Linux Outlaws 244 – Let Me Get on the Human Megaphone
January 8th, 2012
In the first episode of 2012: Amazon sells a ton of Kindles, news from 28C3, GoDaddy supports SOPA, Honeycomb and the effect on AOSP, Mint forks Gnome, Microsoft enables Linux on their cloud and Samsung changes the bevel colour of their tablets to thwart Apple in Germany
0:02:58 Introduction
- Welcome to 2012!
- Fab's voxcaster script
- Fixed intro music has been deployed
- Get better soon, Jezra!
- Fab will be at FOSDEM
- Video: Firefly fans (and Neil Gaiman) stand up for free speech at a US university — story here
- Bitcoin seems to be on somewhat of a comeback
- The CyanogenMod Compiler project
0:16:10 Releases & News
- siduction 11.1
- Gentoo 12.0
- Endian 2.5
- Tiny Core 4.2
- CentOS 6.2
- Oracle Linux 6.2
- BSD: pfSense 2.0.1
- Firefox 9 — Mozilla also renewed their search deal with Google
- Extremadura is dropping Linex
- Anonymous hacks Stratfor
- Amazon moves 4 million Kindles in December — all of these are running on Linux
- 28C3: New attacks on GSM, Cory Doctorow talks about "the coming war on general-purpose computing"
- GoDaddy pulls their support of SOPA amid huge protests
- Twitter releases TextSecure under GPLv3
- Solaris 11 source code gets leaked
- Queru on not releasing the Honeycomb source and AOSP
- HTC releases bootloader unlock tool
- Is Compiz in trouble?
- KDE’s new Oxygen Font
- Linux Mint forks Gnome Shell with Cinnamon — more on the Linux Mint blog
1:03:28 Microwatch
1:06:12 Crapplewatch
- Apple’s patent win against HTC and Android isn’t as big as reported
- Modified Galaxy Tab passes German court's muster
The normal Galaxy Tab 10.1 (above) compared with the German version
1:13:12 Feedback
Supporters: NYBill, Russ (K5TUX from the Linux in the Ham Shack podcast), Mark Rice, Philip Behnke, Hanna Pietikäinen, Jon Kulp, Kirk Richard Holz, Anthony Roberts, Adam DiFrischia and Arne Neuman — from Flattr: corenominal, cyberkiller, eksortso and TonyJ
- Jeremy educates us that grep originally came from vi
- Heine Pedersen tells us about an open source conversion story from Denmark
- Simon Phipps emailed Dan about the removal of Sun Java packages from Ubuntu since he wrote about it on his Computer World blog and some people seemed confused over the story
- Francis (Grizzly) Smit has been listening to the show for a year and sends us a nice thank you note
- Imran Chaudhry also wrote to say he enjoys the show
- Leslie used to know a guy in South Africa who’s first name was Doctor
- Gary says Burt Reynolds is mental, case in point: video of Burt slapping a reporter
- Aaron asks for distro hopping tips
- the_axis heard us on short wave radio in the US on New Years Eve talking about SOPA, we were broadcast thanks to Stephen Michael Kellat of LISNews
- Yannis A. sends us this story of a woman in Germany ordered to pay a film company compensation for illegally sharing a film when she doesn’t even have a computer or a wireless router in her house
- Łukasz "Cyber Killer" Korpalski says the Qt library can do a lot more than just UI widgets, he mentions the game Warzone 2100 that uses Qt for everything
- Ben Arnold posted this to a mailing list that Dan is on: Suicide Linux
We had other emails from Charles Kerr, Tom Sparrow, Aitor Pazos, Florian and Billy Toulas.
- The UUPC Wing Commander has his own website
Hanni-B.A. says: "I pity the fool when a plan comes together!"
Song: Living in the Dark (Urban Flow Remix by The Dark Clan) originally by Patricia Wake (licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0)
