MP3 - 1 hour 18 minutes 36 seconds, 36.1 MB — Ogg version here

The Outlaws take a look back at the big (and small) stories of 2008 and generally reminisce.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:51 Introduction

• Fab still loves Scott Sigler’s Earthcore — what a fantastic book!

0:06:36 The Year 2008 in Review

• Episode 20: Sun buys MySQL, Dell really ramps up its Linux offerings
• Episode 21: Nokia buys Trolltech
• Episode 23: Sun buys VirtualBox
• Episode 25: Microsoft gets fined record sum by the EU
• Episode 32: OOXML becomes ISO standard, Adobe joins Linux Foundation
• Episode 35: Hardy Heron release special
• Episode 36: Hans Reiser found guilty of murder
• Episode 37: Adobe opens Flash formats
• Episode 38: Huge Debian SSH security vulnerability
• Episode 39: Ballmer gets egged in Hungary
• Episode 45: OpenMoko starts shipping the Freerunner, Nokia buys Symbian and promises to open source it
• Episode 46: identi.ca launches, Xandros buys Linspire
• Episode 47: Firefox breaks World Record for most downloads in 24 hours
• Episode 48: LugRadio Live
• Episode 53 : Stephen Fry GNU video, Google releases Chrome, Fedora servers get hacked
• Episode 54: Lenovo dumps commercial Linux offerings
• Episode 56: Android released
• Episode 61: G1 released
• Episode 65: Adobe releases 64bit Flash-Player alpha first on Linux
• Episode 67: Linux booted on the iPhone
• Episode 68: FSF sues Cisco

0:42:18 General Overarching Topics

• We talked about many things this year, among them the whole OOXML debacle and SCO sueing themselves into a downward spiral, Microsoft wanting to buy Yahoo! and the whole M$-Novell love deal
• We explained how we produce the show
• We also talked about Linux in education
• We reviewed many distros
• Interviews: Bradley Kuhn, LugRadio Live Interviews, Evan Prodromou, Becky Hogge, Steve McIntyre, Jono Bacon, Dann Washko and Thomas Perl
• We both bought an XPS m1330 at the beginning of the year
• Was this The Year Of The Linux Netbook?
• Did OpenMoko drop the ball, enabling Android to speed past?
• KDE4 was released, mixed reactions all around
• LugRadio, the Linux Action Show & Linux Reality are gone for good — luckily, Linux Basement and Dave Yates are still at it (and TLLTS of course)

This will be the last show of 2008. See you all back in the second week of 2009 for another fun-packed year of Linux Outlaws!

Song: Auld Lang Syne by jezra

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.

MP3 - 1 hour 12 minutes 21 seconds, 33.3 MB — Ogg version here

This week: We talk about trouble in the Debian community, voting on Lenny’s release, Windows on submarines for real, PlayStation Home, MystOnline going open source and Fab reviews CunchBang on his Eee PC.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:07 Introduction

• Thanks to Pipeline for sending us the intro clip of Bill & Ted
• Apparently some Russian guy patented emoticons? — WTF!?
• New podcast cover art coming up in 2009

0:06:18 Open Source Releases

• Slax 6.0.9
• K-DEMar 4.7
• Bluewhite64 Linux 12.2
• Linux Mint 6 “Felicia” — feature list including giver
• Magic Linux 2.1
• Parted Magic 3.3
• Litrix Linux 9.0
• Kiwi Linux 8.12
• openSUSE 11.1
• Adobe AIR 1.5 for Linux
• VirtualBox 2.1 — with OpenGL support

0:16:31 News Stories

• Linux Foundation election results
• More sexist morons trouble Debian community — we hope they get dealt with soon!
• Debian developers vote on Lenny release
• Plymouth boot splash planned for Ubuntu 9.10
• Dell Inspiron Mini 12 now with Ubuntu option

0:27:21 Microwatch

• Windows for Submarines (thanks to Michael Johnson for the tip) — do we really want a missing DLL to cause a thermo-nuclear war? Blue Screen of Death indeed!
• M$ even manages iPhone app FAIL — is there nothing they can’t fuck up?

0:32:44 Review

• Fab quickly reviews CrunchBang on the Eee PC 901

0:37:25 Gaming Corner

• MystOnline: UruLive to be open sourced — awesome news!
• We give you our first impressions of PlayStation Home

0:43:00 Tip of the Week

• Dan loves the Amazon UK mp3 store — works great with Linux!

0:50:00 Listener Feedback

Forum

• Innuendo thread for this episode
• Guitar thread

Email

• Simon Vass From Uganda wrote to tell us his friend Jon Gosier has setup a podcast called Appfricast; he also told us about Yo Frankie! which is the game being made as part of the Apricot project from the Blender Institute
  
• Ben2Talk wrote us a fucking long email explaining his love for Opera, he also says something we missed with Songbird is that he thinks it loads lyrics a lot faster than Amarok, Rhythmbox or anything else
• Kristian Naugle (wrote to say he agreed with our comments on software patents in ep 60 and sends us a link - http://www.savefreedom.info/software/) (he also asks us what video editing software we use on Linux, he’s looking for something that does for audio what Audacity does for audio)
• Tim says he likes aptRPM
• Luke Vandervort tells us he enjoyed the interview with Thomas Perl and he loves gPodder
• Jason Bowles asks about advice for starting a new open source project and finding help
• Daniel Devine asks if Fab’s CrunchBang desktop looks like something from EVE Online on purpose and also mentions Fedora Directory

• Thanks to NYbill and Mrs. NYbill for their Christmas wishes, also thanks to JZA, Bernd, The Glza, Spike, Reine and YaManicKill for the other emails this week

• Fab will try to be at MBC 09 in Hamburg in January

  

Song: The Podsafe Christmas Song by Jonathan Coulton

Merry Christmas, everybody!!!

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.

MP3 - 1 hour 28 minutes 31 seconds, 40.7 MB — Ogg version here

This week: The FSF sues Cisco, teacher says Free Software doesn’t exist, Fab reviews CrunchBang Linux and the Linux Defenders defend Linux.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:00 Introduction

• Thanks to Michael Johnson for the new sound clips of the Duke
• Listening to Security Now’s coverage of Sandboxie, Fab had the idea that maybe you could implement a similar solution with git or bzr or something similar for free on Linux — what do you think?
• Dan gives a shoutout to everyone from Barcamp Liverpool and wishes JonTheNiceGuy all the best for his upcoming wedding in the New Year
• Thanks to TLLTS for getting Fab into Scott Sigler’s audio books — he’s been listening to Earthcore and is loving it so far
• Philip Newborough (aka. corenominal) is not married (yet)
• Beer of the Week: Oettinger Winterbier

0:09:23 Open Source Releases

• SystemRescueCd 1.1.3
• Puppy Linux 4.1.2
• BSD Release: Frenzy 1.1
• BSDanywhere 4.4
• Clonezilla Live 1.2.1-23
• Musix GNU+Linux 1.0R6
• EnGarde Secure Linux 3.0.22
• TinyMe 2008.1
• Slackware Linux 12.2
• PC-BSD 7.0.2
• ASPLinux 14
• Amarok 2.0
• gPodder 0.14.0 — includes amazing new my.gpodder.org
• Wordpress 2.7
• Google Chrome 1.0 — not a beta anymore, still no Linux version either…

0:19:54 News Stories

• FSF & SFLC are sueing Cisco over GPL violations
• Linux Foundation and SFLC create “Linux Defenders” to beat patent threats against Free Software
• Teacher reprimands student for handing out Linux CDs, says “there’s no such thing as free software” — thanks to Kevan Vautier, Johan Burell, 6r00k14n & Daniel Devine for emailing this story to us
• The two biggest Australian ISPs refuse to join Aussie net filtering test
• IBM to bundle Lotus & Ubuntu to target Microsoft
• Google makes developer version of the G1 available — thanks to Manfred Moser for the email

0:41:17 Microwatch

• Another zero day exploit in M$ SQL Server — yet more security FAIL from the masters of security FAIL!
• Microsoft releases open source CMS — Why??? Haven’t they heard of Wordpress?
• Israeli Linux fan sues Windows refund out of Dell — thanks to Marfal for his email on this

0:48:27 Review

• Fab reviews CrunchBang Linux — if you want to try this, head over to the CrunchBang forums, they have a really nice and helpful community over there!
  

1:04:45 Listener Feedback

Forum

• Our forums now have 400+ members
• Fab thanks all the people helping him decide on his Eee PC purchase

Email

• Ger Appeldorn wrote to tell us about the Hacking At Random event 2009 in the Netherlands — apparently it’s like “a woodstock for hackers”
• Jake Tolbert sent us some information about a collection of Christmas music he’s released under Creative Commons
• Peter Nikolaidis wrote to tell us the Fresh Ubuntu podcast is alive again so go check it out!
• Dan Fish says he is real and wrote us a rant about Microsoft and the NHS
• Billy Crook asks that we send questions and answers to LinuxQuestions.org instead of our forums
• Randy Fithian tells us about SELinux in Fedora and the YUM package manager
• JonTheNiceGuy says we shouldn’t only attend LUG meetings but also as many other technology-related meetups as possible; he also thinks we owe the listeners a lot of inuendo jokes for Episode 69
• Michael Sandahl told us about a Linux football management game called Bygfoot where apparently one of the commentators mentions Chopper Reid when someone commits a very bad foul
• Alexandro Colorado (JZA) send us this amazing image:
  
• Hall of Shame of other emails this week: Kevan Vautier, DaveS, Dan Collins, Antony Prince, Jonathan Groll and Scruffy Mogwai
• Fab also mentions this very funny XKCD blog post (don’t miss the comments!)
• Send us innuendo suggestions for show #69 via our special innuendo thread in the forums

Song: Riding with the Devil from the album Down in the City by Houdini Roadshow

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.

MP3 - 1 hour 44 minutes 40 seconds, 48.1 MB — Ogg version here

This week we discuss Linux on the iPhone, Cuban cigars, host busses, more German government fail and we talk to Thomas Perl of gPodder about his project, Python 3000 and much more…

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:02:44 Introduction

• Fab was right about the Cuban cigars — thanks to Greg Lyles, Bob Konior and TK009 for verifying that
• linea is a bloke
• The lead developer of CrunchBang Linux is called Philip Newborough aka. corenominal
• Becky Hogge is leaving the Open Rights Group, best of luck to her in the future
• Thanks to everybody who is supporting us on Podcast Alley!
• beetlespace found an Ubuntu version for visually impaired users: Vibuntu
• New Springsteen & E Street Band album Working on a Dream out Jan 27

0:12:34 Open Source Releases

• FreeBSD 6.4
• GParted LiveCD 0.3.9-13
• Parted Magic 3.2
• grml 2008.11
• OpenSolaris 2008.11
• Finnix 92.1
• Songbird 1.0
• Python 3.0

0:20:40 News Stories

• gOS announces instant-on “Cloud” OS
• German government set to legalise spyware use by Feds — you’d think terrorists might be smat enough to download an Ubuntu Live CD…
• Linux successfully booted on the iPhone — thanks to John V
• OpenSUSE kills their EULA
• Oracle & Emulex contribute code to the kernel
• MySQL creator mad at MySQL team
• UN fails to set up listserv and pisses off journalists
• NVIDA Compiz-fake ad:

0:43:13 Microwatch

• Microsoft pays vendors to advertise Windows — surprise, surprise!
• Apple bitch-slaps iPod interoperability project with DMCA — at least the EFF is on the case
• Jonathan Coulton’s special EFF giveaway

0:48:44 Interview

We speak to Thomas Perl of gPodder about his project, what he thinks of Python 3000 and how he thinks Free and Open Source Software can best be improved.

If you want to help out with gPodder development, check out their wiki and report any bugs you find on their bug tracker. You can get also the latest packages of the software for many distributions here.

1:18:13 Tip of the Week

• Check out openDesktop.org — get cool themes and artwork to pimp-up your window manager or desktop environment of choice

1:18:44 Listener Feedback

Forums

• Long thread on various people’s experiences with Intrepid
• Cool thread were various community members post their desktop screenshots

Email

• Mark Adams wrote to tell us that Adam Williamson is leaving Mandriva — what a shame!
• Mats Taraldsvik likes it when we have guests on and he still likes Opera Mini
• Ralph wants to help FLOSS projects at helpfloss.org
• Ben Stokes tells us about unetbootin, also check out his blog
• Moggers recommended the RPM Fusion repo for 3rd party Fedora packages
• Steve from Australia did also tell us about the iPhone on Linux story
• Dennis from Australia asks what Fab has against Aussies and says we have to title an episode “Bucking Kangaroo” as a penance; he also tells us a bit about recent IT initiatives by their government
• TK009 thinks that for every Fedora desktop in the wild there are probably two Ubuntu ones (he’s a Fedora user himself) and he also thinks that Fedora have rediscovered their focus with the last two releases
• tloo wrote to tell us that the new Fedora Plymouth bootloader works with any VESA if you add a special vga argument to your GRUB
• Also thanks to Thomas, Alfred Nutile, Bob Kovacs, John V., JZA, The Great Gazoo, Kevin Daire, Patrick Dailey, Morten Fucking-Long-Name and Peter Cannon for their emails this week

Song: Edge Of Design from the album Denied By Reign by Severed Fifth

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.

MP3 - 1 hour 32 minutes 40 seconds, 42.4 MB — Ogg version here

This week on the show: Fab reviews Fedora 10, the X-Men use Ubuntu, Microsoft will make your SQL data explode and much more…

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:00:58 Introduction

• The John Wayne clip was send to us by Matt Hampton
• Correction: Slackware 12 ships with Apache 2 (thanks to Dave from Indiana for the email)
• Check out this IR power-on module for PCs — might be what Scott from Cape Town wanted for his Mythbox (thanks to Markus Golser)
• The word “meh” was included into the Collins dictionary
• Beer of the Week is a cigar

0:10:07 Open Source Releases

• Yellow Dog Linux 6.1
• PC/OS 2009
• SME Server 7.4
• Linux From Scratch 6.4
• Greenie Linux 4I
• Fedora 10
• Caos Linux NSA 1.0
• Poseidon Linux 3.1
• CrunchBang Linux 8.10.01

0:19:30 News Stories

• You will soon to be able to buy the Neo Freerunner with Android pre-installed — so Android is open, even if the G1 hardware is not
• SCO loses yet again!
• The second Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase is accepting submissions right now
• Ubuntu Hall Of Fame — is promoting “rockstars” in the community a good idea?
• Fedora Claims it’s the leader in Linux
• The X-Men use Ubuntu!?

0:42:30 Microwatch

• MS “Kojax” is Ajax for Java phones — includes free lollipop with every phone
• Microsoft ad says your data will explode if you use SQL Server 2008:

0:45:12 Review

• Fab reviews Fedora 10

1:01:15 Tip of the Week

• Fab: Creative Commons licensed ESO space photos make excellent wallpapers
• Dan: Avconvert Nautilus Script will convert audio/video/image formats from a right-click menu in Nautilus

1:05:15 Listener Feedback

Forums

• linea posted a cool 3D model of an Outlaw Tux complete with hat and all
• Great thread on british comedies that NYbill started
• Thread discussing the new Star Trek movie, including cameos of Dan as Kirk and Fab as Spock thanks to our resident GIMPmeister jezra

Email

• Kevin has been using Linux since the end of 2005 and says that Compiz Fusion is much more than useless eye-candy, especially if you are visually impaired
• Jonathan says Microsoft cares nothing about blind people and accessibilty and thinks Gnome’s Orca beats anything on Windows — apparently it’s available from the moment you put the CD in the drive
• Simon Garfunkel alsoI finds the Linux desktop far more user friendly than Windows and also finds Compiz Fusion a real boon
• Mats Taraldsvik, as a norwegian, loves Opera Mini
• Cam DeCoster just wrote to tell us to have a look at the new Neuros device

• Jonathan Groll sent us a quick tip for people having trouble with any podcast files with those random Libsyn characters attached — to fix them all in one shot, make sure you have mmv installed and type:

    mmv "*mp3*" "#1mp3"
  

• Josh Harwood sent a mail asking how he can find LUGs in the UK: lug.org.uk

• Thomas Perl wrote to say he found another Ubuntu logo rip off
• Rod Johnson sent us some information about Thomas Friedman after our mention last week
• Also thanks to Tim LaFontaine, Frank Bell, Daz Fuller and Reine for their emails

Song: Nowhere Town by Noel Watson

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.

MP3 - 1 hour 24 minutes 45 seconds, 38.9 MB — Ogg version here

The Outlaws talk about Debian, the G1, the Open Source Consortium throwing their toys out of the pram, Ubuntu on ARM and Microsoft’s “open source” website.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

John Wayne soundbite courtesy of Matt Hampton.

00:01:35 Introduction

• Congratulations to Chad on a year of Linux Basement!
• Check out the Software Freedom Law Show from the SFLC, which Dan produces
• If you’re interested in helping Fab & Bradley with their podcasting app, visit the project’s page
• The Gentoo Wiki recently lost its database
• Tony Elmer tells us that Wikipedia needs your support, also sort out our Wikipedia entry, pleeeeease???
• After doing a forum poll we will be mentioning selected stuff from the forums from next show onwards
• Beer of the Week: Cheap shit from Aldi

0:15:50 Open Source Releases

• Ultimate Edition 2.0
• Clonezilla Live 1.2.1-17
• BlankOn Linux 4.0
• Mandriva One 2009 “Xfce”
• Ubuntu Muslim Edition 8.10
• Django 1.0.1
• Adobe Flash 64-bit alpha — Ubuntu 8.10 installation howto

0:22:13 News Stories

• Open Source Consortium complains to the BBC about their PDC Windows 7 coverage — they say it was one big ad
• Firefox 2 to be phased out
• SplashTop now used on netbooks
• Debian Jr. — Debian for children
• Ubuntu on the ARM platform
• Debian gets ported to G1
• Banshee 1.4 supports G1 sync

0:40:37 Microwatch

• Redmond is apparently rethinking their “open source” CodePlex site
• Microsoft to “help” startups out — emailed to us by Stuart Burns as well as Alex Harrington

0:48:25 Listener Feedback

• Luke Vandervort wrote to say he enjoyed Dan’s George Bush accent but was a little worried we’d been replaces by CIA operatives
• We had plenty of emails both agreeing and disagreeing with Dann Washko on Mono — thanks to Jason Bowles, Phillip Heron, Randy Fithian and Kaity G. B.
• Pipeline wrote to tell us about this quote they read in a textbook: “Thats right: 200 miles per gallon. It’s the Linux of cars!” (Thomas L. Friedman)
• Scott from Cape Town says our M$ bashing has led him to install Ubuntu on his laptop and he moved from XP, he also asks how to start up a Mythbox by using a remote
• Tom Elke send us some friendly Republican hate mail
• Richard Querin also complained via a very funny clip he send in
• Jared is a blind Linux user who send us comments on the areas where Linux is still very much lacking in accessibility — further listening on this topic: Linux Reality episode 72, where Chess interviews a blind sysadmin
• Todd sent us a list of annoying things people say from the BBC and notes that Fab is basically number one
• Ben from Bangkok tells us about GnoMenu which aims to duplicate the Vista menu, he also asks if we’re interested in media centres and have we tried XBMC or Elisa
• Martin has problems with his printers under Linux, says he has an HP but it doesn’t work properly — Fab uses an HP OfficeJet 6310
• Lucy tells us about software patents in the EU and send us a link to the Open Rights Group’s explanation of it, also check out stopsoftwarepatents.eu
• Also thanks to Paul Steel, Dave Pattenden, Henry Tarling, Tim Wilson, Jonathon Groll, Cristian Farrow, Mathew Stahl, Ricard Carpenter, Jaco Vantonder, Dave S., Brian from Michigan and Alan Haugen for their emails

• The Dell Mini 12 “pile of shitbook” (at least for the moment it is)

Song: Sad Robot from the album 8-bit lagerfeuer by Pornophonique (emailed by Bobby Hunter & Benedikt Goos)

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.

MP3 - 1 hour 25 minutes 39 seconds, 39.4 MB

This week, the Outlaws talk about Germany moving their embassies to Linux, possible slogans for Debian Lenny, Microsoft retiring Windows 3.x and much more. Includes Fab’s review of LittleBigPlanet for the PS3.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:00:52 Introduction

• I think we confused prior art in patents with defending trademarks in Episode 62
• Dan got lots of crap via email and in the forums because of the Mandriva Gnome/KDE thing
• Michael Griffin ist not a xenophobic thug and Canada is a nice country
• Wind River Systems are an embedded software company, they were best known for selling a proprietary embedded OS called “VxWorks” and have turned around completely and become a supporter and supplier of Linux as an embedded OS
• Neil Young started an electric car conversion company

0:08:36 Open Source Releases

• OpenBSD 4.4
• Puppy Linux 4.1.1
• ComFusion 2.0
• Sabayon Linux 3.5.1
• SystemRescueCd 1.1.1
• Solaris 10 10/08
• Development release: Songbird 1.0 RC1

0:17:30 News Stories

• Google doesn’t give you root access on Android which means you have to jailbreak the thing
• Germany moves its embassies over to Linux
• Debian Lenny slogan poll
• GNU changes the FDL in order to let Wikipedia move to Creative Commons
• GNUveau Networks builds solar-powered Linux computer networks for developing countries
• Diebold faces GPL infringement lawsuit over voting machines

0:35:09 Microwatch

• Redmond finally retires Windows 3.x
• How Microsoft sees Open Source software
• Microsoft pays South Korea $60 million to use its software — must be awesome software!

0:40:58 Gaming Corner

Fab gives his review of LittleBigPlanet for the PS3

0:48:58 Tip of the Week

Terminator, a GTK terminal emulator that supports multiple terminals in one window

0:50:24 Listener Feedback

• Nido Media tells us about some terrible software patents he also is in favour of Mono and thinks Microsoft would not want to go after Linux users for running it
• Michael Spannbauer send us a link to the Klinikum Ingolstadt whose logo really reminds us of the logo of our favourite poo coloured distro
• Mark (Aardwurk) sends us a note about Cross-Site Request Forgery and Clickjacking — Fab recommends to listen to Security Now episodes 166 & 168 if you are interested in this — we also discuss Steve Gibson and his disposition towards Open Source
• Frank Bell mentioned us is a blog post and thinks we should run Slackware
• Cam DeCoster tells us about his Tivo hacking (he used MFSLive)
• CafeNinja set up a Jamendo playlist for all the songs played on LO
• Aiden (dismal_denizen) created an Uncyclopedia article for our show — hilarious!
• Jer Barton tells Dan he’s an idiot because of his problems with the Mandriva page
• David Collins-Rivera (lostnbronx) compliments Fab on his music choice on Episode 62 and thinks he’s related to a guy he knows by the name of Kinzer
• Martin likes the show and asks Dan if he saw him at a Liverpool game on TV; he also thanks us for the Mandriva review
• Andy Hunter says Windows 7 looks like what Sony would come up with if they designed a “My First KDE” distro
• deadrabbit thinks the PS3 might run BSD; he/she also harshes on the Ubuntu community a bit
• Reine says Dan can now nearly pronounce her name
• Ian Corke suggests we should start worrying about our demographic, he also loves the EeePC 900 with Linux on which he uses Mandriva and hates Windows Mobile
• Kristoffer Egil Bonarjee tells us about Linux on Android and its limitations
• Thomas is a Mythbuntu developer and enlightens us about their packages being in the regular Ubuntu repos, he also hopes Fab will have a good time when he tries Mythbuntu again
• David Ramsey Cain uses CD-RWs for his distro hopping so as not to waste a lot of regular CD-Rs — a very good idea
• jezra tells us about an experience he had while wearing his Linux Outlaws shirt — good on ya, man!
• Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér (Dingus McSlack) send us a fucking massive email recommending D2OL, another distributed computing thingy that does “really complicated stuff with molecules”

Song: 5 Foot 2 from the album Oh Yes! by the The Rinky Dinks

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.

MP3 - 1 hour 26 minutes 27 seconds, 39.7 MB

In this episode, we interview Dann Washko from TLLTS about Mono, Linux in general and how TLLTS got started.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:40 Introduction

• If you want to come on the show and tell us why Mono is awesome, contact us!

0:04:41 Interview

We interview Dann Washko from The Linux Link Tech Show about his thoughts on Mono, how he got into computers, how TLLTS got started and his love for Slackware.

We all have way too much fun and ramble on quite a bit, so the interview makes up the whole show this time.

Song: Fuck The MPAA from the album Hotel Coral Essex by the Futuristic Sex Robotz

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.

MP3 - 1 hour 34 minutes 56 seconds, 43.5 MB

This time, despite having not actually that much to talk about, we nonetheless manage to rathole together a show of epic proportions again.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:33 Introduction

• Beer of the Week: Altenmünster Brauer Bier

0:04:18 Open Source Releases

• Ubuntu 8.10
• Kubuntu 8.10
• Xubuntu 8.10
• Ubuntu Studio 8.10
• Mythbuntu 8.10

We also rathole about FOG a bit.

• gPodder 0.13.1

0:10:17 News Stories

• EU Patent Board to decide whether to allow EVIL software patents
• Ubuntu has more than 8 Million users?
• BMW to put Linux in cars? — Bayrische Mistwagen mit Linux?
• OpenSUSE elects their first ever board
• Ubuntu Open Week for Intrepid
• Shuttleworth on Ubuntu: It ain’t about the money
• Is OpenMoko working on an Android handset?

0:35:53 Microwatch

• Windows 7 gets new, seriously shite UI
• M$ Cloud OS now called “Azure”
• Microsoft faces second “black screen” lawsuit in China
• No Opera on the iPhone

0:47:55 Distro Review

Dan gives us his in-depth review of Mandriva 2009 (both the KDE 4.1 and Gnome editions) — check his blog for even more details.

1:05:30 Tip of the Week

Nearly all peripherals that work with the Linux kernel also work with the Playstation 3, try it! — does this mean they use Linux under the hood?

1:08:10 Listener Feedback

• Michael Griffin sent us a lot of information about Python, he also mentions that Canadian immigrations were right to detain Dan if he was missing paperwork (they could’ve been nicer, though) — Fab also repeatedly plugs Stargate Atlantis thoughout this section, including the great Dr. McKay who is Canadian
• Dan said he wasn’t sure which podcast had said it but someone said Dropbox was open source, which it isn’t — we are pretty sure we said that
• jezra wants to hear Dan speak like Lister’s Confidence
• Gregor Bočič from Linux Void shares his ideas for promoting Linux
• Tony Elmer wanted to say thanks to Fab for the Intrepid review in Episode 60 and says he was always a KDE man but tried Intrepid after listening and thinks he’ll stay, he also loved the dust theme
• erythrocyte wants us to consider doing a show on power management solutions in the future, and also wonders if we could have a brainstorm site for people to submit and vote on features for the show
• Ian Cornwall sent us the news that the US Intelligence community use MediaWiki to share information between agencies — madness!
• Jason says apprently the US Army believes Twitter may be a security threat now — WTF!?
• Ryan Gilley wrote a follow up to his previous email saying we’d got his email wrong and he was only messing about us not liking Americans and says his humour is better in person
• Bernd (presumably not Bernd Das Brot) wrote to say he enjoys the show and also to complain about Dell in Austria
• Reine wrote and told us a fennec is a small desert fox
• Rod Johnson from Texas shares some Texas hospitality with our server and also asks for a review of the distributed computing projects on Linux — our favourite is Folding@Home

Song: Down in the City from the album Down in the City by Houdini Roadshow

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.

MP3 - 1 hour 37 minutes 2 seconds, 44.6 MB

This week, we have some Linux news as usual and we also interview Jono Bacon about his recent Severed Fifth album release, Ubuntu and also Free Software and Free Culture in general.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:11 Introduction

• If you’re on Last.fm, join the Linux Outlaws group!
• Check out crapalert.org for those special occasions when you need the Crap Alert™ at your disposal
• PS3 games: Burnout Paradise, Little Big Planet

0:06:47 Releases

• CentOS 4.7 “Server CD”
• Plamo Linux 4.5
• Parted Magic 3.1
• Foresight Linux 2.0.5
• Linux Mint 5 “Fluxbox”
• Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r2
• PC-BSD 7.0.1
• Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r5
• Flash Player 10

0:11:20 News

• Android now open source for real
• Mozilla new mobile browser: Fennec
• T-Mobile G1 released
• Drobo Apps for the DroboShare adds user-developed Linux dashboard
• Dell employee becomes Ubuntu core developer
• Linux is worth ten biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilion dollars according to the Linux Foundation

0:21:16 Microwatch

• Holy fuck, Microsoft patents new audio censoring software

0:26:44 Interview

We interview Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon about Free Culture, Free Software, Ubuntu, his new project Severed Fifth and music in general. We also asks what Jono’s favourite guitar is, of course. Severed Fifth has just released their first album Denied By Reign licensed under a Creative Commons license, so go ahead and download the music!

You can also download the whole album as mp3 and Ogg directly from our server.

1:13:45 Tip of the Week

• Appnr software installation website using apturl

1:17:55 Listener Feedback

• John V. tells us why he’s listening to the show
• Raindog sent us some info on Laconica plugins
• Rob Bunting tells us about carbon dating, he also listens to the show at 130% speed
• Kevin really liked the Keep Cool Vibration song we played some time ago and wants to hear more like that
• Timo thinks Dann’s singing sucks
• On the topic of Ubuntu advertising, Andreas Kristoffersen sends us pictures of the Ubuntu lettuce and a cool Ubuntu billboard
• Mark from Morecambe, Lancashire wrote to tell us he was pleased to hear us mention the fact that Macs are PCs as it annoys him too and no other podcast seems to mention it
• Mat wrote to say that the Australian ‘net filtering will only be for illegal content, so porn with consenting adults will still be allowed
• Mathew Stahl asks us about an email with a virus warning he received and if that also applies to Linux

For people who had partition problems on Dell’s Ubuntu-powered Mini 9, we mention that Dell fixed that problem via the auto-updater.

Song: Dollar Plague from the album Denied By Reign by Severed Fifth

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.