Linux Outlaws 152 - I Shot the Sheriff
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MP3 - 1 hour 34 minutes 43 seconds, 43.4 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.
In this show: A metric buttload of Google news (aka. This Week in Google Outlaws), software patents now legal in Germany, Fab rants on the fact that people complain about Google “spying on WiFi” and much more…
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0:01:12 Introduction
- Dan co-hosted FLOSS Weekly with Randal Schwartz on Wednesday for their Episode 121 interviewing JonathanD from Freenode
- Steam is definitely coming to Linux, a beta has started already
- MyTracks for Android now open source — Yay!
- Beverage of the Week: Dan has Tick Tock Original Rooibos Tea (sent to him by James Tait) while Fab is drinking Spätburgunder Blanc de Noir from Weingut Hof
0:09:22 Releases & News
- Arch Linux 2010.05
- Linux Mint 9
- OpenBSD 4.7
- Scientific Linux 5.5
- SystemRescueCd 1.5.4
- Django 1.2
- Xfce 4.6.2
- SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 service pack 1
- VirtualBox 3.2
- MySQL Community Server 5.1.47 & 5.0.91
- Android 2.2 “Froyo” — Fab has been testing it on the Nexus
- Google open sources VP8, starts “WebM” project — in-depth technical analysis of VP8
- FSF approves WebM
- Google TV
- Google offers Web designers hosted, open-source Web fonts
- Google Storage for Developers takes on Amazon S3
- Google faces probes over WiFi data collection
- German high court declares all software potentially patentable, more in German
- Swedish Pirate Party hosting Pirate Bay in political gesture
- HP will ditch Win7 for WebOS in their Slate tablet, confirmed
- Bids for Novell expected soon
- MonoDroid announced — is this Plan B after MonoTouch is in trouble?
1:01:34 Microwatch
1:09:00 Jub-Jub
- Software Tip: BleachBit, a tool to clean all kinds of history and unwanted remnants from your Linux system
1:10:37 Feedback
- Donations: Thanks to Daniel Brinkers and Simon Vass!
- Forums: YaMatt has compiled some awesome statistics of the last 150 LO episodes, more discussion on the forums
- Serial donor Ryan Kohler wrote a really nice email
- Tim LaFontaine got himself a Barnes & Noble Nook eBook reader but wanted a nice tool to convert books and upload them and found Calibre
- We have some very cool audio feedback from Aussie St3v3
- We received a ton of OggCamp emails including from Jake Roberts, Tony Webster and Nigel Verity
- Matteo Mario Doni writes to tell us about an Android app he’s been involved with: My Bus Edinburgh
- Simon Vass from Uganda brings us the latest Ugandan LUG news: on June 18, the Mbarara Uganda LUG will be meeting at the Mbarara University of Science and Technology — more info
- Christopher wrote to tell us that Qt Community Manager Knut Yrvin has been on Norwegian TV in a talent show
- Other emails this week from Justin, John47, John Scheuvront (who sent us beer for OggCamp), Markatto, Moriarty, Peter Brown, Eric Kilgore (aka. Igor948), Chris Tevyaw, Brewster, Rex Djere, FiftyOneFifty, B1ackcr0w …..again!, Tony “Hendo” Henderson, Andreas Marschke, Whym, Gareins and Lucas Nicolaus
- Events: Hull LUG Monthly Meeting on Tuesday, June 1 (8pm) at the Old Grey Mare pub
Song: Dead Cowboy from the Sundance Kids
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.
