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Title’s got you interested, eh? This week: Fab does Jürgen Prochnow, a story from arsetechnica, we learn what a Gerrymander is and much, much more…

We start with another shoutout to Emmett, lostnbronx’s son. Fab also tries his best Jürgen Prochnow impression.

Releases (07:28)

• Knoppix 5.3.1
• SystemRescueCd 1.0.1
• Dreamlinux 3.0
• OpenOffice.org 2.4

News (14:45)

• OOXML is now an official ISO standard — looks like the shit has hit the fan (story from arsetechnica)!

We also learn from Dan what a Gerrymander is.

• Ubuntu stands alone, unhacked at CanSecWest’s Pwn to Own — Mac was “the easiest target”

• Also: guy tries to sell the hacked Vista machine but eBay pulls it — apparently it’s against their ToS to sell goods “that might cause harm” (like Vista)

• Firefly extension turns your Firefox into a file browser — pretty cool!

• Adobe joins the Linux Foundation — PR stunt or are they finally seeing the light?

Extra Stuff (41:07)

Fab talks about killing his mythbox and trying out Mythbuntu once again. This time it booted and he likes it a lot.

Tip of the Week: SmugMug, a very cool photo-sharing service

Listener Feedback:

• JP Campbell sends us his thoughts about Wubi.
• Nathan Dotz rants about Walmart and tells us why he thinks they stopped selling the Linux-powered gPC in the stores. He also sends us links to the gBook and CloudBook at Walmart’s site.
• Rob Collins tells us about Spicebird and plugs his site on which he plugged our show — thanks for that!

Before we wrap it up, we talk a bit about the new theme here on the site — please tell us what you think about that and the rest of the 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.