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In the final show for the year and the decade, Dan and Fab look back at 2009 and the major news stories of the year. We also try to decide what this year was all about. There’s even some special funny content as a little bonus.

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In this special episode we discuss the highlights and downsides of the Year 2009 from the perspective of the Linux Outlaws. There are also some mysterious surprises interspersed throughout the show…

0:02:47 | January

• Russians announce move away from Windows

0:04:58 | February

• Monty leaves Sun
• Debian Lenny released on Valentines Day

0:11:15 | March

• Red Hat dumps Xen for KVM
• Microsoft sues TomTom over FAT patents

0:19:34 | April

• Pirate Bay admins convicted
• Oracle buys Sun

0:24:45 | May

• The German government passes Internet Censorship Law and the EU extends copyright to 70 years
• Intel is hit with a $1.45 billion fine
• Wikipedia adopts CC-BY-SA as co-license with 75% in favour
• Cisco and FSF settle GPL case

0:33:55 | June

• Swedish Pirate Party boards the European Parliament
• We went to Linux Tag in Berlin

0:40:08 | July

• Google unveils Chrome OS plans
• Microsoft puts Mono under their Community Promise
• Launchpad goes open source

0:47:24 | August

• Google open sources Wave protocol
• Alan Cox quits as TTY Maintainer

0:53:05 | September

• Nokia announces the N900 and Motorola also announces Android phones
• Cyanogen Troubles
• Dan went to LinuxCon in Portland

0:58:15 | October

• Red Hat passes Microsoft in stock price
• We did OggCamp!

1:03:54 | November

• KDE founder honoured by German government
• Gnome 3 delayed until late 2010
• GIMP removed from Lucid, Fab explodes
• Fedora 12 let’s non-root users install software

1:07:32 | December

• KDE renames itself
• Google announces their own DNS service

We decide that, in retrospect, 2009 was the year of Linux on mobile phones. Especially Android took off in a huge way this year…

Song: Don’t Know Why by Jamie Rumley from the album Renovations

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.