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Fabian Scherschel and Dan Lynch talk about all kinds of Linux news, Microsoft sponsoring Apache, Belgian beer, read a ton of listener emails and learn what exactly the Network Block Driver does.

Introduction and Housekeeping (01:10)

• Errata: The Obama / OpenOffice story in episode 42 turned out to be no more than wishful thinking
• Fab talks about some recent good experiences he had with proper hardware RAID
• CNET is reselling Audacity?
• JohnTheNiceGuy tells us about the Bullshit Button
• Beer of the Week: Westmalle Dubbel trappist beer — graciously send to Fab by Johan from Belgium

Releases and News Stories (10:53)

• LinuxConsole 1.0.2008
• Gibraltar Firewall 2.6
• CentOS 5.2 Live CD
• BeleniX 0.7.1
• DragonFly BSD 2.0
• xPUD 0.7
• NimbleX 2008
• Ubuntu Muslim Edition 8.04.1
• BLAG Linux And GNU 90000 / BLAG Linux And GNU 90001
• IPCop 1.4.20
• Ulteo Applications System
• Foresight Linux 2.0.4
• Parted Magic 3.0
• Devil-Linux 1.2.15
• GoblinX Premium 2008.2
• Absolute Linux 12.1.05
• Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r4
• Ardour 2.5 — get the .deb here
  
  
• Debian set to launch lenny in September
• Amarok 2 alpha available
• Gnome 3.0 has been announced
• First look at Splashtop instant-on Linux

• The recent DNS exploit is being actively exploited now
• SCO ordered to pay $2.54 million to Novell — Novell’s press release
• Now that Novell seems to own the Unix IP and SCO had no rights to sell licenses to it, is OpenSolaris in trouble?
• Ubuntu being sold at Best Buy — product listing at Best Buy’s site
• It turns out that Android isn’t that open after all

Microwatch

• Microsoft now sponsoring the Apache Foundation — is this a trap?
• Ballmer: “We believe every Linux customer basically has an undisclosed balance-sheet liability.”
• Microsoft’s “Mojave Experiment”

What’s Up at CrApple?

• MobileFAIL

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (47:39)

Tip of the Week: Play evil iTunes-DRMed music in Linux using El Tunes

• Russell Dickinson writes to us about the Linux Outlaws Drinking Game
• Kristoffer Egil Bonarjee maps the Fourth Dimension and tells us the longer our show is, the better, in his opinion
• Dylan backhandedly compliments us on the show and wanted Fab to bring beer to LugRadio Live
• Ryan McDonough tells us about his Nokia and Symbian experiences
• Richard Querin gives us input about dark Gnome themes
• Meng Tan has problems with playing our Ogg files on a Cowon A2 — if you have one of those, please give us feedback how you get on playing our files on it
• Dan from Bootle has a lot in common with our Dan — Fab’s LRL photos
• Nathan Dotz tells us about the Ballmer Peak and comments on Heineken
• dismal_denizen from Australia is really dismal about open source software and switching to Linux
• Kevan tells us about a truly open graphics card
• Kenneth Gibbs sends us a link to an archive of different international accents
• Billy Crook tells us what the Network Block Driver actually does
• Bob Aylward is a really hardcore Linux user and loves the Crap Alert™
• oscart calls Heineken the “Microsoft of Beers”
• Bill Toulas wants to know if Dan learned to play the guitar and wants to know if Fab prefers Amstel to Heineken
• Selcal (a Texan living in Germany) tells us about his conversion efforts in Rheinland-Pfalz
• Tomas Elke tells us about trying to convert to Linux and gives us feedback on our accents — check out the Republican Space Rangers (video has been pulled off YouTube)
• Daz Fuller asks us about the flyers we posted all over the place at LRL; Fab will provide a PDF of those on the site soon
• Tony Elmer from Australia is singing our theme under the shower — photogrpahy podcasts: TWIP, Tips From The Top Floor
• Johan Vervloet send Fab two beers from Belgium!
• Ger Apeldoorn wants Linux Outlaws Live
• Melissa Defernandez is buying one of our T-Shirts and also tells us about the Fresh Ubuntu podcast
  
  
• If you own an XPS m1330 notebook like we do, check out this announcement from Dell
• Check out Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (you can now watch it on the web again!)

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Song: Soomoamigo by Magnolia Chile

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.