplace!? — is Steve Ballmer a secret fan?
• Biffa from Borneo (which is not next to Jamaica) suggests we check out Puppy Linux
• icecruncher points us towards MythTVOS and says we should also try out PCLinuxOS, which Dan did last year

This is the picture of the hard drive that was recovered from the crashed space shuttle Columbia, which we mentioned at the end of the show:

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The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.

78:34 minutes, 36.1 MB — Download or play

We have a content-packed show for you this week: Hans Reiser convicted for murder, Kip Macy charged with tennant terror, Fab reviews Rockbox and Xfce and we talk about GTA IV on the PS3.

Introduction and Housekeeping (01:17)

• We discuss Eric Mesa’s email about our Ubuntu Hardy discussion last week — Fab mentions this post on Mark Shuttleworth’s blog

Releases and News Stories (08:06)

• Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu & Mythbuntu 8.04
• SystemRescueCd 1.0.2
• MythDora 5.0
• PC-BSD 1.5.1
• Damn Small Linux 4.3
• Vyatta 4.0
• DragonFly BSD 1.12.2
• CDlinux 0.6.1
• Wordpress 2.5.1
  
  
• Hans Reiser found guilty of first degree murder
• FreeBSD developer Kip Macy charged with tenant terror
• MySQL CEO says they won’t move to Solaris under Sun
• Novell retaliates against SCO in court
• MS-bashing: Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web Servers Hacked

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (35:07)

• Rockbox
• Xfce / Xubuntu
• Grand Theft Auto IV for the PS3
• MediaTomb
  
  
• Hendo sends us another Noel Watson song which we play at the end of the show
• The glza gives us some general opinions on the show, the OLPC ditching Linux and suggests Dan should become a dialectician like Matt Besser
• Tony Griggs tells us why he thinks Dan is the techie while Fab has the more worldly view on the show
• Darth Orange comments on Dan’s recent Dreamlinux review and Fab rants about the OS X task bar
• Germ gives us our first real shoeing about VulcanRidr and Chad Wollenberg’s Linux Basement podcast
• Kurtis gives Dan some VirtualBox tips

We close the show with Noel Watson’s wonderful song Tom’s Woman. Please leave a comment about this episode on the forums, if you feel like it.

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.

56:20 minutes, 25.9 MB — Download or play

In this episode, we talk about the new Ubuntu version, 8.04 Hardy Heron, which will be released today.

We discuss some of the new features in Hardy, including:

• PulseAudio (and the missing manager app for it)
• The new artwork
• Firefox 3 (and the beta problem)

We also discuss the fact that Ubuntu seems to release a bit earlier than prudent. As with Gutsy, there seemed to be a lot of updates coming down awfully close to release. There also seems to be a lot of upstream development included as features.

• Xorg 7.3
• Kernel 2.6.24
• Gnome 2.22 (including GVFS)
• PolicyKit
• Transmission, Vinagre, Brasero
• World Clock Applet
• Inkscape (which isn’t even included by default)
• KVM, ActiveDirectory integration
• Memory protection
• New System Monitor
• Install without booting into the LiveCD, graphical fsck screens

In summary, it seems like a real fast, solid release with a lot of useful features even despite some minor problems in the beta period and no really ground breaking stuff. Now, what the hell are you waiting for? Get it already!

Listener Feeback

• Caolan McMahon gives Fab a tip about opening .docx files
• Nils Schlupp sends us a mail with another Gentoo tip

Fab also tells everyone to check out VulcanRidr’s Armored Penguin podcast — a show about Linux and security.

» Please leave a comment about this episode on the forums, if you feel like it.

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.

93:22 minutes, 42.9 MB — Download or play

In this episode: Shoeings galore, Microsoft pisses off Fab once and for all, MySQL goes half-closed and lots of funny emails.

This episode is dedicated to Danny Federici.

From brucespringsteen.net (also check out the video of Danny’s last performance on the site):

“Danny and I worked together for 40 years - he was the most wonderfully fluid keyboard player and a pure natural musician. I loved him very much…we grew up together.”
—Bruce Springsteen

Danny Federici, for 40 years the E Street Band’s organist and keyboard player, died this afternoon, April 17, 2008 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City after a three year battle with melanoma.

The Federici family and the E Street family request that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Danny Federici Melanoma Fund.

Errata, Releases & News (03:38)

We reply to a mail from Abhorsen about our coverage of the Pwn to Own competition.

F/OSS Releases:

• Linux XP 2008
• Nonux 4.4
• SymphonyOne 2008.1
• gOS 2.9 Space
• sidux 2008-01
• EnGarde Secure Linux 3.0.19
• Draco GNU/Linux 0.3.0
• Inkscape 0.46
• Songbird 0.5
• Drupal 6.2

Check out Dan’s and Fab’s sites (both running on Wordpress 2.5).

On the news front, MySQL goes semi-proprietary and we don’t like it.

Google explains Android at LugRadio Live US 2008, including this nice chart that explains the architecture:

More on the EU-MS war: Microsoft may be barred from EU public procurement procedures — this is the video Fab was talking about:

Also: Steve McIntyre gets elected as new Debian Project Leader.

Review, Gaming Corner, Tip of the Week & Feedback (48:26)

Dan gives his review of Dream Linux 3.0 — read the full review on his blog.

Fab talks about the fact that the EVE Online client source was leaked on BitTorrent.

Tip of the Week: SpaceWesterns.com

Listener Feedback:

• We get a great audio feedback from Jason Morgan and his two kids Liam and Olivia
• Darren Fuller sends us our first hate mail — very funny!
• Johan sends another tip for Fab for fixing his Gentoo trainwreck
• Philip Herron still likes the podcast and prompts us about open source licenses and control over open source projects
• Randy Noseworthy sends us another audio feedback, also very cool!
• We also get mail from Toby Stafford about being a .NET developer and also a Linux user and our Audible ad quib in the last show
• Eric Mesa sends us a note about several IRC clients

Before we wrap it up, Fab mentions the new, stylish eeePC competitor from HP and Dan mentions a candlelight vigil over OOXML in India.

» Please comment on this episode in the forums.

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast (except the parts at the beginning and the end, which are excerpts from Bruce Springsteen’s songs “Bishop Danced” and “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)” and are copyrighted Bruce Springsteen, ASCAP) is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.