Linux Outlaws 261 – Fab’s Summer of Crap
April 16th, 2012
Beard-a-Thon 2012, ownCloud releases first commercial version, Samba closes a bad security hole, Blue Systems take over the sponsorship of Kubuntu, udev and systemd are merging, Raspberry Pi problems, Microsoft founds open source subsidiary and much more
0:01:06 Introduction
- Fab is using a Shure Super 55 for this show
- There's a new Google+
- Fab would like to thank Carlo Piana, Eric Geissinger and Aijaz Mohammad who together pledged $70 to his beard and the Mario Lemieux Foundation
- Our show has eclipsed 2 million downloads
- Hack4Kids
- Linux kernel April Fools jokes
The Shure Super 55 microphone
0:12:10 Releases & News
- ownCloud 2012
- SliTaz 4.0
- KDE 4.8.2
- MythTV 0.25
- Jitsi 1.0
- phpMyAdmin 3.5
- GIMP 2.8 RC1
- Apache Solr/Lucene 3.6
- Security: Samba fixes nine year old critical remote code execution flaw
- Security: Python hash collission DDoS problems
- Stuxnet was an inside job
- Mageia 2 postponed
- No more Linux 2.4
- Blue Systems take over sponsorship of Kubuntu
- US court: code is not physical property
- First Creative Commons 4.0 draft open for public comment
- udev is becoming part of systemd
- Fedora 18 to use tmpfs by default
- Linux 3.4 will use Intel's power saving RC6 GPU technology
- Raspberry Pi CE certification problems
- Android SDK emulator adds GPU support
- New CyanogenMod logo
- Firefox introduces click-to-play for plugins
The new CyanogenMod logo
1:08:37 Microwatch
- Linux Foundation kernel study, Microsoft’s kernel contributions dissected
- Microsoft Open Technologies Inc.
1:17:03 Feedback
Supporters: Stephen Ward and Paul Platt — from Flattr: Dave Ostroske, marmai, Chris Woollard, mansdell, corenominal and fwbd
- Rick Timmis gives us some feedback on the show and recommends Vendetta Online
- Jack Hill says he isn't a big gamer but points us in the direction of Gluon, a 2D game development and distribution platform
- Paul Platt writes in from Australia, with a hell of an accent
- Symbola has a request for Fab and explains where the "ham" in Ham Radio came from — Fab on Linux in the Ham Shack
- Bob Ham had recommended the Liberated Pixel Cup competition to LivLUG
- Rob van Son says the Thompson Bug has been solved by David A. Wheeler in his thesis "Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling"
We had other emails from Steve Ward, Paul Dutot, Martyn Lewis, Jason Sipula, Lance, Brigit Valencia, Dan Devine, Yaroslav Halchenko, Dorine Flies, Alan from Vancouver and Jeff G.
- 2012 Rathole Roadshow, 11 May at LEAF in Liverpool
Song: Holly by Thom Morecroft (all rights reserved)
