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Errata

Red Hat does release their source code, hence CentOS and all the other RHEL clones out there.

Listener Feedback

• The omipresent Verbal sends us an audio tip about how to handle file names with spaces on the command line and also sneakily plugs the Going Linux podcast

• Antone Henderson sends us a cool picture of Noel and another one of his songs which we play at the end of the show

• klaatu from The Bad Apples podcast educates us about OpenOffice on OS X and gives his opinion about the ability to win converts from the Mac side of things

• Daniel Lowe from Mackay asks Fab about his experiences living down under and talks about the flood damage Mackay and Airlie Beach received during a recent cyclone (his news story links: 1 & 2); Fab also mentions the movie Fool’s Gold which was being filmed in and around Airlie Beach & Whitehaven Beach when he was down there

• Drew asks Fab about the kernel he’s running and a possible way to get his Toshiba laptop with an Intel 4965 wireless card and Intel HD audio to work

• Mark Falkner from Devon asks about ways to get Internet Explorer to run in Linux and also mentions Ext2IFS

• Philip Herron (RedBrain) tells us about Linux and Windows at his university

• Jim Shaver explains about the proliferation of Linux at his uni in Calgary and gives a tip about running Internet Explorer in Firefox using IE Tab

Releases & News

Releases: GoblinX Linux 2.6, NetSecL 2.2, CentOS 5.1 Live CD, Scientific Linux 5.1 Live CD/DVD, Linux Caixa Mágica 12, FreeNAS 0.686.1, DragonFly BSD 1.12, grml 1.1 and BSD pfSense 1.2

• The Ubuntu release after Hardy will be called “Intrepid Ibex”; some more not-so-serious suggestions for further releases

• Parasitic sellers of F/OSS on eBay

• Vista SP1 kills and maims security apps and several utilities

• Google doesn’t like OOXML (somehow Borat is involved)

• Microsoft releases Server 2008 — yawn!

• Stallman steps down from Emacs team, again, gets replaced by Cheech and Chong?

• Microsoft gets fined a record sum by the EU — this story even made the BBC front page

Review

Dan gives us the lowdown on Foresight Linux — read the full review on his blog.

Gaming Corner

We talk about Frets on Fire, the open source Guitar Hero clone written in Python and the fact that the original SimCity has been open sourced as Micropolis.

Package of the Week

• Dan: Mplayer-Plugin, the best browser plugin to play your media
• Fab: phpBB, the ultimate forum software

Fab might be getting a Gumstix and will get back with a review in the future. We also thank the guys from LugRadio for their mention of our podcast and wish them a happy 4th birthday.

We end the show with the song Old Heroes Like Me by Noel Watson.

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 is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.