Linux Outlaws

MP3 - 1 hour 51 minutes 13 seconds, 50.9 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives. This week on the show: Source for Android 2.0 has been released, Microsoft admits GPL violation, SAP disses Sun, Microsoft patents sudo?, Windows 7 runs bad on netbooks, Fab tries out Gnome Shell and much more. If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode. 0:01:46 | Introduction Google makes Gizmo5 acquisition official Gnome 3.0 roadmap now says release in late 2010 OpenOffice distances itself from OpenOfficeMouse SourceForge Inc. changes its name to “Geeknet” Five years of Firefox! Beer of the Week: Chimay Bleue Tea of the Week: Dan got sent some tea called Paratiisi from Finland by Hanna (@mossgarden) 0:13:17 | Releases & News DEFT Linux 5 sidux 2009-03 openSUSE 11.2 — Daviey’s LTS baby release post VectorLinux 6.0 “KDE-Classic” Ultimate Edition 2.4 ZevenOS 2.0 Bluewhite64 Linux 13.0 “LiveDVD” Wordpress 2.8.6 Google releases source code for Android 2.0 Public pressure stops BBC’s HD DRM plan (for now) UK TV presenter Valerie Singleton promotes simplified Linux machine for Seniors — a bit patronising though SAP causing trouble, messing with Sun about Java — how very hypocritical of them Free Software for Russian schools in trouble Is the Symbian Foundation DOA? “Go”: the new open source programming language from Google 0:48:31 | Microwatch Did Microsoft patent sudo? — it seems not Microsoft confirms GPL violation in Windows 7 tool — more info on this M$ and Novell say their unholy alliance is still bearing fruit Windows 7 don’t run so good on netbooks: it’s not a Linux killer and XP beats it in battery life tests 1:01:15 | In-Depth Topic Fab’s In a Gnome Shell segment: Fab explains how to install and use Gnome Shell in Ubuntu Karmic. Install: sudo aptitude install gnome-shell And run with: gnome-shell --replace This is beta software, so backup before you try this etc. Android App Tip: SportyPal (free), a great workout tracker — Fab’s profile 1:18:41 | Feedback Donations: Thanks to Tor! Forums: Even gPodder blames Popey Check out the new Linux Outlaws merchandising Morten pimps the FSFE Free PDF readers project The Linux Outlaws baby has been named Fevronia Iris Ekimogloy Buzzy Neilsen send us a link to these very scary pictures from the Ukraine Marek Mroz spotted a Linux Outlaws T-shirt in one of the Wordcamp Seattle videos — thanks to Eric Amundson David Ramsey Cain found a GPL violation by Creative, alerted the FSF and now asks if that was OK — Ars Technica article, in which Bradley Kuhn from the SFLC addresses this Warren Midgley tells us the amazing story how he got involved in writing the PfSense Guide Other emails this week from Jake Tolbert, dwick, William A. Statt, Upchuck, Facetiousproxy, Matthew Pherigo, Daniel S., David from Portland, Peter Lyberth aka. TheSlayer, Aaron Coleman, Beeza, DarthSydwayZ, Andreas Marschke, Brian Hunt, Gareins from Slovenia and Michal Kaut Speed up your boot even more in Ubuntu Karmic Catch the recording of the show live Monday nights 7 pm GMT/UTC, 8 pm CET Song (for Lucy): Skullcrusher Mountain by Jonathan Coulton 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 38 minutes 25 seconds, 45.1 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: KDE founder gets German medal of honour, Harald Welte says Android is crap, Open Office releases the worst computer mouse in history, Dan reviews Mandriva 2010 and much more… If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode. 0:01:12 | Introduction The date when we recorded this episode is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Errata: ZFS is under Sun’s CDDL, not a BSD license This episode is the first to feature new album art Help the Freenode folks test their new network Booze of the Week: A nice Cabernet Sauvignon from the Hunter Valley 0:08:26 | Releases & News Monomaxos 4.0 Mandriva Linux 2010 Moblin 2.1 Scientific Linux 5.4 Elastix 1.6.0 BSDanywhere 4.6 SimplyMEPIS 8.0.12 Tiny Core Linux 2.5 FreeNAS 0.7 iMagic OS 2010 Webconverger 5.7 Zenwalk Linux 6.2 “Core” SystemRescueCd 1.3.2 KDE 4.3.3 Firefox 3.5.5 Google open sources their “Closure” JavaScript tools KDE founder Matthias Ettrich gets German Federal Cross of Merit Zend and Oracle collaborate on Enterprise Linux and PHP OpenOffice releases a mouse and it’s fucking ugly! http://www.billshrink.com/blog/motorola-droid- android-revolution/ Harald Welte says Android is crap GNOME 3.0 delayed until September 2010? 0:50:10 | Micro Crapplewatch Rickrolling iPhone Virus 0:54:19 | In-Depth Topic Dan gives us an overview of Mandriva 2010. Here’s a screenshot of the USB disk backup tool Dan mentioned during his review: 1:10:53 | Feedback Donations: Thanks to Ben G. W. & Ryan K. Forums: Windows 7 Transformation Pack for Ubuntu Michal Kaut sends us a link to Machinarium, a pretty cool Flash adventure game Gareinc wrote to say they enjoy the show and also tells us his opinions about the GIMP and XSane user interfaces Félim Whiteley tells us why HADOPI was really pushed through in France Martin Visser thinks Windows has more than 75% server market share Scott Pashley sent a tip for Fab on blacklisting the pcspkr module to stop system beeps Other emails this week from B1ackcr0w, Jess Lantz, Jared, Matthew Pherigo, Andreas Marschke, Darryl, Beeza, Michael Spannbauer, Kevan V., Nathan a.k.a. hairymnstr, John Yerhotof fosscasts.com, Benson The Dude, Eric Roudabush, nipeng, Dan Devine and Dennis Google has acquired Gizmo5? Ardour Workshop & FLOSS Manuals Book Sprint — November 23 - 27, 2009 at moddr_lab in Rotterdam, Netherlands Song: Conspiracy by Louis Lingg and the Bombs from the album Long Live the Anarchist Revolutionairies! 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 47 minutes 43 seconds, 49.3 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 Linux Outlaws: Dan & Fab discuss all the recent F/OSS news such as Skype open-sourcing their Linux client, Microsoft opening the PST format, Apple dropping ZFS, open source e-voting and they also interview Popey from the Ubuntu UK Podcast about Karmic Koala and why he loves the Satanic Edition so much. If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode. 0:01:03 | Introduction Errata: To get the wifi to stay on overnight on Android, go to the screen with the list of access points, then press the Menu key, and press “Advanced Options” to set the wifi timeout — thanks @yamatt Mozilla backs open font format Karmic vs. Win 7 boot video New Firefox designs coming up (German article) Update: French 3-Strikes Law now legal 0:14:44 | Releases & News Endian Firewall 2.3 Toorox 10.2009 The ‘buntus: Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Mythbuntu, Edubuntu & Ubuntu Studio 9.10 “Karmic Koala” ALT Linux 5.0 “Ark” and “School” Ubuntu Rescue Remix 9.10 grml 2009.10 CAINE 1.0 AbiWord 2.8.0 CyanogenMod 4.2.1 stable — now with closed Google stuff removed Android 2.0 SDK — Android 2.0 supports multitouch Skype to open source their Linux client Mozilla’s Raindrop messaging platform First ever e-voting machine open-sourced Another German press FAIL: Berliner Morgenpost mistakes KDE4 for Windows 7 White House site switches to Drupal DoD says US military should adopt open source Apple abandons ZFS, kills open source porting project Symbian Foundation opens smartphone kernel source code 0:46:24 | Microwatch Microsoft promises to open Outlook’s PST file format 0:49:34 | Interview We interview Alan “popey” Pope of the Ubuntu UK Podcast about the new Ubuntu Karmic, OggCamp, his involvement in the Ubuntu Community Council and why he prefers Ubuntu Satanic Edition. Beers of the Interview: Popey — Rosey Nosey, Fab — Bishops Finger (thanks @lucy) Popey also mentioned this link: BBC News: Ubuntu readies the Karmic Koala Tip: To fix the annoying system beep that turned up all over Karmic, follow this guide 1:29:24 | Feedback Donations: Thanks to Andrew S., Jonathan K., Roger S. and David M. Forums: The OggCamp thread Audio Comment: Jon Spriggs on OggCamp We also had nice emails about OggCamp from Robert Pinner (of The Linux Emporium), Chris Couvaras and Beeza Olivier wrote to us about HADOPI being voted through Randal Schwartz mails us about “What’s GNU/GNU?” Kevin Daire tells us about The Dark Mod thebinaryblob wrote and told us about OGRE, an open source game engine apparently being used by a lot of commercial products Rich Brown suggests a possible episode title for us: There’s an Apt-get for That More emails this week from Cult, Andreas Marschke, Herb Stein, Gordon, John47, Joe Linux, Patrick Dailey, Pete, Ivan Beveridge, Scott Pashley, David Synck, Nathan, Brian Hunt, David Purser, Pete Cannon and Dean Thomson Did HP kill their Linux netbook offerings? — we’ll have to keep an eye on that… CeBIT calling for F/OSS projects for free exhibition space in 2010 Song: Balrog Boogie by Diablo Swing Orchestra from the album The Butcher’s Ballroom 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 0 minutes 32 seconds, 27.7 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives. The joint Linux Outlaws / Ubuntu UK Podcast live recording from OggCamp — uncut edition. If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode. This is the audio from the live episode we recorded before the OggCamp audience with the Ubuntu UK Podcast. It starts off with the raffle and thank you to the crew and later we discuss media production on Linux and the question if there are too many Linux distros. Warning: This is the uncut edition of the recording that contains all of the swearing. Presenters on stage: @lauracowen, @dantheman, @popey, @fabsh, @ciemon & @tonywhitmore 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 28 seconds, 41.0 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 episode, which we recorded once again in one room together at Dan’s place in Liverpool, we apologise a lot and talk about the London Stock Exchange dumping Windows for Linux, Nokia giving away free N900s, Barnes & Noble’s new ebook reader, Ballmer saying Windows owns 75% of the server market 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. We recorded this episode in one room together and are releasing to as soon as possible with minimal editing for a change. Since both of us are away for LugRadio Live and OggCamp at the moment, this was the only way to get the content out there without having a massive delay. Therefore, show notes will be added later, basically as soon as we get to it (most likely after the LRL/OggCamp weekend has wrapped 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 - 1 hour 43 minutes 38 seconds, 47.5 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 episode, we interview Randal L. Schwartz about Perl, Merlin and Stonhenge, BSD, being a professional comedian, how Karaoke saved his life, the Schwartzian transform, FLOSS Weekly and much more. If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode. 0:00:58 | Introduction We introduce this special show and our special guest 0:03:00 | Interview We interview Randal L. Schwartz about Perl, Smalltalk, Squeak, Seaside, Merlin and Stonhenge, BSD, being a professional comedian, how Karaoke saved his life, Spaceballs, the Schwartzian transform, FLOSS Weekly, interviewing Linus Torvalds and much more. Links that Randal mentioned: Squeak by Example, Official Seaside website. Some of Randal’s books: Song: Entrails by Sounds Like Chicken from the album …Like a Cannonball to the Ocean Floor 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 37 minutes 05 seconds, 44.5 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 week’s Linux Outlaws: Fender-styled Android phone, OSI loses corporate status, robotic submarine running Debian, German magazine CHIP spreads FUD about Linux, a PulseAudio rant and much more… If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode. 0:01:08 | Introduction Episode 115 was released late because Fab was sick with the flu Errata: Apparently not only Hotmail has been hacked, GMail and Yahoo have fallen prey to the same phishing scam Fab explains how to get the English language DLC for Fallout from the PlayStation Store Ubuntu boot system ugliness T-Mobile launching gorgous Fender-styled Magic Booze of the Week: Bulleit Bourbon 0:13:04 | Releases & News Clonezilla Live 1.2.2-31 LliureX 9.09 Dragora GNU/Linux 1.1 Tiny Core Linux 2.4.1 Ingres Database 9.3 Bazaar 2.0 Security: Urgent Django security fix released Kindle going international — but Amazon kinda botched the whole thing The Open Source Initiative’s corporate status has been suspended — they might be seriously in trouble Netgear announces open source router WNR3500L, but we’re kinda “meh” on the whole thing Motorola drops LiMo and Windows Mobile to go full-on Android MOTOLEAK: Hacker ports Blur UI to HTC G1 Nokia ports Qt to Maemo 5 Robotic submarine running Debian wins international competition — remember our 3rd episode? Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight — or not… 0:40:24 | Microwatch Microsoft has biggest ever security update yet German magazine CHIP spreads FUD about Linux (German article) Breaking News Crapple Story: Major bug in Snow Leopard deletes all user data 0:49:34 | In-Depth Topic We have a discussion (some may call it a rant) about PulseAudio. Interview with PulseAudio creator Lennart Poettering 1:04:27 | Feedback Donations: Thanks to Mats, Kevan Vautier, Roger Hammer and Lars for supporting the show! Forums: Brown Hat - Linux for Outlaws Jay N. Forrest mails again about Microsoft’s open source operating systems Daniel Devine, the Cloud Man, asks why people name their projects names like ScrotWM Just Johny sent us some news about Debian GNU/kFreeBSD Chris Lael sents us details of the ultimate beer keg carrying party bike from Portland JonTheNiceGuy sent us feedback on the !microwatch group on Identi.ca, askes us if we know about TOR and pimps Little Brother by Cory Doctorow — Security Now episode on TOR Other emails this week by Peter Redmer, Dean Thomson, Mark Venable, Peter Cannon aka. Dick Turpin, Les Pounder, Richard Querin, George De Bruin, Julian Aloofi, Steve from the Canadian Texas and Brian Hunt Tag stories for us with #outlawstory on identi.ca Look out for our upcoming interview with Randal Schwartz Check out this song: Sax Man by Lonely Island feat. Jack Black Song: New Orleans by David Rovics from the album Halliburton Boardroom Massacre 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 50 minutes 51 seconds, 50.8 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 show, which has been massively delayed due to Fab being taken out by the flu, we talk about GNU Bucks, Alan Turing being nominated for knighthood, Linux saving an Aussie power company and we also get into a massive discussion about sexism in the community. If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode. 0:00:58 | Introduction Apparently RMS said that Miguel “is a traitor to FSF’s core values” — we just wanted to clarify that, it is still not clear that RMS actually said anything like that at all People are now being served on Twitter — this will all end in tears! Ryan Paul from Ars Technica on the Cyanogen controversy and Google’s problems with being fully open — interesting read Astrid now has widget support OggCamp is getting close now — we are planning to have a limited number of souvenir mugs for people, donate at least 5 quid towards the event & take an awesome souvenir home! OggCamp Sponsors: BitFolk, The Open Learning Centre, Canonical, Viglen, Linux Emporium & Pokebook — Media partner: Linux Format Beer of the Week: Holsten Pilsener 0:15:39 | Releases & News Calculate Linux 9.9 m0n0wall 1.236 Astaro Security Gateway 7.5 Untangle Gateway 7.0 Plamo Linux 4.7 GoblinX 3.0 “G:Standard” Sabayon Linux 5.0 SystemRescueCd 1.3.1 Gentoo Linux 10.0 Looks like the Pirate Bay is not going to get bought after all — side note: one of the judges removed from the appeal is working for Spotify!? SFLC Bilski brief: Software should not be patentable Turing nominated for knighthood — more about Alan Turing The Geek Atlas FSF offers “GNU Bucks” for finding nonfree works in free distributions — more information Linux saves Aussie power company from outage More in-depth look at Google Wave from Ars Technica 0:54:43 | Microwatch Thousands of Hotmail user account details posted online — BBC article about this 0:59:13 | In-Depth Topic Fab talks about trying out the Ubuntu Karmic beta and more specifically the Xubuntu version of it and also about playing around with the latest Chromium builds from the Chromium Daily Builds PPA. Fab’s boot video We also discuss the whole debate about Mark Shuttleworth and his alleged sexist comment at LinuxCon which drags us into a complete rathole about sexism and alledged sexism in the community. Android App Pick: Robo Defense (free trial or $2.99), a tower defense game for Android 1:27:11 | Feedback Audio Feedback: George aka. SndChaser chimes in with a quick review of the Cowon iAudio U5 Donations: Thanks a lot to Ryan K., Scott F. and Gerd F. — you guys keep the show going! Forums: Some listeners have nominated us for the Podcast Awards — yay! Dean Thomson sent us some gaming related news about the idTech5 engine from id Software Hanna-Kaisa Hakamaa from Finland discovered that she really is a geek inside and tells us that she enjoys the show Jonathan tells us about GNOME SlackBuild, a one-command installation of Gnome for Slackware BigJim says we should check out Smoothwall Ben made some alternative album art for us Other emails by Mike Emerick, Nokes, Igor Wawrzyniak, Juan Mares and Giovanni Pellegrini — also thanks to Jay N. Forrest from the Linux User Podcast for sending us his thoughts on the CodePlex Foundation. Slightly unfortunate song choice by Dan this week… Song: Swedish Ladies from the album The Darker The Sky Is The Brighter The Stars Shine by Jonay 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 31 minutes 25 seconds, 41.9 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives. In another special episode, we bring you Dan’s interviews from LinuxCon with James Bottomley (SCSI subsystem maintainer), Allison Randal & Chromatic (Parrot), Jeremy Allison (Samba) and Greg Kroah-Hartman (staging tree maintainer) as well as a Mac rant from Fab. If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode. 0:00:56 | Introduction We finally play the audio feedback from Danny Vose and reply to it, after which a whole discussion about Macs and MacOS X ensues Fab talks about Bethesda’s Fallout 3 DLC debacle on the PS3 0:32:11 | Interviews 0:32:11 | James Bottomley, Linux kernel developer and SCSI subsystem maintainer — he now works at Novell 0:40:23 | Allison Randal and Chromatic (real name unknown) from the Parrot virtual machine project 0:49:35 | Jeremy Allison, co-creator of the Samba file server — now working at Google 1:09:49 | Greg Kroah-Hartman, creator of the Linux Driver Project and maintainer of the kernel staging tree (aka. The Maintainer of Crap) — he also works for Novell Get older episodes from the Outlaw Archives Song: R.P.G. by David Rovics from the album Halliburton Boardroom Massacre 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 59 minutes 33 seconds, 54.8 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 show, which just narrowly scrapes under the two hour mark by a whisker, Dan and Fab discuss the CyanogenMod troubles, RMS and Miguel de Icaza, Sam Ramji and more Codeplex news as well as Dan’s experiences at LinuxCon. If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode. Show notes coming soon! 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.