Linux Outlaws 162 - Neckbeards Unite!
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MP3 - 1 hour 35 minutes 12 seconds, 43.6 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.
This week on the show: The Google/Verizon deal, the SFLC defends the GPL again, Canonical tracking Ubuntu installations, Google kills Wave, the Illumos Project revealed and of course lots of neckbeard action.
If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode.
Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.
0:01:28 Introduction
- Fab wants something like this
- Apple pulls rival antenna videos from their site
- CouchDB 1.0.0 data loss bug
- Dan send the N900 back

- Read Bradley Kuhn’s excellent GUADEC recap
- Jono has an M-Audio Fast Track Pro apparently, the problem was that S/PDIF input isn’t working reliably in Linux
- The Neckbeard Controversy — Alistair Munro (B1ackr0w) sends us a picture of his neckbeard, especially for the occasion
- Check out #neckbeard on identi.ca
- Nexus One now officially available as a dev phone
- Rant-o’Fab
- Beer of the Week: Peters Kölsch
0:19:13 Releases & News
- MeeGo for IVI 1.0
- Parted Magic 5.2

- Johan dented a picture of his 50 days old son listening to the live show
- Elastix 2.0
- eBox Platform 1.5-1
- KDE 4.5
- GNOME 2.31.6 — support them by buying music in Banshee
- Astrid 3.0, which caused a bit of a ruckus
- Development: SparkleShare 0.2 Alpha 1
- Debian Squeeze now in freeze
- U.S. wants crackdown on WikiLeaks

- Google and Verizon unveil controversial net neutrality deal
- Eben Moglen’s speech on the state of Free Software — “They will never beat us. We will always be here.”
- SFLC wins default judgement against Westinghouse in GPL enforcement case
- Canonical begins tracking Ubuntu installations
- Google kills Wave, Novell wants to plough on alone with Pulse
- Motorola is axing MOTOBLUR
- Illumos revealed — more info
- Zonker says: “Just let OpenSolaris die”
- Integrating Zeitgeist into Gnome, vote for the apps you want supported
0:56:53 Microwatch
- UK hoster Fasthosts is running Linux on Hyper-V — we say rather go with Bitfolk, they sponsored OggCamp and name their servers after beer brands!
- Microsoft basically kills IronRuby
1:02:25 Crapplewatch
- App Store finally gets “try before you buy” ages after the Android Market (which had this from launch onwards)
1:04:20 Android Game Tip
- Heavy Gunner 3D ($4.99), a very cool multitouch shooter game

1:08:43 Feedback
- Donations: Thanks to Michael Leicht, Chris Tevyaw and Joe Littlejohn
- Identi.ca: @sorin7486 sends us an interesting blog post on OpenGL vs. Direct3D
- Forums: kounryusui tells us what “karoshi” means in Japanese
- Doug Whitfield wrote after our recent conversation to say there actually isn’t a Chinese translation of the GPL
- Amir Pakdel sends us a link to a story about Microsoft and the NHS — the official Microsoft page on this
- Nuno Justo likes to listen in the car, but because of that always forgets to write
- Other emails this week from Andreas Marschke, Reine & Poutou, Nigel Verity and PsykoNerdriak
- Fab finally updated the Planet
- We will have a short hiatus at the beginning of September as Fab is on holiday then
- We are also working on upgrading the sound of the show
- Events: OSSBarcamp, U-Cubed
Song: The Duke from the album Alphatier by The Jimmy Hofer Band
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.

