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On this week’s show, we talk about lots of Linux and open source related mobile phone news, Gobuntu, Songbird and lots of other stuff. Featuring patent-pending CrapALERT™-technology.

Introduction and Housekeeping (01:09)

• Dan says hello to the guys from the Chester LUG
• Bill Gates last day at M$ — good riddance!
• LugRadio Live 2008 — hope we’ll see you there!
• Jamie Bennett told us about the Entertainer Project, check it out
• Tea of the Week: Sainsbury’s green tea with lemon
• Fab’s MacBreak Weekly rant

Releases and News Stories (11:43)

• linuX-gamers Live DVD 0.9.3
• eAR OS 1.10 — background story on eAR OS at Linux.com
• Molinux 4.0
• CentOS 5.2
• sidux 2008-02
• Arch Linux 2008.06
• GoblinX 2.7 “Mini”
• Myah OS 3.0 “Dragon”
• Pardus Linux 2008<br/><br/>
• OpenMoko has started shipping the completely open Freerunner mobile phone
• Nokia buys Symbian and promises to “open source” the Symbian OS
• The LiPS (Linux Phone Standards Forum) and LiMo (Linux Mobile Foundation) consolidate into huge Consortium Of Doom™
• Jono announces that Gobuntu will become an installation option in Ubuntu
• Reddit open sources their source

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (40:21)

• Tip of the Week: Songbird 0.6 — a “mouser” as Dan says: part media player, part browser (Ubuntu/Debian users can get it from getdeb.net)
• Dann Washko from <acronTLLTS enlightens us on chameleons
• Nido Media reminds us that some people might have use for 64 bit computing, he also brags a bit about his UltraSPARC 5 station
• Ralph Z tells about tea with milk and his videocasts about web development based on Ubuntu at TheOrangeIT.org
• Dan mentions Popey and the Ubuntu UK podcast
• Drew Fitzsimmons tells us that he likes the show and how he listens to it, he also corrects us on Volts and Amps
• David Sterry aka. weex tells us about a secret project which we will announce when it’s ready
• Shaun Mallette aka. “The Rock Star” says he likes our show notes and documentation
• Christian Farrow found us through our Open Source City coverage and really enjoys the podcast, he also pings us about TrueCrypt

• We shortly discuss Mark Shuttleworth’s article about responsibility of distributions
• Please check out and use del.icio.us/linuxoutlaws — if you want to send us stories, tag them with for:linuxoutlaws
• Rest in peace George Carlin, you’ll be missed

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Song: Wreck It by Munkeez Strikin Matchiz (Chuck D & Bo Diddley)

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-NC-SA 3.0 license.