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On the last show for a few weeks: Steam not coming to Linux, new Ubuntu release name announced, Intel buys McAfee, Linux gets Google Voice and Video Chat, Dan’s review of the HTC Desire and much more…

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.

0:01:19 Introduction

• Linux Outlaws will be on hiatus for two or three weeks as Fab is on holiday
• Cool Banshee UI mockup
• Thomas Perl: gPodder running in the MeeGo Handset UX for N900
• The Nexus One is gone again, sells out as dev phone too
• Sony PS3 gets jailbroken to run Linux
• The Crap Alert Android app — cool beyond explanation
• Beer of the Week: Carlsberg Elephant Beer

0:13:32 Releases & News

• Ubuntu 10.04.1
• Nexenta Core Platform 3.0
• Alpine Linux 2.0.0
• Parted Magic 5.3
• Frugalware Linux 1.3
• NetSecL 3.0
• Wine 1.3.1
• Ruby 1.9.2
• VLC 1.1.3
• OpenSSH 5.6

• Linux gets Google Voice and Video Chat
• Intel buys McAfee — WTF of the Week
• Root privileges bug in Linux kernel
• Shuttleworth announces next Ubuntu release name: Natty Narwhal
• Ubuntu drops ia64 and sparc architectures
• The rats are jumping off the sinking open source ship at Oracle
• Acquia releases Drupal Commons open source social software suite for “Enterprise 2.0”
• The FSF ACTA declaration
• Sintel to premiere September 27
• Steam not coming to Linux
• systemd status update from Lennart

0:53:24 Microwatch

• Microsoft’s volume licensing portal is apparently flakey

0:56:11 Crapplewatch

• Apple wants to shame you on Twitter if you tamper with your iOS

0:58:52 Review: HTC Desire

• Dan reviews the HTC Desire we he bought on contract from O2 a few weeks ago
• Verdict: Dan says it’s the best smartphone he has used so far, only downsides are the lack of a hardware keyboard and the somewhat erratic optical trackball

1:14:18 Feedback

• Donations: Only Flattr this week

• Mark Law sent us a recommendation for an Android app he likes called Tasker, it performs tasks based on context such as time, date, location, gestures etc.
• Allan has been listening on and off for about a year and just wants to say thanks and hopes to meet us some day
• Toby also enjoys the show and says it’s helped him get used to Linux which is very cool
• Bradley Tordoff wants us to mention BOINC
• Drake Anubis does the Hack Radio Live podcast and got some feedback that their host interactions “is similar to Linux Outlaws” which he took as a big compliment
• Dave send us some information about the Oracle vs. Android lawsuit
• Eliad tells us about the fact that the Debian Women group has apparently picked up pace again
• We also had an email from psykonerd

• Events: U-Cubed, Saturday, August 28 in Manchester / FOSDEM 2011 will be on February 5 & 6 in Brussels

Song: Natty Bounce by Elephant Man feat. Mancini from the album Street Credibility Vol. 4

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.

MP3 - 58 minutes 39 seconds, 26.9 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

In this special episode we interview blind Linux user Jonathan Nadeau about his company Frostbite Systems that sells blind-optimised computers, his podcast network Frostbite Media and much more…

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.

In this special episode, we interview Jonathan Nadeau, a blind Linux user and owner and proprietor of Frostbite Systems about his business, the podcasts he produces and the general state of accessibility in Linux compared with Windows. Jonathan also explains how he came to Linux, talks about living with disabilities in the US, what he has learned by producing the different podcasts that he does now, how he uses Linux, what he does to further accessibility in Linux applications, the future of Orca, web design and much more. If you are within the US, definitely consider a Frostbox for your next computer purchase and donate to your favourite distro just by buying it!

Links:

• Frostbite Systems — blind optimised Linux computers and much more
• Frostbite Media — home of This Week in Fedora, This Week in Debian, Frostcast and Orcacast
• Frostbite Systems Blog
• Jonathan’s identi.ca accounts: @frostbite, @frostbitesystem, @frostbitemedia
• The Frostbite YouTube channel
• Zen Cart & Übercart for Drupal

Song: We Can Make The World Stop from the album of the same name by Alun Parry

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.

MP3 - 1 hour 25 minutes 42 seconds, 40.7 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week, we discuss the big Gnome Census debate, other news from GUADEC 2010, Lockheed Martin’s first open source project and what it does, Chrome Canary, DMCA exemptions and much more…

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.

0:01:22 Introduction

• Erratum: Dell confusion again, apparently they are not dropping Ubuntu after all
• You can now test a first very alpha .apk of Pony Express
• Owen Taylor mentioned our Gnome Shell interview
• systemd now default in Fedora 14 and they switched to git for their source management
• Android now largest smartphone platform in U.S.
• Android 2.2 coming to the Droid and the Desire
• First news on the “Illumos Project”
• Booze of the Week: Bulleit Bourbon for Fab, Foster’s for Dan

0:16:30 Releases & News

• Clonezilla Live 1.2.5-35
• Linux Mint 9 “KDE”
• GhostBSD 1.5
• Karoshi 7.0
• Linux 2.6.35
• OpenGL 4.1

• The Gnome Census debate: Dave Neary’s report, Greg DeKoenigsberg blogs, Shuttleworth blogs and Jono as well
• Shuttleworth apologises for sexist comments
• Gnome 3.0 release delayed
• Gnome Shell mockups

• Proposal to make Gnome a “fully fledged OS”
• Next GUADEC, Desktop Summit scheduled for August 2011 in Berlin
• Chrome Canary
• Lockheed Martin open sources their first project
• Jos Poortvliet named openSuse Community Manager
• Reddit interviews Richard Stallman
• Oracle shuts down Postgres test servers

0:55:19 Microwatch

• Microsoft still doesn’t get the iPad
• Severed Fifth is powered by Microsoft

1:00:17 Crapplewatch

• iPad overheating issues
• iOS 4 performance problems
• The EFF beats Apple, wins three DMCA exemptions
• Also, the DMCA got a little weaker

1:07:23 Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Jonus, Mark Gardner, David Sewell-Carson, Robert Graffham, Kimo Lee (KimTjik Faste) and everyone who flattr’d us

• Smegzor, Andy Suarez and Paul Levold wrote to tell us about the BSOD on the oil rig in the Gulf — ARE YOU READING THIS, YOU FUCKERS??? ;)
• Lucas Nicolaus wrote to tell us he wants to develop a WebOS version of Pony Express when the next school year comes around — very cool!
• **Dylan Coakley* likes Franziskaner Weissbier too
• Michael Andrews says companies don’t want other companies to sue when something goes wrong, he says they basically want support from them for their in-house software
• Matt Holder send us some ideas for a Linux Outlaws desktop application
• We had other emails this week from Julian Aloofi, Brad Alexander, Malkor the Techie, Reverend Willie, Michael Dexter, Andreas, Chris Tevyaw, Lawal, Jonathan Nadeau, Alison Chaiken, Simon Vass, Dave Carson, Remy van Elst, Tim LaFontaine and Upchuck

• Breaking News: Bradley Kuhn dents from DebConf 10 about Canonical dropping Network Manager on their Unity netbook version of Ubuntu and also replacing other bits of Gnome

Song: It’s A Good Little Thing by Blind Willie McTell

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.

MP3 - 1 hour 35 minutes 26 seconds, 43.7 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week on the show: OpenSolaris is in trouble, Droid X self-destructs if you try to flash it, OpenStack is announced, a discussion about Zeitgeist and Gnome as an upstream, more Antennagate and the big Thesis / WordPress GPL debate.

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.

0:01:29 Introduction

• Fab was kayaking on the Rhine over the weekend
• Erratum: The Swedish Pirate Party is not currently in the Swedish parliament
• Shot of Jaq is dead
• Get your wallpaper in Fedora 14!
• Maybe ACTA wasn’t that transparent after all…
• Firefox to get pinning for web apps and Chrome gets “WebApp” support as well
• Frogatto, an old school, cross-platform, open source jump-n-run game — recommended to us by Cyber Killer
• Security Alert: Millions of routers vulnerable to new version of old attack — including Linksys’ WRT54G(L)
• Beer of the Week: Franziskaner Weissbier Kristallklar

0:18:49 Releases & News

• Zencafe GNU/Linux 2.2
• T2 SDE 8.0
• openSUSE 11.3
• Jolicloud 1.0
• Wine 1.2

• Banshee now has a full Amazon MP3 Store plugin
• OpenStack announced
• Google will stop selling the Nexus One to consumers
• Top Solaris developer flees Oracle and the OpenSolaris Governing Board threatens to dissolve — more from The H on this
• The Open Hardware Definition
• Droid X self-destructs if you touch the bootloader but at least Motorola admits it
• The Thesis/WordPress debate about themes and if they should be GPLed (SFLC study on this) — #thesiswp on Twitter

0:51:36 Microwatch

• Windows XP will never die

0:55:22 Crapple

• Steve Jobs denies antenna problems, “we don’t think we have a problem”
• Engineer warned Jobs of potential iPhone 4 antenna issues before release
• RIM, HTC and Nokia want no part of Apple’s self-made debacle

1:00:00 Discussion Point

• We talk a bit about the fact that a Zeitgeist dev was claiming that Ubuntu is now their upstream on the Ubuntu UK Podcast and that this was a misunderstanding — some background from the devs

1:06:32 Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Roger Fletcher, Durand D’souza, Edward Dewhurst and Ron McLeod
• Forums: There’s a new sheriff in town! — NYBill, the gun monkey, is laying down the law now
• We have some audio feedback from Jason Bowles (aka. Malkor the Techie) who gives an alternative opinion on three strikes laws

• Whym sent us an email supporting our Apple bashing and an awesome picture that his little brother did in the GIMP:

• Matthew Phillips works on a distro called GnackTrack which is a penetration testing distro for Gnome fans and he will be demonstrating it at DEF CON 18
• (Fidel?) Castro sends us a possible solution to our CRAP acronym
• Andre Hugo send us a link to this cool comic from The Oatmeal about life as an Apple fanboy
• Ryan Mc clarifies Debian repos and rolling releases for us
• Other emails this week from Justin, Paul W.B., Jamesh, Rob Potter, Joni and CPrompt

• Event: Barcamp Chicago, August 21 & 22 — send in by csgeek
• Simon Vass emailed us again about Uganda LUG

Song: Kickback by Severed Fifth from the album Denied by Reign

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.

MP3 - 1 hour 49 minutes 0 seconds, 49.9 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

On this episode of Linux Outlaws: A big announcement (kind of), ASCAP declares war on Creative Commons, Bilski comes down, new Fedora project leader, Microsoft kills Kin and Apple drops the ball on the iPhone 4.

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.

0:01:08 Introduction

• We talk about the future of the show (and football)
• AT&T-iPad security breach may be worse than we first thought
• Amazon Kindle app released on Android
• Android 2.2 (Froyo) available for Nexus One and 2.1 (Eclair) available for European Hero users — both are over the air updates
• Chrome overtakes Safari, now holds 3rd place in US browser market
• Jono to stream the second Severed Fifth album recording live
• Beer of the Week: Kempisch Vuur, send to Fab by Johan Vervloet (@johanv)

0:18:12 Releases & News

• MINIX 3.1.7
• SystemRescueCd 1.5.6
• Superb Mini Server 1.5.2
• Peppermint OS One-06172010
• Astaro Security Gateway 8.0
• Development Release: CrunchBang Linux 10 Alpha 2
• Wordpress 3.0
• StatusNet 0.9.3
• FFmpeg 0.6 — codenamed “Works with HTML5”, which is what it does…
• We also talked about FFmpeg getting its own implementation of the Google VP8 codec
• VLC 1.1.0
• PyPy 1.3
• Parrot 2.5.0 “Cheops”
• Firefox 3.6.6
• Thunderbird 3.1
• k3b 2.0
• Development Release: CyanogenMod 6 Alpha 1
• Android 2.2 source code released, Google’s dev blog post

• ASCAP declares war on free culture
• The Bilski decision finally came down: Groklaw, Ars Technica, Bradley Kuhn’s comments, Justice John Paul Stevens on Bilski and SFLS special show on the topic
• Jared Smith is the new Fedora Project leader — he’s @jsmith on identi.ca
• Debian creates the “Derivatives Front Desk”
• Cisco’s Android Tablet
• Google’s big focus for Gingerbread: UI polish
• Nokia changes from Symbian to MeeGo for flagship phones and MeeGo launches its “Handset User Experience”
• Adobe pulls Flash player for 64 bit Linux

1:07:37 Microwatch

• Microsoft kills Kin
• Crapple: Apple’s major FAIL on the iPhone 4 antenna, Steve Jobs says: “Don’t hold it this way” — also: iPhone glass problems, Class-action suit against Apple over iPhone 4, Motorola kicks Apple in the spuds with New York Times ad, Apple now looking for new antenna engineers

1:17:52 Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Alison Chaiken, Brian Lopes, Łukasz Zachulski, Bo Kullmar and Robert P. aka. “MixMasterJ”
• Blogs: Adam Ward (@redshirtlinux) wrote a very nice blog post thanking us for mentioning his email on the show and Philip Herron (@redbrain) explains how to compile a compiler
• Audio Feedback: We have an awesome audio submission from B1ackcr0w and another 8-bit version of the theme tune by Chris Tevyaw (aka. Slasher)

• Sambu writes in response to our discussion of the Windows equivalent to LAMP, he thinks it should be WIMP: Windows, IIS, MySQL, PHP
• Kevan V. sends us this story about Amazon being granted a patent for social networking websites in the US — You can’t make this shit up!
• Jonathan Nadeau asked us to mention his new podcast
• We had a few emails complaining that we bash Apple too much: Michael Mellinger says the iPhone is better than Android, Stephen and Daniel don’t like it when we are critical of Apple and Andy G. wrote to say he doesn’t think Google are any better than Apple and worries more about the amount of information Google have on people, he thinks we should reconsider our stance on Google
• David Comerford wrote after hearing us talk about all the disc burning for new distros, he recommends the iodd portable SATA hard drive with CD-ROM emulation
• Nathan D’Elboux recommends the Firefox plugin FlashGot since he used it to download all our old episodes from The Archives

• We had other emails from Paul W.B., Whym, Peter Trussell, Sergei Van Hardeveld, Nigel Verity, Scott Cann, Anthony (from New Mexico), NRK, Mike Hingley, Brad Pearce, John Scheuvront, Tony Griggs, Brent Foor, Thomas Chace, Stephen Michael Kellat, Andreas Marschke, Ebcdic Zehetbauer, Serko, Jake Roberts, Bo Kullmar, Joe Foy and Steve Anderson

• Two cool videos about the iPhone 4 vs. the HTC Evo

Song for International Reggae Day (July 1): Waste My Time from the album of the same name by Loudog

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.