Linux Outlaws 252 – Wifebang
February 21st, 2012
Canonical pulls funding from Kubuntu, Greg K-H has a new job, the OSI affiliate programme, the Ubuntu Enterprise Remix, a new Fedora Project Leader and Linux kernel power saving features
0:01:21 Introduction
- Controversy over BusyBox alternative — this is what Bradley and Fab were talking about in their FOSDEM interview
- Minecraft on Android now has Survival Mode
0:11:50 Releases & News
- Sabayon 8
- ReactOS 0.3.14
- Crunchbang Update
- NetBSD 5.1.2
- OpenShot 1.4.1
- First oVirt release
- Chrome 17
- Chrome for Android
- Vim Touch
- Security: TRENDnet camera backdoor
- Security: Satellite phone encryption cracked
- New Linux kernel brings power saving features
- Canonical pulls funding from Kubuntu
- Greg K-H leaves Suse for Linux Foundation
Greg Kroah-Hartman
- Wayland 1.0 release coming up, 0.85.0 is out now
- OSI affiliate programme
- Ubuntu Enterprise Remix
- Nginx commercial support
- New Fedora Project Leader announced

Robyn Bergeron
- HP releases Android kernel for TouchPads
- Firefox has 80% of market share in Antarctica
- H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness
0:54:45 Feedback
Supporters: Tony Hughes of Blackpool LUG, UltrAnalog, Donald Mahan, Chris Atkinson, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Remy van Elst, Eric Beyer, Michael Van Hoe, Enzro Greenidge, Michael Swierczek and Daniel Lowe
- We got some audio feedback from Dave Ostroske
- Tom Link sends us some thoughts on our discussion on the Apple iBook publishing software
- Rafael Beraldo writes from Brazil about MegaUpload, SOPA, ACTA and more, sending us a link to a story on Ars Technica — we talked about a lot of this in our Digital Rights Update
- Rik Boland sends us information on conflict minerals a few week back and so I did some reading around it
- Rofaxen likes how Wikipedia dealt with the SOPA protest, making the article about SOPA the only one you could easily get to on the day
- Mike Swierczek emails us about the US and its push towards perpetual copyright
- Mike really enjoys the show listening and wants Dan to do the accent of Jeff from Coupling
- Laurențiu Roman sent us a link to a Phoronix article comparing Linux distros to German beers
- Ron McCurry reminisces about the Atari ST
We had other emails from Wilbert, Rick, Chris from Australia, Jonathan Nadeau, dacresni, Alan Bailward, Marc Sinclair, Gary, peterplusplus, Rahul Sundaram, Keith Z-G and Shai Berger.
Song: Gimme Blood by Houdini Roadshow from their new album Are You Ready (licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0)
