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In this episode, which we recorded once again in one room together at Dan’s place in Liverpool, we apologise a lot and talk about the London Stock Exchange dumping Windows for Linux, Nokia giving away free N900s, Barnes & Noble’s new ebook reader, Ballmer saying Windows owns 75% of the server market 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.

0:00:55 | Introduction

• This week’s episode was recorded with both Dan and Fab being in one room together in Liverpool and released with minimal editing as soon as possible
• We also used a slightly different setup and different microphones
• Errata: You don’t need Twitpic for identi.ca since it has attachments now — thanks @evan
• Errata: As it turns out €1 doesn’t really equal $1 — thanks to Matěj Cepl for the tip
• Errata: We confused Daniel “Not Cloud Man” Devine with Dan Dart who is the cloud man in Episode 116
• Sorry for the MP3 FAIL on Episode 117, we fixed it within a few hours — please re-download the show if you still have problems
• Sorry for the late release of Episode 116, we had a little snafu that prolonged the editing process
• The Software Freedom Law Show did an episode on the Bilski briefs
• Check out the Command Line Podcast interview with Randal Schwartz
• Please: Do not take everything we say quite so literally, Linux Outlaws is best enjoyed with a generous dose of salt (ie. calibrate your sarcasm filters)
• Beverage of the Week: Monster Energy

0:15:44 | Releases & News

• Caos Linux 1.0.25
• Parsix GNU/Linux 3.0
• LinuxConsole 1.0.2009
• Puppy Linux 4.3.1
• OpenBSD 4.6
• CentOS 5.4
• Development Release: Fedora 12 Beta
• Development Release: Ubuntu 9.10 RC
• WordPress 2.8.5: Hardening Release

• Firefox and Opera Mobile headed for Android
• The London Stock Exchange gets the facts and dumps Windows for Linux
• Red Hat passes Microsoft in stock price
• Is Ubuntu moving to an invite-only approach for design process?
• Ubuntu to store copies of all users’ address books — will this be secure?
• Citrix and ARM join the Linux Foundation
• Nokia gives out 300 free N900s to developers
• Interesting World of Goo sale results
• Barnes & Noble to release Android ebook-reader

0:55:02 | Microwatch

• Sam Ramji on CodePlex
• Ballmer thinks Windows has 75% server market share — yeah, right… in your dreams, Steve!
• Microsoft Cloud FAIL: they manage to loose all the Sidekick data for T-Mobile

• Tip: The League of Moveable Type — movement for free fonts on the web, the site includes some really cool fonts for free use

1:14:49 | Feedback

• Forums: Most disturbing forum topic ever

  

• James Hugman comments on Fab’s assertion that the Guardian Anywhere app for Android is slow and tells us that our hat logo is being used in it and that we get a credit for it in the “About” screen
• Jonathan, a blind Linux user, tells us how PulseAudio makes his life a lot harder since it breaks the Orca screenreading software
• Travis sends us a link to a GNU game that he found
• David Geary, drewofdoom and Epicanis all wrote about ALSA multiple channel support with Dmix
• In regards to open source game engines, Ted Strait says the game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and many other games use the Open Dynamic Engine which is under the BSD license apparently
• Jason Lee Jones send us some information about Kindle alternatives
• We got other emails from Nick aka. FacetiousProxy, Les “Quarter” Pounder, AJ, Rafal Zajac, Darren Walsh, Andreas Marschke, Mark Venable, Brian Fitzhugh, John “the Nice Guy” Spriggs, Jonathan, Alienkid(10), Per Lindström, Tim Pass, Michael Burns, Mike O’Donohue, Matthew Pherigo, Steve Castelli, Akshay Shah and B1ackcr0w. Thanks to all of you for your feedback!

• Jono & Aq are doing a new podcast! — this should really be called Bacon & Aq, and we also need Procter & Gambél
• Ubuntu Release Party Manchester — Friday, October 30th at the Pitcher and Piano pub in Deansgate Docks
• There’s also a Barcamp in Manchester on the 7th and 8th of November
• Ubuntu Release Party Hull — Saturday, October 31st at The Old Grey Mare, Cottingham Road

Song: Crashing Down by David Rovics from the album Halliburton Boardroom Massacre

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.