The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.
Looks like the first episode of 2008 is another long one. It took a pretty long time to edit too, so we appologize for the delay. But at least you have enough content between this show and the last one to make up for the week we missed.
Introduction
We start off by mentioning that we both, absolutely independently from each other, bought the Dell XPS m1330 over the holidays — on the same day, in the same colour! We also both gave our best to dodge the Microsoft tax. We’ll have to see how that worked out once the machines arrive…
We will give you a usability report on the XPS m1330 (especially concerning Linux) once we both had enough time to play with them, of course.
Listener Feedback
Someone, who shall remain unnamed, wanted us to bring some article to the attention of our readers that tells you how to convert your nice and shiny Linux box into a fake Mac system. We don’t get the point, really…
We got our first audio comments this week, which is really cool. The first one is from Daniel who tells us about how he listens to podcasts on his iPod, problems with Rockbox and how he got Flash and Skype 2.0 working on 64bit Gutsy. The second audio feedback is from Jim, who gives us a little review of Flock. Great stuff!
Fab also recommends SmugMug as a great alternative to Flickr. You can check out his photos here.
Also, Fab confesses he was in the Windows Home Server beta and we discuss the fact that said product can’t even take it if you copy files. The whole OS is obviously a joke…
This week on the show, we talk about McAfee’s hissy fit, Mozilla’s hapless marketing campaign, Microsoft’s Emacs plans, the Ubuntu-driven car and much more.
Fab starts off with another shoutout to the guys from TLLTS and we mention some interesting topics from the forums. Fab also rants about the fact that some games run better in Wine than on Windows. In our listener feedback section, we got email about:
Our intro theme (which we are going to provide for download here on the site soon)
Episode 3 and the security and trustworthiness of Open Source
We also got two great audio messages from heathenx and verbal with feedback and a listener tip. Apparently we sound like Simon Pegg and Arnold Schwarzenegger…
Errata from last week:Blender’s open movie project is called Peach and Crystal Space itself is used in conjunction with CEL to make games.
Package of the Week
Fab: Frozen Bubble, one of the best little open source games ever
Dan: gPodder, a very simple and cool podcatcher for Gnome
Next week we will talk about how we produce this show and what kind of software packages we use in our workflow. Until then, please feel free to comment on this episode in our forums. This episode includes Dan’s song “Truth” which you can find on his new music blog shedmusic.net.
The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.
In this special episode, we explain in detail how we produce this show including what hard- and software we use for recording and publishing (with a special focus on the tools available in Linux as well as the problems that the platform still faces in this area).
But first off, we talk about the forums again, including this great video of Bill Gates almost saying that Vista sucks which was posted there:
We also talk a bit about the emails we received this week:
Rob Collins asks about touch screen support in Linux, especially for his HPTX1320 convertible
Mark Rice clarifies that he had actually found out about us in Linux Format Magazine
Gregory Malsack tells us about his recent experience with Norton Anti-Virus
We also talk about the latest very critical Windows vulnerability and Peter Cannon’s Nokia N810 review which we’ll talk about on the next show. On another note, we received news that Ewedrive has discontinued their backup service while JungleDisk is still going strong. Also: KDE 4.0 is out (we will also talk about this in detail on the next show).
We then go on to explain in detail how we record, produce and publish this show.
We also use Libsyn as a hosting service for the mp3 version of the show and the page including the RSS feeds are published using the Drupal CMS on a Dan’s CentOS server. If you have additional questions about our production workflow or comments about this episode, please use this topic in our forums.
The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.
This week on the show: Sun buys MySQL, everybody loves Ubuntu, our electrocuting laptops, and we review KDE 4 and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.
Part 1 - Intro & Listener Feedback (03:40)
Due to some unforseen circumstances, we are a bit late this week — but to make up for it, we have a really long show for you. First of all, Fab talks about the new, slightly revamped show structure and his new section where he wants to talk about gaming on Linux. We then go on to the listener feedback we received this week:
Philip Herron writes to us about gaming on Linux and Wine and tips Fab off about EVE Online (which we will talk more about in next week’s show)
Matteo asks about Google’s Android and wants us to talk about educational use of Linux; we also talk a bit about Android vs. OpenMoko
IBM snuggles up with Ubuntu: it looks like they are planning to deploy Ubuntu in Enterprise environments; they also talk about the fact that they get many requests for Linux from their customers
Dan: gLabels, print labels and business cards in Gnome
Fab: Conky, a very subtle but still cool system monitor
This episode ends with Dan’s song “Reality?” from his music blog shedmusic.net. If you want to send us a song to play on the show that is your own, original music, feel free to send us a message using the contact form and we’ll be happy to consider it. Also, please leave feedback on this show in the corresponding thread on the forums.
The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.
This week, Dan and Fab talk about M$ buying Yahoo!, Nokia buying Trolltech, Linus and his mobile, the Gendarmerie and Ubuntu, the Dell XPS m1330 and EVE Online.
Listener Feedback (04:40)
Audio feedback from Aussie listener Antone Henderson, who tells us about the HP C4380 printer which works out of the box in Ubuntu; good to know if you are looking for a Linux compatible printer
Cam DeCoster is looking for a multimedia-fileserver solution; Dan recommends FreeNAS, Fab suggests Debian — maybe on a NSLU2
Fab also talks about EVE Online, which he’s been playing a lot recently. It’s an awesome space combat MMORPG that allows for very freeform gameplay in a huge universe. If you love games like Privateer or Freelancer or shows like Firefly, you’ll have a lot of fun here. If you want to meet up with Fab in-game, his handle is “Clay Reynolds”.
Package of the Week:
Dan: The GIMP, the #1 open source and cross-platform image editor
Fab: Cheese, a little Gnome program to capture photos and video from your webcam
We also want to remind everybody again to check out SCALE 6x if they have the chance. We’ll have Donald Burr from Otaku no Podcast as our embedded reporter over there to promote the podcast and bring us reports from the floor.
If you have any comments about this episode, please use the forums.
The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.
This episode is dedicated to the memory of Roy Scheider, who recently passed away.
On the show this time: U-Boat games, Fab goes Debian, Stephen Fry loves open source and Linus calls Mac OS crap.
Listener Feedback (05:27)
Hendo sends us two awesome songs from his mate Noel Watson one of which, called The FX Holden, we play at the end of this show
Trevor McDougall from Newcastle, Australia tells us the story how he recently got a USB modem to work in Linux — he also thanks all the helpful people who help new users out in various forums, which we wholeheartedly second
Matteo gets back to us and mentions a new distro he and a friend are working on, called Bornheim Linux (named after a German town not far from where Fab lives); he also prompts us on educational use of Linux — a topic which many people have asked us about and we are planning to do a show on
Brian Lampe gets all brown-nosey on us and also asks Dan about how he turned his back on the evil that is .NET
Eric Mesa really enjoys Dan’s music and wonders why he loses his accent when he sings
Fab recently moved to Debian lenny/sid and tells us about his experiences so far as well as explaining how and why he installed it. We then talk a bit more about Debian, as well as tattoos and the fact that Fab’s name has a lot in common with the distribution’s name (as Dan also observed on the forums).
P.S.: If you are asking yourself what that crazy show title is this time, you have definitely missed a great movie classic and should rent the DVDright now!
The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.
This week: Crazy accents galore, Linux kernel exploit, lots of Ubuntu news and more U-Boat games.
Listener Feedback (05:09)
George Walkey starts us on a discussion on the topic of free “community” vs. paid “enterprise” editions of Free Software
Rob Collins likes the game reviews on the show and tells us that he posted the second part of his “Linux Newbie in a Windows World” article on his site
Steve Cole gives us some excellent reasons for using Linux
Gordon Coupar gives us his thoughts on Linux in Scottish schools and also provides a link to Windies Twa Thoosan’ (beware, Fab needed a dictionary to read this)
Our mate JP from Canada tells us how much he enjoys the show and tortures Dan by making him do a Canadian accent
Randy Noseworthy (we assume that’s his real name) says we should be more John Wayne like and Fab apologises for failing horribly
Fab talks about running Silent Hunter III in Wine and asks if anybody knows how to get the successor SH4 to run. If you have any hints about that, please tell us in the forums.
Package of the Week:
Fab: Tomboy, a note-taking program with wiki-style features for Gnome
Dan: NoScript, a Firefox extension to block JavaScript for safer browsing
We end the show with another song by Noel Watson. This time its his wonderful version of Waltzing Matilda, the unofficial Australian national anthem. Thanks again for providing us with your great music, mate!
The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.
Hackers exploit last week’s kernel security hole to hack Claranet — this leads us to talk a bit about security in Linux and also computer security in general
Main Topic: Linux in Education (25:10)
We talk about our experiences concerning Linux in schools and universities over here in Germany / the United Kingdom and how we see the whole situation. Fab talks a bit about what he does in his part-time job supporting schools with everything IT-related and Dan explains how it worked during the time he was studying for his degree. We also discuss corporate sponsorship of schools and universities, Edubuntu and the amazing applications Linux could have in the education field.
Before we wrap it up, Dan also tells the story how he fixed the CD/DVD drive on his brand new Dell using only a fork and gives us a preview to his upcoming review of Foresight Linux.
The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.
Red Hat does release their source code, hence CentOS and all the other RHEL clones out there.
Listener Feedback
The omipresent Verbal sends us an audio tip about how to handle file names with spaces on the command line and also sneakily plugs the Going Linux podcast
Antone Henderson sends us a cool picture of Noel and another one of his songs which we play at the end of the show
klaatu from The Bad Apples podcast educates us about OpenOffice on OS X and gives his opinion about the ability to win converts from the Mac side of things
Daniel Lowe from Mackay asks Fab about his experiences living down under and talks about the flood damage Mackay and Airlie Beach received during a recent cyclone (his news story links: 1&2); Fab also mentions the movie Fool’s Gold which was being filmed in and around Airlie Beach & Whitehaven Beach when he was down there
Drew asks Fab about the kernel he’s running and a possible way to get his Toshiba laptop with an Intel 4965 wireless card and Intel HD audio to work
Mark Falkner from Devon asks about ways to get Internet Explorer to run in Linux and also mentions Ext2IFS
Philip Herron (RedBrain) tells us about Linux and Windows at his university
Jim Shaver explains about the proliferation of Linux at his uni in Calgary and gives a tip about running Internet Explorer in Firefox using IE Tab
We talk about Frets on Fire, the open source Guitar Hero clone written in Python and the fact that the original SimCity has been open sourced as Micropolis.
Package of the Week
Dan: Mplayer-Plugin, the best browser plugin to play your media
Fab might be getting a [Gumstix](http://gumstix.com Gumstix) and will get back with a review in the future. We also thank the guys from LugRadio for their mention of our podcast and wish them a happy 4th birthday.
We end the show with the song Old Heroes Like Me by Noel Watson.
The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.
Alex Bennee gives us some feedback on the various open source licenses, the whole CentOS / Red Hat Enterprise Linux relationship we talked about recently and the different ways companies apply these licenses ie. what that means for the community
Glen Tyler recommends Rocxshop to Fab as an alternative multimedia distro to Ubuntu Studio
Nathan Dotz “butters up” and gives us more feedback on Linux in education as well as assuring us that at the unis he’s attended as a student in Computer Science, *nix knowledge is very much required
David Stephenson is running Windows XP and wants to move to Linux, therefore he wants to know what distro to use to get his online games to work in Wine / Cedega
Ubuntu unveils Ubuntu Brainstorm, their version of the Dell Idea Storm site — so now you can vote on stuff you’d like to see in our favourite poo coloured distro
Leap year babies are mad at Steve Ballmer because of a long standing bug in several Microsoft products; apparently they’ve writting a Perl script to get back at him — also, 1900 is not a leap year, 20 year old bugs aren’t automatically a standard!
Fab reviews the OSSEC host-based intrusion detection system (which he heard about on TLLTS) and Alpha 5 of Ubuntu Hardy (Alpha 6 came out since).
Package of the Week:
- Dan: Powertop, a CPU power manager for your Intel chips
- Fab: Django (python-django), a Python-based rapid web-development framework
Fab will be at CeBIT this week, we’ll have a special report for you about that in the next episode.
The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.
Fab talks about his experience at CeBIT, especially at the Novell booth and their whole “Interoperability” campaign with Microsoft (including Miguel de Icaza’s views on this). We also discuss the situation of open source software in the industry in general and some other interesting topics Fab came across like the dominance of Linux in virtualisation and the huge success of Asus’ EeePC at the show.
If you’re interested, you can also check out Fab’s gallery with photos from the show room floor:
We close the show with Dan’s song The Shed Anthem, which he recently released on his music blog, and mention that we will do a special listener feedback episode next (probably in between this show and the next usual one). If you want to give us feedback on the episode, please leave a comment in our forums.
The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.
The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.
On the show this time: Lots of M$-bashing again, Dan’s Windows rant and much more.
Unfortunately, we start the show with bad news again. Sadly, Arthur C. Clarke, one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, has died. Also, we correct a mistake from an earlier show since people told us that there is in fact a multimedia centre distro for Linux, which is called Linux MCE.
We then close the show with wishing everyone Happy Easter (sorry for the late release — it’s entirely Fab’s fault since he was insanely busy at work). Please comment on this show in the forums!
The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.
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