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Linux Outlaws 141 - Decapitated by a Pardus CD

Thu, 03/18/2010 - 18:39

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 32 minutes 51 seconds, 45.8 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week on the show: Ubuntu’s “Buttongate”, will Novell be asset stripped?, Mozilla is updating the MPL, Microsoft loosing a patent case again, Simon Phipps new OSI director and much more as always…

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.

0:02:06 | Introduction

0:18:59 | Releases & News

0:53:59 | Microwatch

0:57:58 | Spotlight aka. “Jub-Jub”

  • boot.fedoraproject.org — pretty cool way to install new versions of Fedora, might come in handy soon when F13 is released

1:02:26 | Feedback

Song: All Control by Professor Kliq from his new EP Movements

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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Linux Outlaws 140 - So Say We All

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 22:47

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 28 minutes 24 seconds, 43.5 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week on Linux Outlaws: Ubuntu redesign, Novell for sale?, US eases sanctions, Chris DiBona on Android and the kernel, Fab smokes a pipe 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.

0:01:11 | Introduction

0:11:53 | Releases & News

0:53:36 | Spotlight

  • pino, a very cool and slimline microblogging client (Ubuntu, Fedora and Arch packages on the site)

0:59:31 | Feedback

Song: Kill Dash Nine by Monzy — nerdcore biatch!

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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Linux Outlaws 139 - The Facegroup Twisness Model

Sun, 03/07/2010 - 15:42

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 34 minutes 23 seconds, 46.3 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week on Linux Outlaws: Amazon signs a patent deal with Microsoft, German data retention law unconstitutional, Microsoft can’t code, the Task Pooper 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

0:14:04 | Releases & News

0:49:40 | Microwatch

1:04:09 | Spotlight

1:08:31 | Feedback

  • Donations: Thanks to Paul Corbett, Andre Hugo and Mark Gardner
  • Forums: Taking photos at OggCamp

  • Bernd Schlapsi sends an email about his experience with buying music from 7digital in Austria
  • Alison Chaiken sends us this great Nerdcore song: kill -9
  • Julian Aloofi sends us a link about Oracle allegedly scrapping support for free versions of Solaris
  • Ezequiel Bruni is a missionary in Mexico and is trying to get his fellow Christian missionaries to use Linux
  • Karlis (aka. skazhy) says Fedora is restricted by US sanctions too which sucks
  • Patrick Archibald has set up oggcasts.com which aggregates Ogg feeds and show related business via identi.ca
  • Other emails this week from Rob Munro, Mac, B1ackcr0w, Bing, Raphael Ong, Cult, DarthSydwayZ, Tony Ciak, Adam Meltzer, Mathew Stahl, Jason Bowles, Ravel Lopez, Dylan Thiedeke (who pisses in out pockets again… we’d only just dried them out), Sergei Van Hardeveld, Joe Ressington, Reine and Paul Adams

  • Event: muscaLUG meeting at the Musser Public Library on March 20

Song: Mr President by Afreekanxpress from the album Remember Senegal

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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Linux Outlaws 138 - Interview Special: Zonker

Wed, 03/03/2010 - 19:24

Ogg Vorbis - 42 minutes 11 seconds, 20.2 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

In this special episode, Dan and Fab interview former OpenSuse community manager Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier about leaving Novell, his plans for the future, more general Linux topics and totally unrelated stuff as well.

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.

Interview: Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier

We interview former OpenSuse community manager Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier about him quitting his job at Novell, his plans for the future and a lot of other general Linux topics. We talk about the role of a community manager and the responsibilities and perks involved, what else Zonker did while at Novell, the past and future direction of Suse and its community, SLED and Zonker’s views on journalism and being a writer.

Zonker is @jzb on identi.ca, if you want to follow his journalistic exploits in the future. Also check out his podcast OpenMic with Zonker on Network World.

Song: Hold On To Your Structure from the album A good Path to follow… by The Hoboscopes

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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Linux Outlaws 137 - Bing!

Thu, 02/25/2010 - 22:19

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 36 minutes 4 seconds, 47.2 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week on the show: The Ubuntu One Music Store, big GPL case settled, Ubuntu soon powered by Bing, Google sued over Buzz, Apple hates naked people 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.

0:01:34 | Introduction

0:19:54 | Releases & News

0:50:21 | Microwatch

0:57:16 | Spotlight

  • Zattoo, a native Linux client to watch TV (in Denmark, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland & the UK) — sadly works only on Ubuntu
  • Gowalla beta for Android, a check-in application

1:03:41 | Feedback

Song: She by TenPenny Joke from the album Ambush On All Sides — thanks to Niklas Grahn for the tip!

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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Linux Outlaws 136 - Make Love, Not Proprietary Software

Wed, 02/17/2010 - 22:28

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 17 minutes 6 seconds, 38.3 MB — 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…

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.

0:01:45 | Introduction

0:11:55 | Releases & News

0:50:58 | Microwatch

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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Linux Outlaws 135 - So Good, They Tried to Patent Him

Fri, 02/12/2010 - 22:53

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 31 minutes 19 seconds, 44.4 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week on Linux Outlaws: Company tries to patent Bradley Kuhn, Symbian now open source, Matt Asay becomes new Canonical COO, Windows 7 kills laptop batteries 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.

0:01:35 | Introduction

0:16:45 | Releases & News

0:55:42 | Microwatch

1:01:17 | Feedback

Song: If You’re Lost For Somewhere Else To Be by The Heavens from their self-titled debut album

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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Linux Outlaws 134 - The Greppy Awards

Fri, 02/05/2010 - 22:07

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 38 minutes 15 seconds, 47.3 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week’s show is brought to you by Bang Bros and Adobe, we also talk about the iTampon, Defective by Design, Ubuntu switching to Yahoo for search, Sourceforge blocking whole countries 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.

0:02:08 | Introduction

  • Fab thanks Jon Tomaszewski from Red Hat for sending him one of the iconic red fedoras
  • Errata: MJJZF was thinking of Adam Williamson of Mandriva when talking about another community manager who has quit his job last week, we are glad to hear Max Spevak is still rocking it at Fedora because he’s a great guy — actually Williamson is at Red Hat now too, we hear
  • We had 52,886 downloads in January on Libsyn alone, a new record — the new weekly record is 13,866 for last week
  • The Fender Android phone is out now
  • GCC to merge Go support
  • Wikileaks needs donations
  • Check out Dan’s monster N900 review

0:11:56 | Releases, MicroCrapplewatch & News

1:04:06 | Software Picks

1:09:41 | Feedback

  • Donations: Thanks to Tom Link, Mark Wright and Ryan Kohler
  • Forums: Coordinate OggCamp travel

  • We had a couple of emails on the SourceForge blockade from Pete Smith and Badry Darkoush from Syria — Chad Vader sketch
  • Tom Link from Canada reports that he took his car for an oil change to Mr. Lube and was surprised to see that all their workstations run Ubuntu
  • Dave Purse sent us information about his new distro Simplicity Linux which comes with Linux Outlaws pre-loaded in the podcatcher — good on ya, Dave!
  • MJJZF says the Danish parliament, Folketinget, decided that ODF should be used as the only document format in state documents
  • JonathanD pimps Freenode’s “7for7” campaign, go and donate because Freenode is ace!
  • We also had emails from Ravel Lopez, Peter Cannon, Bo Kullmar, Joshua K., Jack, Mark Law, Reine, Sven Lankes, Kelly, Paul W.B., Quarter Pounder, Parth Lawate, Morgan, Russ Axford, Rich Brown, Mark, Rick and Vytenis

  • Event: Fedora Activity Day (FAD), March 27/28 in Mönchengladbach

Song: Oppositional Defiance Disorder (live) by David Rovics from the album The Commons

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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Linux Outlaws 133 - Shabba!

Thu, 01/28/2010 - 20:05

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 30 minutes 10 seconds, 43.4 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week on Linux Outlaws: Sun/Oracle deal approved, Zonker leaves Novell, Linux-powered roboboats to invade Wales, 17 year old flaw in Windows uncovered and much, 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.

0:02:13 | Introduction

0:13:16 | Releases & News

0:45:16 | Microwatch

0:59:08 | Quick Tip

  • Sync your Android phone with Banshee (version 1.5.2 for the Droid/Milestone)

1:05:53 | Feedback

Song: Give A Praise from the album Remember Senegal by Afreekanxpress

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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Linux Outlaws 132 - The Denty-Dent Client

Thu, 01/21/2010 - 22:34

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 27 minutes 35 seconds, 41.7 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week, the Outlaws bring you a lot of Google/China hacking stories, a review of the Mustard microblogging client for Android, Microsoft DDoSing Perl hackers, Google hiring Ted Ts’o and the Hawkman is in the house too…

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.

0:01:42 | Introduction

0:15:52 | Releases & News

0:44:33 | Microwatch

0:51:43 | Android App Pick

0:57:11 | Feedback

  • Donations: Thanks to Henning Beyer, Craig Horrocks and Matt!
  • Forums: How did you discover Linux?

  • Regular correspondent Les “Quarter” Pounder writes to tell us of a school in Lancashire, UK who used Moodle to set up a virtual classroom during the recent snow disruption — Pot Noodle
  • We had nice emails from Scarffo & Aethelberga to say how much they enjoy the show
  • Sidney Skinner tells us more about the FreeNAS kernel situation
  • Stuart sends us a link from Groklaw about an email from Bill Gates regarding Linux and ACPI extensions from back in 1999
  • Raphael Ong sent us a poem about Linux he wrote for his literature homework
  • Crispin tells us that you can buy the Debian wine from last episode and support the distro in the process
  • Jonathan Nadeau introduces us to his company Frostbite Systems that makes Linux-based computers including some very cool (pun intended) fully pre-configured machines for blind users
  • Folding@Home: Join Team TLLTS and help us take over!
  • Peter Noack likes the show and says he’s a medicine student interning in the OR and asked some CPB technicians about Windows XP on the machines, as referenced in Episode 130, and luckily XP isn’t used in critical applications
  • We had other emails this week from JonTheNiceGuy, Erik Lee, Kevin Lucas, Bill Boulton, Alistair Munro, Big Jim, spartan7 and David Ellis

  • Event: Klaatu’s Linux Multimedia Sprint, January 26 from 14:00 - 06:00 EST in #media on irc.binrev.net

Song: Rock Out With Your Hawk Out by MC Hawking

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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Linux Outlaws 131 - Screw Your Third Dimension!

Fri, 01/15/2010 - 18:49

Ogg Vorbis - 2 hours 0 minutes 28 seconds, 58.0 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week on Linux Outlaws we talk about Google’s Nexus One, Nat Friedman leaving Novell, Palm opening their App Catalog, Microsoft collaborating on SVG, Fab reviews the Motorola Milestone (Droid) 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.

0:01:20 | Introduction

0:24:99 | Releases & News

0:53:59 | Microwatch

1:02:16 | In-Depth Topic

Fab reviews the Motorola Milestone (aka. Droid) and compares it with the Samsung Galaxy.

Check out more photos in Fab’s gallery which includes some phone camera test pictures, too.

1:25:34 | Feedback

  • Donations: Thanks to Ryan K. and Daniel R.!
  • Forums: Feedback thread to Episode 130 — our usual derailment ends in a hilarious discussion of Microsoft Sync powered rocket cars

  • Peter Cannon, long-time friend of the show, writes us a very funny email.
  • Rex Djere says that he loves the show so much it’s inspired him to start his own podcast
  • Hanna Pietikäinen just writes us because she “needs more exposure” — check out her site Cutebuntu
  • John Scheuvront writes in response to us talking about the recent Nokia patent case and points out that these are all hardware patents
  • Gordon Coupar, another old friend of the show, writes us to say that he is still listening and sends us this funny picture with some Banshee recommendation fail:

  • Jezra, our own GIMP legend extraordinaire, send us the amazing Jezra Soundboard™ — so cool!
  • SK Keeper wrote to tell us of their first BSD experience with FreeNAS and how good it was, he also says that apparently there’s news of the project dumping the BSD kernel and moving to Linux
  • We had other emails this week from terryf, Matthew Pherigo, Beeza, Jon T., David Hunter, Steven Rosenberg who told us about TinyOgg, Paul WB, Pier-Luc Caron St-Pierre (“Make it so!”), Thomas Goirand, Xander Vedejas, kalgecin, Andreas Marschke, Chris P. King and Alistair “b1ackcr0w the mention whore” Munro

  • Event: come to OggCamp 10!

Song: A Glorious Dawn by Symphony of Science

Bonus Songs:

  • A Glorious Dawn - Sensuous Enemy Remix
  • A Glorious Dawn - WUB Dubstep Remix

which you can also get from here.

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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Linux Outlaws 130 - Nude Scanners

Wed, 01/06/2010 - 22:19

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 35 minutes 17 seconds, 47.3 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

On the first show of the decade, the Linux Outlaws bring you a KDE 4.3 review, VLC releasing a video editor, Year 2010 bugs, lots of discussion of Google and Microsoft and much more 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.

0:01:55 | Introduction

  • Welcome to the first Linux Outlaws of the decade!
  • Fab got send a Motorola Milestone, review coming soon
  • Rod C. “Ramrod” Johnson send us Christmas packages including some home-made olive oil and Tsipouro liqueur
  • New decade, but it looks like people are still all stupid: Nude scanners in Germany
  • MySQL does NOT need to be saved
  • The video of Fab’s LRL 2009 talk on Linux in German schools is now online, thanks to Tony Whitmore and the great LRL video crew
  • Booze of the Week: Bowmore Single Malt from Islay

0:14:39 | Releases & News

0:42:39 | Microwatch

0:52:46 | In-Depth Topic

Fab talks about his recent experiences of playing with KDE again (KDE 4.3 on Fedora 12).

1:09:02 | Feedback

  • Lots of people told us through the microblogs that they really enjoyed the comedy sketches in Episode 129 — luckily, it seems we also managed not to alienate the other podcasters, thanks for all the feedback!
  • Donations: A big thanks to Stephen K., Stanley K., Mark C., Samuel V., Bernd S., Mark G., John S., Roger H. and Alison C. for sending us money over the holidays!
  • Forums: Please suggest people for us to interview from PyCon

  • FiftyOneFifty sent us a link to a Dilbert cartoon which he said attacks open source but we don’t think so — it does however look like it features a guest appearance by Dann Washko:

  • Eric Sauve was skiing while listening to Episode 129 and loved it — Bob Konior and chicagonpg also wrote to say they enjoyed this episode
  • James Hugman congratulates us on binary birthday 10000000 for Episode 128
  • Peter Lanado sent us a link to this Dell page comparing Windows and Ubuntu — we comment on it
  • Other emails this week came from augmentedfourth, Matthew Pherigo, Jacob Feltman, Jason Bowles (aka. Malkor the Techie), Samuel Vanderplancke, “The Crusty Detective” Roger, Marvin Vek, Sleepynate, Dylan Coakley, Scott, Tracy W. Holz, Alistair Munro (b1ackcr0w), Rafal Zajac, Adrian Kuepker, Eric, Vj777, DarthSydwayZ, Bluplr (aka. Mike), Tom Jones, Jezra, D. M. Synck, Quarter Pounder, John Scheuvront, Yiannis Nousis (from Greece) and Mark Venable

  • Events: First meeting of MuscaLUG on Saturday, January 16 (13:00) at the Pizza Ranch in Muscatine, Iowa / Texas Linux Fest on April 10

Song: Black Flag Flying (live) by David Rovics from the album The Commons

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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Linux Outlaws 129 - The Year 2009 in Review (Year of the Android Revolution)

Tue, 12/29/2009 - 20:32

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 28 minutes 27 seconds, 43.5 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

In the final show for the year and the decade, Dan and Fab look back at 2009 and the major news stories of the year. We also try to decide what this year was all about. There’s even some special funny content as a little bonus.

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 discuss the highlights and downsides of the Year 2009 from the perspective of the Linux Outlaws. There are also some mysterious surprises interspersed throughout the show…

0:02:47 | January

0:04:58 | February

0:11:15 | March

0:19:34 | April

0:24:45 | May

0:33:55 | June

0:40:08 | July

0:47:24 | August

0:53:05 | September

0:58:15 | October

1:03:54 | November

1:07:32 | December

We decide that, in retrospect, 2009 was the year of Linux on mobile phones. Especially Android took off in a huge way this year…

Song: Don’t Know Why by Jamie Rumley from the album Renovations

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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Linux Outlaws 128 - The Mystery Box

Wed, 12/23/2009 - 22:56

Ogg Vorbis - 2 hours 1 minute 27 seconds, 58.5 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

On the last regular show for the year: Dan reviews the Nokia N900, Microsoft rips off Plurk, Shuttleworth steps down as Canonical CEO, Google to release the real Googlephone soon, Best Buy says Linux breaks PC hardware 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.

0:00:52 | Introduction

0:15:38 | Releases & News

1:02:48 | Microwatch

1:11:09 | In-Depth Topic

Dan reviews the Nokia N900 and goes quite deeply into the pros and cons of the hard- and software of the device. He actually got a review unit from WOMWorld/Nokia. If you are in the UK, Vodafone seems to have reasonable deals for the N900.

If you have a Maemo device, check out gPodder for Maemo.

1:43:02 | Feedback

Song: Chiron Beta Prime by Jonathan Coulton

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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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Linux Outlaws 127 - Reverse Mono Trojan Horse

Wed, 12/16/2009 - 21:19

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 57 minutes 52 seconds, 57.9 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week on the show: An exclusive interview with Bradley Kuhn and Aaron Williamson from the SFLC about their big GPL-enforcement lawsuit this week, Monty going beserk about Oracle and MySQL, Microsoft’s trouble with RMS & Office, the Eric Schmidt PR disaster 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.

0:01:26 | Introduction

0:08:08 | Releases & News

0:50:06 | Microwatch

0:57:14 | Interview

We interview Bradley Kuhn and Aaron Williamson from the SFLC and break the story about their GPL-enforcement lawsuit against 14 huge companies (including Best Buy, Samsung, Westinghouse, Western Digital and JVC) about violations of the GPL regarding BusyBox and the reasons behind it.

Follow @bkuhn, @copiesofcopies and @sflc and check out the Software Freedom Law Show.

1:28:43 | Feedback

  • Donations: Thanks to Ryan K. and Erik L.!
  • Forums: The Crap Alert Program — to be written in all languages under the sun

  • Richard Hedenberg sends us an email about ThinkPads, Nokia and Les Pauls — including this picture of how to carry a ThinkPad:

Song: The Elephant In The Room by Dan Lynch

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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Linux Outlaws 126 - The Man with the Golden Laptop

Wed, 12/09/2009 - 21:42

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 46 minutes 25 seconds, 52.8 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week: Lenovo ThinkPad X301 review, Black Screen of Death, Firefox dethrones IE in Germany, Palm target of GPL-infringement suit, lots of Google news and more…

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

0:01:46 | Introduction

0:14:08 | Releases & News

0:48:59 | Microwatch

0:58:30 | In-Depth Topic

Fab reviews the Lenovo ThinkPad X301.



1:14:41 | Feedback

  • Andrew C. sent us information on a project called IceCream for cross compiling stuff
  • Andy Hunter sent us an email about [a boxed version of OpenSUSE he’s seen on Amazon for £50
  • Bob Konior tries to beat us in the shitty old computer challenge
  • Roger Light tells us about his app mosquitto (an open source mqtt broker) which came about as a direct consequence of Andy Stanford-Clark’s talk at OggCamp
  • We had emails about the Ubuntu One application list sharing idea from Spencer Dupre and x1101** pointing out that Synaptic can export a list of installed packages already — Fab recommends APTonCD
  • Other emails this week from Jacob Feltman, Martin Häger, Mark Law, Matthew Pherigo, James Lewis, satipera, Pete Martin, Jake Tolbert, Lorenzo, Daniel Devine, redbrain, Tony Ciak, Luke Platypuss, Brian Kemp, Michael White, GourdCaptain, Dan Beeler, Neal and Quarter Pounder

  • Event: Debian Bug Squashing Party, January 22-24 at Credativ GmbH.

Song: Song for the Eureka Stockade by David Rovics from the album Ten Thousand Miles Away

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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Linux Outlaws 125 - Voltron's Head

Fri, 12/04/2009 - 12:54

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 09 minutes 12 seconds, 32.8 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

In this special episode, we interview Pat Davila from TLLTS and the MythTV Cast about the latest MythTV release and a lot of general MythTV-related topics.

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

0:00:53 | Introduction

  • We introduce the special episode and our guest

0:02:44 | Interview

We interview Pat Davila of the Linux Link Tech Show and the MythTV Cast about the new MythTV release 0.22, VDPAU, different capture sources you can use for your MythTV, commercial mythboxes, MySQL troubles, Mythbuntu 9.10, general MythTV features and the new themes, how he came to Linux, what distros he runs, football and much more.

Also check out TLLTS and the MythTV Cast.

Useful Links:

Song: The Last Time I Saw David by Robin Grey from the album Only The Missile

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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Linux Outlaws 124 - Coughffice

Wed, 12/02/2009 - 20:55

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 27 minutes 35 seconds, 43.1 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

In this episode, Dan and Fab discuss the KDE rebranding, Android being on track to dominate the smartphone world, Silverlight 4, Allianz saving a lot of money with Linux and much more..

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

0:00:59 | Introduction

0:12:51 | Releases & News

0:37:45 | Microwatch

0:48:19 | Feedback

  • Donations: Thanks to Mark G., Patrick C., Joel and Thomas D.
  • Forums: Turns out Paul Thurrott’s buddy discovered the Win 7 USB tool GPL violation

  • We got many emails about Tactical Nuclear Penguin, a 32% alcohol beer (£30 a bottle) — thanks to Dan Dart, Les “Quarter” Pounder and others
  • Dan Devine wrote to tell us about a project called the Linux Unified Kernel, looks a bit bizarre
  • Barry Williams says his dad runs a computer repair business and has seen computers with nicotine residue in them, but it doesn’t cause a problem as it can’t conduct electricity — as we suspected, Apple is once again full of bullshit
  • Morgan asks us what out final rankings are between OpenSUSE, Fedora, Mint, Ubuntu and Mandriva
  • Gareins had an interesting idea about default packages in Ubuntu in response to Gimpgate
  • Will Noakes sent us this chilling story of a pub owner in the UK being fined £ 8,000 for someone using their wireless Internet to illegally download copyrighted material
  • Other emails this week from Wong, Jos Poortvliet from the Netherlands, Dave W. from Canada, Benjamin Dumke, B1ackcr0w, JonTheNiceGuy, Neall McLaren, Andreas Marschke, Der Klempner, Tom, Richard Querin, Thomas Chace (with two Cs, damn it!), Peter Lyberth, James Lewis and Eric Kilgore (Igor948) who sent a picture of his James Burton Telecaster to make Fab jealous:

Song: Galactic Love by New Nobility

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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