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DistroCast Episode 13.37 – Gentoo / Linux Mint
DistroCast Episode 13.37 featuring a SouthEast LinuxFest wrapup, a Gentoo update, and our review of Linux Mint.
Linux Mint 12 Review | LAS | s19e08
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It’s our review of Mint 12, does this up and coming distribution have a bit of a desktop identity crisis? Or are they angry Ubuntu users salvation!
Plus: Get the latest on the Carrier IQ story, and how you can find it, and what you can do. Plus a new call to arms, Linux users rocking the Humble Bundle, and Debian’s new use for bittorrent!
And so much more!
All this week on, The Linux Action Show!
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Runs Linux:
Android Pick:
- Carrier IQ Detector
- Android Picks so far thanks to Madjo in the IRC Chat room!
Universal Pick:
- Aleph One 1.0
- Thanks to WienerWuerstel – Your first Reddit Submission? Good work!
- Picks so far. Thanks to Madjo!
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NEWS:
- Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything
- Carrier IQ Admits Holding ‘Treasure Trove’ of Consumer Data, But No Keystrokes
- Is Ubuntu Still The Most Popular Linux Distro?
- Barnes & Noble hires Microsoft’s legal nemesis
- Firefox faces uncertain future as Google deal apparently end
- DebTorrent an attempt to bring the efficiency of torrenting to “apt-get” installs
- The Introversion Humble Bundle includes the source code for their games, including Uplink, the hacking simulator
- The Humble Introversion Bundle (pay what you want and help charity)
Linux Mint 12 Review:
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Main desktops: GNOME 3.2 w/MGSE, or MATE
- Gnome 3 Extensions :
- Menu Extension
- Media Player Extension
- Smart Overview Extension
- Bottom Panel Extension
- User Theme Extension
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Standard Software:
- Linux 3.0 kernel.
- Firefox 7.01
- Banshee 2.2
- LibreOffice 3.4.3
- Pidgin 2.1
- Thunderbird 7.0.1
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Some may find the look dated. I like it. Think it looks pro, and gives an air of stability.
- Linux Mint 12 Lisa Review: Magnificent is the Word! | Tech Drive-in
- Linux Mint 12 MATE Review | Desktop Linux Reviews and their Linux Mint 12 GNOME 3 | Desktop Linux Reviews
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- Previous VirtualBox images Torrents
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Thankful for Open Source
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The Linux Action Show! s19e07: We stand on the shoulders of giants of open source every single day. One episode out of the year we give thanks to those certain project and developers who’ve made a big impact on us!
Plus: Linux Mint 12 is released tune in to find out what’s new, open source gaming got a massive shot in the arm this week, we’ll give you the details, and biggest little Linux distribution in the world!
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Android Pick:
- ezPDF Reader big thanks to jasonjohnwells
- Android Picks so far thanks to Madjo in the IRC Chat room!
Universal Pick:
Picks so far. Thanks to Madjo!
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NEWS:
- Linux Mint 12, is OUT!
- Linux Mint signs a partnership with DuckDuckGo
- Pinguy OS Mini 11.10 Released!
- Doom 3 Source Released
Carmack’s Reverse In Doom 3 Has Work-Around - Welcoming The ioDoom3 Project
- New Kernel Patch Slashes Linux’s Power Appetite
Open Source Projects, We’re Thankful For:
Chris:
- Linux Mint related: Linux Mint Tops Popularity Charts
- KNOPPIX – Live Linux Filesystem On CD
- Samba
- squid : Optimising Web Delivery
- BackupPC: Open Source Backup to disk
- VLC – VideoLAN
- WordPress › Blog Tool and Publishing Platform
- Linus Torvalds and the Linux Kernel
- Dennis Ritchie
- Chris’ Google+ Thread with viewer’s choices
Allan:
- NGINX – Powerful and Efficient C10K Web server
- Varnish – Reverse Proxy Ram Cache
- PuTTy – SSH Client
- PHP – Web Scripting Language
- TortoiseSVN – Windows SVN Client
- Nagios – Network Monitoring and Alerting
- OpenBGPd – OpenBSD Implementation of the Border Gateway Protocol
- FFMpeg & libavcodec – Encode and Decode anything audio/video
- Webkit – Browser Rendering Engine
- Chromium
Randall:
- Wine – allows UNIX/Linux to run Microsoft Windows API calls to rum most windows applications as close to native as you can get for running windows applications on other OSs.
- OpenSSH Just pure awesome no words can explain how awesome this is.
- GNOME – A opensource Window Manager/Desktop for UNIX/Linux OS’s
- SDL – Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL
- VirtualBox – VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product
- Samba Samba is CIFS/SMB File/Print server that can be used cross platform.
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Fedora 16 Review | LAS | s19e05
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Fedora 16 has hit the torrents and we give a spin! We get to the bottom of why Fedora almost feels like it was created by Apple, but yet still a great release.
And find out Linux Mint’s secret weapon to take over the Linux desktop, the surprising underdog taking on Microsoft, and why we lust after a new Android tablet!
Plus so much more!
All this week on, The Linux Action Show!
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Runs Linux:
- Open Source Ecology makers of The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) : LinuxActionShow
- 2012 Tesla Model S Beta, Runs Linux Test Drive
Android Pick:
- Any.DO: To Do List
- Android Picks so far thanks to Madjo in the IRC Chat room!
Universal Pick:
Picks so far. Thanks to Madjo!
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NEWS:
- Linux Mint Reveals The Top Secret Project, To Overtake Ubuntu Soon
- Barnes & Noble asks DOJ to check Microsoft antitrust issues
- ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime: 10-inch Super IPS+ display, 12-hour battery and quad-core Tegra 3, ships in December for $499 thanks to alphaneil for submiiting a Hands-on with the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime
- Adobe Engineer: Here’s Why We Killed Flash For Mobile
- HTC and LG join patent pools, try to protect Linux
Fedora 16 Review:
- Linux kernel 3.1.0
- GNOME 3.2. or KDE Plasma workspaces 4.7
- Firefox 7.0.1
- Still no Broadcom 4313 WiFi adapter support.
- Issues with Synaptic ClickPads (Common for HP laptops)
- Grub2 is ugly. Not cool retro, but ugly.
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- VirtualBox Application torrent
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- Pass: jblive
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Linux Mint 6 Felicia Fluxbox CE, In Depth
A review of the new Linux Mint 6 Felicia Fluxbox CE
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