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0:02:24 INTRODUCTION

• Hercules: Disappointed!
• The Hand of God: We have a new pope
• Fab’s been playing the new Tomb Raider

0:16:12 IN-DEPTH: UBUNTU COMMUNITY “SHITSTORM”

We talk about the recent disturbances in the Ubuntu ecosystem. It all started with Canonical unveiling their plans for Mir and Rick Spencer from Canonical saying Ubuntu might very well switch to rolling releases.

I have to be honest, there isn’t an Ubuntu community any more. There’s a Canonical community, an ubuntu-users gaggle and maybe an enthusiasts posse. But no community that makes decisions, builds a consensus, advocates or educates. It’s dead now, it’s been that way for a while.

— Martin Owens quits as an Ubuntu member

• Elizabeth Krumbach is concerned about the rolling release plans
• Then Jonathan Riddell (head Kubuntu developer) joins in; Riddell further clarifies in another blog post

Canonical has done some moves recently which show a lack of concern for the Ubuntu community. Numerous other blogs on Planet Ubuntu say the same thing today.

— Jonathan Riddell

• Mark Shuttleworth takes to his blog to personally attack Riddell back
• This causes Harald “Apachelogger” Sitter to back Riddell up
• Shuttleworth, again, takes to his blog
• Randall Ross, self-styled “Buzz Generator” and Community Manager for Ubuntu Vancouver actually compares the Ubuntu contributors to rocket fuel which is burned up and discarded to deliver Canonical and its products into orbit

Canonical has started asking for donations when downloading  Ubuntu and one option is to give “Better support for flavours like Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu Slider thumb”.  Kubuntu has never received any of these funds or seen any better support, so this is a disappointing case of fraud.

— Jonathan Riddell

The gravity with which Canonical pulls Ubuntu further from its original FOSS orbit is nothing short of tragic

— Larry Cafiero

0:51:09 RELEASES & NEWS

• OpenSUSE 12.3
• CentOS 6.4
• Kali Linux 1.0
• Trisquel 6.0
• Lots of puppies
• KDE 4.10.1
• Plasmate 1.0
• X.org 1.14
• Systemd 198
• Ardour 3.0
• UEFI support coming to FreeBSD
• GNOME and Kylin become official Ubuntu flavours
• Security: Everyone wins at Pwn2Own & nobody wins at Pwnium
• Security: D-Link fixes router vulnerabilities very quietly
• Google to pay $7 million fine for Wi-Fi sniffing
• Steam box craziness
• VP8 could become MPEG standard
• GNOME plans to promote Wayland port
• OpenOffice gets 40 million downloads on its last version
• Miguel de Icaza leaves for Mac
• Andy Rubin steps down as head of Android
• Canonical and Dell collaborate on PowerEdge server support
• Red Hat’s OpenShift Origin to become more transparent

1:30:00 MICROWATCH

•  EU fines Microsoft €561 million for browser choice failure

 1:32:53 FEEDBACK

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• Jason Bowles (aka Malkor The Techie) sends us a picture of his local bank in a small town in Eastern Iowa that has had some Windows update related temperature fail:

• Calum Craig mentions that Brian Blessed voices the character of Grampy Rabbit on Peppa Pig
• Jon Kulp thanked us for crediting his colleague Garth Alper on the previous show and sent a link to Garth’s new CD Deflection which has just come out
  
• Jason Lewis has recently discovered the show and asks us to mention Emacsconf, happening in London on 30 March 2013
• Meta-eX

We had other emails from Mikey, Keith Z-G, Jeffery Rollin-Jones, Félim Whiteley and Jeff Hatfield.

Song: The Sorry Song by Gidgets Ga Ga (licensed Creative Commons BY-ND 3.0)