Linux Outlaws 146 - Let's Fork the Country

Podcast Episode Summary

MP3 - 1 hour 35 minutes 55 seconds, 43.9 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: Dan rants on the Digital Economy Bill, we discuss the question if IBM is really evil, Mo Duffy’s paper on F/OSS design, Microsoft now uses Launchpad and Apple throws a spanner in the works of developers once again…

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0:02:21 | Introduction

• Please excuse the delay and quality problems with the last episode
• Ana shows us what happens if you criticise the new Ubuntu release

• Fab loves that ringtone from the silly teddy bear movie by Kevin Sandom which we talked about last time — And then the phone rang…
• Fab joined this year’s Penguins Beard-a-Thon to grow a beard during the NHL playoffs for charity
• Interesting article from Tux Radar describing the Linux audio stack
• Beer of the Week: Brauhaus Bönnsch 2L growler

0:14:30 | Releases & News

• BSD: DragonFly BSD 2.6.1
• From the IRC: Red Hat job posting for Fedora Project Leader
• Distro: SystemRescueCd 1.5.2
• Distro: Parted Magic 4.10
• WebKit2
• Notmuch 0.1

• Dan talks about the Digital Economy Bill, which has been pushed into law in the UK — check out this cool visualisation of it all
• Simon Phipps on the Ubuntu UK Podcast
• 300th anniversary of copyright — clearly a reform is needed…
• Ubuntu switches their default search back to Google
• Máirín Duffy on F/OSS design
• IBM vs. TurboHerpesHercules — Groklaw on the topic
• Google funds Theora codec for ARM
• Custom firmware on PS3: GeoHot fights back — he’s got the hots for the PS3
• Parallels joining the Linux Foundation — that was quick, they stopped hating open source already?

1:00:17 | Microwatch

• Microsoft developing their own open source package manager, using Launchpad — wonders never cease…
• New secret license agreement for iPhone OS 4 probably puts an end to MonoTouch

1:10:34 | Jub-Jub

• Remembeer is an Android app to rate and save beers you’ve tried — it also has statistics functions

1:12:17 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Łukasz Zachulski, Stewart Danziger and Drew Fitzsimmons, who also sent a nice email saying they enjoy the show and want to help support us
• Forums: Ubuntu people, help Les organise an installfest at OggCamp 10!

• DarthSydwayZ sent us a bizarre video of Yoda breakdancing
• Mario Pareja and Eric Kilgore sent us links to this story of Comcast winning against the FCC in court in the US
• Randal Schwartz from FLOSS Weekly sends us a picture of him promoting Linux Outlaws at the Texas Linux Fest — very cool!
• Steve Pearce tells us of his migration from Mac/iPhone to Linux/Android
• Other emails this week from Alistair Munro, Torstein, NYbill, Beto, David Hunter, Andrew and professorchaos

• OggCamp Sponsors: Linux Format - Media Partner, The Open Learning Centre, Linux Emporium, Opsview, Bitfolk, Recruit12 and Linux Fund

Song: Going Down by The Hoboscopes from the album A Good Path to Follow…

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.