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"Other OS" option removed from all Sony PS3 systems with 3.21 update. http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/29/0227251/Install-Other-OS-Featur...
Followup: "GeoHot" delivers on promise to return "Other OS" option via hacked firmware update, might possibly work on PS3 Slim models. http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/07/geohot-brings-back-other-os-support-w...

IBM accused of breaking patent pledge to FLOSS community: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/04/06/1421255/IBM-Breaks-Open-Source-Pa...

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MP3 - 1 hour 29 minutes 19 seconds, 40.9 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week on the show: Did IBM break their patent promise?, is SCO finally dead?, Songbird drops Linux support, Meerkats, stiffies in burqas and 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.

The theme music this week is the strings remix of Sudo Modprobe by Krystal Phoenix.

0:01:40 | Introduction

• Please excuse some problems with the audio quality and the fact that this episode is released so late — we nearly lost Dan’s part of the recording and had to recover it from the live stream of the episode
• Fab was a guest on TLLTS Episode 347
• The one and only good April Fool’s joke we found: Fedora Rebranding
• Ana sent us an excellent Lime Neeson press photo
• Primal Carnage is a cross-platform game that uses Unigine
• Beer of the Week: Chimay Blue

0:10:00 | Releases & News

• Distro: SimplyMEPIS 8.5
• Distro: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
• Distro: Vyatta 6.0
• Distro: Untangle Gateway 7.2
• Distro: Linux Mint 8 “Xfce” and “LXDE”
• Distro: Puredyne 9.11
• First MeeGo release
• Wormux 0.9.1 — we talked about Wormux first in Episode 30
• OpenSSL 1.0.0
• Gnome 2.30 — have a look at these mockups for the system status area in Gnome 3 which will be the next Gnome release

• IBM breaks open source patent pledge?
• Ding, dong, the witch is dead: SCO loses again, jury says Novell owns UNIX SVRX copyrights
• OOXML is dead too — surprise, surprise!
• Hacker vows to fight Sony PS3 update, restore Linux support
• Ubuntu 10.10 named “Maverick Meerkat”
• Ubuntu’s window buttons to stay on the left
• Songbird drops Linux support
• Solaris 10 no longer free as in beer, now a 90-day trial

0:48:32 | Microwatch

• Faces of Open Source @ Microsoft — it’s so sad, it’s funny…
• Do Apple Stores have weird Gestapo lockdown policies? — “Forerunner”? WTF!?

0:54:20 | Jub-Jub

• Project London, an independent movie being produced right now, all special effects done in Blender
• We also had an email from Kevin Sandom about his film made entirely on Linux

0:58:51 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Ryan Kohler and David Comerford
• Forums: kounryusui got scared when Fab yelled “Drop that onion!” in Episode 142

• We got emails about Tinycore from Beeza and Anthony Fox who tried the distro because we keep talking about it and were both impressed
• Lauren sent us the amazing classical version of our theme tune which we played in the beginning, made by her girlfriend Krystal with 100% open source tools
• Matt Newcombe set us up with an Asterisk sever to use for the show, which is just awesome! — check out his company Sysadminman if you need one as well
  
• Jezra (@jezra) created a podcast streamer for our show called “Shnerkel” after Fab
• Fab’s blog post about our amazing listeners
• Cleavey (@cleavey) saw this bus converted to a Linux mobile down in Cornwall
• Alistair Munro (B1ackr0w) sends us a disturbing story about “stiffies” — don’t do this for OggCamp!
• Other emails this week from Paul W. B., B. Alexander, Acid Phlux, EBCDIC Zehetbauer (again!!), Simón A. Ruiz, Timothy LaFontaine, Luc Moreau, Kevin Lucas, Nolan Doyle, Victor V., rickabillie and the amazingly named Rich (“no longer an Ubuntu theme”) Brown

• The literal.net
• Dan changed his identi.ca and IRC names to MethodDan
• Events: Geeknic in Liverpool on the day before OggCamp
• OggCamp Sponsors: Linux Format - Media Partner, The Open Learning Centre, Linux Emporium, Opsview, Bitfolk, Recruit12 and Linux Fund

Song: Boats (Swept Away) from the album Time To Leave by I Am Not Lefthanded — they were guests and played a live tune on Rathole Radio Episode 22

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 39 minutes 20 seconds, 45.5 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 show we interview Philip Newborough aka. corenominal and his wife Becky about Crunchbang Linux and a lot of other pretty random stuff…

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.

Interview: Philip & Becky Newborough

We interview Philip Newborough (@corenominal) and his wife Becky (@bobobex) about Philip’s Crunchbang Linux project. We also talk about Debian, Ubuntu, creating your own Linux distribution, how Phil builds Crunchbang, the secret plans for Crunchbang Towers, Phil’s army of muppets, Star Trek, beards, the red light districts of Swindon and Amsterdam, geocaching, OggCamp and what secret intelligence service Phil doesn’t work for. Furthermore, we discuss how Phil came to Linux and he asks us the same question.

• Debian Live
• The muppet army: @drbunsen, @hogthrob, @strangepork & @misspiggy

Song: The Fruit That Got Away by David Rovics from the album Har, Har, Har!

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 43 seconds, 39.3 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: Sony disables Linux on the PS3 for good, SCO on the brink of death, Google’s plans for Froyo, Paul Frields to step down as FPL, new Gnome icons and a huge pale on Fab’s fart.

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.

0:01:02 | Introduction

• Piracy up in France after tough three-strikes law
• Complete ACTA text finally leaked
• Jonathan Coulton to do music for Portal 2 — Still Alive was the ending song to the original Portal
• The WePad — we are not sure about this one, especially with that name
• Come to OggCamp 10! — Sponsors: Linux Format - Media Partner, The Open Learning Centre, Linux Emporium, Opsview, Bitfolk and Recruit12
• Buy tickets for Dan’s gig or you will be sorry you didn’t
• Beer of the Week: Radeberger

0:14:18 | Releases & News

• BSD: FreeBSD 7.3
• Distro: Clonezilla Live 1.2.4-28
• Distro: Sabayon Linux 5.2
• Distro: Element 1.1
• Distro: SliTaz GNU/Linux 3.0
• gPodder 2.4 “The Pants Alternative”
• Python 3.1.2
• MongoDB 1.4

• Regional Free Software law violates the Italian constitution
• PS3 update disables the ability to install Linux on 1st gen consoles too
• Novell created an enterprise implementation of the Wave protocol
• SCO could finally die this week
• Parallels CEO calls open source “A huge pile of shit”, then backs down
• From the IRC during the show: Google search for Fab’s name
• Google has plans to stop platform fragmentation with Android Froyo
• Paul Frields to step down as Fedora Project Leader — Max Spevack on the FPL transition
• Our Uncyclopedia article
• Unigine game engine for Linux looks amazing — screenshots

1:01:01 | Spotlight Jub-Jub

• The new Gnome icons in 2.29 — these are currently in Fedora 13 but you can also download them from the Gnome site

1:03:31 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Reuben Honigwachs, David Comerford and Matthew Teasdale

• Jake Roberts told us about Element OS and the “ten foot display” and he says our show makes his cubicle job suck less
• Olivier gives us feedback on the Fedora limited text installer
• Josh Casey-Rosa from Australia tells us about his experiences with Faxe beer
• Billy Crook sent us an email thanking Fab for his recommendation of SportyPal
• Felim Whiteley from Ireland says with the new Amarok release he can now listen to us again and is catching up on the show
• Other emails this week from csgeek, Morgan, Reuben, Lauren, EBCDIC Zehetbauer, Paul Ashbrook and Les “Quarter” Pounder

• The LO Blog has moved to srcview.org
• Stay tuned for our interview with @corenominal and @bobobex about Crunchbang in the next episode

Song: The Good Thing About Being Lonely by Hobo Twang off their album Square Times

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 43 minutes 14 seconds, 47.3 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 Linux Outlaws: Mini-review of the new Crunchbang, is the Palm Pre dead?, Nexuiz is forked, lots of Microsoft silliness and a Steve Jobs cheese sculpture…

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.

This show is dedicated to Fab’s hamster Bigfoot who sadly passed away on the weekend.

0:02:03 | Introduction

• We explain why we use Skype to do the show
• Must read: Interview with Eben Moglen on network computing and “The Cloud”
• US Army calls Wikileaks a “Threat”
• Today is Ada Lovelace Day, Fab mentioned Laura Cowen
• Fab also talked about Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Beer of the Week: Altenmünster Maibock

0:16:44 | Releases & News

• Distro: Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.1
• Distro: SystemRescueCd 1.5.0
• Distro (development release): CrunchBang Linux 10 Alpha 1
• Distro: Parted Magic 4.9
• Distro: Tiny Core Linux 2.10
• Amarok 2.3.0
• Parrot 2.2.0

• Google to stop censoring search results in China
• Digital Economy Bill went through the House of Lords in the UK — Dan’s letter to his MP and more info on this topic
• It looks very much like Palm is in trouble — is this the end of the Pre?

• Nexuiz forked, name is still shit
• Ryan Paul’s piece on Matt Asay becoming Canonical COO — he hasn’t even regularly used Linux the last few years??
• Ubuntu UK Podcast interview with Ivanka Majic
• Ardour status update
• Novell intends to put up a fight, and so does HTC

0:56:36 | Microwatch

• Microsoft testing a “Twitter for business” service? — why not just use StatusNet?
• IE not faring well in the post-ballot screen days
• Microsoft repeats Apple’s grave app store mistakes on Windows Phone Seven Series Seven Phone Seven Series Phone

1:03:57 | Spotlight Jub-Jub

• A first look at Crunchbang 10 “Statler” Alpha 1, now using Debian sources — Interview where corenominal explains the switch
• Ben Stiller: Counting with Bruce Springsteen

We will have Philip Newborough (corenominal) on the show soon to go into more detail.

1:13:13 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Steve Pearson, Andreas Lieser and Remy van Elst

• B. Alexander (aka. VulcanRidr) send Fab some mashups of “The Music” in BSG (ie. All Along The Watchtower by Dylan)
• Bruno Bigras tells us how to pronounce his name and says that Canadians will finally be able to buy the Nexus One direct from Google and also access the Marketplace now
• t0p writes about the photography question at OggCamp and sends us a link to more info
• Ebcdic Zehetbauer explains the joke of his “name” from last show: EBCDIC (pronounced /ˈɛbsəˌdɪk/) stands for Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
• lil monsta sent us information about PCLinuxOS and Texstar
• Whym sent us an amusing story about crazy Apple fans making a cheese sculpture of Steve Job’s head — WTF!?
• David Keogh sents us a lot of info on ACTA — more information
• We had other emails from Doug Whitfield, Robin Catling, Sergei Van Hardeveld, Lucy, linuxpete, Frank Bell, Stuart Ward, Brendan Jones, Paul W.B. and Mextlan

• Event: The Ubuntu Global Jam in Manchester, March 27 -28 at MadLab

Song: Video Nasty by The Night Terrors from their EP Nasty

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.

Cobra2, Pegwole, Snkmchnb, and Chad have a rap session:

Comments and forums have been expunged, replaced with disqus http://disqus.com

Amarok 2 http://amarok.kde.org/

Snacky talks about his Python Podcatcher, http://github.com/snkmchnb/getcast

Asterisk talk: http://www.asterisk.org/

MP3 - 1 hour 32 minutes 51 seconds, 42.6 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: Ubuntu’s “Buttongate”, will Novell be asset stripped?, Mozilla is updating the MPL, Microsoft loosing a patent case again, Simon Phipps new OSI director and much more as always…

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.

0:02:06 | Introduction

• Errata: Fab meant Gordon Freeman last episode, not Morgan
• SFLC blog post by James Vasile on the new US export restrictions
• One-click install of StatusNet on DreamHost — pretty cool!
• Also check out this interview: Evan Prodromou speaks on the future of StatusNet
• Our interview with Evan back in Episode 52
• Check out ideas.oggcamp.org and participate!
• OggCamp Sponsors: Linux Format (Media Partner), The Open Learning Centre, Linux Emporium, Opsview and Bitfolk
• Linux Mint lost a big pillar of the community: RIP Mats Geier aka. “Husse”
• Booze of the Week: Leftover Burgundy

0:18:59 | Releases & News

• Distro: VortexBox 1.2
• Distro: Fedora 13 Alpha (Development Release)
• PyPy 1.2

• Will Novell be asset stripped?
• Jonathan Schwartz blogs about Apple and Microsoft intimidating Sun in the past — Steve Jobs basically admits to stealing ideas all the time
• Mozilla is updating the MPL
• Buttongate: There is trouble in Ubuntuland about them moving the window controls in the new themes — Mark Shuttleworth comments on the bug report

• Simon Phipps (@webmink) elected as new director of the OSI

0:53:59 | Microwatch

• Microsoft loses appeal in Word patent case — unfortunately it’s not totally over for them, though
• M$ set to launch beta of Silverlight for Symbian — huh!?

0:57:58 | Spotlight aka. “Jub-Jub”

• boot.fedoraproject.org — pretty cool way to install new versions of Fedora, might come in handy soon when F13 is released

1:02:26 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Jeff Boschee, Bruno Bigras, Brian Murray and Remy van Elst!
• Forums: Convincing People About Linux / Which Distro Are You Running (Spring 2010 Edition)

• Steve Smethurst writes in response to the recent email from our Mexican missionary
• Steve Anderson sent us this rather amusing link to a supposed live webcam at the LHC
• Matija complains bitterly that Fab ruined their Olympic hockey experience
• Mark Gardner sends Fab a great link to this video of Jeremy Clarkson barrel-rolling a Twingo in the Belfast sewer tunnels
• The new Renault Wind
• We had other emails this week from Alistair Munro, Ebcdic Zehetbauer, Carlos Lange, roachy, Kam Salisbury, t0p, John D. L. Platt, DarthSydwayZ, Tony Ciak, Jonathan Nadeau and Bob Krausen (who tells us about the impending new PCLinuxOS 2010 and says that Texstar and the Ripper Gang are back in the saddle)

• The photo of a member of the Ripper Gang, which we talked about, was from Episode 82
• Events: Please buy Rathole Roadshow gig tickets in advance if you want to come on April 30 (in Liverpool) / EuroPython 2010, July 19 - 24 in Birmingham, UK / Texas Linux Fest, April 10 in Austin, Texas (speakers include Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier, Randal L. Schwartz, Jon “Maddog” Hall, Amber Graner, Bradley Kuhn and Max Spevack)

Song: All Control by Professor Kliq from his new EP Movements

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 28 minutes 24 seconds, 40.5 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 Linux Outlaws: Ubuntu redesign, Novell for sale?, US eases sanctions, Chris DiBona on Android and the kernel, Fab smokes a pipe 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.

0:01:11 | Introduction

• Errata: Trier is in the south-west of Germany and Fab is an idiot
• MeeGo repository going public later this month, coming to the N900
• Check out Pet Status, microblogging for pets
• Follow Dr. Bunsen (the Crunchbang build bot) on identi.ca
• Gowalla 1.0 out and in the Market
• The Fedora 13 release slogan will be “Rock It”
• Portal 2!!!
• Beer of the Week: Gauloise Brune

0:11:53 | Releases & News

• Distro: Tiny Core Linux 2.9
• Distro: Elive 2.0
• Distro: NuTyX 2009.3
• Distro: Frugalware Linux 1.2
• StatusNet 0.9.0
• OpenSSH 5.4
• Apache 2.2.15
• Mercurial 1.5
• Linus Torvalds’ talk on git at Google

• Ubuntu Rebranding — Richard Querin on the issue
• Novell up for grabs?
• US eases sanctions on the web
• OMB becomes OStatus
• Linux Nvidia drivers might have GPU fan speed issue
• Chris DiBona says Google wants to cooperate upstream for Android kernel
• Linus calls out Noveau devs for breaking userspace with their latest updates

0:53:36 | Spotlight

• pino, a very cool and slimline microblogging client (Ubuntu, Fedora and Arch packages on the site)

0:59:31 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Ryan Kohler and George De Bruin for their donations!
• Forums: OggCamp… what’s it all about?

• lostnbronx send us disturbing news about Microsoft designing the new electronic ID card system for Germany
• Tim says it’s ironic that Apple is banning sex from the app store when many of their users clearly have a boner for Apple gear
• Jacob Feltman asks if we’ve tried tiling window managers and if so which ones we recommend
• Bill Hixon sends us information about Global Mojo
• We had other emails this week from Philip-III, Jo Klaps, Joona Lehtomäki, Steve Romanow, Manu Chandrasekhar, David McInnis, Pelesz, Ian Pickworth, Bradley M. Alexander and Tim Teatro

• Events: Get your Rathole Roadshow gig tickets for April 30! / March 31 is Document Freedom Day / Libre Planet 2010 is March 19 - 21

Song: Kill Dash Nine by Monzy — nerdcore biatch!

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.

Chad, Chickenfudge, Threethirty and Snacky have a mighty show:

They talk:
Android http://www.android.com/
Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/

Ssh
Drupal http://drupal.org
Tonido! http://tonido.com

Great show, thanks guys!

MP3 - 1 hour 34 minutes 23 seconds, 43.3 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 Linux Outlaws: Amazon signs a patent deal with Microsoft, German data retention law unconstitutional, Microsoft can’t code, the Task Pooper 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

• Congratulations to Canada on winning olympic gold in hockey!
• You can now file bugs against Linux Outlaws on Launchpad
• PSN dies because of leap year bug — FAIL!
• Check out the Full Circle Podcast — Popey likes ‘em
• Security: Vulnerabilities in sudo patched
• Come to OggCamp 10!
• Beer of the Week: Faxe 1l can

0:14:04 | Releases & News

• Kernel 2.6.33
• Distro: SystemRescueCd 1.4.0
• Distro: Linux From Scratch 6.6
• We also talked about remote subscriptions with StatusNet
• Distro: Archbang
• BSD: PC-BSD 8.0
• Sylpheed 3.0
• Gnome Shell 2.29.0
• Darcs 2.4

• Good news from Germany: data retention law is against the constitution
• BBC changes iPlayer, breaks free software implementations
• StatusNet launches enterprise support
• Linux finally breaks even for Novell
• Facebook patents “the feed” — huh!?
• WTF!? “Task Pooper” could revolutionize GNOME desktop — or not…

0:49:40 | Microwatch

• Amazon signs patent deal with Microsoft over Linux and breaks Fab’s heart…
• Microsoft takes down whistleblower site
• Microsoft randomness FAIL in browser ballot
• Apple sues HTC — are they going after Android?

1:04:09 | Spotlight

• Emerillon, an OSM viewer for Gnome
• Gnaughty, an automatic porn fetcher for Gnome

1:08:31 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Paul Corbett, Andre Hugo and Mark Gardner
• Forums: Taking photos at OggCamp

• Bernd Schlapsi sends an email about his experience with buying music from 7digital in Austria
• Alison Chaiken sends us this great Nerdcore song: kill -9
• Julian Aloofi sends us a link about Oracle allegedly scrapping support for free versions of Solaris
• Ezequiel Bruni is a missionary in Mexico and is trying to get his fellow Christian missionaries to use Linux
• Karlis (aka. skazhy) says Fedora is restricted by US sanctions too which sucks
• Patrick Archibald has set up oggcasts.com which aggregates Ogg feeds and show related business via identi.ca
• Other emails this week from Rob Munro, Mac, B1ackcr0w, Bing, Raphael Ong, Cult, DarthSydwayZ, Tony Ciak, Adam Meltzer, Mathew Stahl, Jason Bowles, Ravel Lopez, Dylan Thiedeke (who pisses in out pockets again… we’d only just dried them out), Sergei Van Hardeveld, Joe Ressington, Reine and Paul Adams

• Event: muscaLUG meeting at the Musser Public Library on March 20

Song: Mr President by Afreekanxpress from the album Remember Senegal

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.