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In this chock-full holiday episode: Lots of WikiLeaks updates, OpenBSD backdoored by the FBI, news on Novell’s patent sale, Matt Asay leaves Canonical, Fedora Design Team trouble, some Microsoft and Oracle watch and much more…

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0:01:14 Introduction

• Pictures from Fab’s play
• Kindle for Android updated with integrated web store, can be installed on SD card
• Nook Color will get Froyo update
• Support Gnome by shopping at Amazon this Christmas
• Beer of the Week: Březňák

0:09:19 Releases, Security & News

• Openwall GNU/*/Linux 3.0
• Jolicloud 1.1
• Vinux 3.1
• Parsix GNU/Linux 3.6r1
• Asturix 3
• Development Release: CrunchBang Linux 10 R20101205
• Android Market update
• Google Maps 5.0 for Android
• PacketFence 2.0
• Wine 1.3.9
• Banshee 1.9.1
• Development Release: LibreOffice RC1

• New Linux kernel exploit
• Was OpenBSD’s IPSEC backdoored by the FBI?, Schneier says it’s unlikely

• Sweden fights Assange bail as Michael Moore offers to host WikiLeaks
• Assange becomes Readers’ Choice for TIME’s Person of the Year
• Schneier on WikiLeaks
• OpenLeaks to mimic WikiLeaks “minus the political agenda”
• Where Novell’s patents went
• Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” open sourced
• Humble Indy Bundle 2
• Adobe using GetSatisfaction to figure out if people want CS on Linux
• KOffice becomes Calligra — basically a fork…
• Matt Asay is leaving Canonical
• Google starts pilot program for ChromeOS, Stallman warns
• Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee
• The Fedora Design team won’t create the F15 wallpaper

1:32:25 Microwatch

• Paul Allen’s patent infringement lawsuit dismissed
• Microsoft isn’t saying how many Win7 phones have been sold
• Worst M$ product naming in a while
• Larry Watch: Oracle releases Cloud Office

1:39:20 Feedback

• Donations: Thanks a lot to Mark Gardner and the many people who flattr’d us!

• Noble Baker wtites from Costa Rica and tells us about their amazingly outlaw postcode system down there
• Peter Brown sent us a picture of Steve Balmer’s presentation setup, apparently he uses a Mac
• JonTheNiceGuy says he loves the game Air Control Lite on his Android phone and recommends it, also check out Jon’s new project CCHits.net, it’s a work in progress but a great concept
• Ben Arnold asks for help as SliTaz needs new hosting come next year
• Stephen Lilley wonders about Fab’s opinion on the stories of the Kindle sending data back to Amazon even with the wireless turned off — Fab’s Goodreads profile
• We had other emails fromJeremy Pope, Xavier Sythe, Jonas Gorauskas, Scott Morton, @technicalrevolution sent the link he forgot last time, Bob Beliveau, Robin, x1101, csgeek, Jake, Charlie Robinson, Scott L., Chris Keller, Randy and Mike C.

• F-Droid, a FaiF app store
• Have a very Merry Christmas (or whatever you celebrate)!

Song: If You Want The Rainbow from the soundtrack to the film Sita Sings The Blues

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.