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Linux Outlaws 87 - Broadcasting Uranus

MP3 - 1 hour 31 minutes 11 seconds, 41.9 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week: Dan talks about Arch some more, Fab gives you tips on remastering Ubuntu and we also have your usual Linux news, Microsoft-bashing and dirty in-jokes.

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0:00:59 Introduction

0:14:13 Open Source Releases

0:22:40 News Stories

Check out the Linux Planet blog and podcast aggregator for lots of interesting Linux content!

0:41:19 Microwatch

0:51:04 In-Depth Discussions

Tip of the Week: Guake, a Quake-like drop-down terminal for Gnome

1:11:22 Listener Feedback

  • Donations: thanks to Ger Appeldorn, Aaron C. and Christopher P.
  • Forums: Thread on users remembering the first time they used Linux<br/><br/>
  • Morten J. J. Z. F. wrote to us about the Open Clip Art project and also says he was recently referred to as “FuckingLongName” on a mailing list.
  • Bob Konior tells us his opinion on the Microsoft/TomTom settlement
  • Nick Nobody says he had a similar problem to Fab with graphics cards but his was an Nvidia, replacing the capacitors around the GPU fixed it for him.
  • Michael wrote to us about a Creative Commons radio station he’s trying to start and tells us they’re always looking for content. If you got music, radio plays or anything else under a CC license, email michael@mercurybroadcasting.com if you’d like to be involved.
  • Richard Querin sent us this amazing video of him listening to Linux Outlaws out loud in his car while driving past the local Microsoft HQ, he also says we ought to interview “Big” Dave Yates
  • Other emails this week from Michel Van Der List, Alex Harrington, Kevan Vautier, Buzzy, Darrell Whitehead from the Wirral, Mark Hyde, Sergei Van Hardveld, Olle Jonsson, Boryslav Larin and Chris Fikes

Also, CafeNinja wrote a really nice review of our podcast.

Song: Broken Stereo by Sean Fournier from his album Oh My

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.