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Linux Outlaws 88 - BeardSQL

Submitted by Fab on April 22, 2009 - 20:55.

MP3 - 1 hour 47 minutes 35 seconds, 49.3 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week on Linux Outlaws: Oracle buys Sun, Pirate Bay admins go to jail, Germany censors the Internet and even more WTFs.

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

0:01:13 Introduction

  • The mysterium of andyc — Check out Habari, he’s involved with that
  • DFEY-NW Meeting on April 9
  • Tip: How to defend against Psyb0t
  • Have a look at the Garmin-Asus nüvifone G60 (runs Linux) — shit name, cool look!
  • Jono is now doing (weekly?) vidcasts
  • Beer of the Week: Feldschlösschen from Switzerland (thanks to Alex!)

0:10:28 F/OSS Releases

  • FreeNAS 0.69.1
  • SliTaz GNU/Linux 2.0
  • gNewSense 2.2

  • Preview release: Android 1.5 (Cupcake)
  • Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) will be released tomorrow, April 23

0:27:50 News Stories

  • eBay now to IPO Skype
  • Pirate Bay admins found guilty
  • Oracle buys Sun — Groklaw post
  • wikileaks.de domain taken down — German ISPs to censor the Internet

  • udev vulnerability can be used to gain root access
  • Linux Foundation “I am Linux” competition winner
  • Wikipedia to vote on Creative Commons license adoption

1:08:14 Microwatch

  • Microsoft at the Linux Collaboration Summit
  • Microsoft releases its CCI tools under an open-source license — does it even matter?

1:16:05 Listener Feedback

  • Donations: Thanks to Csaba The Hoch & Paul K. aka. Spoony
  • Forums: We smashed through 700 members this week! — Discussion of plans for our 100th episode

  • Akshay Shah tells us an awesome marriage FAIL / Linux WIN story

  • Jim Medeiros says we should do a special about our most favourite applications and explains how he lives near Redmond and hides his UNIX equipment from snooping attempts
  • sarfaraz writes to us about some pretty awesome German words
  • Daniel Lowe from Aus discovered Tux’s tarted up sister
  • bgryderclock recommends a cool resource for learning Blender
  • Mike Pacholik sent us links to videos explaining Untangle and on support for ZFS in FreeNAS
  • Lawal wants to know how to get started contributing to Free Software projects
  • Other emails this week from Brent Foor, Stefano Forenza, Richard Golledge, Jason Bowles, James H. and Mark

Also thanks to Stefano Forenza for writing a nice blog post about us!

Bruce Springsteen’s version of War is pure awesome!

Song: Mothers, Daughters, Wives by Noel & Glenn Watson (thanks to Hendo for sending us this song in his email)

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