Linux Outlaws 266 – GNU/Poettering
May 20th, 2012
RMS halts speech due to health issues, one billion VLC downloads, RHEL turns 10, Adobe backs down on Photoshop security updates, Mozilla attacks Microsoft on ARM browsers, FreeBSD to use Clang instead of GCC and more
Uncut video version of this episode on YouTube
0:01:33 Introduction
- We will cover multi-seat in Fedora 17 soon
- Are people interested in us covering Diablo III and running it in Wine? — if so, pitch in via the PayPal link!
- Dan’s column on Liverpool in the digital age
- We successfully completed a Hangout on Air test
- ThinkPad X1 Carbon
- How someone at Pixar nearly rm * -ed Toy Story 2
The new Thinkpad X1 Carbon
0:12:17 Releases & News
- Debian 6.0.5
- ROSA 2012
- SystemRescueCd 2.7.0
- Parted Magic 2012_05_14
- Chrome 19
- Development: Firefox 14 beta for Android
- Kdenlive 0.9
- PulseAudio 2.0
- Rosegarden 12.04
- One billion VLC downloads
- Mozilla Spaces London opens
Christian Heilmann opens the Mozilla Space in London
- Open Source Robotics Foundation incorporated
- Richard Stallman halts speech because of health issues
- RHEL turns 10
- Mandriva community fed up with waiting
- More Oracle vs Google: [1], [2], [3]
- Adobe backs down on Photoshop updates, after saying Photoshop “isn’t a target“
- CyanogenMod 7.x update information
- We talk about stuff that happened at UDS; we also talk about the fact that the notes weren’t public this time
- Mozilla attacks Microsoft on ARM browser equality
- Linux lacking from Mozilla Marketplace launch
- FreeBSD to use Clang instead of GCC
1:05:18 Feedback
Supporters: Eric Geissinger — from Flattr: mansdell, corenominal, Mattias Ohlsson, joe-1, jatoo, Craig_DT, Chris Woollard, endstation, jrutila, variaatio, cyberkiller, chalkahlom and johanv
- Peter Cannon compliments Fab — we expect hell to freeze over soon…
- Reuben S. tells us what “fab” means in Nigerian English
- Sven wrote to say he misses the old theme tune with the wolf howl at the start and asks if we’ll play it again
- Reto from Zürich doesn’t want us to use the word “podcast”
We had other emails this week from George M. and Xavier Sythe.
Song: Sharing is Caring by Dan Bull (licensed Creative Commons Zero)
