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On the first show of the decade, the Linux Outlaws bring you a KDE 4.3 review, VLC releasing a video editor, Year 2010 bugs, lots of discussion of Google and Microsoft and much more as usual…

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.

0:01:55 | Introduction

• Welcome to the first Linux Outlaws of the decade!
• Fab got send a Motorola Milestone, review coming soon
• Rod C. “Ramrod” Johnson send us Christmas packages including some home-made olive oil and Tsipouro liqueur
• New decade, but it looks like people are still all stupid: Nude scanners in Germany
• MySQL does NOT need to be saved
• The video of Fab’s LRL 2009 talk on Linux in German schools is now online, thanks to Tony Whitmore and the great LRL video crew
• Booze of the Week: Bowmore Single Malt from Islay

0:14:39 | Releases & News

• ClearOS 5.1
• VortexBox 1.0 — Ubuntu on the Doctor Who set
• Salix OS 13.0.2
• Sabayon Linux 5.1 “Gaming”
• Tuquito 3.1
• Berry Linux 1.00
• Kahel OS 12-25-2009 & Kahel OS 01-01-2010 “Light”
• Sabily 9.10
• SystemRescueCd 1.3.4
• Super OS 9.10
• Linux Deepin 9.12
• NuTyX 2009.2
• sidux 2009-04
• blackPanther OS 10.1
• Zorin OS 2.0
• XBMC 9.11
• digiKam 1.0.0

• Y2K10: SpamAssassin has a Year 2010 bug
• VLC to release a video editor
• Red Hat again reports record earnings for Q3 2009
• EtherPad is now open source
• Google’s understanding of “open”

0:42:39 | Microwatch

• Redmond is looking for anti-Linux people again — and apparently they can’t speak English, much like Google
• Microsoft loses appeal, and is barred from selling Word but has a plan for a workaround — Groklaw article

0:52:46 | In-Depth Topic

Fab talks about his recent experiences of playing with KDE again (KDE 4.3 on Fedora 12).

1:09:02 | Feedback

• Lots of people told us through the microblogs that they really enjoyed the comedy sketches in Episode 129 — luckily, it seems we also managed not to alienate the other podcasters, thanks for all the feedback!
• Donations: A big thanks to Stephen K., Stanley K., Mark C., Samuel V., Bernd S., Mark G., John S., Roger H. and Alison C. for sending us money over the holidays!
• Forums: Please suggest people for us to interview from PyCon

• FiftyOneFifty sent us a link to a Dilbert cartoon which he said attacks open source but we don’t think so — it does however look like it features a guest appearance by Dann Washko:

• Eric Sauve was skiing while listening to Episode 129 and loved it — Bob Konior and chicagonpg also wrote to say they enjoyed this episode
• James Hugman congratulates us on binary birthday 10000000 for Episode 128
• Peter Lanado sent us a link to this Dell page comparing Windows and Ubuntu — we comment on it
• Other emails this week came from augmentedfourth, Matthew Pherigo, Jacob Feltman, Jason Bowles (aka. Malkor the Techie), Samuel Vanderplancke, “The Crusty Detective” Roger, Marvin Vek, Sleepynate, Dylan Coakley, Scott, Tracy W. Holz, Alistair Munro (b1ackcr0w), Rafal Zajac, Adrian Kuepker, Eric, Vj777, DarthSydwayZ, Bluplr (aka. Mike), Tom Jones, Jezra, D. M. Synck, Quarter Pounder, John Scheuvront, Yiannis Nousis (from Greece) and Mark Venable

• Events: First meeting of MuscaLUG on Saturday, January 16 (13:00) at the Pizza Ranch in Muscatine, Iowa / Texas Linux Fest on April 10

Song: Black Flag Flying (live) by David Rovics from the album The Commons

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.