Linux Outlaws 284 – Burning Poppies
November 18th, 2012
John McAfee wanted for murder, Mozilla Festival 2012 report, Fedora 19 release name voting, AMD lays of many of its open source developers, Oracle tries to piss off Red Hat, Brocade buys Vyatta, Linus on the Android kernel and a comeback of the Gaming Corner
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0:00:47 INTRODUCTION
- Breaking News: McAfee wanted for murder in Belize
- Northeast Linux Fest is looking for speakers
- Dan’s Beer of the Week: Grafenwalder Pils
- Someone needs to sort out our Wikipedia entry
- Kent police arrests man for burning a fake poppy — #poppycock
- There will be no live show on Monday, we will be recording later in the week
0:22:34 REPORT FROM MOZFEST
Fab attended the Mozilla Festival 2012 in London and gives his report.
0:36:15 RELEASES & NEWS
- openSUSE 12.2 for ARM
- Development: Mandriva 2012 Alpha 2
- Development: Linux Mint 14 RC1
- Development: First E17 alpha
- Development: Ruby 2.0.0 preview
- TOR security issue
- Apple and HTC settle all patent lawsuits
- Fedora 19 release name voting
- AMD lays off open source developers
- Oracle tries to piss off Red Hat with RedPatch
- Plone vulnerabilities
- Brocade acquires Vyetta
- Matthew Garrett has quit his job for Red Hat
- Ubuntu for Android marketing video
- Go turns three
- AlaMode backpacks an Arduino on a Raspberry Pi
- Mozilla settles with the IRS
- Linus Torvalds: The Android situation is improving
- GNOME drops fallback mode
1:23:35 GAMING CORNER
- Steam for Linux is a go and Fab has cheated his way in; a full report will be forthcoming
- Elite: Dangerous — Fab is a backer
1:30:35 FEEDBACK
Supporters: We thank Remy van Elst and all Flattr’ers!
- Neil had a long email discussion with Fab about Republicanism
- Chris wanted to point us to a ranty article about the state of GNOME 3
- Kristin Morey enjoys the show and looks forward to it each week; she also tells us about working with her Chromebook CR-48 running Debian with KDE
- Kuero says Fab should use one of his Raspberry Pis as a Bitcoin miner
Song: A Drone Again, Naturally by Drone Aircraft (all rights reserved)



Tiddalik, perhaps not the Indian diety, but a frog.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiddalik
http://www.miromaa.org.au/Culture/Tiddalik-the-Frog.html