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Linux Outlaws 52 - Not Sponsored by Dell

Fab — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:00:46 +0100

101:56 minutes, 46.7 MB — Download or play

In the longest Linux Outlaws to date, Dan and Fab talk lots of open source as well as freedom-hating and interview Evan Prodromou from identi.ca about his Laconica project.

Introduction and Housekeeping (01:03)

We have a very long show for you this week, including a great and pretty detailed interview
Fab forgot to thank TLLTS last week for massively supporting us again, we are making up for that this week
Andreas Gohr, the man behind DokuWiki, told Fab about FrOSCON and he’ll try to get down there and check it out

Releases and News (05:32)

paldo GNU/Linux 1.15
Scientific Linux 5.2 “Live CD/DVD”
EnGarde Secure Linux 3.0.20
German government wants to ban all porn and proposes podcasting license (German story)
First open source license ruled enforceable — yay!!
Novell extends evilness
Canonical joins Linux Foundation
Dell introduces instant-on Linux with some of their laptops
Dell Mini Inspiron 910
SecondLife rolling out Mono servers
Transgaming to intro SecuROM DRM with Cider
Debian turns 15 — Happy Birthday!
OpenGL to reconcile developers with 3.1?
Completely Free Nessus fork: OpenVAS — Linux Basement episode on Nessus
A look at some snazzy new Android features

Microwatch

Crapintosh

Massive iFail 3G

The Interview (29:05)

We interview Evan Prodromou of identi.ca (@evan) about open source (especially in conjunction with network services), free content, “microblogging” and how the creation of Laconica came about. During the course of the session we also cover some weirdnesses of the French language, Evan’s use of Linux and how he first installed it, his thoughts on the OpenMoko FreeRunner and much more.

Listener Feedback (81:14)

Johan Burell asks us for our opinion on this article — the question is basically if Linux is ready for mass adoption (forum topic)
5 Zune Dave thinks Apple is more evil than Microsoft and wants our opinion
Andrew Sullivan tells us about the Ontario Linux Fest and invites us along
Chess Griffin of Linux Reality congratulates us on our 50th episode
Simon Mikkelson tells us why he converts our Oggs into mp3s at his end (using BashPodder)
Snack Machine B says he has no problems with our files on his Cowon players
Dylan Coakley asks Fab if he ever tried Hoegaarden and appologises for giving us shit at LugRadio Live about our files not working on his phone
MalkorTheTechie send us some pretty funny bumpers for the show, which we play

Before we wrap it up, we also mention that Dell is now providing extended warranty for those broken NVIDIA chipsets.

Please leave comments on this episode in 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.

Linux Outlaws 51 - Too Young for Jail

Fab — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:07:06 +0100

81:04 minutes, 37.1 MB — Download or play

Dan Lynch and Fabian Scherschel talk about Storms in the Cloud, Trouble with OpenGL 3.0, Microsoft’s Olympic FAIL and DokuWiki.

Introduction and Housekeeping (00:58)

Fab forgot to tell everybody about Ubuntu’s Global Bug Jam as he promised and now it’s too late — shame on him for that!
Beer of the Week: Coffee (from Tchibo)

Releases and News Stories (05:15)

Chaos Computer Club’s “Freedom Stick”

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (42:22)

Review: DokuWiki, amazingly easy to use and lightweight database-less wiki software

Fab’s Freedom Hating iPhone Tip of the Week™: pTerm

Kevin prompts us on our Jaiku use
Martin Reindl, who is an avid listener, sends us pictures from some awesome promotion he arranged for us in Paderborn — thanks a lot, dude!
threethirty from theLinux Cranks gives Fab the boot about IceWeasel
Eddie tells us about variable bitrate problems with some audio players
Peter Cannon answers Dan on the “Free Music Challenge”
Gregor Bočič aka. dpkgregor sends a message from Starfleet, or rather the Linux Void team, about their show
Nick sends us a handy tip about gPodder
Paul Northrup tells us about the band Thermal And A Quarter which he says has some Creative Commons music which we sadly couldn’t find — cool band nonetheless
Iwan van der Kleijn gives Dan a kicking about Java vs. JavaScript and says we should do a show on Microsoft and Open Source
Tim send us a link to this great Calvin and Hobbes comic about flamethrowers
Aaron B. has a theory that all the layed-off coders from Microsoft are doing viruses now
Steve Riddit sends us a message about Photoshop and the GIMP in two (!) accents, he also has the idea that people could write in and tell us about how they are seeing Linux and Free Software appearing around them which is a great idea

Wrapping it up, we thank everybody who donated to the show to help us cover some of the cost — thank you! We also mention the fact that Software Freedom Day is getting closer. Last but not least, check out our torrents of the LO Extra pack.

Closing Song: Little Mess by BeatSix

Please leave comments on this episode in the forums.

Linux Outlaws 50 - The Big Five-O

Fab — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:39:07 +0100

84:07 minutes, 38.6 MB — Download or play

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

Please leave comments on this episode in the forums.

Linux Outlaws 49 - Summer of Crap

Fab — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:26:00 +0100

92:36 minutes, 42.5 MB — Download or play

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!)

Please leave comments on this episode in the forums.

Song: Soomoamigo by Magnolia Chile

Linux Outlaws 48 - LugRadio Live

Fab — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:08:07 +0100

85:20 minutes, 39.1 MB — Download or play

In this special episode, Fabian Scherschel and Dan Lynch bring you interviews and coverage from LugRadio Live UK 2008.

Introduction (02:06)
For the first time ever, we are actually in a room together while recording a show. We tell you what we were up to at LugRadio Live UK 2008 and what we got for you in this show. Special thanks to Tony Whitmore from the Ubuntu UK podcast for lending us some equipment.

Interview: Neuros OSD (08:13)
We talk to Jerry and Matthew from the Neuros OSD community about their current model and the road ahead.

Interview: EfficientPC (14:38)
Dan interviews Dale from EfficientPC about the company.

Interview: OpenStreetMap (20:35)
Dan talks to Etienne and Andy from the OpenStreetMap project about what they are doing over there and how to get started in open source mapping.

Interview: Daniel James (37:27)
Dan interviews Daniel James from 64Studio about the distro and the Indamixx mobile music studio.

Interview: Beagle Board (52:06)
We interview the guys from the Beagle Board community about the product and their plans for it.

Interview: Jono Bacon & Stuart Langridge (55:50)
We have the honour to talk to Jono Bacon and Stuart “Aq” Langridge from LugRadio about the future of LRL and their plans after the end of LugRadio.

Wrap-Up (64:16)
We talk a bit more about the weekend and the feedback we got from listeners at the booth. We were quite tired after it all, so forgive us if we repeat ourselves a lot.

If you have any comments on the show, please leave them in the forums.

Song: Jack’s Playing Ball (The LugRadio Theme) by Jono Bacon

Linux Outlaws 47 - Hip with Da Yoof

Fab — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:38:47 +0100

79:31 minutes, 36.5 MB — Download or play

Fabian Scherschel and Dan Lynch talk about Gentoo, complete nutters in the open source world, another silly initiative out of Redmond and much more.

Introduction and Housekeeping (01:08)

Fab’s been to a Neil Young concert in Oberhausen
Dan saw the Counting Crows in Liverpool
Beer of the Week: Heineken
The show had 5,197 downloads last week, many of them were probably “chinny” — w00t!?

Releases and News Stories (07:15)

Ubuntu 8.04.1
Gentoo Linux 2008.0
Absolute Linux 12.1.02
GoblinX 2.7 & GoblinX 2.7 “Micro”
Mozilla gets their download World Record
Netgear launches an open source router — Fab thinks it’s Crapgear
Idiot launches threats against Debian women — just hope we never meet in a dark alley, buddy…
Hans Reiser leads cops to the corpse of his wife
Cross-platform DNS vulnerability discovered
PDF to become ISO standard
Stormy Peters becomes Gnome Executive Director — we had some problems with the name
Micro-Watch: Microsoft gets hip with da yoof — Losers!
Micro-Watch: What the Gates Foundation really does — thanks to JonTheNiceGuy for the story

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (38:04)

Fab relays his experience with Gentoo 2008.0
Tip of the Week: Mount ISOs via a GUI with gmountiso (thanks to Jackie for the tip)
Alfred Nutile is sad about the end of LugRadio and wants to help out with our show, which is awesome; he also recommends the Car Talk podcast
Chris Hembrow sticks the boot in about Symbian
Bushy Tony Elmer’s giggling about our show keeps his wife awake at night; he also thinks we could do without coarse language
Chad Davis sends us a cool clip of the Def Leppard guys doing funny accents
Matt Hampton says we aren’t allowed to quit the show like LugRadio did
David Sterry finally reveals his top secret project: trygnulinux.com
d-r from Vermont disagrees with Tony and wants us to swear more
Richard Querin from screencasters.heathenx.org chimes in about dark themes, Canada’s TLD and sends us an amazing comparison of Jono Bacon and an Ibex; Heathenx also sends his love (luckily not his man-love, just his love)

We are still loving identi.ca!

We hope to see you at LugRadio Live on the weekend! If you have any comments on the show, please leave them in the forums.

Song: When The Chemicals Ignite (With Fuel) by Beatsix

Linux Outlaws 46 - Failover to Fab

Fab — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:49:15 +0100

91:12 minutes, 41.9 MB — Download or play

This week on the show, Dirk Shnerkelburger and Mr. Hubcaps.co.uk talk about the end of LugRadio, the first Intrepid alpha, identi.ca and the Diablo games.

Introduction and Housekeeping (02:32)

We are sad about the end of LugRadio — thanks for all the plugs, guys!
We explain what we plan to do at LugRadio Live
LinuX-Gamers Live article
Beer of the Week: Früh Kölsch

Releases and News Stories (12:18)

Scientific Linux 5.2
Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r0
Network Security Toolkit 1.8.0
Finnix 92.0
SystemRescueCd 1.0.4
Sabayon Linux 3.5
Slamd64 Linux 12.1
Foresight Linux 2.0.3
Poseidon Linux 3.0
Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 1
We take a first look at Intrepid Ibex — they’ve got some boot improvements and a new theme going
Fab mentions the Murrina Relax GTK theme
We check out the completely Free Software, open source and Creative Commons enabled new “microblogging” service identi.ca — follow updates on the show at identi.ca/linuxoutlaws
Surprise Desktop Linux Move of the Week: Xandros buys Linspire, we talk about it
Barracuda fights back at Trend Micro to protect ClamAV and the State of Vermont
We talk about Nokia’s view of Software Freedom
Micro-Watch: Fiji Government to Microsoft: don’t you dare use our name for your crappy products!

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (51:33)

Gaming Corner:

Blizzard unveils Diablo III
Passcode token for World of Warcraft accounts
Fab talks about how to play the original Diablo with Wine, according to Wine bug #2082 you need a patched DLL for this

Tip of the Week: checkinstall, installs packages you compiled yourself into your package manager

Steve sends us an awesome video — “What’s the German for blowjob?”
Pedro from Spain taunts Fab about football and recommends he should nuke his profile to get rid of his Firefox 3 problems
Darrin recommends the show should have some general disclaimers à la Futurama; he also sends us a link to a pretty cool Novell video
IcarianOne from Silicon Valley asks us if we have the same feeling about Linux adoption over here as he has
Kevin the Inventor gives us some nice ideas about what to do at LugRadio Live
Nate prompts us about Mugshot
Ben Webb also tells us about an open social network, NoseRub — if you want to try it, sign up to identoo

Please leave comments on this episode in the forums.

Rest in peace, Don S. Davis

Linux Outlaws 45 - The Cabbage-Eatin' Bird

Fab — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:47:45 +0100

80:01 minutes, 36.8 MB — Download or play

On this week’s show, we talk about lots of Linux and open source related mobile phone news, Gobuntu, Songbird and lots of other stuff. Featuring patent-pending CrapALERT™-technology.

Introduction and Housekeeping (01:09)

Dan says hello to the guys from the Chester LUG
Bill Gates last day at M$ — good riddance!
LugRadio Live 2008 — hope we’ll see you there!
Jamie Bennett told us about the Entertainer Project, check it out
Tea of the Week: Sainsbury’s green tea with lemon
Fab’s MacBreak Weekly rant

Releases and News Stories (11:43)

linuX-gamers Live DVD 0.9.3
eAR OS 1.10 — background story on eAR OS at Linux.com
Molinux 4.0
CentOS 5.2
sidux 2008-02
Arch Linux 2008.06
GoblinX 2.7 “Mini”
Myah OS 3.0 “Dragon”
Pardus Linux 2008
OpenMoko has started shipping the completely open Freerunner mobile phone
Nokia buys Symbian and promises to “open source” the Symbian OS
The LiPS (Linux Phone Standards Forum) and LiMo (Linux Mobile Foundation) consolidate into huge Consortium Of Doom™
Jono announces that Gobuntu will become an installation option in Ubuntu
Reddit open sources their source

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (40:21)

Tip of the Week: Songbird 0.6 — a “mouser” as Dan says: part media player, part browser (Ubuntu/Debian users can get it from getdeb.net)
Dann Washko from TLLTS enlightens us on chameleons
Nido Media reminds us that some people might have use for 64 bit computing, he also brags a bit about his UltraSPARC 5 station
Ralph Z tells about tea with milk and his videocasts about web development based on Ubuntu at TheOrangeIT.org
Dan mentions Popey and the Ubuntu UK podcast
Drew Fitzsimmons tells us that he likes the show and how he listens to it, he also corrects us on Volts and Amps
David Sterry aka. weex tells us about a secret project which we will announce when it’s ready
Shaun Mallette aka. “The Rock Star” says he likes our show notes and documentation
Christian Farrow found us through our Open Source City coverage and really enjoys the podcast, he also pings us about TrueCrypt
We shortly discuss Mark Shuttleworth’s article about responsibility of distributions
Please check out and use del.icio.us/linuxoutlaws — if you want to send us stories, tag them with for:linuxoutlaws
Rest in peace George Carlin, you’ll be missed

Please leave comments on this episode in the forums.

Song: Wreck It by Munkeez Strikin Matchiz (Chuck D & Bo Diddley)

Linux Outlaws 44 - Welcome to KDE 5 (openSUSE 11 Special)

Fab — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:22:42 +0100

86:39 minutes, 39.8 MB — Download or play

This week we bring you a special show where we review the latest openSUSE release and also talk a fair bit about KDE 4.

Introduction and Housekeeping (01:17)

Errata: Alessandro Volta invented the electric battery
Fab went to an awesome Bruce Springsteen concert in Düsseldorf
We recommend new Linux users or people that want to switch listen to Going Linux
No Beer of the Week again, we recorded too early in the day

Releases and News Stories (06:50)

VectorLinux 5.9
Pioneer Linux 3.2
Kurumin NG 8.06
Zenwalk Live 5.2
openSUSE 11.0
Songbird 0.6
Wine 1.0 launches — forum topic with ancient Wine stories
Firefox 3 launch a success: 8 million downloads in 24 hours — as we predicted their servers took a beating

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (22:45)

We talk in detail about our experiences with openSUSE 11 — Dan also wrote a short preview about it
We also discuss the up- and downsides of KDE 4 and the different implementations of it
After this, Dan tells his experiences of visiting Open Source City in Liverpool and checking out the Indamixx device
Tip of the Week: Magnatune — these guys do music distribution the right way!
Ben Webb enlightens us on the Microsoft WMV thing from episode 42 and also clears us up on Becta and open source
DaddyG sends us a mail about a survey conducted at his company on Vista vs XP amongst Visual Studio C++ & .NET developers
Philip Herron now works for IBM and asks us about running VMs on our Dell XPS m1330s — he’s working on getting the guys on to Debian
Reine (a flemish “weemin”) really likes the show and gives us some general feedback
Peter Sorensen tells us about Acer and their questionable approach to standards-compliant web design
Dave in Spain (probably not David Villa) also tells us worrying things about Acer and their EeePC website
imp|ver sends us a really nice comment about the show
Johan Vervloet offers to send Fab some Belgian beer — how awesome is that!?

After the feedback, we wrap it up with a song from Magnatune (which is made possible through their gratuitous licensing policy). As always, if you have any comments on the show, feel free to hop on the forums and tell us.

Song: New Rage by Electric Frankenstein

Linux Outlaws 43 - The Unbreakable Car

Fab — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:49:43 +0100

79:03 minutes, 36.3 MB — Download or play

This time, Fab reviews Bazaar, we have lots of feedback, many rants and we talk about version numbering as well as Hans Reiser again.

Introduction and Housekeeping (01:15)

Errata: librum means “book”, not library
No Beer of the Week as Fab’s fridge was empty
We explain where the show title comes from
Fab mocks Apple a bit, especially MobileMe

Releases and News Stories (09:23)

Zenwalk Linux 5.2
Voltalinux 2.1
MilaX 0.3.1
StartCom Enterprise Linux 5.0.2
NexentaCore Platform 1.0.1
Greenie Linux 3.0.2H
Myah OS 3.0 “Box”
64 Studio 2.1
Damn Small Linux 4.4
Linux Mint 5
Banshee 1.0
Firefox 3 Download Day is today!
Wine 1.0 will be out June 20 — w00t!?
Bruce Byfield’s article on the mess of version control in open source — please discuss
More Hans Reiser madness — this gets crazier by the day (thanks to Cifra)
IBM does weird things with open source code from OpenOffice in Lotus Symphony
Red Hat negotiates first GPL3 compatible patent agreement
Shuttleworth on the Ubuntu Network Edition once more
Micro-Watch: Microsoft appologises to OSI
Micro-Watch: Microsoft warns site owners to prepare for IE8, apparently because it’s standard compliant now? — this makes no sense at all

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (45:34)

Fab reviews Bazaar and talks about the difference between centralised and distributed version control systems
Tip of the Week: We explain how to create “desktop applications” from web pages (ie. GMail) with Mozilla Prism
Kaity G. B. says openSUSE’s logo is an iguana not a chameleon — Fab still disagrees; she also tells us about the Gnome Online Desktop for which Fab created a post on the Ubuntu Brainstorm site (please vote for it)
Benny tells us about the Acer Aspire One
Simon Vass from Uganda asks about mirroring our episodes and laughs at Fab’s Africa slip-up from a few weeks back
Steve suggests we rename ourselves “Dapper Dan and Feisty Fab, aka. the outlaw rustlers of the Linux penguin Hurd” and tells us that Linux surpassed Windows 98 in desktop use recently — yeehaw?; he also suggests Dan should call his British distro “Bollux”
PedanticSteve from Southern California wants us to try out On The Rainslick Precipice of Darkness, which Fab will do when he gets around to it
Tom McCarthy sends us an email detailing File Retention Technology, or FaRT for short
kindofabuzz tells us we should put about:robots into Firefox’s location bar and see what happens
TaCo wants Fab to get another iPhone — no chance!
Eric Bannon tells us a gruesome Vista story and says Fab should review Früh Kölsch
Andy Baxter liked Jonathan Coulton’s Re Your Brains and suggests we should cover more open source non-Linux topics from time to time

Dan mentions he will be checking out Open Source City in Liverpool next week. If you have any comments on this episode, please tell us in the forums.

Linux Outlaws 42 - Don't Panic!

Fab — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:10:55 +0100

81:45 minutes, 37.6 MB — Download or play

This time ‘round, we bring you The Ultimate Answer, a warehouse full of coke, Obama pimpin’ OpenOffice, a review of Gnome Do and much more.

Introduction and Housekeeping (02:01)

Episode 42 - The Ultimate Answer!
Shout out to Pat and Dann from TLLTS and “Big” Dave Yates from Lotta Linux Links, Dan was hanging out with them in IRC
Football should be called “football”!
Episode is late since Fab was rocking out at John Fogerty’s gig in Bonn and is pretty deaf now
LugRadio Live — be there!
Beer of the Week: Duckstein

Releases and News Stories (09:20)

DeLi Linux 0.8.0
ParanoidLinux — thanks to roninchef
Myah OS 3.0
Resulinux 2.9
Absolute Linux 12.1.01
eAR OS 1.09
Obama promises to switch the US government over to OpenOffice — thanks to Gordon for the story
Valve says it’ll release Steam for Linux soon — emailed by Phillip Heron
Google open sources Google Gadgets for Linux
Acer moving more towards Linux
Barracuda is interested in aquiring Sourcefire, who make ClamAV and Snort
Canonical officially announces the Ubuntu Netbook Remix

Broadcom co-founder allegedly spiked drinks and had “warehouse” of coke — bloody hell!

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (38:36)

Gnome Do, an awesome utility for your Gnome desktop — developer David Siegel wrote us a mail with some tips about the program
Check out AWN, it’s getting better all the time — please read these comprehensive instructions on how to install it
Tip of the Week: How to install Sugar as an alternative session in Ubuntu
Ben Jarvis asks us if we still defend Linux when talking to people and why
Alistair from Scotland tells us about The Open Source Community at Microsoft — WTF!?
Billy Crook builds high performance supercomputer clusters and opens our eyes about Rocks
Gregor tells us about his time in Bonn and also IceWM
Matt Pawelski gives us the Nuclear Solaris Shoeing Of Doom™
John M. Howitt tells us about LibriVox
Alex Harrington sends us this article about schools in the UK going open source
Jeff Smith says Hans Reiser might be innocent
JZA liked Dan’s Wu-Tang references — here’s the Lost-like logo Fab was talking about:

Kristoffer Egil Bonarjee (Egil) tells Fab about the very useful screen -x option
Thomas clears up some confusion about fw-cutter

Check out Mozilla’s attempt to get Firefox 3 into the Guiness Book, also: Jono announced the Ubuntu Global Bug Jam.

If you have any comments on this episode, please tell us in the forums.

Song: Re Your Brains by Jonathan Coulton

Linux Outlaws 41 - Now with File Retention Technology

Fab — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:23:20 +0100

68:55 minutes, 31.7 MB — Download or play

In this show: Big Buck Bunny review, OpenSUSE KDE4 beta review, installing an alternate kernel on Ubuntu as well as the usual news and stuff.

Introduction and Housekeeping (01:32)

Slightly out-of-date intro, sorry for that — the interview last week messed with our production schedule a bit
Errata: We know Africa is a continent, not a country — chalk it up to hangover
Dan plugs his other podcasting gig: On The Bench
Beer of the Week: Radeberger Pilsner

Releases and News Stories (07:12)

Musix GNU+Linux 1.0R4
FreeNAS 0.686.4
VMKnoppix 20080519
TinyMe 2008.0
Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 “LiveDVD”
SystemRescueCd 1.0.3
Epidemic GNU/Linux 2.1
Foresight Linux 2.0.2
South Africa files official appeal against OOXML, gets backed by the Shuttleworth Foundation
South Africa’s Parastal CSIR to switch 2300 users to Ubuntu
Sugar splits from OLPC — they are starting their own company
Dell reveals kick-ass subnotebook, runs Ubuntu
Mark Shuttleworth interview — he announces the new Ubuntu netbook spin
Google demos cool Android features
Micro-Watch: Microsoft debuts Don’t Blame Windows Tool
Micro-Watch: Windows Home Server fix on the way (apparently)

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (30:14)

Thanks to Campbell Barton of the Blender Institute who send us two copies of Big Buck Bunny — we review the movie
Fab reviews OpenSUSE 11.0 Beta 3 KDE4 Edition
Tip of the Week: Installing an alternate kernel on Debian systems
Chris says he learned about Linux Basement and the Linux Action Show from us and asks about a good distro to use if you have a Broadcom wireless card
Kevin R asks about the best way to install a LAMP server on Linux — Fab points him towards Linux Basement Episode 2
Shaun Mallette tells us about Gnome Do
Kevin bugs us on saying “beta” wrong and comments that he loved the Code Monkey song by Jonathan Coulton which he bought — good on ya for that!
Mark Faulkner shares a pretty funny Microsoft joke with us
James Polera tells us about Reasonable and Non Discriminatory Licensing — if you have any comments on this, please let us know!

If you are interested in how that awful Debian vulnerability came about, read about it in this article and if you have any comments on this episode, please tell us in the forums.

Song: Livin With a Geek by Chad Wollenberg

Linux Outlaws 40 - Software Freedom, Lawsuits & Poker

Fab — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:06:28 +0100

83:19 minutes, 38.3 MB — Download or play

In this special episode, we talk to Bradley M. Kuhn of the FSLC & FSC about software freedom, litigation against open source developers, the future and thread of web services that aren’t open, the AGPL and poker.

Introduction and Housekeeping (01:38)

The usual introduction and we also explain why we surprise you with this special episode. Also some behind the scenes insight.

The Interview (04:21)

We talk to our first ever guest on the show, Bradley M. Kuhn from the Software Freedom Law Center and the Software Freedom Conservancy, about software freedom, the organisations that Bradley works for, free software licenses, litigation against open source developers, what closed web services mean for the future of free software and even his poker play.

Bradley was very forthcoming and nice to us and the fact that Fab was a bit nervous was all but made up by Dan’s valiant research effort. We think this is a very interesting and entertaining interview and hope you like it. If you have any comments, please tell us in the forums.

Please also consider supporting the SFLC in the magnificent work they do every day.

Listener Feedback (58:00)

Darren Wick from Ohio likes the podcast and is looking to get in contact with Toby Stafford who was a student of his and who we read an email from on one of our earlier shows — Toby, if you are reading this, hop on the foorums!
Bill Toulas has canceled all his magazine subscriptions and is relying on us and LugRadio for all his Linux info — slightly worrying…
Rick Floyd sends us a link to this video of a lady doing many accents:
Jim Shaver sends us another iPhone/iPod Touch tip and tells us about his podcast The Window Breakers
Thomas Perl from gPodder complains about Fab, like, saying “like” all the time — he doesn’t like it…
Jan-Michael Bylczynski tells Fab where he could get Guinness in cans in Germany and asks about AVM/Fritzcard USB-WiFi problems
the glza sends us various comments and recommends Farscape to Fab and Fell to Dan — Fab recommends the Serenity comics from Dark Horse
Nido Media gives Fab another RAID shoeing and tells us about “Bloody Massive Linux” as well as OpenMusic
Johan B sends comments on InAudible again — enough already!
Terry Love prompts us on British Linux distros (compared to the German ones)

Linux Outlaws 39 - Come Back When You Can Grow a Beard

Fab — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:10:46 +0100

71:49 minutes, 33.0 MB — Download or play

In this slightly belated episode (Fab had kernel troubles): Ballmer gets egged, the OLPC gets windozed, OpenMoko tries to be Qt, Microsoft loses another patent case and possibly their mind and Fab is in hangover-mode.

Introduction and Housekeeping (01:31)

Shoutout to LugRadio — yes, we will be hanging out at LugRadio Live 2008
Thanks to Rob Parker we now have a Wikipedia article — how cool is that!?
No Beer of the Week, Fab has the Hangover of the Week

Releases and News Stories (05:43)

MEPIS antiX 7.2
rPath Linux 2.0
Ubuntu Muslim Edition 8.04
eAR OS 1.08
PelicanHPC 1.5.1
Absolute Linux 12.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2
Ultimate Edition 1.8
The OLPC gets windozed
OpenMoko ditches GTK+ for Qt & E17
Ubuntu Live 2008 cancelled
Fab joined 5-A-Day
Asus to embed Linux natively into all their motherboards in the future
M$ Office to gain ODF support in 2009 — WTF!?
M$ loses patent case against Alcatel-Lucent
Funny story of the week: Ballmer gets egged!

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (35:37)

Dan reviews Fedora 9
Fab tells a story about a teacher he recently met who plans to buy a class room set of EeePCs for his school
Tip of the Week: Linux Basement podcast
Get Compiz working with two screens:

#!/bin/bash DISPLAY=:0.1 compiz --only-current-screen & DISPLAY=:0.0 compiz --only-current-screen &
Victor writes to us with a SpinRite story — uggh!
Chad Wollenberg from Linux Basement tells about the song feed of his podcast
Alex Harrington writes us a “fucking massive email” about Fab’s RAID rant
DiggsIt is no Pens fan — we also talk about the size of “The Cup”:

Chris from Raleigh is a Pens fan (despite living in the home city of the Hurricanes) and he has a playoff beard which is way cool:

If you have any comments on this episode, please tell us in the forums.

Song: This week we have a song from Chad Wollenberg from Episode 20 of his podcast.

Linux Outlaws 38 - What Are They Smoking Up In Redmond?

Fab — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:08:16 +0100

86:23 minutes, 39.7 MB — Download or play

On the show this time: F9 is released, Debian has a hole, Microsoft smokes crazy shit, we discover thermo-nuclear hamsters and Fab is cranky during the whole episode.

Introduction and Housekeeping (02:22)

Dan and Fab will be at LugRadio Live UK 2008
Shoutout to Dave Yates , who Fab called “redneck” recently
Fab says: “Go Pens, go!!! Go Pens, go!!!”
Beer of the Week: Pilsner Urquell

Releases and News Stories (10:08)

Parted Magic 2.2
paldo GNU/Linux 1.14
Fedora 9
Ark Linux 2008.1
First Moonlight Release
Huge security vulnerability in Debian uncovered, Ubuntu and other derivatives affected — check your SSL/SSH keys!
Skype finally agrees to obey GPL after a German court buries their appeal
Shuttleworth plots Ubuntu’s future course
Microsoft changes its mind and will apparently keep fighting the EU
Microsoft emails Blender and asks for help — WTF!?
Redmond also tries to push their junk onto “ultra low cost PCs”

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (45:15)

Fab reviews SymphonyOne
Tip of the Week: He also recommends not to use RAID
Chris Fikes tells us about ThermoNuclearHamster.org — check it out and help him along, if you can!
Dangerseeker gives us a thermo-nuclear shoeing about COFEE (his links: 1, 2)

Tom McCafferty and Dave Roberts of Vyatta say they are used to be compared to Viagra and send us this great picture
Drew of Doom comments on several things, including Firefox 3 and Arch and recommends Preacher fans should check out Garth Ennis’ The Boys
TaCo says he now uses Audible and we feel bad about it
Sambu from Finland sends us a handy link for hard drive cloning using dd and netcat
Ben Hellyer (best name ever!) asks about Fab’s iPhone and tells Dan how to trick his bank’s online banking system; he also tells us we’ve been plugged on the Elisa forums

Wrapping it up, Fab recommends John C. Dvorak’s Tech5 podcast which he enjoys every weekday.

Song: Code Monkey by Jonathan Coulton

If you have an idea for a song we should play, write us an email (the song should be Creative Commons licensed). Also, if you have any comments on this episode, please tell us in the forums.

P.S.: Pittsburgh made it to the Stanley Cup final!