Linux Outlaws 243 - Beards Igniting (The Year 2011 in Review)

• Some people might have gotten our donation page in German recently because PayPal did something weird that Fab couldn’t replicate — we are sorry for that, it is fixed now
• Including this episode, we recorded a whopping 60 shows this year!

0:06:00 January

• We reviewed Linux Mint 10 and CyanogenMod 6.1
• Fab launches LXnews
• Apple introduces an app store on Mac OS X
• Sony sues Geohot
• Steve Jobs goes on medical leave
• OSI and FSF join to fight CPTN Holdings
• Fab reviews LMDE
• We did a special show on the situation in Egypt

0:18:51 February

• Dan gets hold of some MeeGo netbooks and reviews them
• We went to FOSDEM
• Honeycomb is unveiled
• The Elopcalypse engulfs Nokia
• Canonical messes with Banshee donations

0:33:18 March

• Fab starts ramping up video production on sixgun.tv
• FreedomBox Foundation funding succeeds — FreedomBox Update Talk From Bdale Garbee
• We get in trouble over the randomness of our MeeGo competition
• Fab becomes addicted to The Yogscast
• Fukushima happened
• Shuttleworth starts sniping at Gnome
• HP announces it will ship all PCs with WebOS installed
• Apple claims they own the word “app store”
• RSA is hacked
• AT&T initiates merger with T-Mobile

0:44:45 April

• April Fools: GNU/Linux Outlaws
• Google gets into trouble for not open sourcing Honeycomb
• Amazon launches their own Android app store
• Microsoft sues Balls & Noble
• Firefox 4 comes out
• Episode 200: Our podcasting howto special
• Symbian gets un-open-sourced
• We get interviewed by Les Pounder and release that as a podcast
• Fab reviews Gnome 3
• We interview Allison Randal about Project Harmony — twice

0:53:40 May

• Osama Bin Laden is killed
• Fab was a guest on TLLTS 400
• The Kindle launches in Germany
• We interview Carl Manneh from Mojang
• Fab goes to Samba XP
• Miguel de Icaza creates a company around Mono
• Microsoft buys Skype
• CentOS comes under fire for their development model
• Dan reviews Unity

0:58:34 June

• We launch Pony Express on the Android Market
• Linux goes 3.0
• Microsoft earns more money from Android than Windows Phone
• Dan goes to the Red Hat Partner Summit and gets several interviews, including Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst
• “The Big Man” Clarence Clemons dies
• Adobe drops AIR for Linux
• AVM court case kicks off in Germany
• We discuss the Gnome Shell developers being hostile towards extensions
• We release our well-received Bitcoin episode

1:02:55 July

• Karen becomes Executive Director of the Gnome Foundation
• Firefox 5 is released, the whole update insanity starts
• Fab reviews Arch
• Google+ launches, we get on it
• HP releases the TouchPad
• Fab reviews the Motorola Xoom
• Shuttleworth demands copyright assignment

1:10:22 August

• We interview Christian Heilmann from Mozilla
• Emacs violates the GPL
• We interview Becky Hogge for the second time
• OggCamp 11: live show, recap
• Loriot dies
• We launch Leave Your Hat On
• Linus wants to fork Gnome
• Motoroogle

1:13:48 September

• We interview Randal Schwartz again
• Fab gets addicted by Warhammer 40K again
• Linux turns 20
• We interview John Graham-Cumming
• Oracle stops shipping Java for Linux
• We review our favourite podcatchers
• Fab looses his hair
• Four years of LO!
• kernel.org hacked and Linux Foundation servers are compromised

1:18:24 October

• Google+ opens to all
• The Secure Boot controversy starts
• Amazon releases a slew of new Kindles
• MeeGo officially dies
• German federal trojan discovered by CCC
• Steve Jobs dies
• Timezone database threatened and saved
• Dennis Ritchie dies
• Beefy Miracle
• The Galaxy Nexus and Ice Cream Sandwich are announced
• Apple threatens Apfelkind

1:21:26 November

• HP can’t make up their mind about what to do
• Microsoft contributes code under the GPLv3 to Samba
• The whole SOPA thing kicks off
• AVM looses their case in Germany
• Ice Cream Sandwich source code is released
• Balls & Noble fights back against Microsoft

1:25:30 December

• Fab wins NaNoWriMo
• We interview Richard Hughes on the ColorHug
• Minecraft goes official
• CarrierIQ
• The journal proposal
• Official Gnome Shell extensions website launched
• We launch Planetfall
• Pony Express 1.1 released
• Fab gets his Galaxy Nexus and reviews it
• Megaupload controversy
• Linux Mint takes Banshee donations too
• HP decides to open source WebOS
• Kim Jong Il dies
• BT sues Google over Android

1:34:01 Year 2011 Summary

We summarise 2011 and talk about what we thought were important trends throughout year.

Have a happy new year, everyone!

Song: Super Exotic 60′s Beat by Juanitos from their album Best of Juanitos (licensed under Creative Commons BY 2.0 France)