Linux Outlaws 240 – You Wouldn't Steal a Baby!

Podcast Episode Summary

Released: December 11, 2011
Length: 1:46:38

This week on Linux Outlaws: We catch up with tons of stuff that happened while we were busy not doing a podcast like the Carrier IQ debacle, the journal announcement, Doom 3 being opensourced, lots of stuff about the Galaxy Nexus and much more.

• Fab won NaNoWriMo!

Fab did it!

• The Bonn University Shakespeare Company on Google+
• Dennis Appelon Nielsen points out that we should have at least mentioned SELinux in our security topic in Episode 238
• Bruce Springsteen is going on tour, new album forthcoming
• Brainstorming for device sync in gPodder 3x
• Minecraft 1.0 released, jeb now lead designer
• Google Music now has a store
• Balls & Noble continues the fight

Balls & Noble

• Moggers87 asked us to mention his Speex version of the show
• Piracy is not theft

0:24:14 Releases & News

• Linux Mint 12
• OpenSuse 12.1
• Tiny Core 4.1
• CrunchBang Linux R 20111125 — support CrunchBang
• Gpodder 3.0 (and now 3.0.1 because of a bugfix)
• Arduino 1.0
• QEMU 1.0
• Security: Flaw in Apache could allow attackers into internal networks
• Even the BSA is now anti-SOPA
• The Carrier IQ debacle — Schneier weighs in
• SFLC asks for DMCA exception
• Doom 3 open sourced
• Google releases official factory image for the Galaxy Nexus, makes re-flashing the device easy
• Galaxy Nexus volume bug
• Native user interface for Firefox on Android
• The journal, a next gen syslog
• We discuss the recent controversy about Ubuntu's and Mint's popularity
• Citrus UI proposal for Libre Office
• Gnome Shell Extensions website launched
• FLOSS Weekly episode on git

1:13:15 Android App Tip

• World of Goo for Android — especially awesome on a tablet

1:15:40 Feedback

Supporters: Durand D'souza, Matthew Clarke, Nicholas Ruest, Duncan Michael Bell, Alison Chaiken, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Daniel Lowe, Kirk Richard Holz, Ian Mavero and Clive van Hilten — from Flattr: fwbd, cyberkiller, corenominal, thelovebug, TonyJ, and cwoollard

• Emilien who we met at FOSDEM this year sent us a very nice email
• Tom Marble sent us some info about FOSDEM 2012 — check out the calls for papers
• Dan Devine wrote to tell us about Linux.conf.au which is coming up in Ballarat from the 16th - 20th of Jan 2012
• James Lewis sent Dan some tips on how to install Gnome Shell in Ubuntu
• Jonathan Gregory writes to say he loves Unity but feels ashamed because nobody else seems to
• Galen White, Linuxnetzer and Frank Bell all write with feedback about our recent Linux Security discussion
• Axel Pahl tells us the Apfelkind trademark thing became the topic of a whole sketch on German TV show Extra3
• Jon asks which distros we currently use
• Jason Harrison is moving to Linux from Mac and says he’s looking for a cloud backup solution to compare to things like Carbonite

We had other emails this week from Robin Catling, Tom Wilson, Clive Van Hilten, Tom Wisniewski, Peter Hultqvist, Brad Alexander, Remy van Elst, Lowe Schmidt, Luke Huxley, FiftyOneFifty, Tom Ames, Erez, Alan Farough and Jan.

• Pony Express 1.1

Song: Baby Please Don't Go by Big Bill Broonzy (Public Domain)

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