Linux Outlaws 254 – Croatian Jaffa Cakes
March 3rd, 2012
Passwords are protected by the Fifth Amendment, Oracle is offering KSplice for RHEL and DTrace for Linux in general, BusyBox controversy settled, RIM is going for salvation through open source and a study says open source code is better than proprietary code
00:01:09 Introduction
- Fab shortly talks about his last day working for NetCologne
- We also talk about Jaffa Cakes again
00:06:17 Releases & News
- SystemRescueCd 2.5.0
- DragonflyBSD 3.0
- Gnash 0.8.10
- DTrace for Linux
- Appeals court decides that passwords are protected by the 5th Amendment
- Oracle now offers KSplice for RHEL
- Debate over non-GPL BusyBox settled
- Time zone database lawsuit dismissed
- Proposal to add DRM to HTML5 meets resistance
- Mozilla renames BrowserID to Persona and announces marketplace for web apps
- Deutsche Telekom helping with Boot to Gecko, Telefonica seems to be involved too
- Fedora Remix for the Raspberry Pi suffers a setback
- Apparently RIM is betting big on open source now
- Ebook publishing with BookType
- Study says open source code is of higher quality than proprietary code
1:03:52 Feedback
Supporters (from Flattr): endstation and Chris Woollard
- Gareth Witty sends us his thoughts on Linux Mint and Ubuntu as audio feedback — Gareth's poker podcast
- Remy Van Elst has created his own Debian respin: Terrible Linux
- Preston says the show was instrumental in their understanding of Linux when they switched to it from Windows
- Yannis A. finds it funny how a Sony chief executive would be outspoken against GEMA's censoring of YouTube videos
We had other emails from Carlos Lange, Sascha Schneider, and PsykoNerd.
- Hull LUG is meeting on Tuesday, 6 March
Song: Pirates of the Coast from the album of the same name by Black Bones (licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0)
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