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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• Slightly out-of-date intro, sorry for that — the interview last week messed with our production schedule a bit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
• Brasil’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

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.