Linux Outlaws 243 – Beards Igniting (The Year 2011 in Review)
December 29th, 2011
We summarise 2011, talk about the biggest stories from our perspective and what we were up to throughout the year
0:01:38 Introduction
- Some people might have gotten our donation page in German recently because PayPal did something weird that Fab couldn’t replicate — we are sorry for that, it is fixed now
- Including this episode, we recorded a whopping 60 shows this year!
0:06:00 January
- We reviewed Linux Mint 10 and CyanogenMod 6.1
- Fab launches LXnews
- Apple introduces an app store on Mac OS X
- Sony sues Geohot
- Steve Jobs goes on medical leave
- OSI and FSF join to fight CPTN Holdings
- Fab reviews LMDE
- We did a special show on the situation in Egypt
0:18:51 February
- Dan gets hold of some MeeGo netbooks and reviews them
- We went to FOSDEM
- Honeycomb is unveiled
- The Elopcalypse engulfs Nokia
- Canonical messes with Banshee donations
0:33:18 March
- Fab starts ramping up video production on sixgun.tv
- FreedomBox Foundation funding succeeds — FreedomBox Update Talk From Bdale Garbee
- We get in trouble over the randomness of our MeeGo competition
- Fab becomes addicted to The Yogscast
- Fukushima happened
- Shuttleworth starts sniping at Gnome
- HP announces it will ship all PCs with WebOS installed
- Apple claims they own the word “app store”
- RSA is hacked
- AT&T initiates merger with T-Mobile
0:44:45 April
- April Fools: GNU/Linux Outlaws
- Google gets into trouble for not open sourcing Honeycomb
- Amazon launches their own Android app store
- Microsoft sues Balls & Noble
- Firefox 4 comes out
- Episode 200: Our podcasting howto special
- Symbian gets un-open-sourced
- We get interviewed by Les Pounder and release that as a podcast
- Fab reviews Gnome 3
- We interview Allison Randal about Project Harmony — twice
0:53:40 May
- Osama Bin Laden is killed
- Fab was a guest on TLLTS 400
- The Kindle launches in Germany
- We interview Carl Manneh from Mojang
- Fab goes to Samba XP
- Miguel de Icaza creates a company around Mono
- Microsoft buys Skype
- CentOS comes under fire for their development model
- Dan reviews Unity
0:58:34 June
- We launch Pony Express on the Android Market
- Linux goes 3.0
- Microsoft earns more money from Android than Windows Phone
- Dan goes to the Red Hat Partner Summit and gets several interviews, including Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst
- “The Big Man” Clarence Clemons dies
- Adobe drops AIR for Linux
- AVM court case kicks off in Germany
- We discuss the Gnome Shell developers being hostile towards extensions
- We release our well-received Bitcoin episode
1:02:55 July
- Karen becomes Executive Director of the Gnome Foundation
- Firefox 5 is released, the whole update insanity starts
- Fab reviews Arch
- Google+ launches, we get on it
- HP releases the TouchPad
- Fab reviews the Motorola Xoom
- Shuttleworth demands copyright assignment
1:10:22 August
- We interview Christian Heilmann from Mozilla
- Emacs violates the GPL
- We interview Becky Hogge for the second time
- OggCamp 11: live show, recap
- Loriot dies
- We launch Leave Your Hat On
- Linus wants to fork Gnome
- Motoroogle
1:13:48 September
- We interview Randal Schwartz again
- Fab gets addicted by Warhammer 40K again
- Linux turns 20
- We interview John Graham-Cumming
- Oracle stops shipping Java for Linux
- We review our favourite podcatchers
- Fab looses his hair
- Four years of LO!
- kernel.org hacked and Linux Foundation servers are compromised
1:18:24 October
- Google+ opens to all
- The Secure Boot controversy starts
- Amazon releases a slew of new Kindles
- MeeGo officially dies
- German federal trojan discovered by CCC
- Steve Jobs dies
- Timezone database threatened and saved
- Dennis Ritchie dies
- Beefy Miracle
- The Galaxy Nexus and Ice Cream Sandwich are announced
- Apple threatens Apfelkind
1:21:26 November
- HP can’t make up their mind about what to do
- Microsoft contributes code under the GPLv3 to Samba
- The whole SOPA thing kicks off
- AVM looses their case in Germany
- Ice Cream Sandwich source code is released
- Balls & Noble fights back against Microsoft
1:25:30 December
- Fab wins NaNoWriMo
- We interview Richard Hughes on the ColorHug
- Minecraft goes official
- CarrierIQ
- The journal proposal
- Official Gnome Shell extensions website launched
- We launch Planetfall
- Pony Express 1.1 released
- Fab gets his Galaxy Nexus and reviews it
- Megaupload controversy
- Linux Mint takes Banshee donations too
- HP decides to open source WebOS
- Kim Jong Il dies
- BT sues Google over Android
1:34:01 Year 2011 Summary
We summarise 2011 and talk about what we thought were important trends throughout year.
Have a happy new year, everyone!
Song: Super Exotic 60′s Beat by Juanitos from their album Best of Juanitos (licensed under Creative Commons BY 2.0 France)
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