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This week, it’s the show we recorded twice. Topics are: SCO-bashing, MS-bashing, lots of releases (including PROJECT COPY-LINUX), anecdotes and other stuff. As well as a beer review and comic book recommendation.

Introduction and Housekeeping (02:40)

• We recorded this episode twice due to a technical error during the first recording
• Fab is wearing no shirt (cause it’s bloody hot)
• Beer review: Foster’s Lager
• We got a letter from Campbell Barton who works on the Peach open movie project; he says some of the guys were listening to our show while rendering and they offer us two review copies of the DVD — awesome!
• We talk about the OLPC maybe going evil and RMS trying to rescue it from Windows XP Monochrome Edition:

Releases and News Stories (12:41)

• Kiwi Linux 8.04
• OpenBSD 4.3
• Rocks Cluster Distribution 5.0
• easys GNU/Linux 4.1
• gNewSense 2.0
• Mandriva Linux 2008.1 “Xfce”
• Slackware Linux 12.1
• Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1
• Puppy Linux 4.00
• OpenSolaris 2008.05
  
  
• Big hardware vendors push OEMs for Linux compatibility
• Sweet: The new Eee PC 900 will be released tomorrow in the US
• SCO really embarasses itself in court — Ars Techica calls their CEO “deluded”
• From Tom McCarthy: Microsoft designs backdoor dongle for the Police — note the “pre-crime” angle in this writeup
• Intel and Cray team up to create Linux-powered super-mega-über-computers
• Adobe “opens” FLV & SWF file formats; at least they wave the licensing fees
• MySQL says they’ll remain open source — looks like someone is backpaddeling all of a sudden

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (46:08)

• Fab will review SymphonyOne next week
• We are still having massive fun playing GTA IV — if you want to meet up with us in multiplayer, leave us a message here (and don’t mess with Dan in GTA, he’s tough as nails!)
• Tip of the Week: Fab recommends the Dark Tower comic books by Steven King & Marvel
  
  
• Drew has some tips for going back to Firefox 2 on his site mybrainrunslinux.com
• gideon recommends a native Linux space MMORPG: Vendetta Online
• Sean Eggleston has a question about streaming video from his server to his desktop which we attempt to answer (during this we mention FUPPES as an alternative to MediaTomb)
• Owen says the newest iTunes works in Wine now; he also gives us a link for using your iPhone in Ubuntu
• Alan Clements tells us about the Octothorpe again
• Gregor gives us reasons for why he thinks the Firefox beta in Hardy isn’t such a bad idea
• Darth Orange comments on Fab’s Mac menu rant from last week
• Abhorsen sends us an amazingly funny email about our Vyatta/Viagra gags from last week
• Dallis Brockway shocks us with the news that our show is on the Zune Marketplace!? — is Steve Ballmer a secret fan?
• Biffa from Borneo (which is not next to Jamaica) suggests we check out Puppy Linux
• icecruncher points us towards MythTVOS and says we should also try out PCLinuxOS, which Dan did last year

This is the picture of the hard drive that was recovered from the crashed space shuttle Columbia, which we mentioned at the end of the show:

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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.