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Linux Outlaws 134 - The Greppy Awards

Submitted by Fab on February 5, 2010 - 22:05.

MP3 - 1 hour 38 minutes 15 seconds, 45.0 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week’s show is brought to you by Bang Bros and Adobe, we also talk about the iTampon, Defective by Design, Ubuntu switching to Yahoo for search, Sourceforge blocking whole countries 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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0:02:08 | Introduction

  • Fab thanks Jon Tomaszewski from Red Hat for sending him one of the iconic red fedoras
  • Errata: MJJZF was thinking of Adam Williamson of Mandriva when talking about another community manager who has quit his job last week, we are glad to hear Max Spevak is still rocking it at Fedora because he’s a great guy — actually Williamson is at Red Hat now too, we hear
  • We had 52,886 downloads in January on Libsyn alone, a new record — the new weekly record is 13,866 for last week
  • The Fender Android phone is out now
  • GCC to merge Go support
  • Wikileaks needs donations
  • Check out Dan’s monster N900 review

0:11:56 | Releases, MicroCrapplewatch & News

  • SystemRescueCd 1.3.5
  • PC/OS 10
  • Ubuntu 8.04.4
  • Banshee 1.5.3
  • Firefox for Maemo 1.0
  • Weave 1.0
  • Tomboy 1.1.1
  • SpamAssassin 3.3.0
  • KDE Software Compilation 4.3.5

  • Apple releases big ass iPod touch — Fab would prefer a Mini 5, Dan falls asleep
  • Steve Jobs: “Ehh… Nobody reads more than 10 hours!!!”
  • In response to this, Adobe gets into a pissing match about missing Flash and their main Flash evangelist posts a screenshot from Bang Bros on his blog, then pulls it
  • Zonker says Defective by Design is a bad campaign
  • Microsoft sues BitTorrent tracker — as far as we are aware, this is a first

  • Ubuntu sells their default search option, switches to Yahoo — BING!!!
  • Sourceforge now discriminates against users from certain countries that the US doesn’t like — Jon “Maddog” Hall’s take on this topic
  • The FSFE receives the Theodor Heuss Medal

1:04:06 | Software Picks

  • Desktop: Ground Control, a GUI interface to Bazaar and Launchpad integrated right into Nautilus — Jono’s blog post on Ground Control and other handy tools
  • Android: Aldiko, an ebook reader for Android — free, $1.99 if you want to support them

1:09:41 | Feedback

  • Donations: Thanks to Tom Link, Mark Wright and Ryan Kohler
  • Forums: Coordinate OggCamp travel

  • We had a couple of emails on the SourceForge blockade from Pete Smith and Badry Darkoush from Syria — Chad Vader sketch
  • Tom Link from Canada reports that he took his car for an oil change to Mr. Lube and was surprised to see that all their workstations run Ubuntu
  • Dave Purse sent us information about his new distro Simplicity Linux which comes with Linux Outlaws pre-loaded in the podcatcher — good on ya, Dave!
  • MJJZF says the Danish parliament, Folketinget, decided that ODF should be used as the only document format in state documents
  • JonathanD pimps Freenode’s “7for7” campaign, go and donate because Freenode is ace!
  • We also had emails from Ravel Lopez, Peter Cannon, Bo Kullmar, Joshua K., Jack, Mark Law, Reine, Sven Lankes, Kelly, Paul W.B., Quarter Pounder, Parth Lawate, Morgan, Russ Axford, Rich Brown, Mark, Rick and Vytenis

  • Event: Fedora Activity Day (FAD), March 27/28 in Mönchengladbach

Song: Oppositional Defiance Disorder (live) by David Rovics from the album The Commons

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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Dan Lynch is a programmer, musician and full-time layabout from Merseyside, UK. He used to work for the NHS as a .NET developer before turning his back on the Dark Side to become an open source enthusiast. He has been commited to the open source ethos ever since. Dan is currently distro hopping for the good of the podcast.

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