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This week, the Outlaws talk about M$ sueing TomTom, RedHat moving to KVM, Ballmer saying Linux is a bigger threat to Windows than Apple, Dell’s netbook sale stats and much more.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

This show is dedicated to Einstein, one of Fab’s hamsters, who passed away last week.

0:01:37 Introduction

• Contrary to what we said last week, the World of Goo developers both used to work for EA but quit — also, the soundtrack is free to download but not under a license that is compatible with our podcast, so we can’t play their songs on the show
• Fab is trying out the Jaunty alpha and loves the new NotifyOSD system
• Fab also had trouble with installing Ardour and Jack

0:08:07 Open Source Releases

• Linux Mint 6 “Xfce”
• Parted Magic 3.7
• Caos Linux 1.0.8
• Astaro Security Gateway 7.4
• PC/OS 2009v2
• ZevenOS 1.1
• Dreamlinux 3.5
• SystemRescueCd 1.1.6
• Bash 4.0
• Xfce 4.6
• OpenSSH 5.2

0:22:00 News Stories

• A 3rd of Dell Mini 9’s run Linux, they also say their return rates are the same for Linux & XP versions of their netbooks
• Red Hat is moving from Xen to KVM for their virtualisation technology
• Is the UK government moving to open source in the public sector?
• Microsoft is sueing TomTom over a load of patents, including FAT technology — more articles from Groklaw and Ars Technica, also: The Linux Foundation’s opinion

0:44:16 Microwatch

• People can’t tell Windows 7 from KDE 4
• Ballmer: Linux is a bigger competitor than Apple
• Microsoft boasts with their rate of bugfixes for Windows 7 — we think Ubuntu’s bug fixing rates kick their arse

0:57:00 Listener Feedback

• Forums: Involuntary beard discussion, SheevaPlug — a Linux server in a wall plug
  
  
• Rob Connelly wrote to recommend search.wikia.com
• Ted Streit tells us about Lucene which you could use to roll your own search engine
• Matt P. had an idea for a Folding@home-type distributed computing search project
• Lynn Uxx tells us about a relevant onomastic link to do with Episode 78
• Warren Midgley sent us an email about Roundcube, an open source, roll-your-own Gmail alternative
• Thomas Perl wrote to tell us about a new tennis game he’s working on for Linux called Tennix
• Felix says there are English translations of the Nicht Lustig cartoon
• Egil wants to kill IE6
• Donations: We got some donations from Brian and Ryan again — thanks a lot!
• We also had emails from Pipeline, Mark Hyde, Jon Kulp, Andy Hunter, Kevan Vautier, Brian Hoose, FiftyOneFifty, Neall McLaren, Mark Faulkner, Michael Johnson, Matt Martin, the glza, Todd, Stuart Burns, Goblin, Neil Darlow, EvilMcGee and Daniel Devine

Song: Already Know by Ben Walker

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.