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Linux Outlaws 136 - Make Love, Not Proprietary Software

Submitted by Fab on February 17, 2010 - 22:28.

MP3 - 1 hour 17 minutes 6 seconds, 35.3 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: Moblin and Maemo now MeeGo, Google launches Buzz, the Olympics on Linux, no more freeze in Fedora Rawhide and more…

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0:01:45 | Introduction

  • Read Fab’s blog post on the release and production of the show and some changes we are making
  • Bradley on the Android Linux kernel business and big corporations doing their own forks
  • Microsoft says it ain’t Windows, it’s your batteries
  • Linux Fund are launching an UK credit card — only a business card at first, consumer card is in negotiation with MBNA
  • Dan’s Beer of the Week: Fosters

0:11:55 | Releases & News

  • MINIX 3.1.6 — The Badger Dance
  • Skolelinux 5.0
  • Linux Mint 8 “Fluxbox” and “KDE64”
  • NetBSD 5.0.2
  • OpenOffice.org 3.2
  • MontyMariaDB 5.1.42
  • KDE 4.4.0
  • openSUSE Build Service 1.7

  • Nokia and Intel join Maemo and Moblin to “MeeGo”, MeeGo FAQ — Seriously… WTF!?
  • Google launches Buzz — Meh?
  • Miguel does it again: brings the Olympics single-handedly to Linux
  • Adobe AIR coming to Android
  • Fedora does away with feature freeze in Rawhide

0:50:58 | Microwatch

  • Microsoft tries to save Windows Mobile with “Windows Phone 7 Series”
  • Microsoft halts Windows Update distribution of security fix after blue-screen reports, may be caused by rootkit issue

0:57:46 | Feedback

  • Donations: Thanks a bunch to Blake Mattern, George Naylor and Jessie Berlin!
  • Forums: Check out linuxoutlaws.com/flamewar

  • Frank Bell doesn’t like Aldiko because he finds it “aggressively unfree”, he prefers FBreader
  • In contrast stark, George Naylor loved it and even supported them with his money
  • Daniel “Not Cloud Man” Devine sent us this cool beer backport patch for Episode 134:
  • Les “Quarter” Pounder” says Blackpool LUG are looking for new members to join them every Saturday between 10am and 12pm
  • Beeza wrote us with his thoughts concerning Fab’s comments on VB and Windows development
  • Other emails this week from John Scheuvront, Juan Mares, scarffo, Andreas Marschke, Reine, Len Cooley, Nathan Neff, Stephen Parsons, Dan Dart, Rex Djere and Dan Scott
  • The Ubuntu UK Podcast is back!

  • Event: FOSScon in Rochester, NY on June 19

Song: Out Of My Mind by Cavashawn from their self-titled single

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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Dan Lynch is a programmer, musician and full-time layabout from Merseyside, UK. He used to work for the NHS as a .NET developer before turning his back on the Dark Side to become an open source enthusiast. He has been commited to the open source ethos ever since. Dan is always distro hopping for the good of the podcast.

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