Errata

Red Hat does release their source code, hence CentOS and all the other RHEL clones out there.

Listener Feedback

• The omipresent Verbal sends us an audio tip about how to handle file names with spaces on the command line and also sneakily plugs the Going Linux podcast

• Antone Henderson sends us a cool picture of Noel and another one of his songs which we play at the end of the show

• klaatu from The Bad Apples podcast educates us about OpenOffice on OS X and gives his opinion about the ability to win converts from the Mac side of things

• Daniel Lowe from Mackay asks Fab about his experiences living down under and talks about the flood damage Mackay and Airlie Beach received during a recent cyclone (his news story links: 1 & 2); Fab also mentions the movie Fool’s Gold which was being filmed in and around Airlie Beach & Whitehaven Beach when he was down there

• Drew asks Fab about the kernel he’s running and a possible way to get his Toshiba laptop with an Intel 4965 wireless card and Intel HD audio to work

• Mark Falkner from Devon asks about ways to get Internet Explorer to run in Linux and also mentions Ext2IFS

• Philip Herron (RedBrain) tells us about Linux and Windows at his university

• Jim Shaver explains about the proliferation of Linux at his uni in Calgary and gives a tip about running Internet Explorer in Firefox using IE Tab

Releases & News

Releases: GoblinX Linux 2.6, NetSecL 2.2, CentOS 5.1 Live CD, Scientific Linux 5.1 Live CD/DVD, Linux Caixa Mágica 12, FreeNAS 0.686.1, DragonFly BSD 1.12, grml 1.1 and BSD pfSense 1.2

• The Ubuntu release after Hardy will be called “Intrepid Ibex”; some more not-so-serious suggestions for further releases

• Parasitic sellers of F/OSS on eBay

• Vista SP1 kills and maims security apps and several utilities

• Google doesn’t like OOXML (somehow Borat is involved)

• Microsoft releases Server 2008 — yawn!

• Stallman steps down from Emacs team, again, gets replaced by Cheech and Chong?

• Microsoft gets fined a record sum by the EU — this story even made the BBC front page

Review

Dan gives us the lowdown on Foresight Linux.

Gaming Corner

We talk about Frets on Fire, the open source Guitar Hero clone written in Python and the fact that the original SimCity has been open sourced as Micropolis.

Package of the Week

• Dan: Mplayer-Plugin, the best browser plugin to play your media
• Fab: phpBB, the ultimate forum software

Fab might be getting a Gumstix and will get back with a review in the future. We also thank the guys from LugRadio for their mention of our podcast and wish them a happy 4th birthday.

We end the show with the song Old Heroes Like Me by Noel Watson.

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 is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.

In this show: The usual Microsoft bashing, Canonical’s Landscape, Fab’s CeBIT coverage and much more.

At the top of the show, we thank James for his donation and Fab plugs the XPS m1330 review on Dan’s blog.

Releases (05:11)

Distros:

• Linux-EduCD 0.9
• Kiwi Linux 8.03
• Frugalware 0.8

News Stories (08:53)

• Microsoft wants NGOs in India to send letters to the government to support OOXML — and they can’t spell!
• US delegation to the ISO votes to support OOXML — what a huge surprise…
• Microsoft admits big delay in fixing the Home Server bug and they are getting slammed even by their own fanboys on that
• Canonical unveils Landscape admin tool for servers
• Sun scoops up Python gurus — what are they planning?
• Quite a surprise: the BBC apparently uses Linux for TV production
• German police raids CeBIT because of mp3 patent violations and Fab narrowly escapes

Main Topic: CeBIT 2008 Coverage (41:06)

Fab talks about his experience at CeBIT, especially at the Novell booth and their whole “Interoperability” campaign with Microsoft (including Miguel de Icaza’s views on this). We also discuss the situation of open source software in the industry in general and some other interesting topics Fab came across like the dominance of Linux in virtualisation and the huge success of Asus’ EeePC at the show.

If you’re interested, you can also check out Fab’s gallery with photos from the show room floor:

We close the show with Dan’s song The Shed Anthem, which he recently released on his music blog, and mention that we will do a special listener feedback episode next (probably in between this show and the next usual one). If you want to give us feedback on the episode, please leave a comment in our 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 is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.

Our first dedicated listener feedback episode. Released a bit later than originally planned but full of juicy content nonetheless.

Emails (01:56)

• Johan from Sweden tells us about make-kpkg for compiling custom kernels on Debian systems

• James from New Jersey is running Xubuntu 7.10 on his MacBook and tells us he likes the podcast

• Chris (aka. Tony Soprano) tells us about spreading Linux and F/OSS in the schools of North Carolina

• Randy Noseworthy sends us a file we can’t open

• Mark Falkner writes us again and tells us that his dog is really tired now and also mentions Frostwire

• Rob Collins prompts us about Linpus Linux

• John Priest loves the show and is a Firefly fan like Fab

Forum topics (19:37)

• Ger Apeldoorn on Outlook and Evolution

• Using the Drobo NAS with Linux

• The Israeli Ministry of Education moves to open source

If you have any comments on this episode, please post 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 is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.

On the show this time: Lots of M$-bashing again, Dan’s Windows rant and much more.

Unfortunately, we start the show with bad news again. Sadly, Arthur C. Clarke, one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, has died. Also, we correct a mistake from an earlier show since people told us that there is in fact a multimedia centre distro for Linux, which is called Linux MCE.

Releases (08:24)

Distros:

• PC-BSD 1.5
• Foresight 2.0
• Parsix 1.0r1
• Clonezilla Live 1.0.9-19
• MirOS BSD #10
• Slax 6.0.3

Application:

• TrueCrypt 5

Development Release (Distro):

• Ulteo Applications System Beta 1

News Stories (23:44)

For fun, check out bug #1 for Ubuntu on Launchpad.

• Wal-Mart stops selling the Everex gPC, but only in retail (you can still get it online)

• The release date for Ubuntu Hardy Heron has been announced: 24th April 2008

• The SFLC settles their suit with Verizon on behalf of BusyBox — another victory for the GPL!

• Apache is still the #1 webserver or as Dan says: Apache is still The Daddy!

• Project Peach releases their first trailer for “Big Buck Bunny”

• US anti-trust commitee scrutinises Windows 7 — we also think the name “Windows 7” is shite

• The Supreme Court also gives the go-ahead for Novell to go after M$ and Novell also wants to, even though they are buddies with Ballmer & Co. now

• Also, the SFLC warns against trusting Microsoft

Dan’s Rant & Package of the Week (57:23)

We also have a rant by Dan on Windows as he’s rediscovered the pain of installing and using that particular operating system.

Package of the Week:

• Fab: Firefly Media Server (aka. mt-daap), stream your music over your LAN

• Dan: gBrainy, train your brain on Gnome

We then close the show with wishing everyone Happy Easter (sorry for the late release — it’s entirely Fab’s fault since he was insanely busy at work). Please comment on this show 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 is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.