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This week on a belated Linux Outlaws: More political rants as the German government loses its last shreds of sanity, the Pirate Bay judge is implicated as a member of a copyright lobby organisation, Microsoft’s earnings take a drop and Fab previews Chromium on Linux even if he isn’t supposed to.

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0:01:43 Introduction

• Dan was at the Ubuntu Jaunty release party in Manchester last week
• Check out the Hacking At Random event in the Netherlands this year
• Check out the conference audio from SCaLE 7x
• Dan mentions zenformat
• Amazon and Wikipedia block Phorm in the UK

0:10:37 F/OSS Releases

• Easy Peasy 1.1
• Toorox 04.2009
• Tiny Core Linux 1.4 — Shingledecker’s been at it again!!
• SimplyMEPIS 8.0.06
• All the *buntus (Version 9.04 of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Mythbuntu & Ubuntu Studio)
• iMagic OS 2009.5
• Webconverger 4.7
  
  
• Beta release: OpenMoko Om2009
• EDE 2.0 alpha
• Xfce 4.6.1
• GCC 4.4.0
• Android 1.5 (Cupcake) now officially out

0:25:25 News Stories

• German government legalises internet censorship, passes controversial child porn law — Fab’s blog post on this, “Zensursula” on Twitter
• Libre.fm now open alpha, components named “GNUkebox” (server) and “nixtape” (client), being submitted for review as a GNU project
• Pirate Bay judge is member of movie industry lobby organisation — more on Ars Technica
• Music copyright in the EU extended to 70 years
• Linux Foundation to hold their first annual conference: LinuxCon (in Portland, Oregon 21 - 23 Sept) — the second annual Linux Plumbers conference will follow immediately afterwards
• Red Hat’s map of the open source world:

• BIND 10 starts development

0:43:44 Microwatch

• Report on Microsoft’s anti-competitive behavior of 20 years
• Some new FUD: Oracle now owns parts of Linux — yeah right…
• Microsoft earnings drop significantly

0:50:01 Preview

• Chromium on Linux, Ubuntu users can install it from this PPA

0:55:04 Software Tip

• Google Gadgets, in Ubuntu you can install google-gadgets-gtk or google-gadgets-qt

0:58:34 Listener Feedback

• Donations: Nasser Alshammari, Douglas R. and Jon Kulp
• Forums: Our one troll thread
  
  
• Ger Appeldorn tells us more about Untangle, Screenshots
• Richard Querin sends us another hilarious email
• John Hunt sents greetings from Australia, he’s an ex-pat from Southampton
• Nathan Wood explains on his blog how to set up VirtualBox to load a Windows WM once you plug an iPhone into your Linux system
• Morten, our friend in Denmark, sent us an interesting email about open hardware
• Other emails this week from Nido Media, Jason Walsh, chanux, Gabriele, Kristian Naugle, Ubuntu Pete, Dave S., Joshua, Jason Bowles, Fredrik Lindqvist, Dennis and Kevin Daire
• Pip-Boy theme for Blackberries
• New Bob Dylan record Together Through Life out now

Song: Street Wisdom from the album Guns Blazin’ by Professor Kliq

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