This week: Ubuntu Brainstorm, leap year babies mad at Ballmer, Debian stuff and IE8 and standards compliance.

We start the show with bad news: Chess Griffin has announced that Linux Reality will close up shop after episode 100. We then move on to some listener feedback.

Listener Feedback (05:40)

• 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

• Jose aka (TaCo) from HP in Houston asks our opinion on the story that Google is funding a project to make Photoshop run better under Linux

• Jonathan Barford from Liverpool found our podcast while looking for lullabies; he also offers for Dan to try out the eeePC he intends to buy

Releases & News (28:42)

Releases: FreeBSD 7.0, Slax 6.0.1, Momonga Linux 4.1, Parted Magic 2.1, PelicanHPC GNU Linux 1.3, SystemRescueCd 1.0.0 and Linux Mint 4.0 “KDE”

• 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

• Security support for Debian Sarge will be terminated on March 31

• 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!

• Sanger Institute runs huge Debian cluster

• Internet Explorer 8 will apparently follow web standards — well, sort of (it’s Microsoft we’re talking about here, after all)

Reviews & Package of the Week (48:55)

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.

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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.