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This week, the Outlaws talk about Germany moving their embassies to Linux, possible slogans for Debian Lenny, Microsoft retiring Windows 3.x and much more. Includes Fab’s review of LittleBigPlanet for the PS3.

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0:00:52 Introduction

• I think we confused prior art in patents with defending trademarks in Episode 62
• Dan got lots of crap via email and in the forums because of the Mandriva Gnome/KDE thing
• Michael Griffin ist not a xenophobic thug and Canada is a nice country
• Wind River Systems are an embedded software company, they were best known for selling a proprietary embedded OS called “VxWorks” and have turned around completely and become a supporter and supplier of Linux as an embedded OS
• Neil Young started an electric car conversion company

0:08:36 Open Source Releases

• OpenBSD 4.4
• Puppy Linux 4.1.1
• ComFusion 2.0
• Sabayon Linux 3.5.1
• SystemRescueCd 1.1.1
• Solaris 10 10/08
• Development release: Songbird 1.0 RC1

0:17:30 News Stories

• Google doesn’t give you root access on Android which means you have to jailbreak the thing
• Germany moves its embassies over to Linux
• Debian Lenny slogan poll
• GNU changes the FDL in order to let Wikipedia move to Creative Commons
• GNUveau Networks builds solar-powered Linux computer networks for developing countries
• Diebold faces GPL infringement lawsuit over voting machines

0:35:09 Microwatch

• Redmond finally retires Windows 3.x
• How Microsoft sees Open Source software
• Microsoft pays South Korea $60 million to use its software — must be awesome software!

0:40:58 Gaming Corner

Fab gives his review of LittleBigPlanet for the PS3

0:48:58 Tip of the Week

Terminator, a GTK terminal emulator that supports multiple terminals in one window

0:50:24 Listener Feedback

• Nido Media tells us about some terrible software patents he also is in favour of Mono and thinks Microsoft would not want to go after Linux users for running it
• Michael Spannbauer send us a link to the Klinikum Ingolstadt whose logo really reminds us of the logo of our favourite poo coloured distro
• Mark (Aardwurk) sends us a note about Cross-Site Request Forgery and Clickjacking — Fab recommends to listen to Security Now episodes 166 & 168 if you are interested in this — we also discuss Steve Gibson and his disposition towards Open Source
• Frank Bell mentioned us is a blog post and thinks we should run Slackware
• Cam DeCoster tells us about his Tivo hacking (he used MFSLive)
• CafeNinja set up a Jamendo playlist for all the songs played on LO
• Aiden (dismal_denizen) created an Uncyclopedia article for our show — hilarious!
• Jer Barton tells Dan he’s an idiot because of his problems with the Mandriva page
• David Collins-Rivera (lostnbronx) compliments Fab on his music choice on Episode 62 and thinks he’s related to a guy he knows by the name of Kinzer
• Martin likes the show and asks Dan if he saw him at a Liverpool game on TV; he also thanks us for the Mandriva review
• Andy Hunter says Windows 7 looks like what Sony would come up with if they designed a “My First KDE” distro
• deadrabbit thinks the PS3 might run BSD; he/she also harshes on the Ubuntu community a bit
• Reine says Dan can now nearly pronounce her name
• Ian Corke suggests we should start worrying about our demographic, he also loves the EeePC 900 with Linux on which he uses Mandriva and hates Windows Mobile
• Kristoffer Egil Bonarjee tells us about Linux on Android and its limitations
• Thomas is a Mythbuntu developer and enlightens us about their packages being in the regular Ubuntu repos, he also hopes Fab will have a good time when he tries Mythbuntu again
• David Ramsey Cain uses CD-RWs for his distro hopping so as not to waste a lot of regular CD-Rs — a very good idea
• jezra tells us about an experience he had while wearing his Linux Outlaws shirt — good on ya, man!
• Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér (Dingus McSlack) send us a fucking massive email recommending D2OL, another distributed computing thingy that does “really complicated stuff with molecules”

Song: 5 Foot 2 from the album Oh Yes! by the The Rinky Dinks

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-NC-SA 3.0 license.