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.

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.

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.

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.

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 canât 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 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.

At the top of the show, we thank James for his donation and Fab plugs the XPS m1330 review on Danâs 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 â and they canât spell!
• US delegation to the ISO votes to support OOXML â what a huge surpriseâ
• 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 â 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 âInteroperabilityâ campaign with Microsoft (including Miguel de Icazaâs 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 Asusâ EeePC at the show.

If youâre interested, you can also check out Fabâs gallery with photos from the show room floor:

We close the show with Danâs 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 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.

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 âbutters upâ and gives us more feedback on Linux in education as well as assuring us that at the unis heâs 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 âKDEâ

• Ubuntu unveils Ubuntu Brainstorm, their version of the Dell Idea Storm site â so now you can vote on stuff youâd 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 theyâve writting a Perl script to get back at him â also, 1900 is not a leap year, 20 year old bugs arenât automatically a standard!

• Sanger Institute runs huge Debian cluster

• Internet Explorer 8 will apparently follow web standards â well, sort of (itâs Microsoft weâre 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, weâll 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 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.

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 Foolâs Gold which was being filmed in and around Airlie Beach & Whitehaven Beach when he was down there

• Drew asks Fab about the kernel heâs 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 MÃgica 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 âIntrepid Ibexâ; 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 doesnât like OOXML (somehow Borat is involved)

• Microsoft releases Server 2008 â yawn!

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

• Microsoft gets fined a record sum by the EU â 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 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.

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 âBattle For Wesnothâ

• SCOâs back â apparently they got 100 million dollars by some investment firm

• Play.com starts selling DRM-free music downloads

• Hackers exploit last weekâs kernel security hole to hack Claranet â 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 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.

Listener Feedback (05:09)

• George Walkey starts us on a discussion on the topic of free âcommunityâ vs. paid âenterpriseâ editions of Free Software

• Rob Collins likes the game reviews on the show and tells us that he posted the second part of his âLinux Newbie in a Windows Worldâ article on his site

• Steve Cole gives us some excellent reasons for using Linux

• Gordon Coupar gives us his thoughts on Linux in Scottish schools and also provides a link to Windies Twa Thoosanâ (beware, Fab needed a dictionary to read this)

• Our mate JP from Canada tells us how much he enjoys the show and tortures Dan by making him do a Canadian accent

• Randy Noseworthy (we assume thatâs his real name) says we should be more John Wayne like and Fab apologises for failing horribly

Releases & News (20:07)

Releases this week: Nexenta Core Platform 1.0, LinuxTLE 9.0, Parted Magic 2.0 and SLAX 6.0.0 Development release: openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2

• Important security bulletin: Linux Kernel 2.6 Local Root Exploit; patch here

• This week is Ubuntu Developer Week

• Canonical starts to distribute commercial apps straight from their official repos

• In more Ubuntu news, it was recently announced that the next version of the distro will ship with KVM, not Xen â we discuss this

• VirtualBox has been bought by Sun; Fabâs not happy

• Some people in the F/OSS community are calling for a boycott of Trend Micro, we are sceptical

• The EU announces that it will investigate Microsoftâs OOXML campaign â no, thatâs not OpenOffice XML!

Reviews & Package of the Week (43:27)

Fab talks about running Silent Hunter III in Wine and asks if anybody knows how to get the successor SH4 to run. If you have any hints about that, please tell us in the forums.

Package of the Week:

• Fab: Tomboy, a note-taking program with wiki-style features for Gnome

• Dan: NoScript, a Firefox extension to block JavaScript for safer browsing

We end the show with another song by Noel Watson. This time its his wonderful version of Waltzing Matilda, the unofficial Australian national anthem. Thanks again for providing us with your great music, mate!

Please also comment on this 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.

Listener Feedback (04:40)

• Audio feedback from Aussie listener Antone Henderson, who tells us about the HP C4380 printer which works out of the box in Ubuntu; good to know if you are looking for a Linux compatible printer

• Cam DeCoster is looking for a multimedia-fileserver solution; Dan recommends FreeNAS, Fab suggests Debian â maybe on a NSLU2

• Rob Collins shares his Linux story with us

• Steve tips us off about the story of Trend Micro threatening to sue Barracuda Networks for their use of the open source ClamAV; we discuss the story

Releases & News (23:19)

Open source releases this week: Shift Linux 0.6.2, Finnix 91.0 and Musix 1.0r3 Test 5

We had quite a few big news items in general this week:

• Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo! for a looooot of money â God help us all, if this goes troughâ

• On the other hand, the french Gendamerie switches to Ubuntu; we say âVive la France!â

• Nokia buys Trolltech (the makers of QT); Fab has a bad feeling about it

• We learn that Linus doesnât own a mobile phone â w00t!?

• Microsoft whinges that IBM âkilledâ OOXML, the evil bastards!

Reviews & Package of the Week (44:13)

We review the Dell XPS m1330 laptop which we both bought. Fab also posted a more exhaustive review of the machine (with photos) on his blog. Our verdict: We love it. Especially as it is now available with Ubuntu preinstalled, as we mentioned last week.

Fab also talks about EVE Online, which heâs been playing a lot recently. Itâs an awesome space combat MMORPG that allows for very freeform gameplay in a huge universe. If you love games like Privateer or Freelancer or shows like Firefly, youâll have a lot of fun here. If you want to meet up with Fab in-game, his handle is âClay Reynoldsâ.

Package of the Week:

• Dan: The GIMP, the #1 open source and cross-platform image editor

• Fab: Cheese, a little Gnome program to capture photos and video from your webcam

We also want to remind everybody again to check out SCALE 6x if they have the chance. Weâll have Donald Burr from Otaku no Podcast as our embedded reporter over there to promote the podcast and bring us reports from the floor.

If you have any comments about this episode, please use 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.

Part 1 - Intro & Listener Feedback (03:40)

Due to some unforseen circumstances, we are a bit late this week â but to make up for it, we have a really long show for you. First of all, Fab talks about the new, slightly revamped show structure and his new section where he wants to talk about gaming on Linux. We then go on to the listener feedback we received this week:

• Philip Herron writes to us about gaming on Linux and Wine and tips Fab off about EVE Online (which we will talk more about in next weekâs show)

• Matteo asks about Googleâs Android and wants us to talk about educational use of Linux; we also talk a bit about Android vs. OpenMoko

• Tom praises our podcast and tells us about podcastready.com

• Gordon Coupar send us a wallpaper photo for the gallery

• Cam DeCoster Tells us how shocking our new laptops are

Part 2 - Releases & News (20:00)

Releases: Scientific Linux 5.1, Zenwalk 5.0, FreeBSD 6.3, SystemRescueCd 0.4.3, Ubuntu 6.06.2, GoblinX 2.6 âMicroâ, Parsix 1.0r0 and SchilliX 0.6

On the news front, quite a lot happened since our last show:

• Sun buys MySQL; we donât really know what to think about that yetâ

• Dell releases the XPS m1330 laptop (which we both bought recently) preloaded with Ubuntu

• Acer also started to offer Ubuntu laptops now, apparently

• IBM snuggles up with Ubuntu: it looks like they are planning to deploy Ubuntu in Enterprise environments; they also talk about the fact that they get many requests for Linux from their customers

Part 3 - Reviews & Package of the Week (38:08)

Fab tried out KDE 4 and tells us about his opinion. If you want to try it out for yourself, you can download the Kubuntu KDE Four Live CD. He also reviews Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, which is an awesome first-person shooter game with a native Linux client. We also shortly discuss Peter Cannonâs Nokia N810 review and our feelings towards the device.

Package of the Week:

• Dan: gLabels, print labels and business cards in Gnome

• Fab: Conky, a very subtle but still cool system monitor

This episode ends with Danâs song âReality?â from his music blog shedmusic.net. If you want to send us a song to play on the show that is your own, original music, feel free to send us a message using the contact form and weâll be happy to consider it. Also, please leave feedback on this show in the corresponding thread on 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.

But first off, we talk about the forums again, including this great video of Bill Gates almost saying that Vista sucks which was posted there:

We also talk a bit about the emails we received this week:

• Rob Collins asks about touch screen support in Linux, especially for his HP TX1320 convertible
• Mark Rice clarifies that he had actually found out about us in Linux Format Magazine
• Gregory Malsack tells us about his recent experience with Norton Anti-Virus

We also talk about the latest very critical Windows vulnerability and Peter Cannonâs Nokia N810 review which weâll talk about on the next show. On another note, we received news that Ewedrive has discontinued their backup service while JungleDisk is still going strong. Also: KDE 4.0 is out (we will also talk about this in detail on the next show).

We then go on to explain in detail how we record, produce and publish this show.

Fabâs Setup

• Behringer B1 microphone
• Behringer Xenyx 1204 mixer
• 2x Behringer UCA202 USB interface
• Laptop (running Linux)

Danâs Setup

• Logitech USB 350 headset
• Old studio PC (running Windows XP)

Software we use

• Skype for talking to each other
• Audacity for recording, editing and encoding
• Jokosher for mixing
• LAME for mp3 encoding
• EasyTAG for tagging

We also use Libsyn as a hosting service for the mp3 version of the show and the page including the RSS feeds are published using the Drupal CMS on a Danâs CentOS server. If you have additional questions about our production workflow or comments about this episode, please use this topic in our 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.

Fab starts off with another shoutout to the guys from TLLTS and we mention some interesting topics from the forums. Fab also rants about the fact that some games run better in Wine than on Windows. In our listener feedback section, we got email about:

• Our intro theme (which we are going to provide for download here on the site soon)
• CAD and architectual design software on Linux
• The Dreamlinux distribution
• Future show topics including a comparison of different virtual machines and more
• Firefox 2 stability or the lack thereof
• SME Server as a small to medium business server solution
• The fact that Shrek the Third (by DreamWorks) was indeed rendered on Linux using Maya
• Episode 3 and the security and trustworthiness of Open Source

We also got two great audio messages from heathenx and verbal with feedback and a listener tip. Apparently we sound like Simon Pegg and Arnold Schwarzeneggerâ

Errata from last week: Blenderâs open movie project is called Peach and Crystal Space itself is used in conjunction with CEL to make games.

Releases: trixbox 2.4.0, PCLinuxOS 2008 âMiniMeâ, Ultima Linux 8.3, Darkstar Linux 2008.1, DesktopBSD 1.6 and gOS 2.0 âRocketâ

In the main section, we cover the following stories:

• McAfee is pissed about open source â tough luck, we say
• We discuss the news that Mozilla causes outrage with Firefox ad campaign
• Shuttle launches really cool-looking, dirt cheap Linux boxes

• Microsoft is looking for Emacs developers â WTF!?
• We also discover why Novell really likes Microsoft
• In the last story for this week, we discuss the current DARPA challenge winner which runs Ubuntu

Package of the Week
Fab: Frozen Bubble, one of the best little open source games ever
Dan: gPodder, a very simple and cool podcatcher for Gnome

Next week we will talk about how we produce this show and what kind of software packages we use in our workflow. Until then, please feel free to comment on this episode in our forums. This episode includes Danâs song âTruthâ which you can find on his new music blog shedmusic.net.

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.

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.

Looks like the first episode of 2008 is another long one. It took a pretty long time to edit too, so we appologize for the delay. But at least you have enough content between this show and the last one to make up for the week we missed.

Introduction

We start off by mentioning that we both, absolutely independently from each other, bought the Dell XPS m1330 over the holidays â on the same day, in the same colour! We also both gave our best to dodge the Microsoft tax. Weâll have to see how that worked out once the machines arriveâ

We will give you a usability report on the XPS m1330 (especially concerning Linux) once we both had enough time to play with them, of course.

Listener Feedback

Someone, who shall remain unnamed, wanted us to bring some article to the attention of our readers that tells you how to convert your nice and shiny Linux box into a fake Mac system. We donât get the point, reallyâ

On a more useful note, we mention SCALE â the Southern California Linux Expo â which will be happening in Los Angeles, February 8 - 10. Speakers include our favourite community manager, Jono Bacon from LugRadio. If you are in the area at the time, definitely check it out!

We got our first audio comments this week, which is really cool. The first one is from Daniel who tells us about how he listens to podcasts on his iPod, problems with Rockbox and how he got Flash and Skype 2.0 working on 64bit Gutsy. The second audio feedback is from Jim, who gives us a little review of Flock. Great stuff!

Fab also recommends SmugMug as a great alternative to Flickr. You can check out his photos here.

Main Section

Releases: NetBSD 4.0, ZenEdu Live âChristmas Editionâ, VectorLinux 5.9, CRUX 2.4, SimplyMEPIS 7.0, Linpus Linux 9.4 âLiteâ, Nonux 4.3, Vine Linux 4.2, FreeNAS 0.686, sidux 2007-04.5, Debian 4.0r2 and 3.1r7, Annvix 3.0, GoboLinux 014 and SME Server 7.3.

We also discuss the fact that Canonical has released version 1.0 of their Bazaar tool and the imminent release of KDE4. As an update to our JungleDisk discussion in episode 8, Fab mentions that Security Now recently did an episode on that service as they promised they would and it seems to be secure if you handle it right.

Stories this week: Kubuntu wonât get an LTS version for 8.04, Samba Project & SFLC release documentation for Windows networking protocols, Apricot Project aims for open source game created with Blender and Crystal Space, Red Hat brings in new CEO from Delta Airlines and Wine now runs Office 2003.

Also, Fab confesses he was in the Windows Home Server beta and we discuss the fact that said product canât even take it if you copy files. The whole OS is obviously a jokeâ

More news include AOL killing the Netscape browser for good and a very funny Nautilus pop-up message:

Package of the Week

Dan: Brasero, full-featured CD/DVD burning software for Gnome

Fab: EtherApe, a very cool graphical network monitor

Wrapping it up, Fab plugs the Grolsch Herfstbok that he recently brought home from Holland and we call it a day. Also, donât forget to check out our forums and write us some feedback.

This is the last episode of the year. We are gonna take a week off since itâs a busy time for anybody anyway and Fab will be completely without Internet access over the holidays. So enjoy this extra-long Christmas episode and then go and spend some time with your families, weâll be back in 2008! We also mention that Fab has set up some forums for listeners of the show, so you can also spend the time between shows in there, if you want. We already have some nice discussion going and we would be happy to welcome you there. You can leave feedback on the show and talk about Linux, open source or anything else you might be interested in, so head over there and have fun!

Listener Feedback

The first email is by Jonathan Hull from Texas, who enlightens us about the fact that Maxtor were bought by Seagate some time ago. So if you want to boycott Seagate for their rediculous behaviour regarding their new drives, which we talked about on last weekâs show, youâre gonna have to boycott Maxtor as well, it looks like. Thanks a lot for clarifying that, Jonathan!

Antone Henderson from Oz tells us about the licensing jungle that is Ogg â Vorbis vs. Theora and all that confusing stuff and why manufacturers are unlikely to use Theora for their video devices. Once again, really helpful info. Thanks for telling us!

Steve Anderson writes in to tell us that he likes the show a lot and that heâs been a Unix/Linux guy for ages, which is way cool. We also discover that Fab apparently sounds like an alien.

Eric Amundson also wrote us, telling us that we kept him on top of stuff while was at home recovering from being sick (wich we are glad we did) and prompts us to do a review of on-site backup solutions like we did for S3 and Ewedrive. We will certainly look into this in the future and do a show on the topic. Right now we both use rsync pretty much exclusively.

Releases & News

Fresh releases this week:

• LliureX 7.11
• Litrix 7.12
• CentOS 4.6
• Damn Small Linux 4.2

Fab also mentions the development releases Elive 1.2.3 (Unstable) and GobblinX 2.6 RC1 âMicroâ. Furthermore, the Django book has finally been released. We know, itâs not software, but itâs open source. You can read it for free online or buy a real copy. Dan also tells the story how he bought Stuart Langridgeâs book by accident.

The first story we talk about, is the fact that Movable Type is now an open source project. We also talk about the fact the we both prefer either Wordpress or Drupal personally. After that, we discuss NASAâs new open source rocket.

Next, Opera is taking Microsoft to court in an anti-trust case involving pre-bundleing and poor standards compliance of IE. We are kinda sceptical if this will work out for Opera, but nice try either way. Itâs always good to see people stand up to the piece of steaming crap that is IE. And speaking of crap, we also talk about the embarassing blunder in Microsofts programming that shares your files with the Recycle Bin instead of with other computers. Another great feature from the guys in Redmond. And their âfixâ, apparently, would be to ârecreate the filesâ you lost. Brilliant!

Dan also mentions that the BBC finally have their iPlayer working on Linux, although itâs âonlyâ a Flash version. Of course, this only applies to you when you live in the UK (or are willing to use TOR or something). We go off at a slight tangent about TV licenses in the UK and Germany at this point, too.

The last news story we talk about this week is the growing Chinese Linux market and the ironic fact that piracy of Windows seems to hurt Linux in this regard.

Package of the Week

Dan â PuTTY, this crossplatform SSH & Telnet client is an essential server admin tool
Fab â Personas for Firefox, a lightweight theme plugin for Firefox

Before we wrap it up, we also talk about Danâs review of Pardus 2007.3 on LinuxPlanet and why he likes that distribution so much. Fab then mentions CRUX which he would like to try sometime. He also mentions paedML which is a Linux-based school server from Germany and we rathole a bit on the topic of governments sponsoring their own distros. Danâs also reviewing Zenwalk at the moment.

The theme music for this podcast is a song called âSudo Modprobeâ, it was written by Fab and produced by Dan and Fab. The album art was also created by Fab.

Listener Feedback

Peter Cannon sends us another hilarious email and tells us about his experiences with gOS and Linux Mint. Next, Cam DeCoster congratulates us on the podcast and prompts us about Zune support in Linux. We donât really know about that and rathole a bit about the Zune and other media players in general instead and we also talk about squircles and tigons. Cam also tells us about ReactOS, which we havenât seen either but are determined to have a look at. In another email, Jason gives us an alternative to yum for rpm-based package management: the Smart Package Manager, which sounds like itâs really useful.

Releases & News

Before we get into the releases proper, Fab mentions the Endian firewall, which he recently discovered at work and says that he likes the web-based admin interface a lot. We then cover the following new software releases:

• SystemRescueCd 0.4.2
• EnGarde Secure Linux 3.0.18
• Frugalware 0.8 Pre 1
• Astaro Security Gateway 7.1
• Skolelinux 3.0r1
• Geubuntu 7.10
• Berry Linux 0.87

On the news side of things we talk about Nokia claiming that Ogg Theora is proprietary and also useless because it doesnât support DRM, which is both quite hilarious. As always, we rathole the whole topic thoroughly and Dan even ends up mentioning the OpenCola in the process.

On the topic of open standards, we also talk about some disturbing developments sourrounding the NoOOXML petition. At least the Dutch government seems to have some sense and sticks it to Microsoft big time, mandating the use of truly open document formats in their governmental services. In more DRM-related news, the MPAA embarrasses itself by violating copyright law with their copyright enforcement software, go figure.

It also seems as though Seagateâs âFree Agentâ drives ainât so free after all, since they donât work in Linux because of some stupid power management feature. As Seagate deliberately excludes Linux users from support, we conclude you should probably stop buying their drives altogether.

Another big story this past week was the fact that the SFLC filed another lawsuit regarding GPL violation on behalf of BusyBox, this time against Verizon. After discussing this, we also talk a bit about the Firefox usage stats that Mozilla recently released and our own observations regarding this. Before we go on to talk about packages, Dan quickly mentions the fact that Sun is now offering cash incentives for open source developers, which is nice.

Package of the Week

Fab â EasyTAG, a very powerful mp3 & Ogg tag editor
Dan â KTorrent, a great and very full featured BitTorrent client

After the packages, we quickly talk about gOS which Dan didnât really like at all (you can read his full review of it here). We than wrap up the show and say goodbye.

The theme music for this podcast is a song called âSudo Modprobeâ, it was written by Fab and produced by Dan and Fab. The album art was also created by Fab.

Listener Feedback

Lukas reports some problem with our Ogg files not being downloaded correctly in OS X. We cannot reproduce this behaviour (well, we both donât use OS X for a start) and would be greatful for further hints regarding this. Things definitely look alright from our end.

Butch tells us about a nifty solar-powered computer that runs Linux. Very cool stuff! Looks like something straight out of Q Branch.

F/OSS Releases

• Turbolinux 11 Server
• ASPLinux 12
• Ubuntu Muslim Edition 7.10
• IPCop 1.4.18
• CentOS 5.1
• Damn Small Linux 4.1
• dyne:bolic 2.5.2
• MoLinux 3.2

News and Stories

Novellâs been given the go ahead to counter-sue SCO in Utah, according to Groklaw. We say: âGive âem hell, guys!â

On an even lighter note, Microsoft is in hot water over the very naughty Santa bot they put into their messenger client, which forced them to eventually kill Santa â the bastards!

Main Section

Dan tells us about his recent tour of Linux distributions and the experiences he made during those weeks. He tried the following distros (click on the names for links to Danâs original reviews on his blog): Ubuntu 7.10 âGutsy Gibbonâ, openSUSE 10.3, Mandriva One 2008, PCLinuxOS 2007, Debian 4.0 âEtchâ, Slackware 12, Sabayon 1.1 Professional, SimplyMEPIS 7.0, Fedora 8 âWerewolfâ & Linux Mint 4.0 âDarynaâ. If youâre interested, also check out Danâs complete wrap-up article comparing all ten distributions.

The theme music for this podcast is a song called âSudo Modprobeâ, it was written by Fab and produced by Dan and Fab. The album art was also created by Fab.

We mention our first audio feedback submission from Leon Vayman and the fact that it was a great clip, but a bit too long to include it into the show. John from Munich requests a manual download link for the Ogg files, which Fab is working on.

Adam asks about a theme park sim game for Linux. If you know anything like that, send us some email! There is a project called Lincity, maybe you want to check that out. As for running Windows games under Wine, Roller Coaster Tycoon looks good, Sim Theme Park doesnât.

Peter Cannon sends us another hilarious email.

Also, Andrea clarifies that he indeed is a guy an tells us how he solved his problem with Thunderbird and Swiftfox which is greatly appreciated. He also mentions osalt.com and linuxappfinder.com/alternatives where you can find free alternatives to a given Windows program (original Lifehacker article).

We also talk a bit about the ATI experience under Linux and 3D graphics cards and drivers in general. If you have any opinions on that, feel free to write in and let us know.

F/OSS Releases

• Devil-Linux 1.2.14
• ParallelKnoppix 2.8
• KDE 4.0 Release Candidate
• Shift Linux 0.5
• RoFreeSBIE 1.3
• StartCom Enterprise Linux 4.0.5
• Pioneer Linux 3.0.2
• Guadalinex 4.1
• Firefox 3 Beta 1

Main Section

We talk about the Linus Torvalds interview on iTnews.com.au. Cool stuff! In more negative news, Asus seems to be in hot water over the eeePC violating the GPL.

The new ATI driver for Linux supports Ubuntu 7.10 now. If you have an ATI card, this is certainly good news.

We also discuss the recent controversy involving Microsoftâs OOXML and the GNOME Foundation. Check out Bruce Byfieldâs full article on Linux.com for the full scoop. We also rathole about Richard Stallman, Miguel de Icaza and Australian cricketers.

Just for fun, Fab plugs the amazing Mr. T ad for World of Warcraft. Download or watch it and also the William Shatner one here.

Disclaimer: Linux Outlaws is not in any way sponsored or affiliated with World of Warcraft or Blizzard Entertainment. We just love their adsâ

Packages of the Week

Fab: Lynx, a CLI-only, text-based browser â very geeky!
Dan: Exaile, a media player and the de facto Amarok replacement for Gnome

The theme music for this podcast is a song called âSudo Modprobeâ, it was written by Fab and produced by Dan and Fab. The album art was also created by Fab.

Linux Outlaws should definitely be on your playlist.

Thanks a lot, guys & gals â you rock! If you live in the UK, definitely pick up an issue of LXF; they seem to have excellent taste and we definitely want to return the favour. Also a big thanks to Jackie for bringing this to our attention!

Listener Feedback

Tombstone Tommy from Tupperville says he loves the show and the new intro and he wantâs to know which VM we prefer. We both use VMware for nearly everything we do, but we have also tried QEMU â which can be a bit slow â and both of us are definitely interested in learning about Xen when we get a chance. There is also Parallels (which isnât as good as VMware on Linux and has some unresolved legal threats hovering over it) and VirtualBox (which like Xen is open source and gets extra points for that).

/dev/null wants to know how Dan was using Ewedrive in Linux. Dan explains that he didnât mount it but was only using the web interface. Fab managed to mount his share via webdav from the Ubuntu âPlacesâ menu without problems, however. It was a bit slow for him, though.

Chris OâByrne send us another message telling us about a project he might do in the future: Setting up a GUI-less laptop and then using only command line tools for email, websurfing and other day-to-day tasks. He might also set up a blog or a podcast to talk about his experiences with that. We think itâs an awesome idea!

Peter Cannon aka. Dick Turpin tells us about his distro time trial article. Sorry about forgetting to credit you on the show, Fab lost the email header when copying your feedback to our show notebook.

Gordon Coupar from Scotland also thinks we are laid-back and thanks us for doing the show, which we are happy to hear.

The last email this week comes from Andrea Di Muzio, who gives us a lot of feedback on the show and also suggests we could mention some Linux equivalents for commonly used Windows programs to help people switch to the Light Side. We think that is a great idea and will definitely think about doing that. Fab then mentions that we are looking at doing an episode that explains how we produce the podcast to help other podcasters on Linux and we talk about Andreaâs problem with removing Swiftfox as a default browser on Kubuntu about which we give some general ideas that might help to solve it.

Main Section

Releases: Zenwalk 4.8 âLiveâ, PC-BSD 1.4.1, Linux Mint 4.0, ArtistX 0.4, Pie Box Enterprise 4, Pardus 2007.3, Bluewhite64 12.0 âminiLiveâ, sidux 2007-04 and Skype 2.0 beta for Linux â with video chat features!

Our first story this week concerns Hans Reiser, creator of the popular ReiserFS file system, whos trial for murder of his estranged wife just started this week. The whole circumstances surrounding this case are really weirdâ Dan suggests to get Columbo on the case, which would probably be a good idea. We also discuss ReiserFS for a bit.

Keeping with the theme, we talk about the German police and their desire to leave the Windows world behind, which seems to be a very sensible plan considering the problems they seem to have right now.

Next, we talk about Macedonia buying 20,000 Ubuntu PCs. Canonical seems to be able to pull off one of these deals every other day now, which is very good news for both desktop Linux and the Macedonian educational system.

The Evil Empire on the other hand, seems to concentrate on shady scare tactics: This time, it looks like Kyocera fell for a patent deal that supposedly âallowsâ them to âsafelyâ use embedded Linux in their printer hardware. What a load of FUD, as alwaysâ

On a lighter note, Fab tells the story how he crashed a pristine Ubuntu server at work. Never do a forced symlink from /bin/bash to /bin/sh and vice versa. Believe us!

The last story this week is about the Everex Green PC selling out at WalMart. Fab has recently tried the gOS Ubuntu-based distro which comes pre-loaded on these machines and says he likes it at lot. Itâs definitely something different.

Package of the Week

Dan: Freeciv, a great open source, cross-platform Civilization clone
Fab: Inkscape, the ultimate open source vector graphics manipulation program

Before we wrap up the show, Dan quickly gives us a condensed version of his Linux Mint 4.0 review and talks about the features he liked best. Bottom line: A very cool release, Dan might even recommend it over Ubuntu for new users â although we still hate the naming scheme.

We also want to give huge thanks to Michael Johnson and Matt Jelliman for their generous donations via the PayPal button. Thanks a lot, guys!

The theme music for this podcast is a song called âSudo Modprobeâ, it was written by Fab and produced by Dan and Fab. The album art was also created by Fab.

Listener Feedback
John corrects us on the fact that Source Trunk, which we mentioned during episode 9 isnât his podcast, as Fab thought it was. Chris OâByrne, from New Mexico (apparently), gives us his thoughts about the music bumpers and the fact that the opening song is way too long (which we tried to fix right away in this episode). He also plugs Xubuntu which he really likes and wants people to check out.

On a side note, Fab bought himself an iPhone which just came out recently here in Europe and heâs really fallen in love with it. Yes, we know: It ainât open at all, but at least it runs some kind of Unix which has got to be a step up from the Windows Mobile crap he used beforeâ

News & Releases
New releases this week: Red Hat Enterprise 5.1, BLAG 70000 and StartCom Enterprise 5.0.1.

First off, we talk about the fact that Red Hat wants to put Linux on half of all new servers and partners with Amazon to create datacentres on demand which sounds pretty cool. Next, we talk about SCO losing another lawsuit which is always good news. This time, they were found guilty of spreading FUD about Unix by a German court. We also talk about the fact that SuSE is actually German for âSoftware und Systementwicklungâ â which used to be the name of the company developing that particular distro before they got bought by Novell.

On the Microsoft side of things, we found out this week that Windowsâ pseudorandom number generator isnât as random as everyone thought it was, apparently. We then rathole that topic a bit, as usually.

In more Red Hat news, Dan gives us a summary of his review of Fedora 8. He especially like the virtual machine features, but thought compared to distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora isnât as easy to set up and use as it could be. He also had some pretty frustrating problems with installing RPM packets through YUM. We also donât really get the point of the Codec Buddy (as always, VLC comes in handy here). Fab wants to know more about the colour changing wallpaper, though. He is also interested in Pulse Audio for use in recording this podcast.

Package of the Week
Fab: Avant Window Navigator, a Mac OS X like dock and application launcher
Dan: IcePodder, a native podcatcher for Linux that just works

Before wrapping it up, Fab plugs the new Ogg feed and then heads straight to bed.

The theme music for this podcast is a song called âSudo Modprobeâ, it was written by Fab and produced by Dan and Fab. The album art was also created by Fab.

Listener Feedback
Daniel writes us about the homework from last weekâs show: Heâs trying to get the Rosetta Stone language learning software, which uses Adobeâs Shockwave, to run in Wine. Fab initially thought Shockwave wouldnât work in Wine, but the program entry for Rosetta Stone in the AppDB seems to prove him wrong. When rathole this topic a bit and talk about Photoshop vs. the GIMP and Dan mentions the GIMPshop mod which gives you a more Photoshop-like GUI for the GIMP.

We got another very long email this week from John, who lives in Munich but is actually from the UK (what a perfect listener for a podcast produced by two guys from the UK and Germany). His email contained comments on nearly every show we did so far, which is really awesome! He also says he thinks the little music bumpers we started to put in between the different sections donât really work for us. What do you think? Do you agree? Do you like them? Please use the feedback form to tell us about it! John also has the idea that we could sell CDs of the shows to recoup some of our expenses and Fab says heâs planning to set up a merchandising shop at CafÃPress, possibly in time for christmas. If you have any suggestions about this, please also tell us about it! Fab also plans to put a PayPal donation button on the site, but we definitely want to avoid advertising (both in the show and on the site) as long as we can.

News & Releases
New releases this week: