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Linux Outlaws 165 - Hairy Fridays

Fab — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:36:36 +0200

MP3 - 1 hour 37 minutes 1 second, 44.4 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

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.

Linux Outlaws 164 - I Love It When a Pod Casts Together

Fab — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:56:33 +0200

MP3 - 1 hour 27 minutes 42 seconds, 40.2 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 dead, Oracle sues Google over Android, Canonical unveils multitouch for Ubuntu, an Android game review 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.

0:02:46 Introduction

Errata: There were some problems with Fab’s recording in Episode 162, sorry for that, it should all be fixed from now on — sorry that we didn’t clarify the genre of the song in that episode either
Some people thought we were slagging off the US as a whole recently — to clarify: we were specifically talking about their “request” to imprison Julian Assange for no good reason
Rumoured PSP phone running Android 3
The limited R2-D2 edition of the Droid 2
Martin Sourada’s new incarnation of the Nodoka theme
You can now try out the SparkleShare alpha on F13 via Fab’s repo
No beer, Fab is drinking mint tea made from fresh, homegrown mint

0:13:18 Releases & News

BackTrack 4 R1
Puppy Linux 5.1
Untangle Gateway 7.4
Trinity Rescue Kit 3.4
Kernel updates from the Federal Reserve Chairman
Banshee 1.7.4
F-Spot 0.7.2
One week slip of Fedora 14 schedule
Google’s statement about their net neutrality deal with Verizon
OpenSolaris is dead
Oracle sues Google over Java patents in Android, great move to piss the whole community off — good post from Miguel de Icaza on the topic
Chris DiBona’s tweet about possible implications for Oracle
Bradley Kuhn on Oracle vs. Google, Eben Moglen’s LinuxCon keynote
Garrett D’Amore says Illumos will fork
Canonical unveils multitouch support for Ubuntu 10.10
Funny bug report: “Gnome ate my boyfriend! Help!”

0:49:13 Microwatch

Microsoft delivers MySQL-to-SQL database migration tool — found the article again

0:52:21 Crapplewatch

Apple manager charged with taking kickbacks from suppliers

0:55:05 Android Game Tip

Barrr (free), a funny little game where you have to run a pirate bar

0:59:03 Feedback

Donations: Thanks to Gian-Maria Daffre and everyone who flattr‘d us!
Jurgen (from Australia) wrote to tell us about an open source corporate password safe he discovered
@UnknownDevice thinks there isn’t enough support for games programming in Linux as far as IDEs and such are concerned
id Software open sources Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Return To Castle Wolfenstein
Andreas Wallberg wrote in response to our discussion of buying Linux pre-installed in Europe in the last episode and recommended GGS-Data in Gothenburg, Sweden
Adam in Canada looked for Linux machines on Dell’s Canadian website and found one that runs “Red Hat Ubuntu 9.04”
kie asks what we do with out spare CPU cycles and recommends worldcommunitygrid.org which apparently aims to help cure cancer
Douglas Whitfield sent us information about something called Peer To Peer University, add your Linux curses here
Alun Parry emailed about an open source film project he’s involved with — if you’re interested in helping, email info@wepassiton.co.uk
Other emails this week from Joshua Casey-Rosa, Gerd Folberth, John Joyce, Karsten Schuldt, Ted Streit and Simon Vass
Events: Ohio Linux Fest, September 10-12 / Ana is selling books to finance her film project, see: #anasellsbooks

Song: Swan Song by Paper Navy from the album All Grown Up

Linux Outlaws 163 - The Frostbite Empire

Fab — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:55:07 +0200

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

Linux Outlaws 162 - Neckbeards Unite!

Fab — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:48:41 +0200

MP3 - 1 hour 35 minutes 12 seconds, 43.6 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: The Google/Verizon deal, the SFLC defends the GPL again, Canonical tracking Ubuntu installations, Google kills Wave, the Illumos Project revealed and of course lots of neckbeard action.

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.

0:01:28 Introduction

Fab wants something like this
Apple pulls rival antenna videos from their site
CouchDB 1.0.0 data loss bug
Dan send the N900 back
Read Bradley Kuhn’s excellent GUADEC recap
Jono has an M-Audio Fast Track Pro apparently, the problem was that S/PDIF input isn’t working reliably in Linux
The Neckbeard Controversy — Alistair Munro (B1ackr0w) sends us a picture of his neckbeard, especially for the occasion
Check out #neckbeard on identi.ca
Nexus One now officially available as a dev phone
Rant-o’Fab
Beer of the Week: Peters Kölsch

0:19:13 Releases & News

MeeGo for IVI 1.0
Parted Magic 5.2
Johan dented a picture of his 50 days old son listening to the live show
Elastix 2.0
eBox Platform 1.5-1
KDE 4.5
GNOME 2.31.6 — support them by buying music in Banshee
Astrid 3.0, which caused a bit of a ruckus
Development: SparkleShare 0.2 Alpha 1
Debian Squeeze now in freeze
U.S. wants crackdown on WikiLeaks
Google and Verizon unveil controversial net neutrality deal
Eben Moglen’s speech on the state of Free Software — “They will never beat us. We will always be here.”
SFLC wins default judgement against Westinghouse in GPL enforcement case
Canonical begins tracking Ubuntu installations
Google kills Wave, Novell wants to plough on alone with Pulse
Motorola is axing MOTOBLUR
Illumos revealed — more info
Zonker says: “Just let OpenSolaris die”
Integrating Zeitgeist into Gnome, vote for the apps you want supported

0:56:53 Microwatch

UK hoster Fasthosts is running Linux on Hyper-V — we say rather go with Bitfolk, they sponsored OggCamp and name their servers after beer brands!
Microsoft basically kills IronRuby

1:02:25 Crapplewatch

App Store finally gets “try before you buy” ages after the Android Market (which had this from launch onwards)

1:04:20 Android Game Tip

Heavy Gunner 3D ($4.99), a very cool multitouch shooter game

1:08:43 Feedback

Donations: Thanks to Michael Leicht, Chris Tevyaw and Joe Littlejohn
Identi.ca: @sorin7486 sends us an interesting blog post on OpenGL vs. Direct3D
Forums: kounryusui tells us what “karoshi” means in Japanese
Doug Whitfield wrote after our recent conversation to say there actually isn’t a Chinese translation of the GPL
Amir Pakdel sends us a link to a story about Microsoft and the NHS — the official Microsoft page on this
Nuno Justo likes to listen in the car, but because of that always forgets to write
Other emails this week from Andreas Marschke, Reine & Poutou, Nigel Verity and PsykoNerdriak
Fab finally updated the Planet
We will have a short hiatus at the beginning of September as Fab is on holiday then
We are also working on upgrading the sound of the show
Events: OSSBarcamp, U-Cubed

Song: The Duke from the album Alphatier by The Jimmy Hofer Band

Linux Outlaws 161 - The Operating System is Called Windows

Fab — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:20:29 +0200

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

0:55:19 Microwatch

1:00:17 Crapplewatch

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!
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

Linux Outlaws 160 - Outlaws Ride Twingos

Fab — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:59:21 +0200

MP3 - 1 hour 43 minutes 47 seconds, 46.9 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This time on Linux Outlaws: Thesis backs down, NASA drops Eucalyptus, Dell drops Ubuntu, BSOD and the oil disaster, Apple world leader in being insecure and interviews from GUADEC 2010 including Lennart Poettering talking shop on PulseAudio and systemd.

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.

0:01:11 Introduction

0:15:42 Releases & News

0:50:08 Microwatch

Did Windows cause the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico?

0:54:00 Crapplewatch

Apple now the new world leader in software insecurity

0:57:35 Interviews

Fab returns from GUADEC 2010 in The Hague and brings you the following interviews from there:

Owen Taylor from Red Hat talks about Gnome Shell and what’s coming in the future with Gnome 3
Lennart Poettering, also from Red Hat, tells us his views about his latest two projects: The infamous PulseAudio and the brand new systemd and why he thinks they are awesome
Karl Goetz from the gNewSense project tells us about their distro which is on the FSF-approved distribution list and which is currently moving from being based on Ubuntu to a Debian base

1:33:03 Feedback

Jezra sends us a very cool bagpipe rendition of the Linux Outlaws theme

Song: Space Invaders from the album 8-bit Lagerfeuer by Pornophonique

Linux Outlaws 159 - The Beginning of the Conversation

Fab — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:27:52 +0200

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

0:51:36 Microwatch

Windows XP will never die

0:55:22 Crapple

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

Linux Outlaws 158 - I'll Send That to the Toilet Computer!

Fab — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:52:23 +0200

MP3 - 1 hour 29 minutes 7 seconds, 40.8 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: Google kills the Nexus Two, Mandriva avoids bankruptcy, arguments about “Open Core”, Monty acts up again, Google App Inventor and lots of Microsoft and Apple bashing 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.

0:02:24 Introduction

Jon Kulp send us some amazing bits of music for the show
Excellent Frostbite Media interview with Mo Duffy about the Fedora Design Team
CyanogenMod 6 breaths new life into the aging G1 with Froyo
Android sees healthy growth at the expense of Apple, RIM and Microsoft
Android 2.2 demolishes iOS 4 in JavaScript benchmarks
Chromium / Chrome to get a unified menu
Mint is playing with a Debian-based version
Beer of the Week: Theakston XB — imported for Fab by The Bald

0:13:31 Releases & News

0:50:16 Microwatch

1:00:52 Software Tip

Chrome-to-Phone, a Chrome extension and Android app to send browser tabs to your phone

1:03:30 Feedback

Donations: Thanks to James McBride, Daniel Ngu, Ian Pickworth and Tony Hughes
Audio Feedback: Jon Kulp send us some wonderful prairie harmonica and Latin renditions of the LO theme, he also send a funny clip from an NPR show about Microsoft — we also got some awesome Crapple theme entries from Alistair Munro and Jo “Remington Steele” Ressington
Blogs: Paul Elms (aka. scifly)’s new blog will soon feature a series about working on the Pony Express app
Mike Hingley tells us about a government website where you can cast your vote to repeal the Digital Economy Act if you are in the UK
SmooveD says they like our perspective on Apple, he says we shouldn’t let the iListeners censor us
We got other emails this week from Andreas, Doug Whitfield, Tony Hughes, Philip Herron alias RedBrain, Ron McLeod, figjam and Jonathan Nadeau

Song: True Gemini by Rob Costlow from the album Woods of Chaos — recommended by Jim Nygård

Linux Outlaws 157 - Horny, Horny, Horny

Fab — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:37:45 +0200

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

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

Linux Outlaws 156 - Blame the Uwe Seeler

Fab — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:16:32 +0200

MP3 - 2 hours 0 minutes 37 seconds, 55.2 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: The World Cup, SCO dead for good, Ubuntu removing aptitude, Canonical taking on Red Hat, the usual Microsoft and Apple fail and an interview with Ade Bradshaw about LinuxTag 2010.

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 World Cup and that it is delaying our production schedule a lot at the moment
If you are getting annoyed by the vuvuzelas, you can now filter them using Fedora
Also check out: vuvuzelafiltering.com
Sprint EVO 4G sold out eveywhere
Apple has apparently licensed the “iOS” name from Cisco
Harald Welte on the FSF enforcement in the App Store

0:11:21 Releases & News

linuX-gamers Live 0.9.6
Zorin OS 3
Zenwalk Linux 6.4 “GNOME”
sidux 2010-01
Parted Magic 4.11
WebM video lands in Firefox trunk
SCO case closed for good, Novell owns UNIX copyrights, Ars Technica on this
Ubuntu has removed aptitude for Maverick
“The Ubuntu Advantage”: Canonical takes on Red Hat
Interesting blog post about the FSF campaigns by @tante — Fab completely agrees with this…
Reforming the OSI: Simon Phipps is trying to build bridges between free software and open source
Details on systemd

0:47:58 Microwatch

0:57:06 Interview

Fab interviews Ade Bradshaw of LugRadio fame and all-around bald hero about LinuxTag 2010 which he recently attended.

They talk about Microsoft sponsoring LinuxTag, Lennart Poettering and systemd, Deltacloud,Tonido.com, SUSE Studio, Club-Mate, the fact that Ade doesn’t like football and much more.

1:38:51 Feedback

Donations: Thanks to Cynthia Cynthia, Andreas, Henry Standing, Stephen Kellat, L.M. Driel, Dylan Thiedeke and thanks to everyone who flattr‘d us!
Audio feedback: Christopher (who didn’t leave a surname) sent us his own mix of our show entitled Linux Cloudlaws, we also got a great recording of a story from Jon Kulp, our classical guitar playing, skateboarding forum hero
Ebcdic Zehetbauer likes Red Dead Redemption and suggests we should have a Linux Outlaws Posse on the multiplayer there
Simon Redfern tells us about the Open Bank Project which he’s involved with
Adrian Sobotta wrote to tell us about his collaborative, Creative Commons licensed book promoting green IT
Beni Keller listens to us while on the train to work, while cycling, while running and while cleaning his toilet, he says
crabbypup has released a beta of a new distro/respin called Mystery Netbook Theatre, NYBill also helped out with a cool wallpaper — check it out over at the forums
Adam Ward went to SELF because of the promo we played and loved it
Michael Dexter sent us some Linux Fund news
Other emails this week from Stephen Parsons, David McInnis, Neall McLaren, Jezra, spartan7, Richard George, Whym, Martin Häger, Stephen, Kevan Vautier, Scott, James Tait, Buford Koechig, Rex Djere and Josh Keyoth
Event: Barcamp Blackpool, July 3 — Dan will be there

Song: The FCC Song by Eric Idle, recommended by Captain Toffel