This week on the show: Sun buys MySQL, everybody loves Ubuntu, our electrocuting laptops, and we review KDE 4 and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.

Part 1 - Intro & Listener Feedback (03:40)

Due to some unforseen circumstances, we are a bit late this week — but to make up for it, we have a really long show for you. First of all, Fab talks about the new, slightly revamped show structure and his new section where he wants to talk about gaming on Linux. We then go on to the listener feedback we received this week:

• Philip Herron writes to us about gaming on Linux and Wine and tips Fab off about EVE Online (which we will talk more about in next week’s show)

• Matteo asks about Google’s Android and wants us to talk about educational use of Linux; we also talk a bit about Android vs. OpenMoko

• Tom praises our podcast and tells us about podcastready.com

• Gordon Coupar send us a wallpaper photo for the gallery

• Cam DeCoster Tells us how shocking our new laptops are

Part 2 - Releases & News (20:00)

Releases: Scientific Linux 5.1, Zenwalk 5.0, FreeBSD 6.3, SystemRescueCd 0.4.3, Ubuntu 6.06.2, GoblinX 2.6 “Micro”, Parsix 1.0r0 and SchilliX 0.6

On the news front, quite a lot happened since our last show:

• Sun buys MySQL; we don’t really know what to think about that yet…

• Dell releases the XPS m1330 laptop (which we both bought recently) preloaded with Ubuntu

• Acer also started to offer Ubuntu laptops now, apparently

• IBM snuggles up with Ubuntu: it looks like they are planning to deploy Ubuntu in Enterprise environments; they also talk about the fact that they get many requests for Linux from their customers

Part 3 - Reviews & Package of the Week (38:08)

Fab tried out KDE 4 and tells us about his opinion. If you want to try it out for yourself, you can download the Kubuntu KDE Four Live CD. He also reviews Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, which is an awesome first-person shooter game with a native Linux client. We also shortly discuss Peter Cannon’s Nokia N810 review and our feelings towards the device.

Package of the Week:

• Dan: gLabels, print labels and business cards in Gnome

• Fab: Conky, a very subtle but still cool system monitor

This episode ends with Dan’s song “Reality?” from his music blog shedmusic.net. If you want to send us a song to play on the show that is your own, original music, feel free to send us a message using the contact form and we’ll be happy to consider it. Also, please leave feedback on this show in the corresponding thread on 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.