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This week’s show is brought to you by Bang Bros and Adobe, we also talk about the iTampon, Defective by Design, Ubuntu switching to Yahoo for search, Sourceforge blocking whole countries and much more…

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode.

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:02:08 | Introduction

• Fab thanks Jon Tomaszewski from Red Hat for sending him one of the iconic red fedoras
• Errata: MJJZF was thinking of Adam Williamson of Mandriva when talking about another community manager who has quit his job last week, we are glad to hear Max Spevak is still rocking it at Fedora because he’s a great guy — actually Williamson is at Red Hat now too, we hear
• We had 52,886 downloads in January on Libsyn alone, a new record — the new weekly record is 13,866 for last week
• The Fender Android phone is out now
• GCC to merge Go support
• Wikileaks needs donations
• Check out Dan’s monster N900 review

0:11:56 | Releases, MicroCrapplewatch & News

• SystemRescueCd 1.3.5
• PC/OS 10
• Ubuntu 8.04.4
• Banshee 1.5.3
• Firefox for Maemo 1.0
• Weave 1.0
• Tomboy 1.1.1
• SpamAssassin 3.3.0
• KDE Software Compilation 4.3.5

• Apple releases big ass iPod touch — Fab would prefer a Mini 5, Dan falls asleep
• Steve Jobs: “Ehh… Nobody reads more than 10 hours!!!”
• In response to this, Adobe gets into a pissing match about missing Flash and their main Flash evangelist posts a screenshot from Bang Bros on his blog, then pulls it
• Zonker says Defective by Design is a bad campaign
• Microsoft sues BitTorrent tracker — as far as we are aware, this is a first

• Ubuntu sells their default search option, switches to Yahoo — BING!!!
• Sourceforge now discriminates against users from certain countries that the US doesn’t like — Jon “Maddog” Hall’s take on this topic
• The FSFE receives the Theodor Heuss Medal

1:04:06 | Software Picks

• Desktop: Ground Control, a GUI interface to Bazaar and Launchpad integrated right into Nautilus — Jono’s blog post on Ground Control and other handy tools
• Android: Aldiko, an ebook reader for Android — free, $1.99 if you want to support them

1:09:41 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Tom Link, Mark Wright and Ryan Kohler
• Forums: Coordinate OggCamp travel

• We had a couple of emails on the SourceForge blockade from Pete Smith and Badry Darkoush from Syria — Chad Vader sketch
• Tom Link from Canada reports that he took his car for an oil change to Mr. Lube and was surprised to see that all their workstations run Ubuntu
• Dave Purse sent us information about his new distro Simplicity Linux which comes with Linux Outlaws pre-loaded in the podcatcher — good on ya, Dave!
• MJJZF says the Danish parliament, Folketinget, decided that ODF should be used as the only document format in state documents
• JonathanD pimps Freenode’s “7for7” campaign, go and donate because Freenode is ace!
• We also had emails from Ravel Lopez, Peter Cannon, Bo Kullmar, Joshua K., Jack, Mark Law, Reine, Sven Lankes, Kelly, Paul W.B., Quarter Pounder, Parth Lawate, Morgan, Russ Axford, Rich Brown, Mark, Rick and Vytenis

• Event: Fedora Activity Day (FAD), March 27/28 in Mönchengladbach

Song: Oppositional Defiance Disorder (live) by David Rovics from the album The Commons

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This week on Linux Outlaws: Sun/Oracle deal approved, Zonker leaves Novell, Linux-powered roboboats to invade Wales, 17 year old flaw in Windows uncovered and much, much more…

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode.

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:02:13 | Introduction

• Errata: We forgot to mention last week that mustard is free as in beer too
• Many people told us about the WRT54GL made out of Lego
• Check out the Fedora UK community planet
• Zeitgeist is now called Gnome Activity Journal
• Schneier: Google Hack exploited a secret US government backdoor
• Gimp 2.8 scheduled for release at the end of 2010 — it seems we have to wait quite a bit still for the single window mode
• Limited Verizon offer in the US: Buy a Pre, get a Pixi free!

0:13:16 | Releases & News

• Càtix 1.5 & 1.6
• Tiny Core Linux 2.8
• MoLinux 5.2
• Firefox 3.6
• Bespin 0.6 “Ash” — includes a complete code overhaul
• Nmap 5.20
• Bordeaux 2.0.0
• Wicd 1.7

• Judge cuts down Jammie Thomas fine by 97%
• EU Commission approves Oracle-Sun deal — Monty explodes
• Zonker leaves Novell
• Red Hat starts opensource.com — based on Drupal, too
• Google patents MapReduce
• YouTube videos now available in HTML5 — using H.264 which Firefox doesn’t support
• Linux iz in ur guitar
• Linux-powered roboboat to research W(h)ales
• Maemo/Android dual-boot on N900

0:45:16 | Microwatch

• Google engineer finds 17 year old flaw in nearly all versions of Windows — of course Microsoft has known for ages, but hasn’t fixed it
• French Government also warns against using Internet Explorer
• Ubuntu One is being ported to Windows

0:59:08 | Quick Tip

• Sync your Android phone with Banshee (version 1.5.2 for the Droid/Milestone)

1:05:53 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Andy C., Andrew Gee, Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér, Brad Cleaver, Andre Hugo, KevanV, Mark Gardner and John Scheuvront!
• Forums: Visit #fuckthecoc on Freenode

• Ben just had an operation to have his wisdom teeth removed and our podcast helped him through the pain — cool!
• Moriarty, Bill Boulton and nipeng all sent us information on the Google/China hack
• Kelvin Gardiner tells us about the Ubuntu derivative distro he’s working on, it is aimed at people working on electronics
• Matt says sign the new petition against software patents in Europe — we agree!
• We also had emails from Rex Djere, B1ackcr0w, Reine, Beeza, Michael Spannbauer, Nat Friedman from Hacker Medley, Nick Clark, Robert Murphy, Tom D., Anthony M. Scotti, Joakim Hovlandsvåg, Quarter Pounder, St3v3 and KevanV

• Events: Debian-NYC Bug Squashing Party will be held on the weekend January 29 - 31 at the drop.io offices, 68 Jay Street in Brooklyn / OggCamp travel and hotel info is now on the website

Song: Give A Praise from the album Remember Senegal by Afreekanxpress

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This week, the Outlaws bring you a lot of Google/China hacking stories, a review of the Mustard microblogging client for Android, Microsoft DDoSing Perl hackers, Google hiring Ted Ts’o and the Hawkman is in the house too…

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode.

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:01:42 | Introduction

• Check out this nice review of the show by Andrew Currie
• Better than Bono: REM speaks out for net neutrality
• Very nice looking new Motorola Android phone
• M$ did pull Word from their distribution channels after all
• mintMenu ported to Fedora
• Very funny: Linus rants on embroidery machines
• Booze of the Week: Ramrod’s amazing moonshine Tsipouro

0:15:52 | Releases & News

• BackTrack 4
• SimplyMEPIS 8.0.15 — check out Warren Woodford’s great hair!
• PelicanHPC 2.0
• Frenzy 1.2
• Pardus Linux 2009.1
• Bangarang 1.0

• Mozilla changes release and development process
• Facebook becomes Apache Software Foundation sponsor
• Google is upgrading to Ext4 and hires Ted Ts’o
• Linux Foundation: Linux job market has grown by 80%
• BerliOS hacked
• Dan’s report of his N900 troubles
• Google to pull out of China in aftermath of hacking attacks?

0:44:33 | Microwatch

• German BSI advises citizens not to use Internet Explorer
• IE flaw exploited in Chinese attacks on Google
• Microsoft bots perform denial of service on Perl Testers

0:51:43 | Android App Pick

• Mustard — @macno’s amazing identi.ca client

0:57:11 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Henning Beyer, Craig Horrocks and Matt!
• Forums: How did you discover Linux?

• Regular correspondent Les “Quarter” Pounder writes to tell us of a school in Lancashire, UK who used Moodle to set up a virtual classroom during the recent snow disruption — Pot Noodle
• We had nice emails from Scarffo & Aethelberga to say how much they enjoy the show
• Sidney Skinner tells us more about the FreeNAS kernel situation
• Stuart sends us a link from Groklaw about an email from Bill Gates regarding Linux and ACPI extensions from back in 1999
• Raphael Ong sent us a poem about Linux he wrote for his literature homework
• Crispin tells us that you can buy the Debian wine from last episode and support the distro in the process
• Jonathan Nadeau introduces us to his company Frostbite Systems that makes Linux-based computers including some very cool (pun intended) fully pre-configured machines for blind users
• Folding@Home: Join Team TLLTS and help us take over!
• Peter Noack likes the show and says he’s a medicine student interning in the OR and asked some CPB technicians about Windows XP on the machines, as referenced in Episode 130, and luckily XP isn’t used in critical applications
• We had other emails this week from JonTheNiceGuy, Erik Lee, Kevin Lucas, Bill Boulton, Alistair Munro, Big Jim, spartan7 and David Ellis
  
  
• Event: Klaatu’s Linux Multimedia Sprint, January 26 from 14:00 - 06:00 EST in #media on irc.binrev.net

Song: Rock Out With Your Hawk Out by MC Hawking

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This week on Linux Outlaws we talk about Google’s Nexus One, Nat Friedman leaving Novell, Palm opening their App Catalog, Microsoft collaborating on SVG, Fab reviews the Motorola Milestone (Droid) and much more…

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode.

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:01:20 | Introduction

• We announce OggCamp 10
• Quick security hint: 768-bit RSA cracked
• Thanks to Shot of Jaq for the kind words!
• The DistroWatch Weekly Podcast, Issue 335 used Sudo Modprobe for the intro and played Dan’s The Elephant In The Room — cool!
• New podcasts: Hacker Medley by Nat Friedman & On the Road with David Rovics
• We comment on the last TuxRadar Podcast episode of 2009
• Monty made a billion off MySQL? — bloody hell!
• Fab’s takeaway from CES: 3D? Meh, Android runs on microwaves
• What an arsehole: Bono wants to kick you off the Internet!
• Booze of the Week: Debian Wine sent to Fab by Christoph Klünter (@cz8s)

0:24:99 | Releases & News

• Toorox 01.2010
• Ubuntu Tweak 0.5
• OpenShot 1.0 — apparently it isn’t really ready though
• Development: Bangarang — a new media player for KDE
• Not exactly a release, but check out the new Bisigi themes for Ubuntu

• The Google Phone is real: HTC-made Nexus One — they seem to have customer service problems, though
• Palm finally opens up their App Catalog
• Jamendo is in trouble
• Ximian founder Nat Friedman leaves Novell
• Chrome now bigger than Safari
• RMS on selling exceptions to the GPL
• Zonker says Postgres not so easy to kill

0:53:59 | Microwatch

• Italian class-action lawsuit targets unwanted Windows installs
• Microsoft’s collaboration on SVG could be a win for the open Web

1:02:16 | In-Depth Topic

Fab reviews the Motorola Milestone (aka. Droid) and compares it with the Samsung Galaxy.

Check out more photos in Fab’s gallery which includes some phone camera test pictures, too.

1:25:34 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Ryan K. and Daniel R.!
• Forums: Feedback thread to Episode 130 — our usual derailment ends in a hilarious discussion of Microsoft Sync powered rocket cars

• Peter Cannon, long-time friend of the show, writes us a very funny email.
• Rex Djere says that he loves the show so much it’s inspired him to start his own podcast
• Hanna Pietikäinen just writes us because she “needs more exposure” — check out her site Cutebuntu
• John Scheuvront writes in response to us talking about the recent Nokia patent case and points out that these are all hardware patents
• Gordon Coupar, another old friend of the show, writes us to say that he is still listening and sends us this funny picture with some Banshee recommendation fail:

• Jezra, our own GIMP legend extraordinaire, send us the amazing Jezra Soundboard™ — so cool!
• SK Keeper wrote to tell us of their first BSD experience with FreeNAS and how good it was, he also says that apparently there’s news of the project dumping the BSD kernel and moving to Linux
• We had other emails this week from terryf, Matthew Pherigo, Beeza, Jon T., David Hunter, Steven Rosenberg who told us about TinyOgg, Paul WB, Pier-Luc Caron St-Pierre (“Make it so!”), Thomas Goirand, Xander Vedejas, kalgecin, Andreas Marschke, Chris P. King and Alistair “b1ackcr0w the mention whore” Munro

• Event: come to OggCamp 10!

Song: A Glorious Dawn by Symphony of Science

Bonus Songs:

• A Glorious Dawn - Sensuous Enemy Remix
• A Glorious Dawn - WUB Dubstep Remix

which you can also get from here.

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On the first show of the decade, the Linux Outlaws bring you a KDE 4.3 review, VLC releasing a video editor, Year 2010 bugs, lots of discussion of Google and Microsoft and much more as usual…

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode.

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:01:55 | Introduction

• Welcome to the first Linux Outlaws of the decade!
• Fab got send a Motorola Milestone, review coming soon
• Rod C. “Ramrod” Johnson send us Christmas packages including some home-made olive oil and Tsipouro liqueur
• New decade, but it looks like people are still all stupid: Nude scanners in Germany
• MySQL does NOT need to be saved
• The video of Fab’s LRL 2009 talk on Linux in German schools is now online, thanks to Tony Whitmore and the great LRL video crew
• Booze of the Week: Bowmore Single Malt from Islay

0:14:39 | Releases & News

• ClearOS 5.1
• VortexBox 1.0 — Ubuntu on the Doctor Who set
• Salix OS 13.0.2
• Sabayon Linux 5.1 “Gaming”
• Tuquito 3.1
• Berry Linux 1.00
• Kahel OS 12-25-2009 & Kahel OS 01-01-2010 “Light”
• Sabily 9.10
• SystemRescueCd 1.3.4
• Super OS 9.10
• Linux Deepin 9.12
• NuTyX 2009.2
• sidux 2009-04
• blackPanther OS 10.1
• Zorin OS 2.0
• XBMC 9.11
• digiKam 1.0.0

• Y2K10: SpamAssassin has a Year 2010 bug
• VLC to release a video editor
• Red Hat again reports record earnings for Q3 2009
• EtherPad is now open source
• Google’s understanding of “open”

0:42:39 | Microwatch

• Redmond is looking for anti-Linux people again — and apparently they can’t speak English, much like Google
• Microsoft loses appeal, and is barred from selling Word but has a plan for a workaround — Groklaw article

0:52:46 | In-Depth Topic

Fab talks about his recent experiences of playing with KDE again (KDE 4.3 on Fedora 12).

1:09:02 | Feedback

• Lots of people told us through the microblogs that they really enjoyed the comedy sketches in Episode 129 — luckily, it seems we also managed not to alienate the other podcasters, thanks for all the feedback!
• Donations: A big thanks to Stephen K., Stanley K., Mark C., Samuel V., Bernd S., Mark G., John S., Roger H. and Alison C. for sending us money over the holidays!
• Forums: Please suggest people for us to interview from PyCon

• FiftyOneFifty sent us a link to a Dilbert cartoon which he said attacks open source but we don’t think so — it does however look like it features a guest appearance by Dann Washko:

• Eric Sauve was skiing while listening to Episode 129 and loved it — Bob Konior and chicagonpg also wrote to say they enjoyed this episode
• James Hugman congratulates us on binary birthday 10000000 for Episode 128
• Peter Lanado sent us a link to this Dell page comparing Windows and Ubuntu — we comment on it
• Other emails this week came from augmentedfourth, Matthew Pherigo, Jacob Feltman, Jason Bowles (aka. Malkor the Techie), Samuel Vanderplancke, “The Crusty Detective” Roger, Marvin Vek, Sleepynate, Dylan Coakley, Scott, Tracy W. Holz, Alistair Munro (b1ackcr0w), Rafal Zajac, Adrian Kuepker, Eric, Vj777, DarthSydwayZ, Bluplr (aka. Mike), Tom Jones, Jezra, D. M. Synck, Quarter Pounder, John Scheuvront, Yiannis Nousis (from Greece) and Mark Venable

• Events: First meeting of MuscaLUG on Saturday, January 16 (13:00) at the Pizza Ranch in Muscatine, Iowa / Texas Linux Fest on April 10

Song: Black Flag Flying (live) by David Rovics from the album The Commons

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In the final show for the year and the decade, Dan and Fab look back at 2009 and the major news stories of the year. We also try to decide what this year was all about. There’s even some special funny content as a little bonus.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode.

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

In this special episode we discuss the highlights and downsides of the Year 2009 from the perspective of the Linux Outlaws. There are also some mysterious surprises interspersed throughout the show…

0:02:47 | January

• Russians announce move away from Windows

0:04:58 | February

• Monty leaves Sun
• Debian Lenny released on Valentines Day

0:11:15 | March

• Red Hat dumps Xen for KVM
• Microsoft sues TomTom over FAT patents

0:19:34 | April

• Pirate Bay admins convicted
• Oracle buys Sun

0:24:45 | May

• The German government passes Internet Censorship Law and the EU extends copyright to 70 years
• Intel is hit with a $1.45 billion fine
• Wikipedia adopts CC-BY-SA as co-license with 75% in favour
• Cisco and FSF settle GPL case

0:33:55 | June

• Swedish Pirate Party boards the European Parliament
• We went to Linux Tag in Berlin

0:40:08 | July

• Google unveils Chrome OS plans
• Microsoft puts Mono under their Community Promise
• Launchpad goes open source

0:47:24 | August

• Google open sources Wave protocol
• Alan Cox quits as TTY Maintainer

0:53:05 | September

• Nokia announces the N900 and Motorola also announces Android phones
• Cyanogen Troubles
• Dan went to LinuxCon in Portland

0:58:15 | October

• Red Hat passes Microsoft in stock price
• We did OggCamp!

1:03:54 | November

• KDE founder honoured by German government
• Gnome 3 delayed until late 2010
• GIMP removed from Lucid, Fab explodes
• Fedora 12 let’s non-root users install software

1:07:32 | December

• KDE renames itself
• Google announces their own DNS service

We decide that, in retrospect, 2009 was the year of Linux on mobile phones. Especially Android took off in a huge way this year…

Song: Don’t Know Why by Jamie Rumley from the album Renovations

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On the last regular show for the year: Dan reviews the Nokia N900, Microsoft rips off Plurk, Shuttleworth steps down as Canonical CEO, Google to release the real Googlephone soon, Best Buy says Linux breaks PC hardware and much more…

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode.

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:00:52 | Introduction

• Errata: Fab messed up the release number on the last show but fixed it as soon as possible — sorry for any confusion that might have caused
• We talked about this Aussie ad against Internet censorship, we also had a hint about this on the forum
• Bruce Perens critical of SFLC litigation
• Looks like the Gnome/GNU thing really is more about RMS
• Evernote for Android released
• OpenOffice mouse is now the “WarMouse Meta”
• Beer of the Week: Oettinger Winterbier

0:15:38 | Releases & News

• Parsix GNU/Linux 3.0r1
• Parted Magic 4.7
• Untangle Gateway 7.1
• Absolute Linux 13.0.5
• kademar Linux 4.9.1
• Tiny Core Linux 2.7
• WordPress 2.9
• Moonlight 2 — includes a new patent covenant

• Google will finally release their own “Googlephone”, the Nexus One
• Have you heard??? Shuttleworth steps down as Canonical CEO, his blog post about it
• Monty again talking very little sense
• BestBuy’s Geek Squad says “Linux voids warranty, breaks hardware”
• Is Transgaming killing Cedega?
• We discuss if Ubuntu’s panel redesign initiative is a good thing or not

1:02:48 | Microwatch

• Microsoft rips off Plurk, Plurk’s reply — Status.net says “take our code!”
• EU settles affairs with M$ on browser ballot, no fines this time

1:11:09 | In-Depth Topic

Dan reviews the Nokia N900 and goes quite deeply into the pros and cons of the hard- and software of the device. He actually got a review unit from WOMWorld/Nokia. If you are in the UK, Vodafone seems to have reasonable deals for the N900.

If you have a Maemo device, check out gPodder for Maemo.

1:43:02 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Michael C., Andre H. and Ed D.
• Forums: Check out this cool story from Gregor about how he accidentally converted somebody to Linux

• James Hugman send us a link to the Periodic Table of Beer
• Thanks to Les Pounder for this amazing Christmas card
• Shmoe says Fab is really lucky because he got the X301 and gives him another handy tip about it
• Christopher and Rob P. both sent us this hilarious Steve Ballmer video
• Csaba “The” Hoch tells us that “The Luminous Fish Effect” is an episode title from the comedy series The Big Bang Theory
• Badry Darkoush wrote a nice email saying they enjoy the podcast and it’s the only English show they listen to, they are from Syria and English is their second language
• Other emails this week from Len Cooley, Ron Perrella, Michael Campbell, William Nadeau, John Scheuvront, Babu Shah, Dave Nicholas, Patrick, Dave Purse, Brian Hunt, Matt Read, Alistair “b1ackcr0w the mention whore” Munro and Martin Häger

• Android team to answer questions on IRC

Song: Chiron Beta Prime by Jonathan Coulton

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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This week on the show: An exclusive interview with Bradley Kuhn and Aaron Williamson from the SFLC about their big GPL-enforcement lawsuit this week, Monty going beserk about Oracle and MySQL, Microsoft’s trouble with RMS & Office, the Eric Schmidt PR disaster and much more…

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode.

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:01:26 | Introduction

• Errata: We are sorry for the Archives being down, Dreamhost apparently has been having major problems all over their network
• Vodaphone has a project to make their 3G dongles work properly across all distros and it’s GPLed code
• Go read Dan’s Fedora 12 review to find out what those problems were he was referring to
• On reporting GPL violations: read one of Bradley’s recent blog posts for his experience and advice
• Amazing photos of Lego-staged Hoth scenes
• Beer of the Week: Köstritzer Schwarzbier

0:08:08 | Releases & News

• Ultimate Edition 2.5
• BSD Release: pfSense 1.2.3
• Sabayon Linux 5.1
• Webconverger 5.8
• Thunderbird 3 — F-A-B Virgil!
• gPodder 2.1, Codename: “The Luminous Fish Effect”

• From the Our Governments Suck Ass department: German government decides to waste a lot of its citizens’ tax money
• Asa Dotzler of Mozilla says ditch Google, use Bing because of the Eric Schmidt Disaster
• Gnome proposes vote on split from GNU Project
• Monty goes off the deep end on Oracle deal — more on Groklaw
• Google Goggles now available for Android — but what the hell would you use it for?
• Canonical launches commercial Bazaar support
• Intel, Moblin and the Poulsbo driver mess

0:50:06 | Microwatch

• Windows 7 USB/DVD tool finally released under GPLv2
• “RMS protection” in Office 2003 locks users out of their files

0:57:14 | Interview

We interview Bradley Kuhn and Aaron Williamson from the SFLC and break the story about their GPL-enforcement lawsuit against 14 huge companies (including Best Buy, Samsung, Westinghouse, Western Digital and JVC) about violations of the GPL regarding BusyBox and the reasons behind it.

Follow @bkuhn, @copiesofcopies and @sflc and check out the Software Freedom Law Show.

1:28:43 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Ryan K. and Erik L.!
• Forums: The Crap Alert Program — to be written in all languages under the sun

• Richard Hedenberg sends us an email about ThinkPads, Nokia and Les Pauls — including this picture of how to carry a ThinkPad:

• Peter Lando tells us how much the Parcelforce Worldwide website sucks — ParcelFAIL!
• Will Noakes sent us some more information on the pub wifi troubles from the UK
• Lostnbronx emailed us a link to this story about Microsoft and ancient codecs
• Rico sends us this amazing phone conversation which is probably a fake but still very funny
• More emails this week from Thomas Perl, John (of Arch pen fame), satipera, Peter Cannon, Alistair Munro (aka. B1ackcr0w), Christoph, Dylan Coakley, Shane (L33F3R), doctormo and Danny Piccirillo

• Event: Ubuntu Anime Boston, April 2 (2010) in Boston, Massachusetts

Song: The Elephant In The Room by Dan Lynch

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-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

MP3 - 1 hour 46 minutes 25 seconds, 48.8 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week: Lenovo ThinkPad X301 review, Black Screen of Death, Firefox dethrones IE in Germany, Palm target of GPL-infringement suit, lots of Google news and more…

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode.

0:01:46 | Introduction

• Errata: Eric Kilgore’s Telecaster is a James Burton signature model (Fab mistakenly said Brad Paisley who is a country picker who also plays a Tele)
• Errata: Harald Sitteris Austrian, not German — thanks Bernd!
• “I’m the President, but he’s the Boss!”
• Check out the interview with Jeremy Allison on the SFLS
• We like Shot of Jaq
• Fab still maintains that all those people who think cigarette smoke is oh sooo very dangerous are sissies — Burn One Down!
• Beer of the Week: Grimbergen Triple
• Tea of the Week: Argentinian Mate tea kindly sent to Dan by Sergio Tridente

0:14:08 | Releases & News

• BSD Release: m0n0wall 1.3
• CDlinux 0.9.5
• Linux Mangaka Chu
• Calculate Linux 10.0
• Pentoo 2009.0
• StressLinux 0.4.136
• VirtualBox 3.1
• Qt 4.6

• IE dethroned in Germany by Firefox!

• Improvements in KDE SC 4.4 beta 1
• Google announces DNS service and drops Gears
• Artifex launches a GPL-infringement suit against Palm
• Eben Moglen and SFLC send letters in support of Oracle to EU Commission

0:48:59 | Microwatch

• Something new from Microsoft: The Black Screen of Death
• M$ bans people left & right on Xbox Live

0:58:30 | In-Depth Topic

Fab reviews the Lenovo ThinkPad X301.

1:14:41 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks a lot to Christopher D., Ronald P., Douglas L. and Matthew C.
• Forums: Jezra’s awesome “Gimp your head onto another body” tutorial

• Andrew C. sent us information on a project called IceCream for cross compiling stuff
• Andy Hunter sent us an email about [a boxed version of OpenSUSE he’s seen on Amazon for £50
• Bob Konior tries to beat us in the shitty old computer challenge
• Roger Light tells us about his app mosquitto (an open source mqtt broker) which came about as a direct consequence of Andy Stanford-Clark’s talk at OggCamp
• We had emails about the Ubuntu One application list sharing idea from Spencer Dupre and x1101** pointing out that Synaptic can export a list of installed packages already — Fab recommends APTonCD
• Other emails this week from Jacob Feltman, Martin Häger, Mark Law, Matthew Pherigo, James Lewis, satipera, Pete Martin, Jake Tolbert, Lorenzo, Daniel Devine, redbrain, Tony Ciak, Luke Platypuss, Brian Kemp, Michael White, GourdCaptain, Dan Beeler, Neal and Quarter Pounder

• Event: Debian Bug Squashing Party, January 22-24 at Credativ GmbH.

Song: Song for the Eureka Stockade by David Rovics from the album Ten Thousand Miles Away

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-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

MP3 - 1 hour 09 minutes 12 seconds, 31.7 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

In this special episode, we interview Pat Davila from TLLTS and the MythTV Cast about the latest MythTV release and a lot of general MythTV-related topics.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode.

0:00:53 | Introduction

• We introduce the special episode and our guest

0:02:44 | Interview

We interview Pat Davila of the Linux Link Tech Show and the MythTV Cast about the new MythTV release 0.22, VDPAU, different capture sources you can use for your MythTV, commercial mythboxes, MySQL troubles, Mythbuntu 9.10, general MythTV features and the new themes, how he came to Linux, what distros he runs, football and much more.

Also check out TLLTS and the MythTV Cast.

Useful Links:

• Hauppauge PVR 1212
• DVB
• SiliconDust HD Homerun
• MythTV Theming Competition
• Mythbuntu
• LinHES
• Mythdora

Song: The Last Time I Saw David by Robin Grey from the album Only The Missile

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-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.