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This week on Linux Outlaws: Dan & Fab discuss all the recent F/OSS news such as Skype open-sourcing their Linux client, Microsoft opening the PST format, Apple dropping ZFS, open source e-voting and they also interview Popey from the Ubuntu UK Podcast about Karmic Koala and why he loves the Satanic Edition so much.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode.

0:01:03 | Introduction

• Errata: To get the wifi to stay on overnight on Android, go to the screen with the list of access points, then press the Menu key, and press “Advanced Options” to set the wifi timeout — thanks @yamatt
• Mozilla backs open font format
• Karmic vs. Win 7 boot video
• New Firefox designs coming up (German article)
• Update: French 3-Strikes Law now legal

0:14:44 | Releases & News

• Endian Firewall 2.3
• Toorox 10.2009
• The ‘buntus: Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Mythbuntu, Edubuntu & Ubuntu Studio 9.10 “Karmic Koala”
• ALT Linux 5.0 “Ark” and “School”
• Ubuntu Rescue Remix 9.10
• grml 2009.10
• CAINE 1.0
• AbiWord 2.8.0
• CyanogenMod 4.2.1 stable — now with closed Google stuff removed
• Android 2.0 SDK — Android 2.0 supports multitouch

• Skype to open source their Linux client
• Mozilla’s Raindrop messaging platform
• First ever e-voting machine open-sourced
• Another German press FAIL: Berliner Morgenpost mistakes KDE4 for Windows 7
• White House site switches to Drupal
• DoD says US military should adopt open source
• Apple abandons ZFS, kills open source porting project
• Symbian Foundation opens smartphone kernel source code

0:46:24 | Microwatch

• Microsoft promises to open Outlook’s PST file format

0:49:34 | Interview

We interview Alan “popey” Pope of the Ubuntu UK Podcast about the new Ubuntu Karmic, OggCamp, his involvement in the Ubuntu Community Council and why he prefers Ubuntu Satanic Edition.

Beers of the Interview: Popey — Rosey Nosey, Fab — Bishops Finger (thanks @lucy)

Popey also mentioned this link: BBC News: Ubuntu readies the Karmic Koala

• Tip: To fix the annoying system beep that turned up all over Karmic, follow this guide

1:29:24 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Andrew S., Jonathan K., Roger S. and David M.
• Forums: The OggCamp thread
• Audio Comment: Jon Spriggs on OggCamp

• We also had nice emails about OggCamp from Robert Pinner (of The Linux Emporium), Chris Couvaras and Beeza
• Olivier wrote to us about HADOPI being voted through
• Randal Schwartz mails us about “What’s GNU/GNU?”
• Kevin Daire tells us about The Dark Mod
• thebinaryblob wrote and told us about OGRE, an open source game engine apparently being used by a lot of commercial products
• Rich Brown suggests a possible episode title for us: There’s an Apt-get for That
• More emails this week from Cult, Andreas Marschke, Herb Stein, Gordon, John47, Joe Linux, Patrick Dailey, Pete, Ivan Beveridge, Scott Pashley, David Synck, Nathan, Brian Hunt, David Purser, Pete Cannon and Dean Thomson

• Did HP kill their Linux netbook offerings? — we’ll have to keep an eye on that…
• CeBIT calling for F/OSS projects for free exhibition space in 2010

Song: Balrog Boogie by Diablo Swing Orchestra from the album The Butcher’s Ballroom

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-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.