MP3 - 1 hour 37 minutes 1 second, 44.4 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

On the last show for a few weeks: Steam not coming to Linux, new Ubuntu release name announced, Intel buys McAfee, Linux gets Google Voice and Video Chat, Dan’s review of the HTC Desire and much more…

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Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:01:19 Introduction

• Linux Outlaws will be on hiatus for two or three weeks as Fab is on holiday
• Cool Banshee UI mockup
• Thomas Perl: gPodder running in the MeeGo Handset UX for N900
• The Nexus One is gone again, sells out as dev phone too
• Sony PS3 gets jailbroken to run Linux
• The Crap Alert Android app — cool beyond explanation
• Beer of the Week: Carlsberg Elephant Beer

0:13:32 Releases & News

• Ubuntu 10.04.1
• Nexenta Core Platform 3.0
• Alpine Linux 2.0.0
• Parted Magic 5.3
• Frugalware Linux 1.3
• NetSecL 3.0
• Wine 1.3.1
• Ruby 1.9.2
• VLC 1.1.3
• OpenSSH 5.6

• Linux gets Google Voice and Video Chat
• Intel buys McAfee — WTF of the Week
• Root privileges bug in Linux kernel
• Shuttleworth announces next Ubuntu release name: Natty Narwhal
• Ubuntu drops ia64 and sparc architectures
• The rats are jumping off the sinking open source ship at Oracle
• Acquia releases Drupal Commons open source social software suite for “Enterprise 2.0”
• The FSF ACTA declaration
• Sintel to premiere September 27
• Steam not coming to Linux
• systemd status update from Lennart

0:53:24 Microwatch

• Microsoft’s volume licensing portal is apparently flakey

0:56:11 Crapplewatch

• Apple wants to shame you on Twitter if you tamper with your iOS

0:58:52 Review: HTC Desire

• Dan reviews the HTC Desire we he bought on contract from O2 a few weeks ago
• Verdict: Dan says it’s the best smartphone he has used so far, only downsides are the lack of a hardware keyboard and the somewhat erratic optical trackball

1:14:18 Feedback

• Donations: Only Flattr this week

• Mark Law sent us a recommendation for an Android app he likes called Tasker, it performs tasks based on context such as time, date, location, gestures etc.
• Allan has been listening on and off for about a year and just wants to say thanks and hopes to meet us some day
• Toby also enjoys the show and says it’s helped him get used to Linux which is very cool
• Bradley Tordoff wants us to mention BOINC
• Drake Anubis does the Hack Radio Live podcast and got some feedback that their host interactions “is similar to Linux Outlaws” which he took as a big compliment
• Dave send us some information about the Oracle vs. Android lawsuit
• Eliad tells us about the fact that the Debian Women group has apparently picked up pace again
• We also had an email from psykonerd

• Events: U-Cubed, Saturday, August 28 in Manchester / FOSDEM 2011 will be on February 5 & 6 in Brussels

Song: Natty Bounce by Elephant Man feat. Mancini from the album Street Credibility Vol. 4

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-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

MP3 - 1 hour 27 minutes 42 seconds, 40.2 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week on the show: OpenSolaris is dead, Oracle sues Google over Android, Canonical unveils multitouch for Ubuntu, an Android game review and much more…

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Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:02:46 Introduction

• Errata: There were some problems with Fab’s recording in Episode 162, sorry for that, it should all be fixed from now on — sorry that we didn’t clarify the genre of the song in that episode either
• Some people thought we were slagging off the US as a whole recently — to clarify: we were specifically talking about their “request” to imprison Julian Assange for no good reason
• Rumoured PSP phone running Android 3
• The limited R2-D2 edition of the Droid 2
• Martin Sourada’s new incarnation of the Nodoka theme
• You can now try out the SparkleShare alpha on F13 via Fab’s repo
• No beer, Fab is drinking mint tea made from fresh, homegrown mint

0:13:18 Releases & News

• BackTrack 4 R1
• Puppy Linux 5.1
• Untangle Gateway 7.4
• Trinity Rescue Kit 3.4
• Kernel updates from the Federal Reserve Chairman
• Banshee 1.7.4
• F-Spot 0.7.2
• One week slip of Fedora 14 schedule

• Google’s statement about their net neutrality deal with Verizon
• OpenSolaris is dead
• Oracle sues Google over Java patents in Android, great move to piss the whole community off — good post from Miguel de Icaza on the topic
• Chris DiBona’s tweet about possible implications for Oracle
• Bradley Kuhn on Oracle vs. Google, Eben Moglen’s LinuxCon keynote
• Garrett D’Amore says Illumos will fork
• Canonical unveils multitouch support for Ubuntu 10.10
• Funny bug report: “Gnome ate my boyfriend! Help!”

0:49:13 Microwatch

• Microsoft delivers MySQL-to-SQL database migration tool — found the article again

0:52:21 Crapplewatch

• Apple manager charged with taking kickbacks from suppliers

0:55:05 Android Game Tip

• Barrr (free), a funny little game where you have to run a pirate bar

0:59:03 Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Gian-Maria Daffre and everyone who flattr‘d us!

• Jurgen (from Australia) wrote to tell us about an open source corporate password safe he discovered
• @UnknownDevice thinks there isn’t enough support for games programming in Linux as far as IDEs and such are concerned
• id Software open sources Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Return To Castle Wolfenstein
• Andreas Wallberg wrote in response to our discussion of buying Linux pre-installed in Europe in the last episode and recommended GGS-Data in Gothenburg, Sweden
• Adam in Canada looked for Linux machines on Dell’s Canadian website and found one that runs “Red Hat Ubuntu 9.04”
• kie asks what we do with out spare CPU cycles and recommends worldcommunitygrid.org which apparently aims to help cure cancer
• Douglas Whitfield sent us information about something called Peer To Peer University, add your Linux curses here
• Alun Parry emailed about an open source film project he’s involved with — if you’re interested in helping, email info@wepassiton.co.uk
• Other emails this week from Joshua Casey-Rosa, Gerd Folberth, John Joyce, Karsten Schuldt, Ted Streit and Simon Vass

• Events: Ohio Linux Fest, September 10-12 / Ana is selling books to finance her film project, see: #anasellsbooks

Song: Swan Song by Paper Navy from the album All Grown Up

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-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

MP3 - 58 minutes 39 seconds, 26.9 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

In this special episode we interview blind Linux user Jonathan Nadeau about his company Frostbite Systems that sells blind-optimised computers, his podcast network Frostbite Media and much more…

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

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

In this special episode, we interview Jonathan Nadeau, a blind Linux user and owner and proprietor of Frostbite Systems about his business, the podcasts he produces and the general state of accessibility in Linux compared with Windows. Jonathan also explains how he came to Linux, talks about living with disabilities in the US, what he has learned by producing the different podcasts that he does now, how he uses Linux, what he does to further accessibility in Linux applications, the future of Orca, web design and much more. If you are within the US, definitely consider a Frostbox for your next computer purchase and donate to your favourite distro just by buying it!

Links:

• Frostbite Systems — blind optimised Linux computers and much more
• Frostbite Media — home of This Week in Fedora, This Week in Debian, Frostcast and Orcacast
• Frostbite Systems Blog
• Jonathan’s identi.ca accounts: @frostbite, @frostbitesystem, @frostbitemedia
• The Frostbite YouTube channel
• Zen Cart & Übercart for Drupal

Song: We Can Make The World Stop from the album of the same name by Alun Parry

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-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

MP3 - 1 hour 35 minutes 12 seconds, 43.6 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week on the show: The Google/Verizon deal, the SFLC defends the GPL again, Canonical tracking Ubuntu installations, Google kills Wave, the Illumos Project revealed and of course lots of neckbeard action.

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

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:01:28 Introduction

• Fab wants something like this
• Apple pulls rival antenna videos from their site
• CouchDB 1.0.0 data loss bug
• Dan send the N900 back
• Read Bradley Kuhn’s excellent GUADEC recap
• Jono has an M-Audio Fast Track Pro apparently, the problem was that S/PDIF input isn’t working reliably in Linux
• The Neckbeard Controversy — Alistair Munro (B1ackr0w) sends us a picture of his neckbeard, especially for the occasion
• Check out #neckbeard on identi.ca
• Nexus One now officially available as a dev phone
• Rant-o’Fab
• Beer of the Week: Peters Kölsch

0:19:13 Releases & News

• MeeGo for IVI 1.0
• Parted Magic 5.2
• Johan dented a picture of his 50 days old son listening to the live show
• Elastix 2.0
• eBox Platform 1.5-1
• KDE 4.5
• GNOME 2.31.6 — support them by buying music in Banshee
• Astrid 3.0, which caused a bit of a ruckus
• Development: SparkleShare 0.2 Alpha 1

• Debian Squeeze now in freeze
• U.S. wants crackdown on WikiLeaks
• Google and Verizon unveil controversial net neutrality deal
• Eben Moglen’s speech on the state of Free Software — “They will never beat us. We will always be here.”
• SFLC wins default judgement against Westinghouse in GPL enforcement case
• Canonical begins tracking Ubuntu installations
• Google kills Wave, Novell wants to plough on alone with Pulse
• Motorola is axing MOTOBLUR
• Illumos revealed — more info
• Zonker says: “Just let OpenSolaris die”
• Integrating Zeitgeist into Gnome, vote for the apps you want supported

0:56:53 Microwatch

• UK hoster Fasthosts is running Linux on Hyper-V — we say rather go with Bitfolk, they sponsored OggCamp and name their servers after beer brands!
• Microsoft basically kills IronRuby

1:02:25 Crapplewatch

• App Store finally gets “try before you buy” ages after the Android Market (which had this from launch onwards)

1:04:20 Android Game Tip

• Heavy Gunner 3D ($4.99), a very cool multitouch shooter game

1:08:43 Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Michael Leicht, Chris Tevyaw and Joe Littlejohn
• Identi.ca: @sorin7486 sends us an interesting blog post on OpenGL vs. Direct3D
• Forums: kounryusui tells us what “karoshi” means in Japanese

• Doug Whitfield wrote after our recent conversation to say there actually isn’t a Chinese translation of the GPL
• Amir Pakdel sends us a link to a story about Microsoft and the NHS — the official Microsoft page on this
• Nuno Justo likes to listen in the car, but because of that always forgets to write
• Other emails this week from Andreas Marschke, Reine & Poutou, Nigel Verity and PsykoNerdriak

• Fab finally updated the Planet
• We will have a short hiatus at the beginning of September as Fab is on holiday then
• We are also working on upgrading the sound of the show
• Events: OSSBarcamp, U-Cubed

Song: The Duke from the album Alphatier by The Jimmy Hofer Band

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-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

MP3 - 1 hour 25 minutes 42 seconds, 40.7 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week, we discuss the big Gnome Census debate, other news from GUADEC 2010, Lockheed Martin’s first open source project and what it does, Chrome Canary, DMCA exemptions and much more…

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

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:01:22 Introduction

• Erratum: Dell confusion again, apparently they are not dropping Ubuntu after all
• You can now test a first very alpha .apk of Pony Express
• Owen Taylor mentioned our Gnome Shell interview
• systemd now default in Fedora 14 and they switched to git for their source management
• Android now largest smartphone platform in U.S.
• Android 2.2 coming to the Droid and the Desire
• First news on the “Illumos Project”
• Booze of the Week: Bulleit Bourbon for Fab, Foster’s for Dan

0:16:30 Releases & News

• Clonezilla Live 1.2.5-35
• Linux Mint 9 “KDE”
• GhostBSD 1.5
• Karoshi 7.0
• Linux 2.6.35
• OpenGL 4.1

• The Gnome Census debate: Dave Neary’s report, Greg DeKoenigsberg blogs, Shuttleworth blogs and Jono as well
• Shuttleworth apologises for sexist comments
• Gnome 3.0 release delayed
• Gnome Shell mockups

• Proposal to make Gnome a “fully fledged OS”
• Next GUADEC, Desktop Summit scheduled for August 2011 in Berlin
• Chrome Canary
• Lockheed Martin open sources their first project
• Jos Poortvliet named openSuse Community Manager
• Reddit interviews Richard Stallman
• Oracle shuts down Postgres test servers

0:55:19 Microwatch

• Microsoft still doesn’t get the iPad
• Severed Fifth is powered by Microsoft

1:00:17 Crapplewatch

• iPad overheating issues
• iOS 4 performance problems
• The EFF beats Apple, wins three DMCA exemptions
• Also, the DMCA got a little weaker

1:07:23 Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Jonus, Mark Gardner, David Sewell-Carson, Robert Graffham, Kimo Lee (KimTjik Faste) and everyone who flattr’d us

• Smegzor, Andy Suarez and Paul Levold wrote to tell us about the BSOD on the oil rig in the Gulf — ARE YOU READING THIS, YOU FUCKERS??? ;)
• Lucas Nicolaus wrote to tell us he wants to develop a WebOS version of Pony Express when the next school year comes around — very cool!
• Michael Andrews says companies don’t want other companies to sue when something goes wrong, he says they basically want support from them for their in-house software
• Matt Holder send us some ideas for a Linux Outlaws desktop application
• We had other emails this week from Julian Aloofi, Brad Alexander, Malkor the Techie, Reverend Willie, Michael Dexter, Andreas, Chris Tevyaw, Lawal, Jonathan Nadeau, Alison Chaiken, Simon Vass, Dave Carson, Remy van Elst, Tim LaFontaine and Upchuck

• Breaking News: Bradley Kuhn dents from DebConf 10 about Canonical dropping Network Manager on their Unity netbook version of Ubuntu and also replacing other bits of Gnome

Song: It’s A Good Little Thing by Blind Willie McTell

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-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

MP3 - 1 hour 43 minutes 47 seconds, 46.9 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This time on Linux Outlaws: Thesis backs down, NASA drops Eucalyptus, Dell drops Ubuntu, BSOD and the oil disaster, Apple world leader in being insecure and interviews from GUADEC 2010 including Lennart Poettering talking shop on PulseAudio and systemd.

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0:01:11 Introduction

• Apple now has a dedicated antenna FUD page
• Swedish Pirate Party members launch anonymous and log-free ISP
• Very fitting and slightly sad epitaph to the Nexus One
• The Droid X has been rooted
• Little Big Planet 2 out November 16 for the PS3

0:15:42 Releases & News

• Tiny Core Linux 3.0
• Peppermint OS Ice-07142010
• PC-BSD 8.1
• ClearOS 5.2
• FreeBSD 8.1
• Firefox 3.6.7 and 3.5.11
• Thunderbird 3.1.1 and 3.0.6

• Linux Mint 10 to be called “Julia”
• Google Chrome team sets six-week cadence for new versions
• Thesis creator backs down and adopts the GPL for his theme
• Android tablets look really bad GPL compliance-wise
• NASA drops Eucalyptus for their own fully F/OSS solution
• Dell drops Ubuntu from their lineup
• Russia is working on a national Linux system for their government

0:50:08 Microwatch

• Did Windows cause the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico?

0:54:00 Crapplewatch

• Apple now the new world leader in software insecurity

0:57:35 Interviews

Fab returns from GUADEC 2010 in The Hague and brings you the following interviews from there:

• Owen Taylor from Red Hat talks about Gnome Shell and what’s coming in the future with Gnome 3
• Lennart Poettering, also from Red Hat, tells us his views about his latest two projects: The infamous PulseAudio and the brand new systemd and why he thinks they are awesome
• Karl Goetz from the gNewSense project tells us about their distro which is on the FSF-approved distribution list and which is currently moving from being based on Ubuntu to a Debian base

1:33:03 Feedback

• Jezra sends us a very cool bagpipe rendition of the Linux Outlaws theme

Song: Space Invaders from the album 8-bit Lagerfeuer by Pornophonique

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-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

MP3 - 1 hour 35 minutes 26 seconds, 43.7 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week on the show: OpenSolaris is in trouble, Droid X self-destructs if you try to flash it, OpenStack is announced, a discussion about Zeitgeist and Gnome as an upstream, more Antennagate and the big Thesis / WordPress GPL debate.

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Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:01:29 Introduction

• Fab was kayaking on the Rhine over the weekend
• Erratum: The Swedish Pirate Party is not currently in the Swedish parliament
• Shot of Jaq is dead
• Get your wallpaper in Fedora 14!
• Maybe ACTA wasn’t that transparent after all…
• Firefox to get pinning for web apps and Chrome gets “WebApp” support as well
• Frogatto, an old school, cross-platform, open source jump-n-run game — recommended to us by Cyber Killer
• Security Alert: Millions of routers vulnerable to new version of old attack — including Linksys’ WRT54G(L)
• Beer of the Week: Franziskaner Weissbier Kristallklar

0:18:49 Releases & News

• Zencafe GNU/Linux 2.2
• T2 SDE 8.0
• openSUSE 11.3
• Jolicloud 1.0
• Wine 1.2

• Banshee now has a full Amazon MP3 Store plugin
• OpenStack announced
• Google will stop selling the Nexus One to consumers
• Top Solaris developer flees Oracle and the OpenSolaris Governing Board threatens to dissolve — more from The H on this
• The Open Hardware Definition
• Droid X self-destructs if you touch the bootloader but at least Motorola admits it
• The Thesis/WordPress debate about themes and if they should be GPLed (SFLC study on this) — #thesiswp on Twitter

0:51:36 Microwatch

• Windows XP will never die

0:55:22 Crapple

• Steve Jobs denies antenna problems, “we don’t think we have a problem”
• Engineer warned Jobs of potential iPhone 4 antenna issues before release
• RIM, HTC and Nokia want no part of Apple’s self-made debacle

1:00:00 Discussion Point

• We talk a bit about the fact that a Zeitgeist dev was claiming that Ubuntu is now their upstream on the Ubuntu UK Podcast and that this was a misunderstanding — some background from the devs

1:06:32 Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Roger Fletcher, Durand D’souza, Edward Dewhurst and Ron McLeod
• Forums: There’s a new sheriff in town! — NYBill, the gun monkey, is laying down the law now
• We have some audio feedback from Jason Bowles (aka. Malkor the Techie) who gives an alternative opinion on three strikes laws

• Whym sent us an email supporting our Apple bashing and an awesome picture that his little brother did in the GIMP:

• Matthew Phillips works on a distro called GnackTrack which is a penetration testing distro for Gnome fans and he will be demonstrating it at DEF CON 18
• (Fidel?) Castro sends us a possible solution to our CRAP acronym
• Andre Hugo send us a link to this cool comic from The Oatmeal about life as an Apple fanboy
• Ryan Mc clarifies Debian repos and rolling releases for us
• Other emails this week from Justin, Paul W.B., Jamesh, Rob Potter, Joni and CPrompt

• Event: Barcamp Chicago, August 21 & 22 — send in by csgeek
• Simon Vass emailed us again about Uganda LUG

Song: Kickback by Severed Fifth from the album Denied by Reign

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-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

MP3 - 1 hour 29 minutes 7 seconds, 40.8 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

On this episode of Linux Outlaws: Google kills the Nexus Two, Mandriva avoids bankruptcy, arguments about “Open Core”, Monty acts up again, Google App Inventor and lots of Microsoft and Apple bashing as usual.

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

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:02:24 Introduction

• Jon Kulp send us some amazing bits of music for the show
• Excellent Frostbite Media interview with Mo Duffy about the Fedora Design Team
• CyanogenMod 6 breaths new life into the aging G1 with Froyo
• Android sees healthy growth at the expense of Apple, RIM and Microsoft
• Android 2.2 demolishes iOS 4 in JavaScript benchmarks
• Chromium / Chrome to get a unified menu
• Mint is playing with a Debian-based version
• Beer of the Week: Theakston XB — imported for Fab by The Bald

0:13:31 Releases & News

• Element 1.3
• Mandriva Linux 2010.1
• PCLinuxOS 2010.07
• Parted Magic 5.0
• Tonido 1.9.0.11838
• Mercurial 1.6
• Shotwell 0.6.1
• Python 2.7
• RHEL 6 Beta 2, targeting year end release

  

• Australia delays ‘net filter for a year
• Pirate Bay soon to be hosted within Swedish Parliament?
• Google kills hopes for a “Nexus Two”
• Google App Inventor
• Mandriva avoids bankruptcy, releases new version
• Motorola has “revolutionized internal communications” with StatusNet, official StatusNet client
• Amazon MP3 downloader support in Banshee
• Simon Phipps on the problems with “Open Core” — Bradley Kuhn’s take on it
• Monty appeals Oracle’s Sun merger again

0:50:16 Microwatch

• Microsoft opens source code to Russian secret service FSB
• Microsoft presents at Red Hat Summit
• Crapple: Apple to fix the iPhone 4 antenna problems by patching the way the bars are displayed?

1:00:52 Software Tip

• Chrome-to-Phone, a Chrome extension and Android app to send browser tabs to your phone

1:03:30 Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to James McBride, Daniel Ngu, Ian Pickworth and Tony Hughes
• Audio Feedback: Jon Kulp send us some wonderful prairie harmonica and Latin renditions of the LO theme, he also send a funny clip from an NPR show about Microsoft — we also got some awesome Crapple theme entries from Alistair Munro and Jo “Remington Steele” Ressington
• Blogs: Paul Elms (aka. scifly)’s new blog will soon feature a series about working on the Pony Express app

• Mike Hingley tells us about a government website where you can cast your vote to repeal the Digital Economy Act if you are in the UK
• SmooveD says they like our perspective on Apple, he says we shouldn’t let the iListeners censor us
• We got other emails this week from Andreas, Doug Whitfield, Tony Hughes, Philip Herron alias RedBrain, Ron McLeod, figjam and Jonathan Nadeau

Song: True Gemini by Rob Costlow from the album Woods of Chaos — recommended by Jim Nygård

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-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

MP3 - 1 hour 49 minutes 0 seconds, 49.9 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

On this episode of Linux Outlaws: A big announcement (kind of), ASCAP declares war on Creative Commons, Bilski comes down, new Fedora project leader, Microsoft kills Kin and Apple drops the ball on the iPhone 4.

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

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:01:08 Introduction

• We talk about the future of the show (and football)
• AT&T-iPad security breach may be worse than we first thought
• Amazon Kindle app released on Android
• Android 2.2 (Froyo) available for Nexus One and 2.1 (Eclair) available for European Hero users — both are over the air updates
• Chrome overtakes Safari, now holds 3rd place in US browser market
• Jono to stream the second Severed Fifth album recording live
• Beer of the Week: Kempisch Vuur, send to Fab by Johan Vervloet (@johanv)

0:18:12 Releases & News

• MINIX 3.1.7
• SystemRescueCd 1.5.6
• Superb Mini Server 1.5.2
• Peppermint OS One-06172010
• Astaro Security Gateway 8.0
• Development Release: CrunchBang Linux 10 Alpha 2
• Wordpress 3.0
• StatusNet 0.9.3
• FFmpeg 0.6 — codenamed “Works with HTML5”, which is what it does…
• We also talked about FFmpeg getting its own implementation of the Google VP8 codec
• VLC 1.1.0
• PyPy 1.3
• Parrot 2.5.0 “Cheops”
• Firefox 3.6.6
• Thunderbird 3.1
• k3b 2.0
• Development Release: CyanogenMod 6 Alpha 1
• Android 2.2 source code released, Google’s dev blog post

• ASCAP declares war on free culture
• The Bilski decision finally came down: Groklaw, Ars Technica, Bradley Kuhn’s comments, Justice John Paul Stevens on Bilski and SFLS special show on the topic
• Jared Smith is the new Fedora Project leader — he’s @jsmith on identi.ca
• Debian creates the “Derivatives Front Desk”
• Cisco’s Android Tablet
• Google’s big focus for Gingerbread: UI polish
• Nokia changes from Symbian to MeeGo for flagship phones and MeeGo launches its “Handset User Experience”
• Adobe pulls Flash player for 64 bit Linux

1:07:37 Microwatch

• Microsoft kills Kin
• Crapple: Apple’s major FAIL on the iPhone 4 antenna, Steve Jobs says: “Don’t hold it this way” — also: iPhone glass problems, Class-action suit against Apple over iPhone 4, Motorola kicks Apple in the spuds with New York Times ad, Apple now looking for new antenna engineers

1:17:52 Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Alison Chaiken, Brian Lopes, Łukasz Zachulski, Bo Kullmar and Robert P. aka. “MixMasterJ”
• Blogs: Adam Ward (@redshirtlinux) wrote a very nice blog post thanking us for mentioning his email on the show and Philip Herron (@redbrain) explains how to compile a compiler
• Audio Feedback: We have an awesome audio submission from B1ackcr0w and another 8-bit version of the theme tune by Chris Tevyaw (aka. Slasher)

• Sambu writes in response to our discussion of the Windows equivalent to LAMP, he thinks it should be WIMP: Windows, IIS, MySQL, PHP
• Kevan V. sends us this story about Amazon being granted a patent for social networking websites in the US — You can’t make this shit up!
• Jonathan Nadeau asked us to mention his new podcast
• We had a few emails complaining that we bash Apple too much: Michael Mellinger says the iPhone is better than Android, Stephen and Daniel don’t like it when we are critical of Apple and Andy G. wrote to say he doesn’t think Google are any better than Apple and worries more about the amount of information Google have on people, he thinks we should reconsider our stance on Google
• David Comerford wrote after hearing us talk about all the disc burning for new distros, he recommends the iodd portable SATA hard drive with CD-ROM emulation
• Nathan D’Elboux recommends the Firefox plugin FlashGot since he used it to download all our old episodes from The Archives

• We had other emails from Paul W.B., Whym, Peter Trussell, Sergei Van Hardeveld, Nigel Verity, Scott Cann, Anthony (from New Mexico), NRK, Mike Hingley, Brad Pearce, John Scheuvront, Tony Griggs, Brent Foor, Thomas Chace, Stephen Michael Kellat, Andreas Marschke, Ebcdic Zehetbauer, Serko, Jake Roberts, Bo Kullmar, Joe Foy and Steve Anderson

• Two cool videos about the iPhone 4 vs. the HTC Evo

Song for International Reggae Day (July 1): Waste My Time from the album of the same name by Loudog

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-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

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On this episode of Linux Outlaws: The World Cup, SCO dead for good, Ubuntu removing aptitude, Canonical taking on Red Hat, the usual Microsoft and Apple fail and an interview with Ade Bradshaw about LinuxTag 2010.

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

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:01:08 Introduction

• We talk about the World Cup and that it is delaying our production schedule a lot at the moment
• If you are getting annoyed by the vuvuzelas, you can now filter them using Fedora
• Also check out: vuvuzelafiltering.com
• Sprint EVO 4G sold out eveywhere
• Apple has apparently licensed the “iOS” name from Cisco
• Harald Welte on the FSF enforcement in the App Store

0:11:21 Releases & News

• linuX-gamers Live 0.9.6
• Zorin OS 3
• Zenwalk Linux 6.4 “GNOME”
• sidux 2010-01
• Parted Magic 4.11

• WebM video lands in Firefox trunk
• SCO case closed for good, Novell owns UNIX copyrights, Ars Technica on this
• Ubuntu has removed aptitude for Maverick
• “The Ubuntu Advantage”: Canonical takes on Red Hat
• Interesting blog post about the FSF campaigns by @tante — Fab completely agrees with this…
• Reforming the OSI: Simon Phipps is trying to build bridges between free software and open source
• Details on systemd

0:47:58 Microwatch

• Novell and VMware sign virtualisation deal, Microsoft gets really pissed off
• Security expert says Microsoft a weak link in US national security
• Crapple: WWDC iPhone 4 fail may have been due to bad drivers in the new phone
• Crapple: iPad 3G buyer e-mail addresses leaked by AT&T server, FBI looking into the data breach

0:57:06 Interview

Fab interviews Ade Bradshaw of LugRadio fame and all-around bald hero about LinuxTag 2010 which he recently attended.

They talk about Microsoft sponsoring LinuxTag, Lennart Poettering and systemd, Deltacloud,Tonido.com, SUSE Studio, Club-Mate, the fact that Ade doesn’t like football and much more.

1:38:51 Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Cynthia Cynthia, Andreas, Henry Standing, Stephen Kellat, L.M. Driel, Dylan Thiedeke and thanks to everyone who flattr‘d us!
• Audio feedback: Christopher (who didn’t leave a surname) sent us his own mix of our show entitled Linux Cloudlaws, we also got a great recording of a story from Jon Kulp, our classical guitar playing, skateboarding forum hero

• Ebcdic Zehetbauer likes Red Dead Redemption and suggests we should have a Linux Outlaws Posse on the multiplayer there
• Simon Redfern tells us about the Open Bank Project which he’s involved with
• Adrian Sobotta wrote to tell us about his collaborative, Creative Commons licensed book promoting green IT
• Beni Keller listens to us while on the train to work, while cycling, while running and while cleaning his toilet, he says
• crabbypup has released a beta of a new distro/respin called Mystery Netbook Theatre, NYBill also helped out with a cool wallpaper — check it out over at the forums
• Adam Ward went to SELF because of the promo we played and loved it
• Michael Dexter sent us some Linux Fund news
• Other emails this week from Stephen Parsons, David McInnis, Neall McLaren, Jezra, spartan7, Richard George, Whym, Martin Häger, Stephen, Kevan Vautier, Scott, James Tait, Buford Koechig, Rex Djere and Josh Keyoth

• Event: Barcamp Blackpool, July 3 — Dan will be there

Song: The FCC Song by Eric Idle, recommended by Captain Toffel

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-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.