Linux Outlaws 232 - This is Not Going Anywhere

Podcast Episode Summary

Released: October 8, 2011
Length: 1:35:41

Amazon launches all-new Kindles including an Android tablet, HTC suffers a massive security problem with their Sense UI, MeeGo is now officially dead, Red Hat buys Gluster, Samsung signs on to Microsoft's protection racket and Apple breaks its website on the day of their iPhone announcement.

0:01:27 Introduction

• Video: Warhammer 40K lore in about a minute
• Please use submit.lxnews.org to submit stories for the show from now on
• Bunch of Creepers is back! 
• The GoOSe project launches
• We talk about Lightroom alternatives for Linux, including Darktable

0:14:45 Releases and News

• ArchBang Linux 2011.10
• FreeNAS 8.0.1
• Firefox 7
• PulseAudio 1.0
• Gnome 3.2
• Massive security vulnerability in Sense UI discovered — HTC now scrambling to fix this
• Kernel.org is restored
• Amazon releases new Kindles: Kindle Fire tablet, $99 Kindle Touch, new baseline Kindle is now $79 with ads, the Kindle 3 will be sold as “Kindle Keyboard”  — in-depth review at Ars Technica
• Amazon says: We expect people will root these new devices

The Amazon Kindle Fire

• MeeGo is dead, reborn as “Tizen”
• Berlios is closing down
• Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle
• AirMech, a game built completely with open source tools
• Blender Institute launches Project Mango
• LibreOffice now one year old, still going strong
• Sony Ericsson is supporting Android modders
• Red Hat buys GlusterFS

1:09:25 Microwatch

• Samsung signs on to Microsoft’s Android protection racket
• Microsoft finally kills the Zune

1:15:46 Feedback

Supporters: Drew Fitzsimmons, Remy van Elst and Evgeny Kuznetsov — on Flattr: cwoollard, corenominal, johanv and deejay1

• We got lots of responses about Linux alternatives to Lightroom, including from Jeremy Pope and Stefan Peter
• Shlomo in Israel wrote us on the subject of podcatchers, which involves using his own script on his computer and Dropsync on his phone
• Aitor Pazos sends us some informaton about El Partido de Internet (The Internet Party) in Spain and the plans they have to encourage citizens to participate in a more direct manner in the political system; they are developing a software tool for this called Agora (Launchpad page)
• VulcanRidr and Bob send us some opinions on Windows 8 — review video
• SmokeyMaverick says all US citizens should sign this petition against software patents on the White House site

We had other emails from Robert Berger, Michiel Beijen, Amir Taaki, Armin Krauss and our old friend Kevan V.

Song: Behind the Barricades by David Rovics (licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0) — playing this again as per special request by supporter Remy van Elst

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