Linux Outlaws 236 - The Right to Bear GNU

Released: November 6, 2011
Length: 2:00:38

HP is staying in the PC business, Canonical opens retail stores, discussions on Secure Boot, Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share, Apple patents "swipe to unlock" and we discuss Mark Shuttleworth's recent comments on Ubuntu and power users.

• Finally, another game for Dan: GTA V announced
• John McCarthy, father of the AI and Lisp, dies aged 84
• New Google+ features
• Humble Bundle Voxatron debut
• Galaxy Nexus launch date official: November 17
• If you want to read along with Fab’s NaNoWriMo novel as he writes it, check out his Gitorious repo for it

• OpenBSD 5.0
• Linux From Scratch 7.0
• Puppy Linux 5.3 "Slacko"
• WikiLeaks faces financial problems due to banking blockade, this spoof video they did seems appropriate
• White House says “we can’t do anything about software patents” — are we being trolled?
• Privacy problem discovered in the Dolphin HD browser for Android
• HP now staying in the PC business?
• Two white papers on UEFI Secure Boot published
• Linux Foundation announces long term support kernel tree
• Linux Mint is preparing the switch to Gnome 3
• Canonical & Dell open retail stores in China
• Sony completely buys out Ericsson for $1.475 billion

• Windows XP is now ten years old
• Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

• Apple patents “swipe to unlock”

• Shuttleworth doesn’t understand power users — or he doesn’t want to
• Apparently he also said this in his keynote at UDS: "Moreover, it appears that there's no place for applications that don't support indicator-applets and are available in the Ubuntu Software Center. These apps should be removed/banned until they get support for the new Unity notification area."

• We have some audio feedback from Gareth Witty
• Robin Catling (of Full Circle Podcast fame) says our new theme tune sounds like the Top Gun soundtrack
• Frank Bell tells us that people are being burgled because of Facebook
• Stuart Edgar relays a positive story of the open source model at work
• Keith Z-G says Blender is the new Emacs
• Bogus Zaba recommends the Gnu World Order Podcast for people wanting something more technical than our show

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