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This week on the show: OpenSolaris is in trouble, Droid X self-destructs if you try to flash it, OpenStack is announced, a discussion about Zeitgeist and Gnome as an upstream, more Antennagate and the big Thesis / WordPress GPL debate.

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

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0:01:29 Introduction

• Fab was kayaking on the Rhine over the weekend
• Erratum: The Swedish Pirate Party is not currently in the Swedish parliament
• Shot of Jaq is dead
• Get your wallpaper in Fedora 14!
• Maybe ACTA wasn’t that transparent after all…
• Firefox to get pinning for web apps and Chrome gets “WebApp” support as well
• Frogatto, an old school, cross-platform, open source jump-n-run game — recommended to us by Cyber Killer
• Security Alert: Millions of routers vulnerable to new version of old attack — including Linksys’ WRT54G(L)
• Beer of the Week: Franziskaner Weissbier Kristallklar

0:18:49 Releases & News

• Zencafe GNU/Linux 2.2
• T2 SDE 8.0
• openSUSE 11.3
• Jolicloud 1.0
• Wine 1.2

• Banshee now has a full Amazon MP3 Store plugin
• OpenStack announced
• Google will stop selling the Nexus One to consumers
• Top Solaris developer flees Oracle and the OpenSolaris Governing Board threatens to dissolve — more from The H on this
• The Open Hardware Definition
• Droid X self-destructs if you touch the bootloader but at least Motorola admits it
• The Thesis/WordPress debate about themes and if they should be GPLed (SFLC study on this) — #thesiswp on Twitter

0:51:36 Microwatch

• Windows XP will never die

0:55:22 Crapple

• Steve Jobs denies antenna problems, “we don’t think we have a problem”
• Engineer warned Jobs of potential iPhone 4 antenna issues before release
• RIM, HTC and Nokia want no part of Apple’s self-made debacle

1:00:00 Discussion Point

• We talk a bit about the fact that a Zeitgeist dev was claiming that Ubuntu is now their upstream on the Ubuntu UK Podcast and that this was a misunderstanding — some background from the devs

1:06:32 Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Roger Fletcher, Durand D’souza, Edward Dewhurst and Ron McLeod
• Forums: There’s a new sheriff in town! — NYBill, the gun monkey, is laying down the law now
• We have some audio feedback from Jason Bowles (aka. Malkor the Techie) who gives an alternative opinion on three strikes laws

• Whym sent us an email supporting our Apple bashing and an awesome picture that his little brother did in the GIMP:

• Matthew Phillips works on a distro called GnackTrack which is a penetration testing distro for Gnome fans and he will be demonstrating it at DEF CON 18
• (Fidel?) Castro sends us a possible solution to our CRAP acronym
• Andre Hugo send us a link to this cool comic from The Oatmeal about life as an Apple fanboy
• Ryan Mc clarifies Debian repos and rolling releases for us
• Other emails this week from Justin, Paul W.B., Jamesh, Rob Potter, Joni and CPrompt

• Event: Barcamp Chicago, August 21 & 22 — send in by csgeek
• Simon Vass emailed us again about Uganda LUG

Song: Kickback by Severed Fifth from the album Denied by Reign

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, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 29 minutes 7 seconds, 42.2 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

On this episode of Linux Outlaws: Google kills the Nexus Two, Mandriva avoids bankruptcy, arguments about “Open Core”, Monty acts up again, Google App Inventor and lots of Microsoft and Apple bashing as usual.

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0:02:24 Introduction

• Jon Kulp send us some amazing bits of music for the show
• Excellent Frostbite Media interview with Mo Duffy about the Fedora Design Team
• CyanogenMod 6 breaths new life into the aging G1 with Froyo
• Android sees healthy growth at the expense of Apple, RIM and Microsoft
• Android 2.2 demolishes iOS 4 in JavaScript benchmarks
• Chromium / Chrome to get a unified menu
• Mint is playing with a Debian-based version
• Beer of the Week: Theakston XB — imported for Fab by The Bald

0:13:31 Releases & News

• Element 1.3
• Mandriva Linux 2010.1
• PCLinuxOS 2010.07
• Parted Magic 5.0
• Tonido 1.9.0.11838
• Mercurial 1.6
• Shotwell 0.6.1
• Python 2.7
• RHEL 6 Beta 2, targeting year end release

  

• Australia delays ‘net filter for a year
• Pirate Bay soon to be hosted within Swedish Parliament?
• Google kills hopes for a “Nexus Two”
• Google App Inventor
• Mandriva avoids bankruptcy, releases new version
• Motorola has “revolutionized internal communications” with StatusNet, official StatusNet client
• Amazon MP3 downloader support in Banshee
• Simon Phipps on the problems with “Open Core” — Bradley Kuhn’s take on it
• Monty appeals Oracle’s Sun merger again

0:50:16 Microwatch

• Microsoft opens source code to Russian secret service FSB
• Microsoft presents at Red Hat Summit
• Crapple: Apple to fix the iPhone 4 antenna problems by patching the way the bars are displayed?

1:00:52 Software Tip

• Chrome-to-Phone, a Chrome extension and Android app to send browser tabs to your phone

1:03:30 Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to James McBride, Daniel Ngu, Ian Pickworth and Tony Hughes
• Audio Feedback: Jon Kulp send us some wonderful prairie harmonica and Latin renditions of the LO theme, he also send a funny clip from an NPR show about Microsoft — we also got some awesome Crapple theme entries from Alistair Munro and Jo “Remington Steele” Ressington
• Blogs: Paul Elms (aka. scifly)’s new blog will soon feature a series about working on the Pony Express app

• Mike Hingley tells us about a government website where you can cast your vote to repeal the Digital Economy Act if you are in the UK
• SmooveD says they like our perspective on Apple, he says we shouldn’t let the iListeners censor us
• We got other emails this week from Andreas, Doug Whitfield, Tony Hughes, Philip Herron alias RedBrain, Ron McLeod, figjam and Jonathan Nadeau

Song: True Gemini by Rob Costlow from the album Woods of Chaos — recommended by Jim Nygård

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, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 49 minutes 0 seconds, 51.6 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

On this episode of Linux Outlaws: A big announcement (kind of), ASCAP declares war on Creative Commons, Bilski comes down, new Fedora project leader, Microsoft kills Kin and Apple drops the ball on the iPhone 4.

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

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0:01:08 Introduction

• We talk about the future of the show (and football)
• AT&T-iPad security breach may be worse than we first thought
• Amazon Kindle app released on Android
• Android 2.2 (Froyo) available for Nexus One and 2.1 (Eclair) available for European Hero users — both are over the air updates
• Chrome overtakes Safari, now holds 3rd place in US browser market
• Jono to stream the second Severed Fifth album recording live
• Beer of the Week: Kempisch Vuur, send to Fab by Johan Vervloet (@johanv)

0:18:12 Releases & News

• MINIX 3.1.7
• SystemRescueCd 1.5.6
• Superb Mini Server 1.5.2
• Peppermint OS One-06172010
• Astaro Security Gateway 8.0
• Development Release: CrunchBang Linux 10 Alpha 2
• Wordpress 3.0
• StatusNet 0.9.3
• FFmpeg 0.6 — codenamed “Works with HTML5”, which is what it does…
• We also talked about FFmpeg getting its own implementation of the Google VP8 codec
• VLC 1.1.0
• PyPy 1.3
• Parrot 2.5.0 “Cheops”
• Firefox 3.6.6
• Thunderbird 3.1
• k3b 2.0
• Development Release: CyanogenMod 6 Alpha 1
• Android 2.2 source code released, Google’s dev blog post

• ASCAP declares war on free culture
• The Bilski decision finally came down: Groklaw, Ars Technica, Bradley Kuhn’s comments, Justice John Paul Stevens on Bilski and SFLS special show on the topic
• Jared Smith is the new Fedora Project leader — he’s @jsmith on identi.ca
• Debian creates the “Derivatives Front Desk”
• Cisco’s Android Tablet
• Google’s big focus for Gingerbread: UI polish
• Nokia changes from Symbian to MeeGo for flagship phones and MeeGo launches its “Handset User Experience”
• Adobe pulls Flash player for 64 bit Linux

1:07:37 Microwatch

• Microsoft kills Kin
• Crapple: Apple’s major FAIL on the iPhone 4 antenna, Steve Jobs says: “Don’t hold it this way” — also: iPhone glass problems, Class-action suit against Apple over iPhone 4, Motorola kicks Apple in the spuds with New York Times ad, Apple now looking for new antenna engineers

1:17:52 Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Alison Chaiken, Brian Lopes, Łukasz Zachulski, Bo Kullmar and Robert P. aka. “MixMasterJ”
• Blogs: Adam Ward (@redshirtlinux) wrote a very nice blog post thanking us for mentioning his email on the show and Philip Herron (@redbrain) explains how to compile a compiler
• Audio Feedback: We have an awesome audio submission from B1ackcr0w and another 8-bit version of the theme tune by Chris Tevyaw (aka. Slasher)

• Sambu writes in response to our discussion of the Windows equivalent to LAMP, he thinks it should be WIMP: Windows, IIS, MySQL, PHP
• Kevan V. sends us this story about Amazon being granted a patent for social networking websites in the US — You can’t make this shit up!
• Jonathan Nadeau asked us to mention his new podcast
• We had a few emails complaining that we bash Apple too much: Michael Mellinger says the iPhone is better than Android, Stephen and Daniel don’t like it when we are critical of Apple and Andy G. wrote to say he doesn’t think Google are any better than Apple and worries more about the amount of information Google have on people, he thinks we should reconsider our stance on Google
• David Comerford wrote after hearing us talk about all the disc burning for new distros, he recommends the iodd portable SATA hard drive with CD-ROM emulation
• Nathan D’Elboux recommends the Firefox plugin FlashGot since he used it to download all our old episodes from The Archives

• We had other emails from Paul W.B., Whym, Peter Trussell, Sergei Van Hardeveld, Nigel Verity, Scott Cann, Anthony (from New Mexico), NRK, Mike Hingley, Brad Pearce, John Scheuvront, Tony Griggs, Brent Foor, Thomas Chace, Stephen Michael Kellat, Andreas Marschke, Ebcdic Zehetbauer, Serko, Jake Roberts, Bo Kullmar, Joe Foy and Steve Anderson

• Two cool videos about the iPhone 4 vs. the HTC Evo

Song for International Reggae Day (July 1): Waste My Time from the album of the same name by Loudog

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, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

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On this episode of Linux Outlaws: The World Cup, SCO dead for good, Ubuntu removing aptitude, Canonical taking on Red Hat, the usual Microsoft and Apple fail and an interview with Ade Bradshaw about LinuxTag 2010.

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

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:01:08 Introduction

• We talk about the World Cup and that it is delaying our production schedule a lot at the moment
• If you are getting annoyed by the vuvuzelas, you can now filter them using Fedora
• Also check out: vuvuzelafiltering.com
• Sprint EVO 4G sold out eveywhere
• Apple has apparently licensed the “iOS” name from Cisco
• Harald Welte on the FSF enforcement in the App Store

0:11:21 Releases & News

• linuX-gamers Live 0.9.6
• Zorin OS 3
• Zenwalk Linux 6.4 “GNOME”
• sidux 2010-01
• Parted Magic 4.11

• WebM video lands in Firefox trunk
• SCO case closed for good, Novell owns UNIX copyrights, Ars Technica on this
• Ubuntu has removed aptitude for Maverick
• “The Ubuntu Advantage”: Canonical takes on Red Hat
• Interesting blog post about the FSF campaigns by @tante — Fab completely agrees with this…
• Reforming the OSI: Simon Phipps is trying to build bridges between free software and open source
• Details on systemd

0:47:58 Microwatch

• Novell and VMware sign virtualisation deal, Microsoft gets really pissed off
• Security expert says Microsoft a weak link in US national security
• Crapple: WWDC iPhone 4 fail may have been due to bad drivers in the new phone
• Crapple: iPad 3G buyer e-mail addresses leaked by AT&T server, FBI looking into the data breach

0:57:06 Interview

Fab interviews Ade Bradshaw of LugRadio fame and all-around bald hero about LinuxTag 2010 which he recently attended.

They talk about Microsoft sponsoring LinuxTag, Lennart Poettering and systemd, Deltacloud,Tonido.com, SUSE Studio, Club-Mate, the fact that Ade doesn’t like football and much more.

1:38:51 Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Cynthia Cynthia, Andreas, Henry Standing, Stephen Kellat, L.M. Driel, Dylan Thiedeke and thanks to everyone who flattr‘d us!
• Audio feedback: Christopher (who didn’t leave a surname) sent us his own mix of our show entitled Linux Cloudlaws, we also got a great recording of a story from Jon Kulp, our classical guitar playing, skateboarding forum hero

• Ebcdic Zehetbauer likes Red Dead Redemption and suggests we should have a Linux Outlaws Posse on the multiplayer there
• Simon Redfern tells us about the Open Bank Project which he’s involved with
• Adrian Sobotta wrote to tell us about his collaborative, Creative Commons licensed book promoting green IT
• Beni Keller listens to us while on the train to work, while cycling, while running and while cleaning his toilet, he says
• crabbypup has released a beta of a new distro/respin called Mystery Netbook Theatre, NYBill also helped out with a cool wallpaper — check it out over at the forums
• Adam Ward went to SELF because of the promo we played and loved it
• Michael Dexter sent us some Linux Fund news
• Other emails this week from Stephen Parsons, David McInnis, Neall McLaren, Jezra, spartan7, Richard George, Whym, Martin Häger, Stephen, Kevan Vautier, Scott, James Tait, Buford Koechig, Rex Djere and Josh Keyoth

• Event: Barcamp Blackpool, July 3 — Dan will be there

Song: The FCC Song by Eric Idle, recommended by Captain Toffel

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, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 33 minutes 9 seconds, 45.2 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week on the show: WebM license conflict resolved, Linaro initiative announced, Google drops Windows company-wide, Apple drops the ball on the new iPhone, Fab tests MeeGo and much more…

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

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0:01:10 Introduction

• Jon Spriggs is trying to get feedback on his Campfire Lite software we used at OggCamp — if you attended the event and have comments please visit their mailing list
• Android 2.1 hits the HTC Hero
• The Sprint HTC EVO 4G is now shipping — Mo Duffy’s blog post on getting the tethering to work in Fedora
• C-Base OpenMoon
• Libre.fm has a podcast now
• Jono ramps up for the second Severed Fifth album
• Beer of the Week: Batemans Triple XB — kindly supplied by Ade “The Bald” Bradshaw

0:09:55 Releases & News

• Parsix GNU/Linux 3.5
• SystemRescueCd 1.5.5
• Vinux 3.0
• aLinux 14.0
• Untangle Gateway 7.3
• Pardus Linux 2009.2
• VortexBox 1.4
• Ylmf OS 3.0
• Quirky 1.2
• Sabayon Linux 5.3
• Rockbox 3.6
• OpenOffice.org 3.2.1

• Google gives wifi data to Germany, France and Spain
• WebM licensing conflict resolved
• Linaro nonprofit aims to fight ARM Linux fragmentation — Shuttleworth apparently loves it…
• Mozilla will put Weave sync features into the next version of Firefox
• Android will move to a yearly update cycle
• SUSE MeeGo to be released in the next 12 months

0:43:36 Microwatch

• Google drops Windows company-wide — report from CNet
• When Microsoft does open source: The “Bing 404 for WordPress” Plugin
• Crapple News from WWDC: new iPhone released and it’s a joke, also: awkward Steve Jobs keynote FAIL

0:58:35 Jub-Jub

• Mini-Review: Fab talks a bit about MeeGo — there really isn’t much to say right now

Ars Technica: MeeGo Linux platform gains allies at Computex

1:06:31 Feedback

• Peter Brown says New Zealand is set to abandon software patents — this would be very cool if it actually works out
• Andre writes with concerns over the Digital Economy Bill in the UK and downloading free software via torrents
• Adam Thomas wrote to tell us he always listens while mucking out his horse stables and wonders if this is the strangest place people listen to Linux Outlaws?
• After we recently talked about this topic, Billy Crook writes to tell us that he apparently also listens to us in the gym
• Borgy says hello and says our podcast keeps him in the loop about Linux while he’s living downunder
• Other emails this week from Xavier Sythe, Joni Larsen-Haikarainen, Andrew, Anthony C., Amiel Desbiens, Stefan, Boryslav Larin, Jonathan Nadeau, Ando in Dublin, Ryan and good old Alistair Munro

• Events: GUADEC, July 26-30 in The Hague / Fosscon 2010, June 19 in Rochester, NY
• There won’t be a live show at the usual time next week because of the World Cup

Song: Zinedine Zidane by Blue Swerver from the album The Art Of Collapsing

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, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 25 minutes 29 seconds, 42.4 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

In this special episode of Linux Outlaws, we review the Google Nexus One phone and pit it against the Motorola Milestone and Samsung Galaxy and as a bonus Fab also gives you a big list of his favourite Android apps.

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

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

In this special episode, we review the Nexus One phone from Google and pit it against the Motorola Milestone (Droid) and Samsung Galaxy in a huge Android handset shootout.

Thanks to Chris DiBona and Google for providing us with a Nexus One!

We go into all the details about hardware and software on these phones and discuss a lot of general Android and smartphone topics as well. You might also want to check out Fab’s gallery of Nexus One photos while you are listening to this.

After the main review, Fab talks about his favourite Android apps:

• mustard, Identica client
• BeyondPod, podcatcher
• Google Listen, podcatcher
• Astrid, todo list
• WordPress, blogging app
• NewsRob, Google Reader client
• Aldiko, ebook reader
• Bonsai Blast, arcade game
• Robo Defense, tower defense game
• UniWar, TBS game
• Barcode Scanner
• Android IRC, IRC client
• Better Terminal Emulator
• EStrongs File Explorer, file manager
• Album Art Grabber
• MyTracks, geolocation tracking app
• c:geo, geocaching guide
• Gowalla, check-in service
• SportyPal, workout tracker

You can see an up-to-date list of all apps that Fab has installed here.

Nexus One camera test pictures:

Song: 18 Wheels to Hell from the album *Down in the City by Houdini Roadshow

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, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

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This week on Linux Outlaws: Google and OSI fighting over WebM, FSF enforces GPL in the iTunes Store, Poettering now aiming at the init system, Microsoft sponsoring LinuxTag, Pac-Man madness and much more…

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

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:01:21 Introduction

• Russian advice: Nuke the oil spill, that’ll fix it!
• RIP Dennis Hopper
• Fab rants on Oracle brand placement in Iron Man 2
• Quit Facebook Day
• Check out Flattr
• Beer of the Week: Duvel

0:17:36 Releases & News

• KXStudio
• Slackware Linux 13.1
• Clonezilla Live 1.2.5-17
• MeeGo 1.0, Banshee is the default media player
• Maemo 5/PR1.2
• Endian Firewall 2.4
• Peppermint OS One-05222010
• Zenwalk Linux 6.4
• KOffice 2.2
• heybuddy by Jezra

• Google keeping WiFi data from German, Hong Kong governments
• Phoronix: “The Huge Disaster Within The Linux 2.6.35 Kernel”
• Nero AG files antitrust case against MPEG-LA in the US
• Google and OSI at odds about WebM, more from The Register
• GCC begins move to C++
• FSF on GPL enforcement in Apple’s iTunes Store
• After Linux audio, Poettering now out to destroy the init system?

1:07:51 Microwatch

• Microsoft is sponsoring LinuxTag (German), proof on the LinuxTag sponsor page
• Redmond fires entertainment & devices executives

1:16:32 Jub-Jub

• Newton, a physics game for Android

1:17:50 Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Stewart Danziger and Scott Lavender!
• Forums: Google’s playable Pac-Man

• Chris Gilbert sent us an email about his new company Marvin Computers
• Joe Ressington offered to help out with editing work for the show
• Valent Turkovic writes from from Croatia to tell us about his new Fedora Remix
• Gokce Mehmet AY writes us about having fun at the gym with Linux Outlaws
• Other emails this week from Jim Nygård, Michael Dexter, Robin Catling, Aitor Pazos, Scott Lavender, Kristopher Schwab, Douglas Radcliffe, Neall McLaren and Andrew

• Fab mentioned this blog post on joining the Fedora community

Song: Skeletons In Your Closet by Rick Fowler

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, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 34 minutes 43 seconds, 45.9 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

In this show: A metric buttload of Google news (aka. This Week in Google Outlaws), software patents now legal in Germany, Fab rants on the fact that people complain about Google “spying on WiFi” and much more…

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

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:01:12 Introduction

• Dan co-hosted FLOSS Weekly with Randal Schwartz on Wednesday for their Episode 121 interviewing JonathanD from Freenode
• Steam is definitely coming to Linux, a beta has started already
• MyTracks for Android now open source — Yay!
• Beverage of the Week: Dan has Tick Tock Original Rooibos Tea (sent to him by James Tait) while Fab is drinking Spätburgunder Blanc de Noir from Weingut Hof

0:09:22 Releases & News

• Arch Linux 2010.05
• Linux Mint 9
• OpenBSD 4.7
• Scientific Linux 5.5
• SystemRescueCd 1.5.4
• Django 1.2
• Xfce 4.6.2
• SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 service pack 1
• VirtualBox 3.2
• MySQL Community Server 5.1.47 & 5.0.91
• Android 2.2 “Froyo” — Fab has been testing it on the Nexus

• Google open sources VP8, starts “WebM” project — in-depth technical analysis of VP8
• FSF approves WebM
• Google TV
• Google offers Web designers hosted, open-source Web fonts
• Google Storage for Developers takes on Amazon S3

• Google faces probes over WiFi data collection
• German high court declares all software potentially patentable, more in German
• Swedish Pirate Party hosting Pirate Bay in political gesture
• HP will ditch Win7 for WebOS in their Slate tablet, confirmed
• Bids for Novell expected soon
• MonoDroid announced — is this Plan B after MonoTouch is in trouble?

1:01:34 Microwatch

• Microsoft pays VirnetX $200 million to settle patent case
• YouTube/Viacom executive dissing match

1:09:00 Jub-Jub

• Software Tip: BleachBit, a tool to clean all kinds of history and unwanted remnants from your Linux system

1:10:37 Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Daniel Brinkers and Simon Vass!
• Forums: YaMatt has compiled some awesome statistics of the last 150 LO episodes, more discussion on the forums

• Serial donor Ryan Kohler wrote a really nice email
• Tim LaFontaine got himself a Barnes & Noble Nook eBook reader but wanted a nice tool to convert books and upload them and found Calibre
• We have some very cool audio feedback from Aussie St3v3
• We received a ton of OggCamp emails including from Jake Roberts, Tony Webster and Nigel Verity
• Matteo Mario Doni writes to tell us about an Android app he’s been involved with: My Bus Edinburgh
• Simon Vass from Uganda brings us the latest Ugandan LUG news: on June 18, the Mbarara Uganda LUG will be meeting at the Mbarara University of Science and Technology — more info
• Christopher wrote to tell us that Qt Community Manager Knut Yrvin has been on Norwegian TV in a talent show
• Other emails this week from Justin, John47, John Scheuvront (who sent us beer for OggCamp), Markatto, Moriarty, Peter Brown, Eric Kilgore (aka. Igor948), Chris Tevyaw, Brewster, Rex Djere, FiftyOneFifty, B1ackcr0w …..again!, Tony “Hendo” Henderson, Andreas Marschke, Whym, Gareins and Lucas Nicolaus

• Events: Hull LUG Monthly Meeting on Tuesday, June 1 (8pm) at the Old Grey Mare pub

Song: Dead Cowboy from the Sundance Kids

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, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

Ogg Vorbis - 59 minutes 47 seconds, 29.6 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

We celebrate the release of Fedora 13 and have a look at the new features and improvements.

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

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

In this special Linux Outlaws, Dan and Fab talk about today’s release of Fedora 13 “Goddard”.

• my-guides.net has good guides on how to install extra media codecs and more in Fedora
• Special Release Beer: Carlsberg Elephant

Highlights in Fedora 13:

• Pino and Shotwell installed by default
• Printing and scanning improvements
• Colour management
• Free 3D drivers for ATI & Nvidia cards
• Gnome Shell preview
• Streamlined installer
• boot.fedoraproject.org
• Numerous disk and file system improvements
• Parallel-installable Python 3 stack
• Many cool spins

… and much more.

Go on, give it a whirl and get involved!

Song: Zero Three by The Lone Gunmen

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This time on Linux Outlaws: HP buys Palm, Steam coming to Linux, Humble Indy Bundle goes open source, more PS3 firmware fallout, Red Hat & Novell win important lawsuit, Mandriva in trouble, UDS news and lots of Microsoft and Apple bashing as usual…

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0:03:29 Introduction

• Google stopped selling the Nexus One online
• Check out the trailer for Sintel, the new open movie from the Blender guys, it looks amazing! — more info at durian.blender.org
• Support the Libre Graphics Meeting!
• Little Big Planet 2 announced
• Beer of the Week: BrewDog Punk IPA — given to Fab by bald hero Ade Bradshaw

0:12:38 Releases & News

• PCLinuxOS 2010, PCLinuxOS 2010 “Openbox”, PCLinuxOS 2010.1
• Sabayon Linux 5.2 “CoreCD”
• grml 2010.04
• Tiny Core Linux 2.11
• Quirky 1.0, Quirky 1.1
• Monomaxos 5.0
• CentOS 5.5
• Puppy Linux 5.0
• Emacs 23.2
• MythTV 0.23
• Pidgin 2.7
• KDevelop 4.0
• Kernel 2.6.34
• Fedora 13 release slips to May 25

• German court basically outlaws unencrypted wifi — more on this topic from the BBC
• Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has passport confiscated by Aussie officials
• HP buys Palm
• Steam is coming to Linux
• Humble Indy Bundle raises more than a million dollars, goes open source
• Ryzom MMORPG open sourced as well
• U.S. Air Force may suffer collateral damage from PS3 firmware update
• Sony sued for removing PS3 features
• Red Hat & Novell beat IP Innovation in multiple workspaces case — more on this at opensource.com
• Has Mandriva failed? — more on the topic on Zonker’s blog, Mandriva’s response
• UDS news: Ubuntu Light, Window Indicators, Unity shell for netbooks
• Android overtakes iPhone in US smartphone market
• Red Hat Cloud Access makes RHEL contract transferable to EC2

1:05:31 Microwatch

• German appeals court upholds Microsoft’s FAT patent
• HTC signs patent deal with Microsoft
• Why is Microsoft Office so expensive? Ask Bing!

• Apple’s lies about being open source based
• There apparently is a “lifetime limit” on buying iPads — Seriously??? What the hell…!?

1:16:41 Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Neal Quincey, Chris Tevyaw, Łukasz Jernaś, Eduardo Carrillo, Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér, Ryan Kohler, Paul Coleman and Andrew Cutler!
• Forums: Linux Outlaws Greatest Hits

• Markatto send us an email about the Diaspora project — you can support them here
• Xavier Sythe send us information about a new distro called Peppermint Linux
• lostnbronx writes to let us know that the Going Linux podcast recently passed 100 episodes
• Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér sent an audio greeting for OggCamp 10 — we were slightly late in picking this up…
• Other emails from Robin Catling from the Full Circle Podcast, Rich Caller, Nathan Bumhanger, St3v3, Greg Thomson, Alex Tanner, Matthew Phillips, Kevin P., BobK54, Andreas Marschke, Kevin McDole, Ebcdic Zehetbauer, Noble Baker, James Tait, Patrik Alzén, Stuart Ward, koeart, FiftyOneFifty and Dale

• Events: SELF, June 11-13 at the Marriott at Renaissance Park Hotel in Spartanburg / FOSSCon, June 19 at Rochester Institute of Technology — use the code linuxoutlaws to get $5 off a ticket

Song: Sad Man by Dub Rebellion

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, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.