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In this episode, Dan and Fab discuss the KDE rebranding, Android being on track to dominate the smartphone world, Silverlight 4, Allianz saving a lot of money with Linux and much more..

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0:00:59 | Introduction

• To complement our Distro Shootout from last week, check out Dan’s mammoth OpenSuse 11.2 review
• We talk a bit about our plans with Sixgun Productions
• Zonker’s Beginner’s Guide to Vim
• Ubuntu One clients for KDE and Fedora
• Jono & Aq’s Shot of Jaq has launched
• Booze of the Week: Fab’s drinking Gin

0:12:51 | Releases & News

• Scientific Linux 5.4 “Live CD/DVD”
• Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop 2.0
• FreeBSD 8.0
• Tiny Core Linux 2.6
• Greenie Linux 6K
• Musix GNU/Linux 2.0
• Linux Mint 8
• Debris Linux 2.0
• Macpup Foxy 3.0
• KOffice 2.1
• Inkscape 0.47
• HandBrake 0.9.4

• Allianz Australia moves to Linux and saves a million bucks
• Firefox increases revenue in recession
• Bonehead Move of the Week: KDE renames itself
• Debian Squeeze to be released summer 2010
• Android overtakes RIM in smartphone web usage

0:37:45 | Microwatch

• Microsoft drags their feet on open sourcing their GPL violation Windows 7 USB tool
• Silverlight 4 not cross-platform anymore?

0:48:19 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Mark G., Patrick C., Joel and Thomas D.
• Forums: Turns out Paul Thurrott’s buddy discovered the Win 7 USB tool GPL violation

• We got many emails about Tactical Nuclear Penguin, a 32% alcohol beer (£30 a bottle) — thanks to Dan Dart, Les “Quarter” Pounder and others
• Dan Devine wrote to tell us about a project called the Linux Unified Kernel, looks a bit bizarre
• Barry Williams says his dad runs a computer repair business and has seen computers with nicotine residue in them, but it doesn’t cause a problem as it can’t conduct electricity — as we suspected, Apple is once again full of bullshit
• Morgan asks us what out final rankings are between OpenSUSE, Fedora, Mint, Ubuntu and Mandriva
• Gareins had an interesting idea about default packages in Ubuntu in response to Gimpgate
• Will Noakes sent us this chilling story of a pub owner in the UK being fined £ 8,000 for someone using their wireless Internet to illegally download copyrighted material
• Other emails this week from Wong, Jos Poortvliet from the Netherlands, Dave W. from Canada, Benjamin Dumke, B1ackcr0w, JonTheNiceGuy, Neall McLaren, Andreas Marschke, Der Klempner, Tom, Richard Querin, Thomas Chace (with two Cs, damn it!), Peter Lyberth, James Lewis and Eric Kilgore (Igor948) who sent a picture of his James Burton Telecaster to make Fab jealous:

• Events: Camp KDE 2010 Jan. 15 -22 in San Diego at the University Of California, GUADEC Jul. 24-30 in The Hague
• We play a funny Mac ad spoof video Fab found after the song

Song: Galactic Love by New Nobility

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.