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Linux Outlaws 194 - Nuclear Chicken

Posted March 3, 2011

MP3 - 1 hour 40 minutes 47 seconds, 46.2 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here.

This week on Linux Outlaws: More on Canonical/Banshee, Red Hat obfuscating their kernel, Freedom Box Foundation funding success, Sony goes completely off the deep end and we give away the first netbook loaded with MeeGo.

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.

0:01:18 Introduction

0:16:59 Releases, Security & News

0:59:12 Microwatch

1:07:53 Android App Tip

Pew Pew, a very fast-paced retro shooter game for Android (free)

1:10:52 MeeGo Competition

The MeeGo netbook picks its winner. Source code for our randomness procedure using bash:
echo $[ 1 + $[ RANDOM % 707 ]]

1:17:02 Feedback

  • Donations: Evgeny Kuznetsov, Wendall Cada and the Flattr’ers

  • Cam DeCoster emailed us about a program he found called disper, it enables quick and easy display switching for Ubuntu Maverick
  • Shelby Justice is new to Linux but bas been doing Joomla sites for years and is looking at hosting a Linux server of their own now and they also thank us for continuing to make your podcasts available in MP3 format
  • Simon Roberts (@technicalevolution) sent us an interesting story about a recent UK copyright judgment which could have implications for the Digital Economy Act
  • Dan Devine writes to tell us about what he thinks is a great Active Directory alternative for Linux based on Samba 4, called Resara Server — he send us this video of the client in action
  • Bruno Bigras wrote to tell us that Amarok will soon support gPodder.net — it’s being worked on in github
  • Beeza sends us a link to Simfy, a Spotify-like music streaming service that only works in Germany and Austria
  • Valent heard our praise of the Crunchbang welcome script and would like to make something similar for Fusion Linux — go here if you want to help with that
  • Marsh installed Meego 1.1 on his own Lenovo S10-3t and agrees with our assessment of it, they are now using Linux Mint
  • Bruce Barr aka. MrGadgets writes in with some real outlaw credentials

Other emails this week by James Lewis aka. Sysadmin Jim, Bob Kovacs, Nils, Dan, Core Hysteria, Chester, Stephen Michael Kellat, Tony Ciak, Paul Dutot, Nathaniel, Wayne Turner (from Texas), Andreas and Andrew Barnett.

Song: Honky Tonk Garito Bar by The Black Beards from their self-titled album

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.