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

Releases & News (20:07)

Releases this week: Nexenta Core Platform 1.0, LinuxTLE 9.0, Parted Magic 2.0 and SLAX 6.0.0
Development release: openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2

• Important security bulletin: Linux Kernel 2.6 Local Root Exploit; patch here

• This week is Ubuntu Developer Week

• Canonical starts to distribute commercial apps straight from their official repos

• In more Ubuntu news, it was recently announced that the next version of the distro will ship with KVM, not Xen — we discuss this

• VirtualBox has been bought by Sun; Fab’s not happy

• Some people in the F/OSS community are calling for a boycott of Trend Micro, we are sceptical

• The EU announces that it will investigate Microsoft’s OOXML campaign — no, that’s not OpenOffice XML!

Reviews & Package of the Week (43:27)

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!

Please also comment on this episode 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.