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Linux Outlaws 45 - The Cabbage-Eatin' Bird

Fab — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:47:45 +0100

80:01 minutes, 36.8 MB — Download or play

On this week’s show, we talk about lots of Linux and open source related mobile phone news, Gobuntu, Songbird and lots of other stuff. Featuring patent-pending CrapALERT™-technology.

Introduction and Housekeeping (01:09)

Dan says hello to the guys from the Chester LUG
Bill Gates last day at M$ — good riddance!
LugRadio Live 2008 — hope we’ll see you there!
Jamie Bennett told us about the Entertainer Project, check it out
Tea of the Week: Sainsbury’s green tea with lemon
Fab’s MacBreak Weekly rant

Releases and News Stories (11:43)

linuX-gamers Live DVD 0.9.3
eAR OS 1.10 — background story on eAR OS at Linux.com
Molinux 4.0
CentOS 5.2
sidux 2008-02
Arch Linux 2008.06
GoblinX 2.7 “Mini”
Myah OS 3.0 “Dragon”
Pardus Linux 2008
OpenMoko has started shipping the completely open Freerunner mobile phone
Nokia buys Symbian and promises to “open source” the Symbian OS
The LiPS (Linux Phone Standards Forum) and LiMo (Linux Mobile Foundation) consolidate into huge Consortium Of Doom™
Jono announces that Gobuntu will become an installation option in Ubuntu
Reddit open sources their source

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (40:21)

Tip of the Week: Songbird 0.6 — a “mouser” as Dan says: part media player, part browser (Ubuntu/Debian users can get it from getdeb.net)
Dann Washko from TLLTS enlightens us on chameleons
Nido Media reminds us that some people might have use for 64 bit computing, he also brags a bit about his UltraSPARC 5 station
Ralph Z tells about tea with milk and his videocasts about web development based on Ubuntu at TheOrangeIT.org
Dan mentions Popey and the Ubuntu UK podcast
Drew Fitzsimmons tells us that he likes the show and how he listens to it, he also corrects us on Volts and Amps
David Sterry aka. weex tells us about a secret project which we will announce when it’s ready
Shaun Mallette aka. “The Rock Star” says he likes our show notes and documentation
Christian Farrow found us through our Open Source City coverage and really enjoys the podcast, he also pings us about TrueCrypt
We shortly discuss Mark Shuttleworth’s article about responsibility of distributions
Please check out and use del.icio.us/linuxoutlaws — if you want to send us stories, tag them with for:linuxoutlaws
Rest in peace George Carlin, you’ll be missed

Please leave comments on this episode in the forums.

Song: Wreck It by Munkeez Strikin Matchiz (Chuck D & Bo Diddley)

Linux Outlaws 44 - Welcome to KDE 5 (openSUSE 11 Special)

Fab — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:22:42 +0100

86:39 minutes, 39.8 MB — Download or play

This week we bring you a special show where we review the latest openSUSE release and also talk a fair bit about KDE 4.

Introduction and Housekeeping (01:17)

Errata: Alessandro Volta invented the electric battery
Fab went to an awesome Bruce Springsteen concert in Düsseldorf
We recommend new Linux users or people that want to switch listen to Going Linux
No Beer of the Week again, we recorded too early in the day

Releases and News Stories (06:50)

VectorLinux 5.9
Pioneer Linux 3.2
Kurumin NG 8.06
Zenwalk Live 5.2
openSUSE 11.0
Songbird 0.6
Wine 1.0 launches — forum topic with ancient Wine stories
Firefox 3 launch a success: 8 million downloads in 24 hours — as we predicted their servers took a beating

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (22:45)

We talk in detail about our experiences with openSUSE 11 — Dan also wrote a short preview about it
We also discuss the up- and downsides of KDE 4 and the different implementations of it
After this, Dan tells his experiences of visiting Open Source City in Liverpool and checking out the Indamixx device
Tip of the Week: Magnatune — these guys do music distribution the right way!
Ben Webb enlightens us on the Microsoft WMV thing from episode 42 and also clears us up on Becta and open source
DaddyG sends us a mail about a survey conducted at his company on Vista vs XP amongst Visual Studio C++ & .NET developers
Philip Herron now works for IBM and asks us about running VMs on our Dell XPS m1330s — he’s working on getting the guys on to Debian
Reine (a flemish “weemin”) really likes the show and gives us some general feedback
Peter Sorensen tells us about Acer and their questionable approach to standards-compliant web design
Dave in Spain (probably not David Villa) also tells us worrying things about Acer and their EeePC website
imp|ver sends us a really nice comment about the show
Johan Vervloet offers to send Fab some Belgian beer — how awesome is that!?

After the feedback, we wrap it up with a song from Magnatune (which is made possible through their gratuitous licensing policy). As always, if you have any comments on the show, feel free to hop on the forums and tell us.

Song: New Rage by Electric Frankenstein

Linux Outlaws 43 - The Unbreakable Car

Fab — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:49:43 +0100

79:03 minutes, 36.3 MB — Download or play

This time, Fab reviews Bazaar, we have lots of feedback, many rants and we talk about version numbering as well as Hans Reiser again.

Introduction and Housekeeping (01:15)

Errata: librum means “book”, not library
No Beer of the Week as Fab’s fridge was empty
We explain where the show title comes from
Fab mocks Apple a bit, especially MobileMe

Releases and News Stories (09:23)

Zenwalk Linux 5.2
Voltalinux 2.1
MilaX 0.3.1
StartCom Enterprise Linux 5.0.2
NexentaCore Platform 1.0.1
Greenie Linux 3.0.2H
Myah OS 3.0 “Box”
64 Studio 2.1
Damn Small Linux 4.4
Linux Mint 5
Banshee 1.0
Firefox 3 Download Day is today!
Wine 1.0 will be out June 20 — w00t!?
Bruce Byfield’s article on the mess of version control in open source — please discuss
More Hans Reiser madness — this gets crazier by the day (thanks to Cifra)
IBM does weird things with open source code from OpenOffice in Lotus Symphony
Red Hat negotiates first GPL3 compatible patent agreement
Shuttleworth on the Ubuntu Network Edition once more
Micro-Watch: Microsoft appologises to OSI
Micro-Watch: Microsoft warns site owners to prepare for IE8, apparently because it’s standard compliant now? — this makes no sense at all

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (45:34)

Fab reviews Bazaar and talks about the difference between centralised and distributed version control systems
Tip of the Week: We explain how to create “desktop applications” from web pages (ie. GMail) with Mozilla Prism
Kaity G. B. says openSUSE’s logo is an iguana not a chameleon — Fab still disagrees; she also tells us about the Gnome Online Desktop for which Fab created a post on the Ubuntu Brainstorm site (please vote for it)
Benny tells us about the Acer Aspire One
Simon Vass from Uganda asks about mirroring our episodes and laughs at Fab’s Africa slip-up from a few weeks back
Steve suggests we rename ourselves “Dapper Dan and Feisty Fab, aka. the outlaw rustlers of the Linux penguin Hurd” and tells us that Linux surpassed Windows 98 in desktop use recently — yeehaw?; he also suggests Dan should call his British distro “Bollux”
PedanticSteve from Southern California wants us to try out On The Rainslick Precipice of Darkness, which Fab will do when he gets around to it
Tom McCarthy sends us an email detailing File Retention Technology, or FaRT for short
kindofabuzz tells us we should put about:robots into Firefox’s location bar and see what happens
TaCo wants Fab to get another iPhone — no chance!
Eric Bannon tells us a gruesome Vista story and says Fab should review Früh Kölsch
Andy Baxter liked Jonathan Coulton’s Re Your Brains and suggests we should cover more open source non-Linux topics from time to time

Dan mentions he will be checking out Open Source City in Liverpool next week. If you have any comments on this episode, please tell us in the forums.

Linux Outlaws 42 - Don't Panic!

Fab — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:10:55 +0100

81:45 minutes, 37.6 MB — Download or play

This time ‘round, we bring you The Ultimate Answer, a warehouse full of coke, Obama pimpin’ OpenOffice, a review of Gnome Do and much more.

Introduction and Housekeeping (02:01)

Episode 42 - The Ultimate Answer!
Shout out to Pat and Dann from TLLTS and “Big” Dave Yates from Lotta Linux Links, Dan was hanging out with them in IRC
Football should be called “football”!
Episode is late since Fab was rocking out at John Fogerty’s gig in Bonn and is pretty deaf now
LugRadio Live — be there!
Beer of the Week: Duckstein

Releases and News Stories (09:20)

DeLi Linux 0.8.0
ParanoidLinux — thanks to roninchef
Myah OS 3.0
Resulinux 2.9
Absolute Linux 12.1.01
eAR OS 1.09
Obama promises to switch the US government over to OpenOffice — thanks to Gordon for the story
Valve says it’ll release Steam for Linux soon — emailed by Phillip Heron
Google open sources Google Gadgets for Linux
Acer moving more towards Linux
Barracuda is interested in aquiring Sourcefire, who make ClamAV and Snort
Canonical officially announces the Ubuntu Netbook Remix

Broadcom co-founder allegedly spiked drinks and had “warehouse” of coke — bloody hell!

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (38:36)

Gnome Do, an awesome utility for your Gnome desktop — developer David Siegel wrote us a mail with some tips about the program
Check out AWN, it’s getting better all the time — please read these comprehensive instructions on how to install it
Tip of the Week: How to install Sugar as an alternative session in Ubuntu
Ben Jarvis asks us if we still defend Linux when talking to people and why
Alistair from Scotland tells us about The Open Source Community at Microsoft — WTF!?
Billy Crook builds high performance supercomputer clusters and opens our eyes about Rocks
Gregor tells us about his time in Bonn and also IceWM
Matt Pawelski gives us the Nuclear Solaris Shoeing Of Doom™
John M. Howitt tells us about LibriVox
Alex Harrington sends us this article about schools in the UK going open source
Jeff Smith says Hans Reiser might be innocent
JZA liked Dan’s Wu-Tang references — here’s the Lost-like logo Fab was talking about:

Kristoffer Egil Bonarjee (Egil) tells Fab about the very useful screen -x option
Thomas clears up some confusion about fw-cutter

Check out Mozilla’s attempt to get Firefox 3 into the Guiness Book, also: Jono announced the Ubuntu Global Bug Jam.

If you have any comments on this episode, please tell us in the forums.

Song: Re Your Brains by Jonathan Coulton

Linux Outlaws 41 - Now with File Retention Technology

Fab — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:23:20 +0100

68:55 minutes, 31.7 MB — Download or play

In this show: Big Buck Bunny review, OpenSUSE KDE4 beta review, installing an alternate kernel on Ubuntu as well as the usual news and stuff.

Introduction and Housekeeping (01:32)

Slightly out-of-date intro, sorry for that — the interview last week messed with our production schedule a bit
Errata: We know Africa is a continent, not a country — chalk it up to hangover
Dan plugs his other podcasting gig: On The Bench
Beer of the Week: Radeberger Pilsner

Releases and News Stories (07:12)

Musix GNU+Linux 1.0R4
FreeNAS 0.686.4
VMKnoppix 20080519
TinyMe 2008.0
Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 “LiveDVD”
SystemRescueCd 1.0.3
Epidemic GNU/Linux 2.1
Foresight Linux 2.0.2
South Africa files official appeal against OOXML, gets backed by the Shuttleworth Foundation
South Africa’s Parastal CSIR to switch 2300 users to Ubuntu
Sugar splits from OLPC — they are starting their own company
Dell reveals kick-ass subnotebook, runs Ubuntu
Mark Shuttleworth interview — he announces the new Ubuntu netbook spin
Google demos cool Android features
Micro-Watch: Microsoft debuts Don’t Blame Windows Tool
Micro-Watch: Windows Home Server fix on the way (apparently)

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (30:14)

Thanks to Campbell Barton of the Blender Institute who send us two copies of Big Buck Bunny — we review the movie
Fab reviews OpenSUSE 11.0 Beta 3 KDE4 Edition
Tip of the Week: Installing an alternate kernel on Debian systems
Chris says he learned about Linux Basement and the Linux Action Show from us and asks about a good distro to use if you have a Broadcom wireless card
Kevin R asks about the best way to install a LAMP server on Linux — Fab points him towards Linux Basement Episode 2
Shaun Mallette tells us about Gnome Do
Kevin bugs us on saying “beta” wrong and comments that he loved the Code Monkey song by Jonathan Coulton which he bought — good on ya for that!
Mark Faulkner shares a pretty funny Microsoft joke with us
James Polera tells us about Reasonable and Non Discriminatory Licensing — if you have any comments on this, please let us know!

If you are interested in how that awful Debian vulnerability came about, read about it in this article and if you have any comments on this episode, please tell us in the forums.

Song: Livin With a Geek by Chad Wollenberg

Linux Outlaws 40 - Software Freedom, Lawsuits & Poker

Fab — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:06:28 +0100

83:19 minutes, 38.3 MB — Download or play

In this special episode, we talk to Bradley M. Kuhn of the FSLC & FSC about software freedom, litigation against open source developers, the future and thread of web services that aren’t open, the AGPL and poker.

Introduction and Housekeeping (01:38)

The usual introduction and we also explain why we surprise you with this special episode. Also some behind the scenes insight.

The Interview (04:21)

We talk to our first ever guest on the show, Bradley M. Kuhn from the Software Freedom Law Center and the Software Freedom Conservancy, about software freedom, the organisations that Bradley works for, free software licenses, litigation against open source developers, what closed web services mean for the future of free software and even his poker play.

Bradley was very forthcoming and nice to us and the fact that Fab was a bit nervous was all but made up by Dan’s valiant research effort. We think this is a very interesting and entertaining interview and hope you like it. If you have any comments, please tell us in the forums.

Please also consider supporting the SFLC in the magnificent work they do every day.

Listener Feedback (58:00)

Darren Wick from Ohio likes the podcast and is looking to get in contact with Toby Stafford who was a student of his and who we read an email from on one of our earlier shows — Toby, if you are reading this, hop on the foorums!
Bill Toulas has canceled all his magazine subscriptions and is relying on us and LugRadio for all his Linux info — slightly worrying…
Rick Floyd sends us a link to this video of a lady doing many accents:
Jim Shaver sends us another iPhone/iPod Touch tip and tells us about his podcast The Window Breakers
Thomas Perl from gPodder complains about Fab, like, saying “like” all the time — he doesn’t like it…
Jan-Michael Bylczynski tells Fab where he could get Guinness in cans in Germany and asks about AVM/Fritzcard USB-WiFi problems
the glza sends us various comments and recommends Farscape to Fab and Fell to Dan — Fab recommends the Serenity comics from Dark Horse
Nido Media gives Fab another RAID shoeing and tells us about “Bloody Massive Linux” as well as OpenMusic
Johan B sends comments on InAudible again — enough already!
Terry Love prompts us on British Linux distros (compared to the German ones)

Linux Outlaws 39 - Come Back When You Can Grow a Beard

Fab — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:10:46 +0100

71:49 minutes, 33.0 MB — Download or play

In this slightly belated episode (Fab had kernel troubles): Ballmer gets egged, the OLPC gets windozed, OpenMoko tries to be Qt, Microsoft loses another patent case and possibly their mind and Fab is in hangover-mode.

Introduction and Housekeeping (01:31)

Shoutout to LugRadio — yes, we will be hanging out at LugRadio Live 2008
Thanks to Rob Parker we now have a Wikipedia article — how cool is that!?
No Beer of the Week, Fab has the Hangover of the Week

Releases and News Stories (05:43)

MEPIS antiX 7.2
rPath Linux 2.0
Ubuntu Muslim Edition 8.04
eAR OS 1.08
PelicanHPC 1.5.1
Absolute Linux 12.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2
Ultimate Edition 1.8
The OLPC gets windozed
OpenMoko ditches GTK+ for Qt & E17
Ubuntu Live 2008 cancelled
Fab joined 5-A-Day
Asus to embed Linux natively into all their motherboards in the future
M$ Office to gain ODF support in 2009 — WTF!?
M$ loses patent case against Alcatel-Lucent
Funny story of the week: Ballmer gets egged!

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (35:37)

Dan reviews Fedora 9
Fab tells a story about a teacher he recently met who plans to buy a class room set of EeePCs for his school
Tip of the Week: Linux Basement podcast
Get Compiz working with two screens:

#!/bin/bash DISPLAY=:0.1 compiz --only-current-screen & DISPLAY=:0.0 compiz --only-current-screen &
Victor writes to us with a SpinRite story — uggh!
Chad Wollenberg from Linux Basement tells about the song feed of his podcast
Alex Harrington writes us a “fucking massive email” about Fab’s RAID rant
DiggsIt is no Pens fan — we also talk about the size of “The Cup”:

Chris from Raleigh is a Pens fan (despite living in the home city of the Hurricanes) and he has a playoff beard which is way cool:

If you have any comments on this episode, please tell us in the forums.

Song: This week we have a song from Chad Wollenberg from Episode 20 of his podcast.

Linux Outlaws 38 - What Are They Smoking Up In Redmond?

Fab — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:08:16 +0100

86:23 minutes, 39.7 MB — Download or play

On the show this time: F9 is released, Debian has a hole, Microsoft smokes crazy shit, we discover thermo-nuclear hamsters and Fab is cranky during the whole episode.

Introduction and Housekeeping (02:22)

Dan and Fab will be at LugRadio Live UK 2008
Shoutout to Dave Yates , who Fab called “redneck” recently
Fab says: “Go Pens, go!!! Go Pens, go!!!”
Beer of the Week: Pilsner Urquell

Releases and News Stories (10:08)

Parted Magic 2.2
paldo GNU/Linux 1.14
Fedora 9
Ark Linux 2008.1
First Moonlight Release
Huge security vulnerability in Debian uncovered, Ubuntu and other derivatives affected — check your SSL/SSH keys!
Skype finally agrees to obey GPL after a German court buries their appeal
Shuttleworth plots Ubuntu’s future course
Microsoft changes its mind and will apparently keep fighting the EU
Microsoft emails Blender and asks for help — WTF!?
Redmond also tries to push their junk onto “ultra low cost PCs”

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (45:15)

Fab reviews SymphonyOne
Tip of the Week: He also recommends not to use RAID
Chris Fikes tells us about ThermoNuclearHamster.org — check it out and help him along, if you can!
Dangerseeker gives us a thermo-nuclear shoeing about COFEE (his links: 1, 2)

Tom McCafferty and Dave Roberts of Vyatta say they are used to be compared to Viagra and send us this great picture
Drew of Doom comments on several things, including Firefox 3 and Arch and recommends Preacher fans should check out Garth Ennis’ The Boys
TaCo says he now uses Audible and we feel bad about it
Sambu from Finland sends us a handy link for hard drive cloning using dd and netcat
Ben Hellyer (best name ever!) asks about Fab’s iPhone and tells Dan how to trick his bank’s online banking system; he also tells us we’ve been plugged on the Elisa forums

Wrapping it up, Fab recommends John C. Dvorak’s Tech5 podcast which he enjoys every weekday.

Song: Code Monkey by Jonathan Coulton

If you have an idea for a song we should play, write us an email (the song should be Creative Commons licensed). Also, if you have any comments on this episode, please tell us in the forums.

P.S.: Pittsburgh made it to the Stanley Cup final!

Linux Outlaws 37 - So Good You Need A Shower Afterwards

Fab — Mon, 12 May 2008 00:05:21 +0100

84:46 minutes, 38.9 MB — Download or play

This week, it’s the show we recorded twice. Topics are: SCO-bashing, MS-bashing, lots of releases (including PROJECT COPY-LINUX), anecdotes and other stuff. As well as a beer review and comic book recommendation.

Introduction and Housekeeping (02:40)

We recorded this episode twice due to a technical error during the first recording
Fab is wearing no shirt (cause it’s bloody hot)
Beer review: Foster’s Lager
We got a letter from Campbell Barton who works on the Peach open movie project; he says some of the guys were listening to our show while rendering and they offer us two review copies of the DVD — awesome!
We talk about the OLPC maybe going evil and RMS trying to rescue it from Windows XP Monochrome Edition:

Releases and News Stories (12:41)

Kiwi Linux 8.04
OpenBSD 4.3
Rocks Cluster Distribution 5.0
easys GNU/Linux 4.1
gNewSense 2.0
Mandriva Linux 2008.1 “Xfce”
Slackware Linux 12.1
Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1
Puppy Linux 4.00
OpenSolaris 2008.05
Big hardware vendors push OEMs for Linux compatibility
Sweet: The new Eee PC 900 will be released tomorrow in the US
SCO really embarasses itself in court — Ars Techica calls their CEO “deluded”
From Tom McCarthy: Microsoft designs backdoor dongle for the Police — note the “pre-crime” angle in this writeup
Intel and Cray team up to create Linux-powered super-mega-über-computers
Adobe “opens” FLV & SWF file formats; at least they wave the licensing fees
MySQL says they’ll remain open source — looks like someone is backpaddeling all of a sudden

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (46:08)

Fab will review SymphonyOne next week
We are still having massive fun playing GTA IV — if you want to meet up with us in multiplayer, leave us a message here (and don’t mess with Dan in GTA, he’s tough as nails!)
Tip of the Week: Fab recommends the Dark Tower comic books by Steven King & Marvel
Drew has some tips for going back to Firefox 2 on his site mybrainrunslinux.com
gideon recommends a native Linux space MMORPG: Vendetta Online
Sean Eggleston has a question about streaming video from his server to his desktop which we attempt to answer (during this we mention FUPPES as an alternative to MediaTomb)
Owen says the newest iTunes works in Wine now; he also gives us a link for using your iPhone in Ubuntu
Alan Clements tells us about the Octothorpe again
Gregor gives us reasons for why he thinks the Firefox beta in Hardy isn’t such a bad idea
Darth Orange comments on Fab’s Mac menu rant from last week
Abhorsen sends us an amazingly funny email about our Vyatta/Viagra gags from last week
Dallis Brockway shocks us with the news that our show is on the Zune Marketplace!? — is Steve Ballmer a secret fan?
Biffa from Borneo (which is not next to Jamaica) suggests we check out Puppy Linux
icecruncher points us towards MythTVOS and says we should also try out PCLinuxOS, which Dan did last year

This is the picture of the hard drive that was recovered from the crashed space shuttle Columbia, which we mentioned at the end of the show:

If you have any comments on this episode, please tell us in the forums.

Linux Outlaws 36 - Open Source Chain Gang

Fab — Sun, 04 May 2008 19:50:48 +0100

78:34 minutes, 36.1 MB — Download or play

We have a content-packed show for you this week: Hans Reiser convicted for murder, Kip Macy charged with tennant terror, Fab reviews Rockbox and Xfce and we talk about GTA IV on the PS3.

Introduction and Housekeeping (01:17)

We discuss Eric Mesa’s email about our Ubuntu Hardy discussion last week — Fab mentions this post on Mark Shuttleworth’s blog

Releases and News Stories (08:06)

Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu & Mythbuntu 8.04
SystemRescueCd 1.0.2
MythDora 5.0
PC-BSD 1.5.1
Damn Small Linux 4.3
Vyatta 4.0
DragonFly BSD 1.12.2
CDlinux 0.6.1
Wordpress 2.5.1
Hans Reiser found guilty of first degree murder
FreeBSD developer Kip Macy charged with tenant terror
MySQL CEO says they won’t move to Solaris under Sun
Novell retaliates against SCO in court
MS-bashing: Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web Servers Hacked

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (35:07)

Rockbox
Xfce / Xubuntu
Grand Theft Auto IV for the PS3
MediaTomb
Hendo sends us another Noel Watson song which we play at the end of the show
The glza gives us some general opinions on the show, the OLPC ditching Linux and suggests Dan should become a dialectician like Matt Besser
Tony Griggs tells us why he thinks Dan is the techie while Fab has the more worldly view on the show
Darth Orange comments on Dan’s recent Dreamlinux review and Fab rants about the OS X task bar
Germ gives us our first real shoeing about VulcanRidr and Chad Wollenberg’s Linux Basement podcast
Kurtis gives Dan some VirtualBox tips

We close the show with Noel Watson’s wonderful song Tom’s Woman. Please leave a comment about this episode on the forums, if you feel like it.

Linux Outlaws 35 - The Hardy Special

Fab — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:12:07 +0100

56:20 minutes, 25.9 MB — Download or play

In this episode, we talk about the new Ubuntu version, 8.04 Hardy Heron, which will be released today.

We discuss some of the new features in Hardy, including:

PulseAudio (and the missing manager app for it)
The new artwork
Firefox 3 (and the beta problem)

We also discuss the fact that Ubuntu seems to release a bit earlier than prudent. As with Gutsy, there seemed to be a lot of updates coming down awfully close to release. There also seems to be a lot of upstream development included as features.

Xorg 7.3
Kernel 2.6.24
Gnome 2.22 (including GVFS)
PolicyKit
Transmission, Vinagre, Brasero
World Clock Applet
Inkscape (which isn’t even included by default)
KVM, ActiveDirectory integration
Memory protection
New System Monitor
Install without booting into the LiveCD, graphical fsck screens

In summary, it seems like a real fast, solid release with a lot of useful features even despite some minor problems in the beta period and no really ground breaking stuff. Now, what the hell are you waiting for? Get it already!

Listener Feeback

Caolan McMahon gives Fab a tip about opening .docx files
Nils Schlupp sends us a mail with another Gentoo tip

Fab also tells everyone to check out VulcanRidr’s Armored Penguin podcast — a show about Linux and security.

» Please leave a comment about this episode on the forums, if you feel like it.

Linux Outlaws 34 - Powered by Flexiboost

Fab — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:33:56 +0100

93:22 minutes, 42.9 MB — Download or play

In this episode: Shoeings galore, Microsoft pisses off Fab once and for all, MySQL goes half-closed and lots of funny emails.

This episode is dedicated to Danny Federici.

From brucespringsteen.net (also check out the video of Danny’s last performance on the site):

“Danny and I worked together for 40 years - he was the most wonderfully fluid keyboard player and a pure natural musician. I loved him very much…we grew up together.”
—Bruce Springsteen

Danny Federici, for 40 years the E Street Band’s organist and keyboard player, died this afternoon, April 17, 2008 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City after a three year battle with melanoma.

The Federici family and the E Street family request that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Danny Federici Melanoma Fund.

Errata, Releases & News (03:38)

We reply to a mail from Abhorsen about our coverage of the Pwn to Own competition.

F/OSS Releases:

Check out Dan’s and Fab’s sites (both running on Wordpress 2.5).

On the news front, MySQL goes semi-proprietary and we don’t like it.

Google explains Android at LugRadio Live US 2008, including this nice chart that explains the architecture:

More on the EU-MS war: Microsoft may be barred from EU public procurement procedures — this is the video Fab was talking about:

Also: Steve McIntyre gets elected as new Debian Project Leader.

Review, Gaming Corner, Tip of the Week & Feedback (48:26)

Dan gives his review of Dream Linux 3.0 — read the full review on his blog.

Fab talks about the fact that the EVE Online client source was leaked on BitTorrent.

Tip of the Week: SpaceWesterns.com

Listener Feedback:

We get a great audio feedback from Jason Morgan and his two kids Liam and Olivia
Darren Fuller sends us our first hate mail — very funny!
Johan sends another tip for Fab for fixing his Gentoo trainwreck
Philip Herron still likes the podcast and prompts us about open source licenses and control over open source projects
Randy Noseworthy sends us another audio feedback, also very cool!
We also get mail from Toby Stafford about being a .NET developer and also a Linux user and our Audible ad quib in the last show
Eric Mesa sends us a note about several IRC clients

Before we wrap it up, Fab mentions the new, stylish eeePC competitor from HP and Dan mentions a candlelight vigil over OOXML in India.

» Please comment on this episode in the forums.

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 (except the parts at the beginning and the end, which are excerpts from Bruce Springsteen’s songs “Bishop Danced” and “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)” and are copyrighted Bruce Springsteen, ASCAP) is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.