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Fabian Scherschel and Dan Lynch, despite being blocked in China, talk about masturbating monkeys, all kinds of Linux and F/OSS stories and keep a watchful eye on what Microsoft is up to.

Introduction and Housekeeping (01:14)

• Errata: It seems that the site audacity2008.com is a scam, don’t go there — get the real thing here
• Our show is blocked in China — yay!
• If you have problems with playing our audio files, please open a topic in the forums so that other people can see it as well since we are not able to test the files on all the possible playback devices
• Get your Outlaw Extras and seed the torrent!
• Dan mentions the Liverpool LUG folks Andy, Jo, Simon and Dave
• Beer of the Week: König Pilsener, Fab’s favourite beer in the world

Releases and News Stories (11:12)

• Musix GNU+Linux 1.0R2R5
• CCux Linux 0.9.9
• Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r1
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7
• KDE 4.1
  
  
• Debian Lenny is in feature freeze
• Check out this video interview with Identi.ca creator Evan Prodromou
• Very interesting SCO Litigation chart at Groklaw
• Linus calls the OpenBSD guys “a bunch of masturbating monkeys”
• Microwatch: Vista SP1 will not install on dual boot systems
• Microwatch: Microsoft cozying up to open source at OSCON
• Microwatch: Bruce Perens on Microsoft and Apache

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (36:25)

• Dan talks about his Open Studio project
• Fab rants on closed application development à la the iPhone
• Review: HP OfficeJet 6310 printer/scanner combo
• Tip of the Week: Sweet Home 3D, a cross-platform 3-D interior design application
  
  
• We good some really cool audio messages from Phillip Heron (redbrain), Ryan Kohler, NYBill & Mrs NYBill and David Collins-Rivera (lostnbronx) congratulating us on our 50th show
• We also got a cool video from Sleepynate:

• Tim Ehlers wants us to review audio players for Linux
• Chris Myers thinks this year will be the Year of the Linux Laptop
• Charlie Robinson tells us that we are censored in China
• Reine sends us a very cool site that translates pages into Redneck
• Alex Harrington sends us a link to episode 3 of the Ubuntu UK podcast where the guys discuss how they produce their podcast
• Mark sends us some facts about Wolverhampton University
• Simon Mikkelsen tells us a few RMS jokes
• Tom Elke says that Best Buy sucks
• Rob asks about how to replace the Mint Menu with the regular Gnome menu
• JZA says Fab shouldn’t hate Nokia, Fab replies
• Bob Konior loves the show and is waiting for the Linux Outlaws US tour now
• Jason Howell (not from CNET) is telling us he has a Cowon player and the ogg files always work for him
• Billy Crook says the 3ware RAID controllers have open source drivers, even if the management utilities are proprietary
• Dave has bought five Zunes for his family and found our show on the Zune store
• Check out the shiny, new delicious.com/linuxoutlaws

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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.