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Linux Outlaws 157 - Horny, Horny, Horny

Submitted by Fab on July 8, 2010 - 19:37.

MP3 - 1 hour 49 minutes 0 seconds, 49.9 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

On this episode of Linux Outlaws: A big announcement (kind of), ASCAP declares war on Creative Commons, Bilski comes down, new Fedora project leader, Microsoft kills Kin and Apple drops the ball on the iPhone 4.

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0:01:08 Introduction

  • We talk about the future of the show (and football)
  • AT&T-iPad security breach may be worse than we first thought
  • Amazon Kindle app released on Android
  • Android 2.2 (Froyo) available for Nexus One and 2.1 (Eclair) available for European Hero users — both are over the air updates
  • Chrome overtakes Safari, now holds 3rd place in US browser market
  • Jono to stream the second Severed Fifth album recording live
  • Beer of the Week: Kempisch Vuur, send to Fab by Johan Vervloet (@johanv)

0:18:12 Releases & News

  • MINIX 3.1.7
  • SystemRescueCd 1.5.6
  • Superb Mini Server 1.5.2
  • Peppermint OS One-06172010
  • Astaro Security Gateway 8.0
  • Development Release: CrunchBang Linux 10 Alpha 2
  • Wordpress 3.0
  • StatusNet 0.9.3
  • FFmpeg 0.6 — codenamed “Works with HTML5”, which is what it does…
  • We also talked about FFmpeg getting its own implementation of the Google VP8 codec
  • VLC 1.1.0
  • PyPy 1.3
  • Parrot 2.5.0 “Cheops”
  • Firefox 3.6.6
  • Thunderbird 3.1
  • k3b 2.0
  • Development Release: CyanogenMod 6 Alpha 1
  • Android 2.2 source code released, Google’s dev blog post

  • ASCAP declares war on free culture
  • The Bilski decision finally came down: Groklaw, Ars Technica, Bradley Kuhn’s comments, Justice John Paul Stevens on Bilski and SFLS special show on the topic
  • Jared Smith is the new Fedora Project leader — he’s @jsmith on identi.ca
  • Debian creates the “Derivatives Front Desk”
  • Cisco’s Android Tablet
  • Google’s big focus for Gingerbread: UI polish
  • Nokia changes from Symbian to MeeGo for flagship phones and MeeGo launches its “Handset User Experience”
  • Adobe pulls Flash player for 64 bit Linux

1:07:37 Microwatch

  • Microsoft kills Kin
  • Crapple: Apple’s major FAIL on the iPhone 4 antenna, Steve Jobs says: “Don’t hold it this way” — also: iPhone glass problems, Class-action suit against Apple over iPhone 4, Motorola kicks Apple in the spuds with New York Times ad, Apple now looking for new antenna engineers

1:17:52 Feedback

  • Donations: Thanks to Alison Chaiken, Brian Lopes, Łukasz Zachulski, Bo Kullmar and Robert P. aka. “MixMasterJ”
  • Blogs: Adam Ward (@redshirtlinux) wrote a very nice blog post thanking us for mentioning his email on the show and Philip Herron (@redbrain) explains how to compile a compiler
  • Audio Feedback: We have an awesome audio submission from B1ackcr0w and another 8-bit version of the theme tune by Chris Tevyaw (aka. Slasher)

  • Sambu writes in response to our discussion of the Windows equivalent to LAMP, he thinks it should be WIMP: Windows, IIS, MySQL, PHP
  • Kevan V. sends us this story about Amazon being granted a patent for social networking websites in the US — You can’t make this shit up!
  • Jonathan Nadeau asked us to mention his new podcast
  • We had a few emails complaining that we bash Apple too much: Michael Mellinger says the iPhone is better than Android, Stephen and Daniel don’t like it when we are critical of Apple and Andy G. wrote to say he doesn’t think Google are any better than Apple and worries more about the amount of information Google have on people, he thinks we should reconsider our stance on Google
  • David Comerford wrote after hearing us talk about all the disc burning for new distros, he recommends the iodd portable SATA hard drive with CD-ROM emulation
  • Nathan D’Elboux recommends the Firefox plugin FlashGot since he used it to download all our old episodes from The Archives
  • We had other emails from Paul W.B., Whym, Peter Trussell, Sergei Van Hardeveld, Nigel Verity, Scott Cann, Anthony (from New Mexico), NRK, Mike Hingley, Brad Pearce, John Scheuvront, Tony Griggs, Brent Foor, Thomas Chace, Stephen Michael Kellat, Andreas Marschke, Ebcdic Zehetbauer, Serko, Jake Roberts, Bo Kullmar, Joe Foy and Steve Anderson

  • Two cool videos about the iPhone 4 vs. the HTC Evo

Song for International Reggae Day (July 1): Waste My Time from the album of the same name by Loudog

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