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This week on the show: Banshee becomes Ubuntu’s default music player, more Unity discussions, is Microsoft dropping Silverlight?, a VLC developer being censored by peers as he tries to defend the GPL and much more…

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0:01:27 Introduction

• Apparently Fab was wrong and the Turkish population of Berlin is bigger than that of Duisburg…
• Check out the new 20lb Sounds site
• Fab talks about Doctor Mo’s “Genetic” wallpaper and this cool Game of Life one
• Wikipedia article on Conway’s Game of Life
• Somebody build a huge Fedora logo on our Minecraft server
• We are number 3 in the Technology section at PodcastAlley
• Booze of the Week: Fab just got back from a tasting trip to his favourite vineyard and is having red wine

0:15:55 Releases, Security & News

• Finnix 100
• MeeGo 1.1
• DragonFly BSD 2.8
• OpenBSD 4.8
• Security releases: Firefox 3.6.12/3.5.15 & Thunderbird 3.1.6/3.0.10
• monotone 0.99
• Midori 0.2.9
• Asterisk 1.8.0

• Firefox zero-day vulnerability
• Firesheep
• Twelve year old spots major Firefox security bug and bags $3,000 bounty

• Gnome project receives $15,000 for accessibility work
• Banshee gets new UI for podcasts and will become Ubuntu 11.04 default music player
• Oracle goes in hard on Java suit against Google
• Launchpad trademark in the U.S. — thanks to Ricardo Lameiro (@rlameiro) for digging this up
• More on Unity: article by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, statement by Jono Bacon, Simon Phipps on Unity copyright assignment to Canonical

1:00:51 Microwatch

• Is Microsoft dropping Silverlight?
• Russia drops Windows as their national OS

1:08:56 Crapplewatch

• Apple attacking Motorola’s Droid with another patent lawsuit
• VLC Developer censored for enforcing GPL against Apple

1:14:16 Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Evgeny Kuznetsov, Balthazar, Alison Chaiken, Benjamin Dumke and all flattr-ers!

• James Hugman defends Comic Sans use in schools and Fab disagrees with him
• David Yang wrote to tell us that Sintel and Blender were featured on the cover of issue 135 of the monthly magazine 3D World
• Torstein Adolf Wintersethsays that in 2007, the Ig-Nobel prize in literature was given to a trio of researchers for determining that rats sometimes can’t distinguish between recordings of Japanese and Dutch played backwards — this having to do with some language comments of ours in a previous episode
  -Damian Kelly sent us a message saying that a line in the Beastie Boys song Paul Revere made him think of Fab
• Alison Chaiken recommends googlecl, Xournal and parcellite
• Scott Lavender, the Ubuntu Studio project lead, emails us a lot of information about the project — you can read up on some of the stuff going on over there here and here
• Stephen Michael Kellat wrote to us about a podcast done by the Ubuntu Ohio group called The Burning Circle
• Mark P. says Canonical is currently revamping Unity and that the first release should be out on November 25
• And we had other emails this week from Georg Sauthoff, Brian Gordon, Mark Law, Christopher, Badry Darkoush, Andrew Antle, Tarnus, Matt Read and Ray Woods

• Events: OpenRheinRuhr, November 13 - 14 in Oberhausen, Germany / Linux.conf.au, January 24 - 29, 2011 in Brisbane, Australia / Mid-America GNU/Linux Networkers Conference, May 6 - 7 2011 in St. Louis, MO

Song: Jimmy Carter by 20lb Sounds

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.