Linux Outlaws 159 - The Beginning of the Conversation
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This week on the show: OpenSolaris is in trouble, Droid X self-destructs if you try to flash it, OpenStack is announced, a discussion about Zeitgeist and Gnome as an upstream, more Antennagate and the big Thesis / WordPress GPL debate.
If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode.
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0:01:29 Introduction
- Fab was kayaking on the Rhine over the weekend

- Erratum: The Swedish Pirate Party is not currently in the Swedish parliament
- Shot of Jaq is dead
- Get your wallpaper in Fedora 14!
- Maybe ACTA wasn’t that transparent after all…
- Firefox to get pinning for web apps and Chrome gets “WebApp” support as well
- Frogatto, an old school, cross-platform, open source jump-n-run game — recommended to us by Cyber Killer
- Security Alert: Millions of routers vulnerable to new version of old attack — including Linksys’ WRT54G(L)
- Beer of the Week: Franziskaner Weissbier Kristallklar
0:18:49 Releases & News
- Zencafe GNU/Linux 2.2
- T2 SDE 8.0
- openSUSE 11.3
- Jolicloud 1.0
- Wine 1.2
- Banshee now has a full Amazon MP3 Store plugin
- OpenStack announced
- Google will stop selling the Nexus One to consumers
- Top Solaris developer flees Oracle and the OpenSolaris Governing Board threatens to dissolve — more from The H on this
- The Open Hardware Definition
- Droid X self-destructs if you touch the bootloader but at least Motorola admits it
- The Thesis/WordPress debate about themes and if they should be GPLed (SFLC study on this) — #thesiswp on Twitter
0:51:36 Microwatch
- Steve Jobs denies antenna problems, “we don’t think we have a problem”
- Engineer warned Jobs of potential iPhone 4 antenna issues before release
- RIM, HTC and Nokia want no part of Apple’s self-made debacle
1:00:00 Discussion Point

- We talk a bit about the fact that a Zeitgeist dev was claiming that Ubuntu is now their upstream on the Ubuntu UK Podcast and that this was a misunderstanding — some background from the devs
1:06:32 Feedback
- Donations: Thanks to Roger Fletcher, Durand D’souza, Edward Dewhurst and Ron McLeod
- Forums: There’s a new sheriff in town! — NYBill, the gun monkey, is laying down the law now
- We have some audio feedback from Jason Bowles (aka. Malkor the Techie) who gives an alternative opinion on three strikes laws
- Whym sent us an email supporting our Apple bashing and an awesome picture that his little brother did in the GIMP:

- Matthew Phillips works on a distro called GnackTrack which is a penetration testing distro for Gnome fans and he will be demonstrating it at DEF CON 18
- (Fidel?) Castro sends us a possible solution to our CRAP acronym
- Andre Hugo send us a link to this cool comic from The Oatmeal about life as an Apple fanboy
- Ryan Mc clarifies Debian repos and rolling releases for us
- Other emails this week from Justin, Paul W.B., Jamesh, Rob Potter, Joni and CPrompt
- Event: Barcamp Chicago, August 21 & 22 — send in by csgeek
- Simon Vass emailed us again about Uganda LUG
Song: Kickback by Severed Fifth from the album Denied by Reign
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.

