Linux Outlaws 301 – Junction 9 is a Winner
March 10th, 2013
Red Hat deepthroats Microsoft, Valve launches Steam for Linux, Canonical launches its own X Server competitor, Firefox OS wins Mobile World Congress, LG buys WebOS, the Python Software Foundation is fighting for their trademark and Dell launches the Sputnik in Europe
Uncut video version of this episode on YouTube
0:00:45 INTRODUCTION
- Dr. Garth Alper performed the Jazz piano version of our theme we used for this episode
- Episode 301 is brought to you by Bum White — Putting the Glitter on Your Shitter
- Sam Varghese disembowels his career
0:12:07 RELEASES & NEWS
- Linux 3.8
- Sabayon 11
- RHEL 6.4
- Raspbmc 1.0
- Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
- Ruby 2.0
- Erlang/OTP R16B; Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good
- Django 1.5; the real Django
Franco Nero in Django
- Chrome 25
- Blender 2.66
- QEMU 1.4.0
- DigiKam 3.0.0
- Security: Linux rootkits abuse SSH service
- Security: Vulnerability in recent Linux kernels offers root rights
- Security: Cyber-attackers turn NVIDIA tool into an accomplice
- Steam for Linux officially launched
- Valve layoffs
- Ubuntu for tablets and smartphones
- No more UDS, it’s Google Hangouts now
- Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server
- Firefox OS, Ubuntu and Jolla’s Sailfish at MWC
Firefox OS at MWC 2013
- LG buys most of webOS from HP
- CyanogenMod to include new open source super user tool
- The Red Hat deepthroat kerfuffle
Guys, this is not a dick-sucking contest. If you want to parse PE binaries, go right ahead.
If Red Hat wants to deep-throat Microsoft, that’s *your* issue. That has nothing what-so-ever to do with the kernel I maintain.
- Booting desktop Linux on the Chromebook Pixel
- Python Software Foundation in trademark fight in Europe
- Barnes & Noble to move away from Nook hardware
- Chrome stops declaring Linux systems obsolete
- Firefox 22 to block third-party cookies
- Vivaldi comeback?
- Secure Boot restrictions can be disabled in Fedora
- Eclipse Foundation starts Long Term Support initiative
- Baden-Württemberg schools switching to Univention
- Dell Sputnik now being sold in Europe
- Linux 3.9 features
1:44:06 FEEDBACK
Supporters: Thanks to Ali Buchan, Ian Mavero, Tom Sparrow, Stuart Edgar, Jeff Gehlbach, Felim Whiteley,Tomáš Slapnička, Koen Tavernier, Andy Benz, Michael Newman, Niclas Andersson, Jeffrey Kaplan, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Bryan Lafferty and everyone who flattr’d us!
- Paul Williams is starting a new LUG: Wirral & Ellesmere Port LUG, meeting in the Old Hall Farm at 7pm on Monday, 18 March
- M53 junctions
- B1ackCr0w sent us the advertising video for Bum White
- Jonathan Nadeau reminds us of Northeast GNU/Linux Fest on 16 & 17 March at Harvard University
- Leonard Witte recommends an Android podcatcher called Volksempfänger
Maybe not the best name for a podcatcher…
We had other emails from Keith Z-G, Tzafrir Cohen, Rick Bragg and Alison Chaiken.
Song: Frozen People by Eric Fullerton from the album Art of Dreaming (released under an unspecified Creative Commons licence)
Hi Guys, love the show.
Just listening to 301 and heard the comment about the Nook not being available in the UK. I can see that neither of you are John Lewis or Waitrose people as the Nook has been available in my local Waitrose (South Woodford, NE London) for about three months now. See also http://www.johnlewis.com/nook-hd-16gb-wi-fi-1-3ghz-7-inch-hd-display-smoke/p231809932 et al.
Keep up the good work, all the best.
Ray
Yes, what we were saying was that we got emails about Nooks for about three years when they *weren’t* available in the UK. We know they are now, we reported on it when Barnes & Noble started selling them here.
Fab, you’re my muse. At least you made me assemble a bunch of thoughts on Firefox OS and app development in the future. You guys have been mentioned in a post I just wrote and I’m really hoping for Firefox OS to succeed, because I considered it part of a free and open web:
http://jonathanmh.com/firefox-os-the-web-goes-native/
Thank you so much for keeping me in the Linux world with your show, since I’m currently also a “freedom hater”
on a Mac, studying web development in Denmark.
As a German, I really enjoy Fab going crazy with the accent from time to time. Looking forward to the next show!
Thanks for the nice feedback! Will read that post ASAP.