Linux Outlaws 267 – Creepy Fishpeople
May 25th, 2012
ZTE admits to a backdoor in one of their Android phones, Facebook’s stock goes pop, the MK802 micro-PC, Mandriva will become a community distro, Chrome passes IE in browser share and Harald Welte releases a GSM base station
Sadly, the Hangout video of this episode did not record for some reason. But Fab did a Minecraft test stream that you can check out instead.
0:01:48 Introduction
- There probably won’t be a show next week; Fab is visiting the Heise HQ
0:05:56 Releases & News
- Perl 5.16.0
- Fedora 17 won’t be released until 29 May
- Security: sudo vulnerability
- Security: DoS vulnerability in Bitcoin
- ZTE admits to backdoor in one of their Android phones
- Facebook IPO: And pop goes the bubble — NASDAQ runs Linux and still broke down
Mark Zuckerberg, Head of the Fishpeople
- The IGNORE HITLER meme
- Jelly Bean coming on various Nexus devices
- MK802 micro-PC
- Mandriva to become a community distro, wants to collaborate with Mageia
- sipML5: a JavaScript SIP client
- Chrome passes IE in browser share
- IBM contributes Symphony to Apache OpenOffice
- Introductory ebook for new LPI exam released
- GSM base station using free software, SIGINT: Few advances in GSM security
0:57:48 Feedback
Supporters: Philip Behnke (sent some money for the Diablo III fund) — from Flattr: joe-1, Chris Woollard, johanv, cyberkiller, Dave Lee, Mattias Ohlsson, corenominal and Rasmus Svensson
- Entransic recommends Barnes & Noble to be renamed to "Bound & Neutered"
- Remy Van Elst tells us that there is a new version of Beyondpod out
- Claudiu explains that in Romania, most computers are not shipped with Windows as people largely can not afford it
Song: Skyrim Epic Rap by Dan Bull (all rights reserved)
