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

• Rob Collins shares his Linux story with us

• Steve tips us off about the story of Trend Micro threatening to sue Barracuda Networks for their use of the open source ClamAV; we discuss the story

Releases & News (23:19)

Open source releases this week: Shift Linux 0.6.2, Finnix 91.0 and Musix 1.0r3 Test 5

We had quite a few big news items in general this week:

• Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo! for a looooot of money — God help us all, if this goes trough…

• On the other hand, the french Gendamerie switches to Ubuntu; we say “Vive la France!”

• Nokia buys Trolltech (the makers of QT); Fab has a bad feeling about it

• We learn that Linus doesn’t own a mobile phone — w00t!?

• Microsoft whinges that IBM “killed” OOXML, the evil bastards!

Reviews & Package of the Week (44:13)

We review the Dell XPS m1330 laptop which we both bought. Fab also posted a more exhaustive review of the machine (with photos) on his blog. Our verdict: We love it. Especially as it is now available with Ubuntu preinstalled, as we mentioned last week.

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.

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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.