Linux Outlaws 161 - The Operating System is Called Windows
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This week, we discuss the big Gnome Census debate, other news from GUADEC 2010, Lockheed Martin’s first open source project and what it does, Chrome Canary, DMCA exemptions and much more…
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0:01:22 Introduction
- Erratum: Dell confusion again, apparently they are not dropping Ubuntu after all
- You can now test a first very alpha .apk of Pony Express
- Owen Taylor mentioned our Gnome Shell interview
- systemd now default in Fedora 14 and they switched to git for their source management
- Android now largest smartphone platform in U.S.
- Android 2.2 coming to the Droid and the Desire
- First news on the “Illumos Project”
- Booze of the Week: Bulleit Bourbon for Fab, Foster’s for Dan
0:16:30 Releases & News
- Clonezilla Live 1.2.5-35
- Linux Mint 9 “KDE”
- GhostBSD 1.5
- Karoshi 7.0
- Linux 2.6.35
- OpenGL 4.1
- The Gnome Census debate: Dave Neary’s report, Greg DeKoenigsberg blogs, Shuttleworth blogs and Jono as well
- Shuttleworth apologises for sexist comments
- Gnome 3.0 release delayed
- Gnome Shell mockups
- Proposal to make Gnome a “fully fledged OS”
- Next GUADEC, Desktop Summit scheduled for August 2011 in Berlin
- Chrome Canary
- Lockheed Martin open sources their first project
- Jos Poortvliet named openSuse Community Manager
- Reddit interviews Richard Stallman
- Oracle shuts down Postgres test servers
0:55:19 Microwatch
1:00:17 Crapplewatch
- iPad overheating issues
- iOS 4 performance problems
- The EFF beats Apple, wins three DMCA exemptions
- Also, the DMCA got a little weaker
1:07:23 Feedback
- Donations: Thanks to Jonus, Mark Gardner, David Sewell-Carson, Robert Graffham, Kimo Lee (KimTjik Faste) and everyone who flattr’d us
- Smegzor, Andy Suarez and Paul Levold wrote to tell us about the BSOD on the oil rig in the Gulf — ARE YOU READING THIS, YOU FUCKERS??? ;)
- Lucas Nicolaus wrote to tell us he wants to develop a WebOS version of Pony Express when the next school year comes around — very cool!
- **Dylan Coakley* likes Franziskaner Weissbier too
- Michael Andrews says companies don’t want other companies to sue when something goes wrong, he says they basically want support from them for their in-house software
- Matt Holder send us some ideas for a Linux Outlaws desktop application
- We had other emails this week from Julian Aloofi, Brad Alexander, Malkor the Techie, Reverend Willie, Michael Dexter, Andreas, Chris Tevyaw, Lawal, Jonathan Nadeau, Alison Chaiken, Simon Vass, Dave Carson, Remy van Elst, Tim LaFontaine and Upchuck
- Breaking News: Bradley Kuhn dents from DebConf 10 about Canonical dropping Network Manager on their Unity netbook version of Ubuntu and also replacing other bits of Gnome
Song: It’s A Good Little Thing by Blind Willie McTell
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