We start the show off with asking the listeners if they rather had a forum or something else instead of the /contribute site. If you have any ideas, write us email!

Listener Feedback

Lukas reports some problem with our Ogg files not being downloaded correctly in OS X. We cannot reproduce this behaviour (well, we both don’t use OS X for a start) and would be greatful for further hints regarding this. Things definitely look alright from our end.

Butch tells us about a nifty solar-powered computer that runs Linux. Very cool stuff! Looks like something straight out of Q Branch.

F/OSS Releases

• Turbolinux 11 Server
• ASPLinux 12
• Ubuntu Muslim Edition 7.10
• IPCop 1.4.18
• CentOS 5.1
• Damn Small Linux 4.1
• dyne:bolic 2.5.2
• MoLinux 3.2

News and Stories

Novell’s been given the go ahead to counter-sue SCO in Utah, according to Groklaw. We say: “Give ‘em hell, guys!”

On an even lighter note, Microsoft is in hot water over the very naughty Santa bot they put into their messenger client, which forced them to eventually kill Santa — the bastards!

Main Section

Dan tells us about his recent tour of Linux distributions and the experiences he made during those weeks. He tried the following distros (click on the names for links to Dan’s original reviews on his blog): Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon”, openSUSE 10.3, Mandriva One 2008, PCLinuxOS 2007, Debian 4.0 “Etch”, Slackware 12, Sabayon 1.1 Professional, SimplyMEPIS 7.0, Fedora 8 “Werewolf” & Linux Mint 4.0 “Daryna”. If you’re interested, also check out Dan’s complete wrap-up article comparing all ten distributions.

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced by Dan and Fab. The album art was also created by Fab.