Linux Outlaws 226 - Diggy Diggy Hole

Podcast Episode Summary

Released: August 31, 2011
Length: 1:36:01

We are finally back with a regular show and tons of news: Linus wants to fork Gnome, Samsung hires Cyanogen, Google buys Motorola, HP effectively kills themselves, Nokia is being stupid as well and Apple sues everybody.

0:01:09 Introduction

• Loriot has died — Fab is really sad about this
• Linux Outlaws video test
• Leave Your Hat On intro, Leave Your Hat On Episode 1
• We are now on Stitcher
• LXnews has hit 500 posts
• From the Desktop Summit: Hitler and Gnome 3, Panel about copyright assignment with Bradley Kuhn and Mark Shuttleworth
• Bethesda wants to sue Mojang, Notch responds
• The Kindle Cloud Reader
• Check out the Itsawinner poker podcast

Loriot

0:20:10 Releases and News

• Tiny Core Linux 3.8
• Vine Linux 6.0
• KNOPPIX 6.7
• Oracle Linux 5.7
• Gentoo Linux 11.2
• Arch Linux 2011.08.19
• Development Release: Fedora 16 Alpha
• Mono 2.10.3
• KDE 4.7
• Samba 3.6
• PyPy 1.6
• Firefox 6
• Bitcoin malware steals your GPU cycles for mining
• Google+ gets games
• Btrfs not default in F16
• Linus wants Gnome to be forked
• Samsung hires Cyanogen
• Google buys Motorola
• HP ditches PC business, kills WebOS
• Nokia: MeeGo is dead, N9 not shipping in the US

1:09:33 Crapplewatch

• Apple sues Samsung & Motorola over tablets, loses in the Netherlands

1:17:33 Feedback

Supporters: Kevan V., Daniel Lowe, Matthew Smith, Paul Williams  and all the flattr’ers

• Xoke send us some great Yogscast-themed audio feedback
• Russell Dickenson says we make too many jokes
• Dan Devine weighs in on the Telstra vs Vodaphone "who is more crap" debate
• Ed Vim sends us some comments including the fact that we need to have Becky Hogge on more often

We had more emails from Matthew Vita, Tom Sutch, Paul (from Chester LUG), Andrew, Kaheil, Michael Hanke, Alistair Munro and Cheezespread.

• Fab is giving away Google+ invites in this blog post
• MineCon: Las Vegas, 18-19 November
• List with OggCamp 11 videos

Song:  Dwarf Hole (Diggy Diggy Hole) by Patient Zero (all rights reserved, played by permission)

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