Linux Outlaws 183 - Darkfield Lasers (The Year 2010 in Review)
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In the longest Linux Outlaws episode ever (by far!), Dan, Fab and guest-host Ade Bradshaw discuss Linux and open source in the year 2010 and celebrate the move to the new year with loads of beer.
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0:01:57 Introduction
- Once again on the show as guest-host: “Der Brigadier” Ade Bradshaw
- We talk about Christmas and our presents, sadly Ade has no Amazon wishlist
- We discuss the general Linux Outlaws podcast statistics: more than 1,183,447 downloads in total from Libsyn, which comes out at between 50,000 and 60,000 downloads a month these days
- Beers for this show: Grafenwalder Premium Pils, Purity Ales Pure Ubu, Brakspear Oxford Gold, St. Peter’s Organic Ale and Diebels Alt
- We also mention Jezra’s bacon cider
0:20:30 January
- Rod C. Johnson send us each a cool Christmas parcel, Nude scanners, EtherPad open sourced
- Nexus One is released, Nat Friedman & Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier left Novell, we reviewed the Motorola Milestone
- Google hires Ted Ts’o
- EU Commission approves Oracle-Sun deal — Monty explodes
0:34:57 February
- Jon Tomaszewski from Red Hat send Fab a red fedora, Apple releases the iPad, Ubuntu switches to Yahoo for search
- Symbian is finally open sourced, Matt Asay becomes Canonical COO, IE flaw turns PCs into public file servers
- Maemo and Moblin fuse to become MeeGo, Google launches Buzz, Microsoft first talks about Windows 7 Phone Series
- Fab mentions H.P. Lovecraft’s Mi-go race
- Ubuntu launches music store
0:57:13 March
- Canada wins olympic gold in hockey, StatusNet launches enterprise support, Linux business finally breaks even for Novell, Amazon signs patent deal with M$
- Ubuntu rebrands to aubergine and baby-poo orange
- Ubuntu moves the buttons
- The Digital Economy Bill happens in the UK, Apple sues HTC
- SCO finally dies and Ade joins Red Hat
1:12:41 April
- The PS3 loses the ability to run Linux
- We interview Philip Newborough aka. Corenominal
- Ubuntu switches search back to Google
- The big ash cloud engulf Europe, Google opens the VP8 codec which later becomes WebM
1:19:33 May
- Google stops selling the Nexus One online, Julian Assange’s troubles start, HP buys Palm, First Humble Indie Bundle is a huge success, Mandriva gets in trouble, Ubuntu is now “light” and announces Unity
- Fedora 13 is released, Fab does the release
- Dan starts co-hosting FLOSS Weekly on the TWiT Network, Novell offers itself for sale
1:34:27 June
- We start using Flattr, which just got launched, Fab quits Facebook, Lennart Poettering announces systemd, Microsoft sponsors Linux Tag
- We review the Nexus One
- Google drops Windows company-wide, Fab reviews MeeGo
- The World Cup engulfs us and delays the podcast a bit, Ubuntu removes aptitude, Ade goes to his 2nd Linux Tag and Fab inteviews him about it
1:44:03 July
- A certain goal in the World Cup nearly ends the podcast for good, Android Froyo is released, The Bilski decision finally happens, so does the Apple iPhone 4 antennagate
- Monty still pissed about Oracle/Sun merger
- Shot of Jaq stops, Google stops selling the Nexus One, The big WordPress theme licensing debate starts because of the Thesis theme and the Zeitgeist devs get disillusioned with Gnome and turn to Ubuntu
1:49:47 August
- Fab went to GUADEC and interviewed a load of people
- The Gnome Census debate: Canonical hardly contributes, The Illumos Project is born, Oracle sues Google over Java, Jos Poortvliet becomes OpenSUSE community manager, The EFF wins DMCA exceptions for fair use in court and jailbreaking become legal in US, Dan has to send his N900 back and replaces it with an HTC Desire
- Ade’s link from Gigaom about the Sun/Oracle Java lawsuit
- OMG Ubuntu embarasses themselves and causes the neckbeard debate, SFLC wins default judgement against Westinghouse in GPL enforcement case, Google kills Wave, Motorola kills MOTOBLUR
- We interview Jonathan Nadeau — a lot of people really liked this show
- OpenSolaris gets killed by Oracle, mass exodus of F/OSS developers from Oracle
- Nexus One sells out as dev phone and it disappears for good, PS3 gets jailbroken to run Linux, Intel buys McAfee
- Paul Allen sues the whole world (except Microsoft)
2:13:43 September
2:19:52 October
- Sintel gets released, Every major mobile phone maker goes to Android leaving only Nokia using Symbian
- Brigadier von Bradshaw joins us as the first ever LO guest host, The FSF turns 25
- The Software Freedom Law Show becomes Free as in Freedom, The main MeeGo dude resigns and Microsoft launches Windows 7 Phone Series Whatever
- We interview Jezra — another really popular show this year
- Fab gets hooked on Minecrack, Oracle exerts pressure on LibreOffice and OOo council members resign
- Apple violates Canonical’s Launchpad trademark and Canonical does nothing, Ubuntu moves to Unity by default, Symbian Foundation starts shutting down
2:28:42 November
- Firesheep happens
- Fab reviews the Kindle 3
- Ubuntu announces plans to move to Wayland, FSFLA says the kernel is “open core”, Fedora 14 is out
- Fab reviews Fallout New Vegas
- AMD joins MeeGo, Fedora rejects SQLninja
- Novell announces sale gets bought by Attachmate
2:36:18 December
- The WikiLeaks uproar breaks out and Assange is almost man of the year, Google Wave becomes Apache project
- Fab goes on stage for a Shakespeare play, OpenBSD ipsec backdoor, KOffice becomes Calligra, Matt Asay leaves Canonical, First Chromium OS preview notebooks shipped, RMS blasts ChromiumOS as “careless computing”, Fedora Design Team wallpaper debate
- RHEL6 is released
2:47:40 Final Discussion
- We discuss the biggest themes of the year for us and in best LugRadio tradition make some predictions for 2011
- Have a nice celebration and see you all in the new year!
Song: El Bubblino by 20lb Sounds from their Bubblino EP
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.

