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.

Releases (08:24)

Distros:

• PC-BSD 1.5
• Foresight 2.0
• Parsix 1.0r1
• Clonezilla Live 1.0.9-19
• MirOS BSD #10
• Slax 6.0.3

Application:

• TrueCrypt 5

Development Release (Distro):

• Ulteo Applications System Beta 1

News Stories (23:44)

For fun, check out bug #1 for Ubuntu on Launchpad.

• Wal-Mart stops selling the Everex gPC, but only in retail (you can still get it online)

• The release date for Ubuntu Hardy Heron has been announced: 24th April 2008

• The SFLC settles their suit with Verizon on behalf of BusyBox — another victory for the GPL!

• Apache is still the #1 webserver or as Dan says: Apache is still The Daddy!

• Project Peach releases their first trailer for “Big Buck Bunny”

• US anti-trust commitee scrutinises Windows 7 — we also think the name “Windows 7” is shite

• The Supreme Court also gives the go-ahead for Novell to go after M$ and Novell also wants to, even though they are buddies with Ballmer & Co. now

• Also, the SFLC warns against trusting Microsoft

Dan’s Rant & Package of the Week (57:23)

We also have a rant by Dan on Windows as he’s rediscovered the pain of installing and using that particular operating system.

Package of the Week:

• Fab: Firefly Media Server (aka. mt-daap), stream your music over your LAN

• Dan: gBrainy, train your brain on Gnome

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.