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This week on the show: Fab reviews Fedora 10, the X-Men use Ubuntu, Microsoft will make your SQL data explode and much more…

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0:00:58 Introduction

• The John Wayne clip was send to us by Matt Hampton
• Correction: Slackware 12 ships with Apache 2 (thanks to Dave from Indiana for the email)
• Check out this IR power-on module for PCs — might be what Scott from Cape Town wanted for his Mythbox (thanks to Markus Golser)
• The word “meh” was included into the Collins dictionary
• Beer of the Week is a cigar

0:10:07 Open Source Releases

• Yellow Dog Linux 6.1
• PC/OS 2009
• SME Server 7.4
• Linux From Scratch 6.4
• Greenie Linux 4I
• Fedora 10
• Caos Linux NSA 1.0
• Poseidon Linux 3.1
• CrunchBang Linux 8.10.01

0:19:30 News Stories

• You will soon to be able to buy the Neo Freerunner with Android pre-installed — so Android is open, even if the G1 hardware is not
• SCO loses yet again!
• The second Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase is accepting submissions right now
• Ubuntu Hall Of Fame — is promoting “rockstars” in the community a good idea?
• Fedora Claims it’s the leader in Linux
• The X-Men use Ubuntu!?

0:42:30 Microwatch

• MS “Kojax” is Ajax for Java phones — includes free lollipop with every phone
• Microsoft ad says your data will explode if you use SQL Server 2008:

0:45:12 Review

• Fab reviews Fedora 10

1:01:15 Tip of the Week

• Fab: Creative Commons licensed ESO space photos make excellent wallpapers
• Dan: Avconvert Nautilus Script will convert audio/video/image formats from a right-click menu in Nautilus

1:05:15 Listener Feedback

Forums

• linea posted a cool 3D model of an Outlaw Tux complete with hat and all
• Great thread on british comedies that NYbill started
• Thread discussing the new Star Trek movie, including cameos of Dan as Kirk and Fab as Spock thanks to our resident GIMPmeister jezra

Email

• Kevin has been using Linux since the end of 2005 and says that Compiz Fusion is much more than useless eye-candy, especially if you are visually impaired
• Jonathan says Microsoft cares nothing about blind people and accessibilty and thinks Gnome’s Orca beats anything on Windows — apparently it’s available from the moment you put the CD in the drive
• Simon Garfunkel alsoI finds the Linux desktop far more user friendly than Windows and also finds Compiz Fusion a real boon
• Mats Taraldsvik, as a norwegian, loves Opera Mini
• Cam DeCoster just wrote to tell us to have a look at the new Neuros device

• Jonathan Groll sent us a quick tip for people having trouble with any podcast files with those random Libsyn characters attached — to fix them all in one shot, make sure you have mmv installed and type:

    mmv "*mp3*" "#1mp3"
  

• Josh Harwood sent a mail asking how he can find LUGs in the UK: lug.org.uk

• Thomas Perl wrote to say he found another Ubuntu logo rip off
• Rod Johnson sent us some information about Thomas Friedman after our mention last week
• Also thanks to Tim LaFontaine, Frank Bell, Daz Fuller and Reine for their emails

Song: Nowhere Town by Noel Watson

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.