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On the last show for a few weeks: Steam not coming to Linux, new Ubuntu release name announced, Intel buys McAfee, Linux gets Google Voice and Video Chat, Dan’s review of the HTC Desire and much more…
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0:01:19 Introduction
- Linux Outlaws will be on hiatus for two or three weeks as Fab is on holiday
- Cool Banshee UI mockup
- Thomas Perl: gPodder running in the MeeGo Handset UX for N900
- The Nexus One is gone again, sells out as dev phone too
- Sony PS3 gets jailbroken to run Linux
- The Crap Alert Android app — cool beyond explanation
- Beer of the Week: Carlsberg Elephant Beer
0:13:32 Releases & News
- Ubuntu 10.04.1
- Nexenta Core Platform 3.0
- Alpine Linux 2.0.0
- Parted Magic 5.3
- Frugalware Linux 1.3
- NetSecL 3.0
- Wine 1.3.1
- Ruby 1.9.2
- VLC 1.1.3
- OpenSSH 5.6
- Linux gets Google Voice and Video Chat
- Intel buys McAfee — WTF of the Week
- Root privileges bug in Linux kernel
- Shuttleworth announces next Ubuntu release name: Natty Narwhal
- Ubuntu drops ia64 and sparc architectures
- The rats are jumping off the sinking open source ship at Oracle
- Acquia releases Drupal Commons open source social software suite for “Enterprise 2.0”
- The FSF ACTA declaration
- Sintel to premiere September 27
- Steam not coming to Linux
- systemd status update from Lennart
0:53:24 Microwatch
0:56:11 Crapplewatch
0:58:52 Review: HTC Desire
- Dan reviews the HTC Desire we he bought on contract from O2 a few weeks ago
- Verdict: Dan says it’s the best smartphone he has used so far, only downsides are the lack of a hardware keyboard and the somewhat erratic optical trackball
1:14:18 Feedback
- Donations: Only Flattr this week
- Mark Law sent us a recommendation for an Android app he likes called Tasker, it performs tasks based on context such as time, date, location, gestures etc.
- Allan has been listening on and off for about a year and just wants to say thanks and hopes to meet us some day
- Toby also enjoys the show and says it’s helped him get used to Linux which is very cool
- Bradley Tordoff wants us to mention BOINC
- Drake Anubis does the Hack Radio Live podcast and got some feedback that their host interactions “is similar to Linux Outlaws” which he took as a big compliment
- Dave send us some information about the Oracle vs. Android lawsuit
- Eliad tells us about the fact that the Debian Women group has apparently picked up pace again
- We also had an email from psykonerd
- Events: U-Cubed, Saturday, August 28 in Manchester / FOSDEM 2011 will be on February 5 & 6 in Brussels
Song: Natty Bounce by Elephant Man feat. Mancini from the album Street Credibility Vol. 4
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-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.