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Linux Outlaws 85 - I Know What You Are Wearing, Mr. Wollenberg

Submitted by Fab on April 8, 2009 - 10:40.

MP3 - 1 hour 13 minutes 45 seconds, 33.9 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

On this special show, we talk about the Microsoft/TomTom settlement and interview Linux Basement’s Chad Wollenberg on open source in schools.

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0:02:23 Introduction & Breaking News

We talk about the recent settlement between Microsoft & TomTom and what it might mean for Linux and the F/OSS communities. Groklaw articles on this: [1] [2] [3]

0:21:32 The Interview

We interview Chad Wollenberg of Linux Basement and TLLTS fame about his commitment to open source software in education. We also talk about a lot of other stuff, including OpenVZ and Proxmox, the OpenDisc, Active Directory for Linux, the Linux Terminal Server Project, the podcaster car, Dave Yates, why Chad has no landline and where he actually records his podcast.

If you want to hear Chad’s talk to the accountants about the money they saved in his district, listen to Episode 37 of Linux Basement.

Fab’s blog post about Linux in German schools.

Song: Chad’s “Malware Song” from Episode 36 of Linux Basement

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.

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Fabian Scherschel is a university student from Bonn, Germany who works part-time as tech support for a large ISP and otherwise spends his time hacking stuff, listening to rock music or watching Firefly. He is running his own Fedora respin.

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Dan Lynch is a programmer, musician and full-time layabout from Merseyside, UK. He used to work for the NHS as a .NET developer before turning his back on the Dark Side to become an open source enthusiast. He has been commited to the open source ethos ever since. Dan is always distro hopping for the good of the podcast.

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