Linux Outlaws 33 - Boba Fett of the Tech World

Sun April 13 2008

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Linux Outlaws 32 - Porn to Own

Mon April 07 2008

Titleâs got you interested, eh? This week: Fab does JÃrgen Prochnow, a story from arsetechnica, we learn what a Gerrymander is and much, much moreâ... read more

Titleâs got you interested, eh? This week: Fab does JÃrgen Prochnow, a story from arsetechnica, we learn what a Gerrymander is and much, much moreâ We start with another shoutout to Emmett, lostnbronxâs son. Fab also tries his best JÃrgen Prochnow impression. Releases (07:28) Knoppix 5.3.1 SystemRescueCd 1.0.1 Dreamlinux 3.0 OpenOffice.org 2.4 News (14:45) OOXML is now an official ISO standar... read more

Titleâs got you interested, eh? This week: Fab does JÃrgen Prochnow, a story from arsetechnica, we learn what a Gerrymander is and much, much moreâ We start with another shoutout to Emmett, lostnbronxâs son. Fab also tries his best JÃrgen Prochnow impression. Releases (07:28) Knoppix 5.3.1 SystemRescueCd 1.0.1 Dreamlinux 3.0 OpenOffice.org 2.4 News (14:45) OOXML is now an official ISO standard â looks like the shit has hit the fan (story from arsetechnica)! We also learn from Dan what a Gerrymander is. Ubuntu stands alone, unhacked at CanSecWestâs Pwn to Own â Mac was âthe easiest targetâ Also: guy tries to sell the hacked Vista machine but eBay pulls it â apparently itâs against their ToS to sell goods âthat might cause harmâ (like Vista) Firefly extension turns your Firefox into a file browser â pretty cool! Adobe joins the Linux Foundation â PR stunt or are they finally seeing the light? Extra Stuff (41:07) Fab talks about killing his mythbox and trying out Mythbuntu once again. This time it booted and he likes it a lot. Tip of the Week: SmugMug, a very cool photo-sharing service Listener Feedback: JP Campbell sends us his thoughts about Wubi. Nathan Dotz rants about Walmart and tells us why he thinks they stopped selling the Linux-powered gPC in the stores. He also sends us links to the gBook and CloudBook at Walmartâs site. Rob Collins tells us about Spicebird and plugs his site on which he plugged our show â thanks for that! Before we wrap it up, we talk a bit about the new theme here on the site â please tell us what you think about that and the rest of the episode in the forums. The theme music for this podcast is a song called âSudo Modprobeâ, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license. read less

Linux Outlaws 31 - Listener Feedback

Sat April 05 2008

Another metric buttload of emailsâ We start the show with some banter about the fact that the TLLTS guys changed their frontpage to something Apple-t... read more

Another metric buttload of emailsâ We start the show with some banter about the fact that the TLLTS guys changed their frontpage to something Apple-themed on April Fools: (05:12) NYbill likes Danâs accents and asks about how we came do know each other and do the show (we actually already answered that in last weekâs show). (07:00) Larry Bushey doesnât send us free whiskey, but he thanks us for... read more

Another metric buttload of emailsâ We start the show with some banter about the fact that the TLLTS guys changed their frontpage to something Apple-themed on April Fools: (05:12) NYbill likes Danâs accents and asks about how we came do know each other and do the show (we actually already answered that in last weekâs show). (07:00) Larry Bushey doesnât send us free whiskey, but he thanks us for plugging the Going Linux podcast. (08:45) George Tripp sends us a hilarious email and claims to be one of our oldest listeners. He tells us about his setup, asks if it wouldnât be better to buy a Windows machine if it costs the same as a Linux-preloaded one and recommends Fotox for panorama photo stitching. (13:05) Antone Henderson aka. Hendo tells us why going Linux really is a green move and sends us another great Noel Watson song, which we play at the end of the show. (15:30) Wilhelm KÃll wants us to create our own IRC channel â low and behold, we did: #linuxoutlaws on irc.freenode.net. (18:10) Jim Shaver informs us that Dell has finally started to sell Ubuntu machines in Canada too and they are also quite a bit cheaper than the Windows ones as well. Cool, eh? (20:33) Ger Apeldoorn doesnât like these separate feedback shows â sorry! He also says Fab is totally wrong on server provisioning and points us to Linux MCE again. (24:34) Martin Livesley from Southport in the UK tells us about Glyn Moodyâs blog. Dan also plugs SpinVox. (27:13) Paul Kaljuvee, another Aussie, tells us how he discovered our podcast and also about his Linux setup. He also asks the same question as NYBill. (29:15) Philip Herron aka. RedBrain tells Fab about some cool Linux games and mentions some depression in the community he seems to be experiencing lately. He also says heâs sick of the FUD the Windows people are still spreading about Linux to which we totally agree. (32:00) Shaun Mallette loves the show and says we rock. Thanks, dude! (34:05) Mark Widdicombe asks us about how to get his ATI Rage card to work in Linux. Fab recommends to start with trying to disable the onboard GFX-card in the BIOS. He also recommends searching the Ubuntu Forums via Google by using site:ubuntuforums.org in the query. Dan also recommends Googleâs Linux search. (37:30) Steve tells us about a recent free software moment involving the Asus EeePC. He also watches Firefly, which is awesome! (40:20) Jason Howell tells about the recently released 1.0 version of the âgoodâ Solaris â Nexenta. (41:15) Dick Turpin aka. Peter Cannon sends us another funny email. He recommends a forum topic update section for the show and says yâall need to get your arse on the IRC! Fab also appologises for crashing the site. (45:27) George Naylor relates his Linux story which is really neat. (47:20) Drew plugs his site MyBrainRunsLinux.com with a tip for re-installing apps in Debian-based distros. We also do a shoutout to lostnbronxâ 5-year-old son. If you have any feedback yourself, drop us a line in the forums. The end of the show features the wonderful song Care For Me by Noel Watson. The theme music for this podcast is a song called âSudo Modprobeâ, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license. read less

Linux Outlaws 30 - Late Night Outlaws

Tue April 01 2008

On this show: Bruce Perensâs bid for the OSI board, Appleâs EULAs suck, a look at the Hardy beta, Wormux and more. No Aprilâs Fools joke, we indeed... read more

On this show: Bruce Perensâs bid for the OSI board, Appleâs EULAs suck, a look at the Hardy beta, Wormux and more. No Aprilâs Fools joke, we indeed released a new show! We also now have an IRC channel: #linuxoutlaws on irc.freenode.net â drop in there and join us whenever you feel like it! Thanks to RedBrain for setting that up. After mentioning the IRC channel, we talk about our plans for fut... read more

On this show: Bruce Perensâs bid for the OSI board, Appleâs EULAs suck, a look at the Hardy beta, Wormux and more. No Aprilâs Fools joke, we indeed released a new show! We also now have an IRC channel: #linuxoutlaws on irc.freenode.net â drop in there and join us whenever you feel like it! Thanks to RedBrain for setting that up. After mentioning the IRC channel, we talk about our plans for future listener feedback shows and corresponding poll at the forums. We do read one email from Russell Dickenson about Frugalware and their release names and answer his question (which actually many people asked) about how we came to recording a podcast, having never met each other in person. Releases (14:40) Distros: Zenwalk Live 5.0 Development Releases (Distros): Fedora 9 Beta Ubuntu 8.04 Beta News Stories (18:40) We talk about Bruce Perensâs petition to get elected to the OSI board about which he talked on the latest Linux Link Tech Show episode Apple embarasses themselves with the Safari for Windows EULA â looks like their âgeniusâ CEO let this one slip throughhttp://www.ubuntu.com/testing/hardy/beta Cuba and India vote no on OOXML at the ISO; Germany unfortunately voted yes ODF editor wants OOXML to get approved â Huh? Reviews, Games & Package of the Week (41:37) Fab talks about the new features in the Hardy beta: Evolution: support for Google Calendar International Clock Widget Compiz works on the Dell m1330 with the Intel graphics (driver not blacklisted anymore) The m1330âs fingerprint scanner works Brasero Firefox 3 integration Pulseaudio Improved projector support Once we test it out ourselves, we get back to you with more thorough info. Fab then tells us about Wormux, an open source clone of Worms, one of the most fun games ever. Package of the Week: Dan: Pencil, a very cool cross platform drawing tool Fab: wbar, a lightweight and fast launcher dock thingy written in C Before we close it up, we give another shoutout to Chess Griffin, who just rocks! Please comment on this show in the forums. The theme music for this podcast is a song called âSudo Modprobeâ, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license. read less

Linux Outlaws 29 - It's a Bloody Nightmare

Wed March 26 2008

On the show this time: Lots of M$-bashing again, Danâs Windows rant and much more. Unfortunately, we start the show with bad news again. Sadly, Arthu... read more

On the show this time: Lots of M$-bashing again, Danâs Windows rant and much more. Unfortunately, we start the show with bad news again. Sadly, Arthur C. Clarke, one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, has died. Also, we correct a mistake from an earlier show since people told us that there is in fact a multimedia centre distro for Linux, which is called Linux MCE. Releases (08:2... read more

On the show this time: Lots of M$-bashing again, Danâs Windows rant and much more. Unfortunately, we start the show with bad news again. Sadly, Arthur C. Clarke, one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, has died. Also, we correct a mistake from an earlier show since people told us that there is in fact a multimedia centre distro for Linux, which is called Linux MCE. Releases (08:24) Distros: PC-BSD 1.5 Foresight 2.0 Parsix 1.0r1 Clonezilla Live 1.0.9-19 MirOS BSD #10 Slax 6.0.3 Application: TrueCrypt 5 Development Release (Distro): Ulteo Applications System Beta 1 News Stories (23:44) For fun, check out bug #1 for Ubuntu on Launchpad. Wal-Mart stops selling the Everex gPC, but only in retail (you can still get it online) The release date for Ubuntu Hardy Heron has been announced: 24th April 2008 The SFLC settles their suit with Verizon on behalf of BusyBox â another victory for the GPL! Apache is still the #1 webserver or as Dan says: Apache is still The Daddy! Project Peach releases their first trailer for âBig Buck Bunnyâ US anti-trust commitee scrutinises Windows 7 â we also think the name âWindows 7â is shite The Supreme Court also gives the go-ahead for Novell to go after M$ and Novell also wants to, even though they are buddies with Ballmer & Co. now Also, the SFLC warns against trusting Microsoft Danâs Rant & Package of the Week (57:23) We also have a rant by Dan on Windows as heâs rediscovered the pain of installing and using that particular operating system. Package of the Week: Fab: Firefly Media Server (aka. mt-daap), stream your music over your LAN Dan: gBrainy, train your brain on Gnome We then close the show with wishing everyone Happy Easter (sorry for the late release â itâs entirely Fabâs fault since he was insanely busy at work). Please comment on this show in the forums! The theme music for this podcast is a song called âSudo Modprobeâ, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license. read less