Title’s got you interested, eh? This week: Fab does Jürgen Prochnow, a story from arsetechnica, we learn what a Gerrymander is and much, much more…

We start with another shoutout to Emmett, lostnbronx’s son. Fab also tries his best Jürgen 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 — 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 CanSecWest’s Pwn to Own — Mac was “the easiest target”

• Also: guy tries to sell the hacked Vista machine but eBay pulls it — apparently it’s against their ToS to sell goods “that might cause harm” (like Vista)

• Firefly extension turns your Firefox into a file browser — pretty cool!

• Adobe joins the Linux Foundation — 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 Walmart’s site.
• Rob Collins tells us about Spicebird and plugs his site on which he plugged our show — thanks for that!

Before we wrap it up, we talk a bit about the new theme here on the site — 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 “Sudo Modprobe”, 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.

Another metric buttload of emails…

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 Dan’s accents and asks about how we came do know each other and do the show (we actually already answered that in last week’s show).

• (07:00) Larry Bushey doesn’t 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 wouldn’t 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 Käll wants us to create our own IRC channel — 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 doesn’t like these separate feedback shows — 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 Moody’s 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 he’s 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 Google’s 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 “good” Solaris — 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 y’all 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 lostnbronx’ 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 “Sudo Modprobe”, 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.

On this show: Bruce Perens’s bid for the OSI board, Apple’s EULAs suck, a look at the Hardy beta, Wormux and more.

No April’s Fools joke, we indeed released a new show! We also now have an IRC channel: #linuxoutlaws on irc.freenode.net — 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 Perens’s 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 — looks like their “genius” 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 — 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 m1330’s 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 “Sudo Modprobe”, 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.

On the show this time: Lots of M$-bashing again, Dan’s 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 — 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 “Big Buck Bunny”

• US anti-trust commitee scrutinises Windows 7 — we also think the name “Windows 7” 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

Dan’s Rant & Package of the Week (57:23)

We also have a rant by Dan on Windows as he’s 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 — it’s entirely Fab’s 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 “Sudo Modprobe”, 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.

Our first dedicated listener feedback episode. Released a bit later than originally planned but full of juicy content nonetheless.

Emails (01:56)

• Johan from Sweden tells us about make-kpkg for compiling custom kernels on Debian systems

• James from New Jersey is running Xubuntu 7.10 on his MacBook and tells us he likes the podcast

• Chris (aka. Tony Soprano) tells us about spreading Linux and F/OSS in the schools of North Carolina

• Randy Noseworthy sends us a file we can’t open

• Mark Falkner writes us again and tells us that his dog is really tired now and also mentions Frostwire

• Rob Collins prompts us about Linpus Linux

• John Priest loves the show and is a Firefly fan like Fab

Forum topics (19:37)

• Ger Apeldoorn on Outlook and Evolution

• Using the Drobo NAS with Linux

• The Israeli Ministry of Education moves to open source

If you have any comments on this episode, please post in the forums.

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, 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.

In this show: The usual Microsoft bashing, Canonical’s Landscape, Fab’s CeBIT coverage and much more.

At the top of the show, we thank James for his donation and Fab plugs the XPS m1330 review on Dan’s blog.

Releases (05:11)

Distros:

• Linux-EduCD 0.9
• Kiwi Linux 8.03
• Frugalware 0.8

News Stories (8:53)

• Microsoft wants NGOs in India to send letters to the government to support OOXML — and they can’t spell!
• US delegation to the ISO votes to support OOXML — what a huge surprise…
• Microsoft admits big delay in fixing the Home Server bug and they are getting slammed even by their own fanboys on that
• Canonical unveils Landscape admin tool for servers
• Sun scoops up Python gurus — what are they planning?
• Quite a surprise: the BBC apparently uses Linux for TV production
• German police raids CeBIT because of mp3 patent violations and Fab narrowly escapes

Main Topic: CeBIT 2008 Coverage (41:06)

Fab talks about his experience at CeBIT, especially at the Novell booth and their whole “Interoperability” campaign with Microsoft (including Miguel de Icaza’s views on this). We also discuss the situation of open source software in the industry in general and some other interesting topics Fab came across like the dominance of Linux in virtualisation and the huge success of Asus’ EeePC at the show.

If you’re interested, you can also check out Fab’s gallery with photos from the show room floor:

We close the show with Dan’s song The Shed Anthem, which he recently released on his music blog, and mention that we will do a special listener feedback episode next (probably in between this show and the next usual one). If you want to give us feedback on the episode, please leave a comment in our forums.

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, 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.

This week: Ubuntu Brainstorm, leap year babies mad at Ballmer, Debian stuff and IE8 and standards compliance.

We start the show with bad news: Chess Griffin has announced that Linux Reality will close up shop after episode 100. We then move on to some listener feedback.

Listener Feedback (05:40)

• Alex Bennee gives us some feedback on the various open source licenses, the whole CentOS / Red Hat Enterprise Linux relationship we talked about recently and the different ways companies apply these licenses ie. what that means for the community

• Glen Tyler recommends Rocxshop to Fab as an alternative multimedia distro to Ubuntu Studio

• Nathan Dotz “butters up” and gives us more feedback on Linux in education as well as assuring us that at the unis he’s attended as a student in Computer Science, *nix knowledge is very much required

• David Stephenson is running Windows XP and wants to move to Linux, therefore he wants to know what distro to use to get his online games to work in Wine / Cedega

• Jose aka (TaCo) from HP in Houston asks our opinion on the story that Google is funding a project to make Photoshop run better under Linux

• Jonathan Barford from Liverpool found our podcast while looking for lullabies; he also offers for Dan to try out the eeePC he intends to buy

Releases & News (28:42)

Releases: FreeBSD 7.0, Slax 6.0.1, Momonga Linux 4.1, Parted Magic 2.1, PelicanHPC GNU Linux 1.3, SystemRescueCd 1.0.0 and Linux Mint 4.0 “KDE”

• Ubuntu unveils Ubuntu Brainstorm, their version of the Dell Idea Storm site — so now you can vote on stuff you’d like to see in our favourite poo coloured distro

• Security support for Debian Sarge will be terminated on March 31

• Leap year babies are mad at Steve Ballmer because of a long standing bug in several Microsoft products; apparently they’ve writting a Perl script to get back at him — also, 1900 is not a leap year, 20 year old bugs aren’t automatically a standard!

• Sanger Institute runs huge Debian cluster

• Internet Explorer 8 will apparently follow web standards — well, sort of (it’s Microsoft we’re talking about here, after all)

Reviews & Package of the Week (48:55)

Fab reviews the OSSEC host-based intrusion detection system (which he heard about on TLLTS) and Alpha 5 of Ubuntu Hardy (Alpha 6 came out since).

Package of the Week: - Dan: Powertop, a CPU power manager for your Intel chips - Fab: Django (python-django), a Python-based rapid web-development framework

Fab will be at CeBIT this week, we’ll have a special report for you about that in the next episode.

Please comment on this episode in the forums.

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, 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.

Errata

Red Hat does release their source code, hence CentOS and all the other RHEL clones out there.

Listener Feedback

• The omipresent Verbal sends us an audio tip about how to handle file names with spaces on the command line and also sneakily plugs the Going Linux podcast

• Antone Henderson sends us a cool picture of Noel and another one of his songs which we play at the end of the show

• klaatu from The Bad Apples podcast educates us about OpenOffice on OS X and gives his opinion about the ability to win converts from the Mac side of things

• Daniel Lowe from Mackay asks Fab about his experiences living down under and talks about the flood damage Mackay and Airlie Beach received during a recent cyclone (his news story links: 1 & 2); Fab also mentions the movie Fool’s Gold which was being filmed in and around Airlie Beach & Whitehaven Beach when he was down there

• Drew asks Fab about the kernel he’s running and a possible way to get his Toshiba laptop with an Intel 4965 wireless card and Intel HD audio to work

• Mark Falkner from Devon asks about ways to get Internet Explorer to run in Linux and also mentions Ext2IFS

• Philip Herron (RedBrain) tells us about Linux and Windows at his university

• Jim Shaver explains about the proliferation of Linux at his uni in Calgary and gives a tip about running Internet Explorer in Firefox using IE Tab

Releases & News

Releases: GoblinX Linux 2.6, NetSecL 2.2, CentOS 5.1 Live CD, Scientific Linux 5.1 Live CD/DVD, Linux Caixa Mágica 12, FreeNAS 0.686.1, DragonFly BSD 1.12, grml 1.1 and BSD pfSense 1.2

• The Ubuntu release after Hardy will be called “Intrepid Ibex”; some more not-so-serious suggestions for further releases

• Parasitic sellers of F/OSS on eBay

• Vista SP1 kills and maims security apps and several utilities

• Google doesn’t like OOXML (somehow Borat is involved)

• Microsoft releases Server 2008 — yawn!

• Stallman steps down from Emacs team, again, gets replaced by Cheech and Chong?

• Microsoft gets fined a record sum by the EU — this story even made the BBC front page

Review

Dan gives us the lowdown on Foresight Linux.

Gaming Corner

We talk about Frets on Fire, the open source Guitar Hero clone written in Python and the fact that the original SimCity has been open sourced as Micropolis.

Package of the Week

• Dan: Mplayer-Plugin, the best browser plugin to play your media
• Fab: phpBB, the ultimate forum software

Fab might be getting a Gumstix and will get back with a review in the future. We also thank the guys from LugRadio for their mention of our podcast and wish them a happy 4th birthday.

We end the show with the song Old Heroes Like Me by Noel Watson.

Please comment on this episode in the forums.

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, 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.

On this special episode, we talk about Linux in schools and universities and Dan sticks a fork into his Dell.

Listener Feedback (04:35)

• Nathan Dumont (hairymnstr) sends us a link to his EeePC review and his guide to install Ubuntu with Compiz Fusion on it

Fab also explains what happened to the SCaLE coverage we wanted to do and mentions that we will be at CeBIT and LugRadio Live UK (check out the links for forum threads about details on how to meet up with us).

Releases & News (09:55)

Releases: Debian 4.0r3 and Greenie Linux 1.2.8 “Battle For Wesnoth”

• SCO’s back — apparently they got 100 million dollars by some investment firm

• Play.com starts selling DRM-free music downloads

• Hackers exploit last week’s kernel security hole to hack Claranet — this leads us to talk a bit about security in Linux and also computer security in general

Main Topic: Linux in Education (25:10)

We talk about our experiences concerning Linux in schools and universities over here in Germany / the United Kingdom and how we see the whole situation. Fab talks a bit about what he does in his part-time job supporting schools with everything IT-related and Dan explains how it worked during the time he was studying for his degree. We also discuss corporate sponsorship of schools and universities, Edubuntu and the amazing applications Linux could have in the education field.

Before we wrap it up, Dan also tells the story how he fixed the CD/DVD drive on his brand new Dell using only a fork and gives us a preview to his upcoming review of Foresight Linux.

Please comment on this episode in the forums.

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, 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.