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On this episode: Intrepid Ibex beta review, a bag of tips and a mountain of email.

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0:02:07 Introduction

• Jono and his Jägerbombs
• Severed Fifth released Denied By Reign on October 21

0:09:18 Review

Ubuntu Intrepid beta first impressions:

Pros

• Hasn’t fried Fab’s Ethernet card (yet)
• Nice default artwork — Human New theme not default yet, though
• Nice “iTunes-like” disk space overview in installer
• Wifi/Bluetooth buttons now work on XPS m1330
• Much needed improvements and bug fixes to gvfs
• Much faster boot, frightingly quick shutdown
• Much better media unmounting
• Pretty stable for a beta
• Amazing number of packages worked on and updated every day
• System feels very snappy overall
• New GIMP 2.6 is now in Intrepid!

Cons

• When the hell will we have compizconfig by default?
• Auto-login checkbox in installer could be sonsidered unsecure
• Still pretty much unusable map in installer
• Tabs in Nautilus — but you gotta now that the feature is there (or be more intelligent than Fab)
• Flash is still a mess (not Ubuntu’s fault)
• Pulseaudio still flakey, control packages not installed by default

Verdict: Very stable and usable for a beta, a lot of incremental improvements — it’s not crap!

0:31:58 Tips

• The (unofficial) Dust theme for Ubuntu
• Get WoW to play nice with pulseaudio: Switch to OSS and run the launcher with the padsp prefix
• SATA-to-USB hard drive cradles

0:42:16 Listener Feedback

• Frank Bell loves Slackware — fair enough
• GourdCaptain from Ohio tells us his Linux story and asks about getting access to a password protected printer on a Windows Vista machine in Xfce
• Ramsey Cain sent us a screenshot of his results from a Google search for “linux gaming”, top (sponsored) result is microsoft.com/windows — sigh
• Germ aka. Jeremy The Geek educates Fab on PlayOnLinux
• Darrin suggests we need a FAIL! sound effect like the Crap Alert and reccomends the sad trombone
• Leon Vayman gives us some Ekiga tips, Neil Darlow did as well
• Charlie Robinson asks if we stole the Crap Alert sound from Speed Racer
• Dave S. has been playing with live distros and loves Puppy Linux — he also bought a new toaster
• Jason Swenson from the Central Plains in the US thinks Dan and Fab are the Two-Face of Linux
• antiussentiment is really angry about our show
• Oliver Ryde asks about the Acer Aspire One and Linux support of its 3G modem
• Dan Fish tells us about urea and asks why the NHS isn’t using open source solutions
• Ryan Gilley tells us a little bit about Texas and the Old West and says our server is GTT now
• Chris W. gives us a Linux automounting rant
• Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér (mjjzf) gives a few arguments for using Fluxbox and Xfce
• Matteo Mario Doni writes to us about Carlsberg Elephant and his Linux distro plans
• Peter Cannon hates Fab’s music choices
• Kristian Holm from Norway doesn’t get why so many people think Windows is free — we sympathise
• Nick loves BackupPC
• Ben Hellyer has the impression we are bitter about Google’s Android
• Anders Trobäck tells us that the latest Gnome is actually in Intrepid
• Eric Amundsen can’t believe we’ve been around a year and he hasn’t missed a show, he’s even listening to some more than once and sent us a donation — what a guy!
• John Hickey is a Windows developer, developer, developer and tells us his views about Mono and C#
• Steve Reddit is on the other side of the “Mono Wars”
• Sleepynate also commented on our Mono discussion
• Craig Barnes tells us about DotGNU
• Hanns Otto Lunde sent us a long email with lots of information about Carlsberg including a picture of the entrance to the original brewery which features carved elephants holding up the pilars and explains the name
• Tom Norback tells us where the “cloud computing” term comes from
• Gordon wrote to tell us Apple have patented the application dock in OS X and fears that might spell the end to AWN
• Bookeroo sends us some audio feedback about Gmail and general email spying

Song: Bring It All Back Home from Dan’s music blog Sonic Real Estate

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.