Linux Outlaws 235 - Unleash the Ball Clamp!

• We never mention the Barnes & Noble Nook because it isn’t sold outside the US and we've never seen one
• Fab was at a Mark Knopfler & Bob Dylan concert — video of Knopfler playing Why Aye Man
• We started a book club: Literary Outlaws
• Fab is doing NaoWriMo this year
• Our friend JonTheNiceGuy’s CCHits.net service is one year old on the day of recording — congratulations!
• Beer: Torgrim send Fab some Arctic beers

Arctic Beers

0:17:14 Releases and News

• Linux Kernel 3.1
• Blender 2.6
• German federal government is saying they will now “write their own malware” — German article
• Galaxy Nexus revealed

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus

• Ice Cream Sandwich features
• Google says Nexus S and many Gingerbread devices should get ICS
• ICS should be open source within the year
• Canonical announces 5 year support for the next LTS
• Amazon introduces new ebook format for the Kindle
• Mojang wins round 1 against Bethesda
• Google says pseudonyms are coming to G+
• Qt Project launches

1:03:20 Microwatch

• Looks like Florian Mueller is now officially being payed by Microsoft

1:05:25 Crapplewatch

• Apple threatens to sue a small café in Bonn because their logo contains an apple
• Steve Jobs wanted “thermonuclear war” with Android

The Apfelkind logo

1:19:28 Feedback

Supporters: Martin Bastow, bgryderclock,  Eric Geissinger and Luke Evans — on Flattr: cwoollard, variaatio, corenominal, cyberkiller and thelovebug, also: sudaraka, mattias0114, marxistvegan, splitbrain, e2jk, sorin7486 and jonkulp

• DarkN00b1971 from Texas emails Dan about his Stetson — this probably had to do with the last Leave Your Hat On
• the_remora wrote to ask why we haven’t mentioned the release of Flash for 64bit Linux
• Luke from Birmingham sent us a nice email about CyanogenMod
• Campbell Barton, our friend at the Blender project, gives us some more info on Project Mango and also on image editing in Blender
• Bob Kovacs writes to tell us of his woes with CUPS

We had other emails from Remy Van Elst, John Hill, Whym, Mike White, Lee Brown, Akiva Bloch and mjcpk.

Song: Rip It Up by 20lb Sounds