Linux Outlaws 150 - Linux Cloudlaws

Podcast Episode Summary

MP3 - 1 hour 42 minutes 2 seconds, 46.7 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This time on Linux Outlaws: HP buys Palm, Steam coming to Linux, Humble Indy Bundle goes open source, more PS3 firmware fallout, Red Hat & Novell win important lawsuit, Mandriva in trouble, UDS news 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.

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0:03:29 Introduction

• Google stopped selling the Nexus One online
• Check out the trailer for Sintel, the new open movie from the Blender guys, it looks amazing! — more info at durian.blender.org
• Support the Libre Graphics Meeting!
• Little Big Planet 2 announced
• Beer of the Week: BrewDog Punk IPA — given to Fab by bald hero Ade Bradshaw

0:12:38 Releases & News

• PCLinuxOS 2010, PCLinuxOS 2010 “Openbox”, PCLinuxOS 2010.1
• Sabayon Linux 5.2 “CoreCD”
• grml 2010.04
• Tiny Core Linux 2.11
• Quirky 1.0, Quirky 1.1
• Monomaxos 5.0
• CentOS 5.5
• Puppy Linux 5.0
• Emacs 23.2
• MythTV 0.23
• Pidgin 2.7
• KDevelop 4.0
• Kernel 2.6.34
• Fedora 13 release slips to May 25

• German court basically outlaws unencrypted wifi — more on this topic from the BBC
• Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has passport confiscated by Aussie officials
• HP buys Palm
• Steam is coming to Linux
• Humble Indy Bundle raises more than a million dollars, goes open source
• Ryzom MMORPG open sourced as well
• U.S. Air Force may suffer collateral damage from PS3 firmware update
• Sony sued for removing PS3 features
• Red Hat & Novell beat IP Innovation in multiple workspaces case — more on this at opensource.com
• Has Mandriva failed? — more on the topic on Zonker’s blog, Mandriva’s response
• UDS news: Ubuntu Light, Window Indicators, Unity shell for netbooks
• Android overtakes iPhone in US smartphone market
• Red Hat Cloud Access makes RHEL contract transferable to EC2

1:05:31 Microwatch

• German appeals court upholds Microsoft’s FAT patent
• HTC signs patent deal with Microsoft
• Why is Microsoft Office so expensive? Ask Bing!

• Apple’s lies about being open source based
• There apparently is a “lifetime limit” on buying iPads — Seriously??? What the hell…!?

1:16:41 Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Neal Quincey, Chris Tevyaw, Łukasz Jernaś, Eduardo Carrillo, Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér, Ryan Kohler, Paul Coleman and Andrew Cutler!
• Forums: Linux Outlaws Greatest Hits

• Markatto send us an email about the Diaspora project — you can support them here
• Xavier Sythe send us information about a new distro called Peppermint Linux
• lostnbronx writes to let us know that the Going Linux podcast recently passed 100 episodes
• Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér sent an audio greeting for OggCamp 10 — we were slightly late in picking this up…
• Other emails from Robin Catling from the Full Circle Podcast, Rich Caller, Nathan Bumhanger, St3v3, Greg Thomson, Alex Tanner, Matthew Phillips, Kevin P., BobK54, Andreas Marschke, Kevin McDole, Ebcdic Zehetbauer, Noble Baker, James Tait, Patrik Alzén, Stuart Ward, koeart, FiftyOneFifty and Dale

• Events: SELF, June 11-13 at the Marriott at Renaissance Park Hotel in Spartanburg / FOSSCon, June 19 at Rochester Institute of Technology — use the code linuxoutlaws to get $5 off a ticket

Song: Sad Man by Dub Rebellion

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.