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This time on the show: Last.fm, Microsoft and the German state FAIL miserably, Linux router worm, an ATI rant and Dan reviews Arch Linux.

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0:00:54 Introduction

• Correction from Episode 82: arch3angel is in the Army not in the Navy
• If you are a student and over 18, you can now apply for the Google Summer of Code 2009 until 19:00 UTC on April 3 — TLLTS interview with the organisers from Google (Episode 291): MP3, Ogg Vorbis
• Thanks to Andrew Barnett for his kind words about our podcast
• Thanks to Mr. Wolf aka. Drew F. for their kind donation
• Ubuntu Jaunty Release Party in Manchester, Friday 24th April — Dan will be there

0:07:26 Open Source Releases

• SUSE Linux Enterprise 11
• Scientific Linux 5.3 “Live CD/DVD”
• Puppy Linux 4.2
• Development release: Ubuntu 9.04 Beta — tip: Upgrade to Jaunty beta without downloading the .iso image
• Development release: PC-BSD 7.1RC1

0:13:43 News Stories

• German cops raid Wikileaks
• New worm infects Linux home routers and modems
• Ubuntu will offer the ability to run Amazon EC2 images on-site
• Novell CEO kind of appologises for Novell/M$ deal
• Red Hat: There’s no money in Linux on the desktop
• More fighting on filesystems — this really is a bit over our heads
• Obama supports RIAA in copyright suits, they say $150,000 per downloaded track is a reasonable fine — WTF!?
• Last.fm to charge for subscriptions, but only in certain countries — FAIL!

0:44:40 Microwatch

• Microsoft: Judge us by our deeds, not our words on open source

0:51:39 In-Depth Discussions

Fab rants about ATI drivers (info on VDPAU) and Dan reviews Arch Linux.

1:14:32 Listener Feedback

• Forums: Marshall aka. timttmy’s Identibash mod
• Robin sent this link for a $499, 1.5 m Ethernet cable in reply to our joke about a gold plated RJ45s
• Gerhard Schulze wants to mention the distro Inx and says it’s a good way to explore the command line
• James Stephenson would like to recommend the audiobook Quarter Share after hearing us mention Scott Siegler
• Piotr Esden-Tempski says he works on some open hardware projects and wants to remind people to license their hardware properly so it can be used in open projects
• Other mails this week from Will Noakes, Bryan Tyson, Tim Hamilton, Morten-I-got-bored-spelling-his-name, JonTheNiceGuy, Kevan Vautier, Ben2Talk, Kirill, Michael, Patrick Craenen, Scruffy Mogwai and Dan Dart.

Song: Rocksteady by Houdini Roadshow from the album Down in the City

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-SA 3.0 license.