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In this special episode from Linux Tag in Berlin, Dan and Fab interview Paul Frields, Max Spevak and Máirín Duffy from Fedora, Jan Wildeboer from Red Hat and Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier from openSUSE about what’s going on in their respective communities right now.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:14 | Introduction

• Berlin Drupal User Group
• Ryan aka. yareckon
• Moritz aka. zahnersatz — also check out his interview with us

0:11:57 | Interview: Paul Frields & Max Spevak (Fedora)

• FUDCon
• Fedora 11 “Leonidas”

0:35:28 | Interview: Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier (openSUSE)

• openSUSE
• openSUSE Conference
• SUSE Studio
• Build Service

0:46:55 | Interview: Máirín “Mo” Duffy (Fedora)

• Fedora Design Team

0:58:05 | Interview: Jan Wildeboer (Red Hat)

• Red Hat’s Patent Promise
• Jan on identi.ca
• Jan’s Blog

Song: We’re All Gonna Die by Byron from the album We’re All Gonna Die

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 or Public Domain license specified by the artist under the provided link.

This week on CastaBlasta….. WE IS GONNA BE LATE.

CastaBlasta is normally scheduled for a Tuesday night release, but due to an unforeseen meteor strike in the Seattle area, will have to postpone this week’s show until later in the week, AKA, after we are done saving lives.

We’re shooting for a Friday recording/streaming so check back then!

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This time on a very special Linux Outlaws, Dan and Fab are actually in one room together and besides being silly and having a lot of fun talk about shitty beer, Moblin, German Internet censorship, Opera Unite, Valve possibly releasing native Linux games, Nvidia prefering Windows CE to Android and much, much more.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:05:01 | Introduction

• This weeks live show was brought to you courtesy of Ana’s emotional blackmail, we’ll do anything for her!
• Beers of the Week: König Pilsener & Ottakringer 16er Blech

0:07:21 | Releases & News

• SystemRescueCd 1.2.1
• BlankOn 5.0
• Parted Magic 4.2
• Webconverger 4.9
• Macpup Opera
• GeeXboX 1.2.2
• Ultimate Edition 2.2
• iMagic OS 2009.6
• Security Onion LiveCD 20090613
• Wireshark 1.2.0

• VirtualBox 3.0 beta brings gaming features, no DirectX 10
• Preview: Browsing SFTP with Thunar
• German Internet now censored, presumption of innocence and separation of powers go down the drain
• Canonical wanted to shut down Ubuntu Satanic Store, but Jono cleared it up
• Opera hoping to reinvent the web by making their browser a server
• Valve to launch native Linux game in July?

0:27:48 | Microwatch

• Nvidia says Windows CE is better for smartbooks than Android — WTF!?
• SCO signs deal to avoid liquidation right before hearing

0:32:58 | Review

We discuss the Moblin 2.0 beta. You might also want to watch this video for a visual walkthrough.

0:43:29 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to The Great Roth
  
  
• Daz Fuller is using OpenDNS to set up a shortcut for the forums, for which he just types “http://outlaws” — but Chromium broke this for him in a very funny way:
• bgryderclock wrote to tell us he had a great time at SELF
  
• James Stephenson sent us a correction to last show’s Pirate Bay story
• Keith Game sent us a story about a Microsoft tech recommending Knoppix to fix Windows problems
• Patrick Craenen wrote to us with another RIAA story
• More emails this week from Oliver Ryde, Morgen Allen, Nido, Dan Dart, David Purse, Kie, Brian Hunt aka. zaphodbblx, Bob Kovacs, ZacharyJuda, Les Pounder (sent us a story about open source cars), Timothy LaFontaine, Scott, David Lidstone, Reine, Teis Dreijer, gavigai, Mickey Million, MC, 6r00k14n, Mark Adams, Matt P. and Matthew Copperwaite aka. yaMatt
  
  
• Check out the new Linux Outlaws Planet, no that’s not Planet Outlaws

Song: The Wreck of the Southern Old 97 by Ernest Thompson from the Internet Archive —thanks to Jezra for the tip!

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Ubuntu is dropping Rhythmbox in favor of Banshee
Banshee is developed in Mono
Fedora will no longer include applications developed in Mono
Audio comment by Klaatu of The Bad Apples.info, LinuxCranks.info, and Fedora Reloded podcasts.
Excellent Blog post about Mono on Dann Washko’s blog. Dann is a host on The Linux Link Tech Show
Xubuntu is based on Ubuntu but has the XFCE desktop environment instead of gnome
I used the Wubi Installer to put Xubuntu on my Acer Aspire One
“Portable Ubuntu for Windows” is now known as “Portable Ubuntu Remix”
Ubuntu Tweak is the TweakUI power tool for Ubuntu. You will need to follow these instructions to install Ubuntu Tweak
My daughter’s Motorola W490 somehow corrupted the MicroSD card
I was able to use “PC Inspector File Recovery” to recover every file from the corrupted MicroSD card
Another file recovery application I tried but did not work was “Zero Assumption Digital Recovery“. This app is highly rated on SnapFiles.com but was unable to recover the corrupted files. When dealing with this sort of issue don’t give up try several different apps.
UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions from Windows or Linux
Mer is an open, community-led Linux distribution for mobile devices
“ProduKey” from NirSoft and “Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder” are excellent freeware product key locators for extracting Microsoft product keys from installations before re-installation of the software.
Andrian Crenshaw from IronGeek.com asked PaulDotCom Security Weekly podcast email list asked what podcasts people are listening to. I gathered a couple of new links from that discussion, GetMon IT Security Podcast Links and this Archive of of tons and tons of past Cons. Follow the whole thread here.
Here’s TheLinuxLink.net and Monsterb’s lists of Linux related podcasts
The 4GB Sansa Clip is available from NewEgg for $34.99 and it plays OGG
Here’s the external speaker I purchased for use with my Sansa Clip, The GigaWare External Speaker
YouMail.com is an excellent free service that adds much functionality to your cell phone’s voicemail
I have the LG EnV2 cell phone
I finally got my Google Voice invite and it’s amazing!
K7.net give you Free Voicemail and FAX delievered straight to your inbox
Send Fax’s for free hundreds of formats supported
GOOG411 had improved and makes finding any service or business a snap from any phone
BullZip PDF printer is a freeware app for Windows will convert anything you can print to a PDF and it does it perfectly. It uses Ghostscript which is an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF
Here’s a cool bash command for a real-time clock in your terminal. You may need to install ‘figlet” for it to run
watch -t -n1 “date +%T|figlet”
Verbal’s Linux Trivia Podcast
The Ohio Linux Fest 2009
The Atlanta Linux Fest
The Florida Linux Show 2009
Picture links from “The South East Linux Fest”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeaniegal05/sets/72157619658057629/
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?page=1&aid=2340463&id=12603821
http://ahotw.com/gallery/v/linux/SELF2009/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/selinuxfest/
http://jeremysands.com/?p=126
http://imabug.net/gallery/v/CSCLUG/SELF09/
http://rlworkman.net/images/SELF-2009/index-all.html
http://www.nivex.net/gallery/self2009
http://picasaweb.google.com/marielh/SELF2009?fgl=true&pli=1#
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kudzu13/sets/72157619709521423/
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=86185&id=61835474561&ref=mf
http://www.thelinuxlink.net/~dann/self2009

Check out these great podcast sites: Techpodcasts.com and BluBrry.com

This episode spawned from some feedback I sent to klatuu from The Bad Apples podcast. I’ve been using my .ssh/config to simplify long or commonly used ssh commands.

Say you want to login to your home machine (mymachine.dynamicdns.org) as user homeuser that’s listening on a non standard port of 1234.

ssh -p 1234 homeuser@mymachine.dynamicdns.org

You can shorten this to

ssh home

by adding the following to your .ssh/config file

Host home
	User homeuser
	Hostname mymachine.dynamicdns.org
        Port 1234

Probably not worth setting up if you’re not going to be using it often but if you start doing a lot of port forwarding then your command line can quickly get unwieldy.

ssh -p 1234 -L 8080:localhost:80 \
homeuser@mymachine.dynamicdns.org

Just add the line below to the section to achieve the same result.

	LocalForward 8080 192.168.1.100:80

The nice thing is that you can add lots of LocalForward lines for a particular host. Another trick I use is to have different public/private key files for each group of server that I use. Normally you would use the -i switch

ssh -i ~/.ssh/work_id_dsa.pub homeuser@mymachine.dynamicdns.org

Just add the line below to the section to achieve the same result.

        IdentityFile ~/.ssh/work_id_dsa.pub

You can commands per host by placing them in the Host section or for all the hosts by placing them at the top of the file. Some common ones that I use are

• ForwardX11 yes Use instead of using the -X switch to allow forwarding of X applications to run on your local X server.
• ForwardAgent yes Use instead of using the -A switch to allow forwarding of the ssh-agent/ssh-add
• Protocol 2 Use instead of -2 to ensure that only protocal 2 is used.
• GSSAPIAuthentication no Use instead of -o GSSAPIAuthentication=no. This switch is used to provide Kerberos 5 authentication to ssh. Although the man pages say that GSSAPIAuthentication is off continue reading to see if the distro maintainers note that it is turned on. This is the case with Debian and Fedora based distros.

I started using this switch when I noticed that ssh connections were taking a long time to setup and I discovered that it was due to:
The default Fedora ssh_config file comes with GSSAPIAuthentication set to “yes”. This causes a DNS query in an attempt to resolve _kerberos. whenever ssh is invoked. During periods when connectivity to the outside world is interrupted for whatever reason, the ssh session won’t proceed until the DNS query times out. Not really a problem, just more of an annoyance when trying to ssh to another machine on the LAN.

So putting it all together a sample ~/.ssh/config file might look like this:

GSSAPIAuthentication no
ForwardAgent yes
EscapeChar none
ForwardX11 yes
Protocol 2
 
Host hometunnel
    User homeuser
    Hostname mymachine.dynamicdns.org
    LocalForward 8080 192.168.1.100:80
    Port 1234
 
Host home
    User homeuser
    Hostname mymachine.dynamicdns.org
    Port 1234
 
Host work
    User workuser
    Hostname mywork.mycompany.com
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/work_id_dsa.pub
 
Host isp
    User ispuser
    Hostname isp.example.com
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/isp_id_dsa.pub

Bryan and Chris try this Belgian-style wheat ale from Michelob that’s been flavored with citrus spices.

Be sure to stick through to the end, Bryan answers the age old question: Does orange flavored beer go with Cheerios?

Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker and Producer Laura Cowen are back once more with a fun-packed episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.
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In this week’s show:-

• What we’ve been doing this week including messing about with VirtualBox disks, Byobu, shoe boxes and secret things.
• In our ‘Upcoming’ segment we discuss some features which may or may not hit in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
• apt-sync
• USB Creator for Windows
• GRUB 2
• Empathy
• We interview Jim Killock, Executive Director at The Open Rights Group
• Ciemon introduces his new Command Line Fu segment. This week

  lshw -html > hardware.html

• The News
• Microsoft are Supressing
• Sun are Gaming
• Songbirds are Flying
• Microsoft are Bribing
• Zombies are Rising
• Sticks are Expanding
• Amazon are Complying
• Linux is Supporting
• Koalas are Testing
• Microsoft are Pricing
• ZMP are Driving
• Archos sont de fabrication
• We announce some upcoming events:-
• June 27th 12:00 – 18:00 – Laura Czajkowki’s, Dublin, Ubuntu IE Summer Jam
• June 28th to July 4th – Conservatoire in Birmingham, UK, EuroPython 2009
• July 4th – ULU, Malet Street, London, UK – UK Unix User Group Open Tech 2009
• July 20th – Nottingham, UK, Open Source Schools Unconference
• September 19th – All around the world, Software Freedom Day
• September 19th – IBM Facility on Northside Parkway, Atlanta, GA, USA, Atlanta Linux Fest
• October 2nd to 4th – All around the world, Ubuntu Global Jam
• October 24th – Newhampton arts centre, Wolverhampton, UK, LUGRadio Live 2009
• We announce the winner of episode six’s competition to win another Viglen MPC-L
• We delve into the Ubuntu Ecosphere Gerald
  • Satan expelled from the Cafe
  • Ubuntu gets a Windows theme
  • Ubuntu Technical Board says ‘no cause for concern’ over Mono
  • Legacy Palm (Pilot) support yanked from Ubuntu CD
  • Sign on to the Ubuntu Forums with OpenID
  • Slideshow project for Ubuntu installer
  • Time running out for papercuts
  • Linus’s Top 5 Linux Kernel features in 2.6.20
  • Matthew Garrett has fun with the Palm root image
  • Ubuntu Sucks
  • Rory Cellan-Jones visits Andy Stanford-Clark and the Twittering House
• And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents since our last show

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