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2:00 LugRadio Live and Unleashed 2008
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet get up on stage at LugRadio Live UK 2008 and talk about various things: ul liLugRadio Live: let's do it next year!/li liWhat will we be talking about a year from now? What's going to go on in the free software world between now and LugRadio Live 2009?/li liOpenStreetMap: the OSM team take the opportunity to answer some questions about the project/li liHas all the fun gone out of open source? Now that half the people hacking on code are paid for it, and we have to think about corporate governance and trademarks and patents and PR and commercial viability, is what we do as much fun now as it was then?/li liFour years of LugRadio: the attendees tell us what they've liked about the show since the beginning/li liA few prizes: congratulations especially to our new LugRadio Community Hero/li /ul pVideo of LugRadio Live and Unleashed is forthcoming: keep your eyes open for it, because it'll be brilliant!/p pThanks all for coming: we'll see you next year!/p -
2:00
I'll state my case
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. In this, the last ordinary LugRadio show, we're talking about: ul liWhy don't pundits fuck off? Are we pundits? Why don't we fuck off? Including free bonus Aq vs. Jono arguing, as if you couldn't see that coming (4.52) [a href=http://forums.lugradio.org/viewtopic.php?f=1t=4246Discuss in the LugRadio forums/a] /li lia href=http://twitter.comtwitter/a - the microblogging site. Why do people care? What's good about it? Is it Web 2.0 micro-cack or is it the New World Order? Our thoug (27.33) [a href=http://forums.lugradio.org/viewtopic.php?f=1t=4247Discuss in the LugRadio forums/a] /li liThe internet makes access to public information hugely easy. This is normally a good thing, but there have been some well-publicised cases where this new lack of secrecy has caused some upset. Our thoughts on responsibility and the nature of public but sensitive data (44.10) [a href=http://forums.lugradio.org/viewtopic.php?f=1t=4248Discuss in the LugRadio forums/a] /li liYour emails, for the last time. Thank you all for the deluge of emails we received wishing that we weren't going to end the show and offering suggestions for how LugRadio could continue -- we'd need a whole other show to read them all out, but we read them all and we're really touched. Also, the nature of contribution to open source, and best practice management where good IT is replaced by slavish adherence to existing brands (62.15) /li lia href=http://lugradio.org/liveLugRadio Live/a is this weekend! The last ever chance to hear the LugRadio team's particular brand of lies and commentary. In addition, there are thirty speakers, a great exhibition, parties, your 5-minute talks on stage in the Gong-a-Thong (send us your talks!) and lots more. We'll see you all this weekend! (83.35) /li /ul -
2:00
More on that later
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. In this show we're talking about: ul liStarting out on your own: if you're thinking of setting up your own company working with technology or the web or open source, what do you need to do to make it successful? Is it possible to compete in the market as a one-man show? Is it just too risky? (1.19) a href=http://forums.lugradio.org/viewtopic.php?f=1t=4214[How can you make money running your own company? Tell us in the LugRadio forums]/a/li liThe State Of the Mozilla: Firefox is the poster child for open source software, but are they forgetting their open-source base and not supporting the free desktop? There have been lots of accusations of this -- is it actually the truth? Secondly, Mozilla's rendering engine, Gecko, seems to be losing the war for being an embedded engine to WebKit. Are people heading away from Mozilla's technology? (20.00) [a href=http://forums.lugradio.org/viewtopic.php?f=1t=4215What do you think of the Mozilla project's approach? Tell us in the LugRadio forums/a]/li liWe announce that LugRadio will end at LugRadio Live UK this July, and talk about why the show's going out on a high. Tell us what you think: a href=http://www.lugradio.org/contactsend us email/a or a href=http://forums.lugradio.org/viewtopic.php?f=1t=4216post on the forums/a (37.15)/li liIf you could fix any problem in the open-source world what would it be? Thoughts on usability, modularisation, the web, and shared user accounts (44.15)/li liYour emails -- this week you're talking about McGyver, gun control, power metal, freedom hatred at the FSF, other Linux podcasts that we think that you should be listening to, and a href=http://www.lugradio.org/live/UK2008/LugRadio Live UK/a which is in less than a month! (73.40)/li /ul -
2:00
Burning Sensation
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes us answering the burning questions that emyou/em want answered, and also: ul liThe cynicism of brands by sysadmins (1.30) [a href=http://forums.lugradio.org/viewtopic.php?f=1t=4184Discuss this in the LugRadio forums/a]/li liA emBurning Question/em/li liA new model for the music industry - after we a href=http://lugradio.org/episodes/97discussed different ways that the music industry could work/a in episode 14, we look at your feedback, talk about what we've learned from thinking about this and the nature of recording contracts, and lay out one attempt to find a solution: a href=http://www.severedfifth.com/Severed Fifth/a (21.42) [a href=http://forums.lugradio.org/viewtopic.php?f=1t=4185Discuss this in the LugRadio forums/a]/li liA emBurning Question/em/li lia href=http://www.lugradio.org/live/UK2008/LugRadio Live UK/a is in less than a month! Prepare yourselves: a href=http://www.lugradio.org/contactcontact us/a emquickly/em if you want to grab one of the last few places in the LRL exhibition (60.05)/li liA emBurning Question/em/li liYour emails: this week we're talking about Ruby vs Python, honest music listeners, KDE 4 and whether we hate it, OpenSolaris, Linux on mobile phones, mail clients, and Linux Magazine featuring a picture of Aaron Bockover almost naked. a href=http://www.lugradio.org/contact/Send us your emails!/a (71.15)/li /ul pThis episode includes the tune emSteady B/em, from a href=http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/1820/Trafic de Blues' emFin de cavale/em album/a, which is licenced as a href=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 2.5/a, which means that this episode is also under the same licence (a minor change from our normal licence for episodes)./p -
2:00
Finding Emo
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show, discussing our unrealised hopes and dreams for the open source desktop, includes: ul liCairo: it was supposed to revolutionise the graphical look of the Gnome desktop, and as far as we can tell nothing has changed. Where are our beautiful pictures? (3.43) [a href=http://forums.lugradio.org/viewtopic.php?f=1t=4150Discuss this in the LugRadio forums/a]/li liLinux on mobile phones: it's not only the year of the Linux desktop every year, but it's the year in which Linux really takes over the embedded market. And it never happens. Mobile phones running Linux never appear in the market. Why? (15.52) [a href=http://forums.lugradio.org/viewtopic.php?f=1t=4151Discuss this in the LugRadio forums/a]/li liWhat does the community actually mean? Lots of companies are trying to build an open source community around their products, and they don't succeed because they don't know how. An extended segment of our views, including Jono speaking on how he thinks community management should work (27.17) [a href=http://forums.lugradio.org/viewtopic.php?f=1t=4152Discuss this in the LugRadio forums/a]/li liYour emails and feedback! This week you and we are talking about the LugRadio Syndrome, the freedom slider and a restricted formats wizard, spam, the new world of email security and SPF, abandoning technical books, Guns 'n' Roses, media players, and the subject that wouldn't die, Gobuntu (69.31)/li /ul -
2:00
The Minutiae of X
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:- Room 101: in honour of our 101st show, we shamelessly steal an idea from a British television programme and nominate one thing each to "go into Room 101", by which we mean that it should be banished for all time beyond the sight of humankind (1.45) [Nominate your candidates for banishment in the LugRadio forums!]
- We talk about Webwise's Phorm, the latest Internet advertising wheeze of dubious legality in the UK, with Becky Hogge from the Open Rights Group: what can you do about Phorm, why is it bad, and is there any stopping it? (18.25) [Do you think Phorm is a good idea? Do your ISP or your country implement something similar? Tell us about it in the forums]
- After the last episode's discussion of Evolution, we were challenged to all try a different email client for a week. The team report back on what it's like to spend a week using a different MUA (41.10)
- A suggestion from LugRadio Community Hero mrben on how to advocate Free formats inoffensively sparks a discussion about the idea of a "restricted formats wizard" in Linux distributions. Do distros do enough to promote the use of unencumbered formats for media? Do we as a community do enough? Do we do too much? (59.20) [Would you like to see a restricted formats wizard? Tell us how it should work in the forums]
- Your emails, including an avalanche of comment prompted by the section in the last episode about Gobuntu. You too can contact the show and win the truly exclusive LugRadio black t-shirt! (1.20.50)
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2:00
Not One Cent
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:- To celebrate the one hundredth episode of LugRadio, we name one hundred cool things that the open source community have achieved, one for each of our shows. Keep it up, everyone. We're really proud. (1.55)
- The Gobuntu "Experiment" Has Failed -- well, that's how Aq feels about it. With no Gobuntu 8.04 official release, what does this mean for advocates of absolute software freedom, and do they have a leg to stand on? (4.20)
- Evolution, the Gnome mail client, is much maligned (not least by being compared to Microsoft Outlook). Is it really as bad as all that? (39.32)
- A quick reminder that although LugRadio Live in the USA is over, the original and best LugRadio Live right here in the UK is happening on July 19th and 20th in Wolverhampton -- submit your talks and requests for exhibition space! (66.57)
- Your emails, including abuse about the end of the show, complaints of us being like an uncomfortable famliy dinner, and a note about the team's love for Sony's products of greatness (67.58)
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LugRadio Live USA 2008
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things while in the glorious land of America in the LugRadio Live USA 2008 live recording. This show includes:- Screw you, stupid users (hurriedly retitled to account for children in the audience): is there a point at which it's reasonable to say that software cannot be simplified further and that if some users can't grasp it, it's just not for them? Can free software meet every user's need -- can any software meet every user's need? Or is it reasonable to say that some people are just not suited for computers? (2.30) [Discuss this segment in the LugRadio forums]
- Our chance to reward some of the people at LugRadio Live USA: the roflcopter award, a birthday for the youngest member, a Dice raffle, the best exhibition at LRL USA, the person who sent the most people to the show, Jorge Castro's Miguel de Icaza impression. and Kynan Dent from Google in a dress (17.33)
- Is American culture too litigious, and is this affecting the free software community's ability to do things in the USA? How the fear of falling foul of the legal framework affected the organisation of LugRadio Live, and comments from the audience about whether this is widespread and what we, as a community, can do about it (34.17) [Discuss this segment in the LugRadio forums]
A big thanks to our sponsors, Dice, LinuxQuestions, and Linux Pro Magazine, and a huge extra thanks to our main sponsor Google for making LugRadio Live USA happen! Thanks also to Mike Evans for all the brilliant design work done for the event; it looked great, and that's Mike's work.
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2:00
The Soul That Died
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:- Scrum, the project methodology, is from the Agile Programming stable; a brief explanation of it and whether it's worthwhile (3.15) [Talk about how you run software projects in the LugRadio forums]
- Dave Neary talks about the Libre Graphics Meeting, what it's for, and how the LGM team are looking for donations to make this meeting happen -- you can donate to help them! (21.50)
- The egoless desktop -- does the open source community have an advantage over the proprietary world because we don't have to push the names of each project? Is it just as important to have people have loyalty to a particular piece of software even if there's no revenue stream? How vital are brands in the free software world? (38.10) [Discuss this topic in the LugRadio forums]
- LugRadio Live 2008 USA is this Saturday! One final reminder: if you want to go, you can pre-register for a ticket, and remember that there are some really cool prizes on offer if you recommend more friends to buy a ticket than anyone else does! See you all on Saturday... (62.28)
- Your feedback and emails! This week, including Flash mp3 players, stories about how you got into free software, Emacs, conferences, and the state of Linux in Thailand (70.00)
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1:00
If You're Not Into Metal
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:- Rob McQueen of Collabora talks about consulting in the open source world and what's going on with GStreamer (2.20)
- With recent small moves from Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails, among others, towards a Creative-Commons-ish sort of music release process, what's next for the music industry? Can a different model for music really exist? (14.58) [Discuss this on the LugRadio forums]
- Richard Querin wins the LugRadio competition to give Aza Raskin a new hat (39.37)
- Go and pre-register for LugRadio Live USA -- there's less than a month to go! If you recommend your friends to also pre-register, you can win an Asus Eee PC or a Neuros OSD media player (43.06)
- Django, the Python web framework: what's it all about? What's the point of it, and what's it for? (45.45) [Discuss this on the LugRadio forums]
- Your letters: this week we've got comments about, among other things, acceptable non-free software, unfairness to the absent Chris, which mp3/ogg player device people would recommend (send in your answers!), whether we do too much "meta" stuff, Rockbox, and Aq being a god of war (63.56)
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1:00
Embracing (and extending) change
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:- The Mono Worm Turns: Stuart, a past critic of the Mono project, explains how his views have changed and why he's less concerned than before (3.14) [What do you think of Mono? Discuss in the LugRadio forums]
- Blu-Ray wins: after a protracted battle for hearts and minds, the next DVD format for HD video will be Blu-Ray. What's that all about? The team discuss the new format and how it's relevant to what we do (19.52) [Discuss in the LugRadio forums]
- Microsoft have now committed to an "interoperability promise", but do we trust them? Can the leopard really change its spots, or is this just more of the same? Musings on Microsoft's past history, and why this time might be different (33.26) [Is it really different this time? Discuss in the LugRadio forums]
- A quick recap of the exhibition area at LugRadio Live and who's going to be there: if you want to exhibit your project at LRL USA in April, contact us, but time's running out! (62.48)
- Your thoughts, comments, bouquets and brickbats in our email box (64.58)
If you'd like us to review your project or your product, drop us a line and let us know.
Now in better stereo than the last episode! Yes, that's right, our new motto is "LugRadio: not quite as bad as before!" People have mentioned that (a) they don't like the stereo and (b) the encoding quality on the last show wasn't as good as usual from us. So, from now on, the high-quality mp3 will be bigger than before (because we've increased the quality of it) and the lower-quality mp3 will be mono (so people who don't like stereo can still listen to the show). Let us know on the LR forums if you discover any new issues, and thanks for the feedback.
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Promotion and celebrity
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:- Your Shipment of Chris has arrived. Chris Procter, the most recent addition to the presenter roster, has some pretty strong views on various technical subjects; we challenge his viewpoints on servers and programming (1.15) [Discuss this segment in the LugRadio forums]
- The results of the Pimp My LugRadio competition! Our winner, who provided the best thing for promoting LugRadio, is Sean Ellis: Sean wins an Asus Eee PC! You can see all the entries at the Pimp My LugRadio page; marvel at Sean's winning entry, and at all the others! (19.55)
- Some more details about the upcoming LugRadio Live USA 2008, April 12th-13th, San Francisco -- registration is now open, and you should buy a ticket now! (23.41)
- The cult of celebrity: is there something separating those well-known people who hack on open source software and those who don't have their names in the limelight? We don't think so (39.23) [Discuss this segment in the LugRadio forums]
- We receive a plaintive and heartfelt cry for help from Aza Raskin: see lugradio.org/hat for more details and our latest competition, in which you can win the LugRadio Finger of God! (56.12)
- Your emails to the show: this week, you (and we) are talking about the Tuxcast podcatcher, other podcasts, Tunapie, a browser for internet radio and TV streams, your thoughts on whether WriteRoom is a good idea (and Pyroom, a clone for Linux), previous winners of the exclusive LugRadio t-shirts (if you won one, take a picture of yourself and blog about it!), technical support as per our previous discussion, fear of chins, and how much to pay for software (62.08)
If you'd like us to review your project or your product, drop us a line and let us know.
Thanks to EfficientPC for donating the EEE PC for us to review and then give away in our competition!
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1:00
All Kinds Of Fail
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:- We review the fish command line shell and wonder whether shells can ever be interesting (1.50) [Tell us about why shells are important, or why no-one should care, or your views on fish at the LugRadio forums]
- Pimp My LugRadio, the competition to win an Asus Eee PC, approaches its end: get your entries in (something to promote LugRadio) by the 18th of February if you want to win! (9.15)
- We review the Dell M1330 laptop to see whether it's any good (11.11)
- Why can't home users get paid support for Linux at a reasonable price? Would it be a good idea for distributors to offer phone support, or is IRC good enough? (23.39) [Do you want phone support? Do your parents? Why won't it work? Discuss on the LugRadio forums]
- In the second part of the LugRadio Lock-In, we talk about whether distributions should innovate ahead of their upstream projects, or whether new work should happen upstream by default (38.50)
- We want to hear from you! Get in touch with suggestions for the LugRadio Krypton Factor, if you want to exhibit your project or company, run a BoF, or be part of the crew atLugRadio Live USA, and your ideas for Cool vs. Care (71.01)
- Words from you: your emails! This week we're talked to (and are talking about) audio prompts, Linux Fest Northwest, jokes about fish (not the shell), the MSI Megabook laptop, Frets on Fire (an open source Guitar Hero clone), Fedora porn sites, PyCon 2008 in the US, buying software, buying Windows, KDE 4 again, and vendor lock-in (74.47)
- LugRadio Live USA 2008 is now only two months away! Prepare yourselves. And go watch the LRL2008 USA promotional video and post it on your own blog! (87.50)
If you'd like us to review your project or your product, drop us a line and let us know.
This episode includes music from Lonely Anger from Dystopian Origins II by natlyea, under a CC-BY licence. Many thanks!
Thanks to EfficientPC for donating the EEE PC for us to review and then give away in our competition!
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1:00
One Foot In The Grave
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and the returning (for one show) Matt Revell, standing in for Adam Sweet, talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:- The KDE project have released KDE 4.0, their shiny and rebuilt new version which will take them into the next five years. We've tried it out to see what we think. (2.30) [What did you think of KDE 4.0? Was naming it 4.0 the right decision? Let us know on the LugRadio forums]
- In the first of a two-part interview, we talk to Aaron Seigo and Will Stephenson of the KDE project, live from the KDE 4.0 release event in Mountain View. They tell us about how the event's going: Aaron will also be on the next show to respond to our reviews and concerns about KDE 4.0 (22.46)
- In the final LugRadio Top Trumps, Jono gives his scores in the five criteria that we think define the reasons why people are interested in Linux. With extra bonus scores from Matt! (29.17) [How do you score? Tell us, or tell us what the criteria should have been, on the forums]
- Lots of things from all of you. We're pointed at fish, a replacement command-line shell to use instead of bash. K3B plays fanfares when you manage to burn a CD, and we talk about audio alerts being integrated into the desktop. Aq gets shoed about buying a proprietary laptop and loses his temper, as someone writes in to say that their laptop worked perfectly. People have been happily using the new Nokia N810, and we've got a review of it sent in to us. The LugRadio forums have been discussing KDE 4.0 and their approach of naming it 4.0 even though it's still in development, in advance of our review of the same. (55.22)
- We're asked what would make us leave the world of free software. A forums post asked the question, and we take this opportunity to answer. Go tell us what would make you leave! (69.22)
This episode includes the tune Steady B, from Trafic de Blues' Fin de cavale album, which is licenced as CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 2.5, which means that this episode is also under the same licence (a minor change from our normal licence for episodes).
Thanks to EfficientPC for donating the EEE PC for us to review and then give away in our competition!
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1:00
Time Gentlemen Please
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:- We speak to Sacha "Sago" Goedegebure from the Peach Project, the new open movie project from the Blender team, who produced Elephant's Dream. What's going on with the project, what's it like to make an open movie, and is it going to be as weird as Elephant's Dream? (1.51) [Have you donated to Peach? Talk about the project in the LugRadio forums]
- This week on LugRadio Top Trumps*: Stuart talks about why freedom is important, why the underdog isn't important, how a lifetime of free Unixes comes about when your home computer is too rubbish to run Windows, and how he scores in the five categories of freedom crusading, tinkering, cheapness, community, and underdogness (14.58)
- The LugRadio Lock-In: is vendor lockin a good idea? Should Linux distributors tie their server and desktop products together to make them work better and more easily, without necessarily pushing those changes to other Linux distros first? Does this necessarily need to be at the expense of their Linux competitors? (34.04) [Would you like to see Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Server tied more closely together? Comment on the LugRadio forums]
- LugRadio Live USA! We can finally confirm the dates: LRL USA 2008 will happen on 12-13th April, 2008, at the Metreon in San Francisco! You'll be able to buy tickets soon; keep an eye on the LugRadio website and the forums for details. The Call For Papers is now open; if you would like to submit a talk, or you'd like your project or company to exhibit, contact us and let us know (52.20)
- The Pimp My LugRadio competition, where you produce some promotional material for LugRadio and win an Asus Eee PC, is still running; get your entries in as soon as you can! We've had a load of great entries so far; get yours in now (54.54)
- Your emails and forum posts! This time, we talk about old-fashioned Unixes again, Hacker Public Radio, brown noses, Adam's shopping habits, virtualisation, our brown masters, and the latest Theo de Raadt and Richard Stallman grudge rematch (56.54)
This episode includes the tune Steady B, from Trafic de Blues' Fin de cavale album, which is licenced as CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 2.5, which means that this episode is also under the same licence (a minor change from our normal licence for episodes).
Thanks to EfficientPC for donating the EEE PC for us to review and then give away in our competition!
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Clouds of folly
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Not a proper episode this time, because here at LugRadio Towers we're all still recovering from eating one million mince pies (that's right, one million. We counted.). Instead, a sort of compilation: listen to a few amusing things and a few outtakes, and we take the opportunity to point out some parts of the LugRadio community that you might not know about. Get out there and get involved, you know it makes sense! Remember as well the "Pimp My LugRadio" competition: produce some LugRadio promotional material (a video, an audio trailer, a mashup, a poster, or whatever you can think of) and send us a link to it: the best one wins a brand-new Asus Eee PC running Linux. We hope you had a good Christmas, and you have a very happy New Year. From all of us here at LugRadio to all of you listening, welcome to 2008! Here's to another great year. -
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Inspirational Muppetational
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:- Alexandre Juillard from the Wine Project talks about where Wine is, why it isn't finished, and what's coming next (2.02) [Do you use Wine? Tell us about it on the LugRadio forums]
- This week in LugRadio Top Trumps, we look at Adam Sweet's scores in the five categories, freedom-crusading, tinkering, underdog, community, and cheapness. Adam talks about why he's interested in Linux and open source (11.36)
- The Asus EEE PC, a small-form-factor Linux-based laptop that's recently been released and is selling like hotcakes, is reviewed by the team. Does the device live up to the hype? (23.46)
- The LugRadio Predictions Segment: once again we step up to the plate to tell you what we think will happen over the next 12 months in the open source world. With free bonus slagging for us being wrong (occasionally) this time last year (40.12) [What do you think will happen in 2008? Do you think we're wrong? Tell us on the LugRadio forums]
- In Pimp My LugRadio, the LugRadio Christmas competition, you can win an Asus EEE PC! Listen to the show to find out how! (54.34)
- Your letters. This week this includes a shoeing for Adam and Chris for not mentioning VirtualBox in the last show, the new Blender open movie "Peach" project, Stuart's man-boobs, whether sudo is a good idea, Ogg Vorbis support on hardware, and Adam getting his blog 0wned (59.48)
This episode includes the tune Steady B, from Trafic de Blues' Fin de cavale album, which is licenced as CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 2.5, which means that this episode is also under the same licence (a minor change from our normal licence for episodes).
Thanks to EfficientPC for donating the EEE PC for us to review and then give away in our competition!
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Inspirational Muppetational
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:- Alexandre Juillard from the Wine Project talks about where Wine is, why it isn't finished, and what's coming next (2.02) [Do you use Wine? Tell us about it on the LugRadio forums]
- This week in LugRadio Top Trumps, we look at Adam Sweet's scores in the five categories, freedom-crusading, tinkering, underdog, community, and cheapness. Adam talks about why he's interested in Linux and open source (11.36)
- The Asus EEE PC, a small-form-factor Linux-based laptop that's recently been released and is selling like hotcakes, is reviewed by the team. Does the device live up to the hype? (23.46)
- The LugRadio Predictions Segment: once again we step up to the plate to tell you what we think will happen over the next 12 months in the open source world. With free bonus slagging for us being wrong (occasionally) this time last year (40.12) [What do you think will happen in 2008? Do you think we're wrong? Tell us on the LugRadio forums]
- In Pimp My LugRadio, the LugRadio Christmas competition, you can win an Asus EEE PC! Listen to the show to find out how! (54.34)
- Your letters. This week this includes a shoeing for Adam and Chris for not mentioning VirtualBox in the last show, the new Blender open movie "Peach" project, Stuart's man-boobs, whether sudo is a good idea, Ogg Vorbis support on hardware, and Adam getting his blog 0wned (59.48)
This episode includes the tune Steady B, from Trafic de Blues' Fin de cavale album, which is licenced as CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 2.5, which means that this episode is also under the same licence (a minor change from our normal licence for episodes).
Thanks to EfficientPC for donating the EEE PC for us to review and then give away in our competition!
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Bottom trumps
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:- The return (briefly) of the long-lamented Hype or Shite segment, with Hypervisor or Shite! Chris and Adam explain what virtualization is actually all about and why people should care: if you're wondering what the difference between Xen and VMWare and QEmu actually is, or you like the idea of having one server which is actually thirty servers, then this is the section for you! (2.00) (Discuss virtualisation here on the LugRadio forums)
- How do we deal with people giving "advice" to newbies where the advice is malicious trolling that deletes their hard drive? Is this symptomatic of a wider problem? Should we be changing the way Linux works to try and counteract this problem? (23.45) (Discuss this subject on the LugRadio forums)
- Why do we actually bother with all this? Why spend all this time working with Linux and open source? The first of a new series looking at the reasons we think people get into all this stuff, and what that means (35.20) (Tell us why you got into Linux on the LugRadio forums)
- Your emails, covering all sorts of things like robotics, OpenStreetMap, Microsoft's Open Source lab, and Robert Plant (46.15)
This episode includes the tune Steady B, from Trafic de Blues' Fin de cavale album, which is licenced as CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 2.5, which means that this episode is also under the same licence (a minor change from our normal licence for episodes).
We've also changed the way we encode mp3s, so if you were having problems listening to the mp3s in season 5, let us know if it's fixed. If you were having trouble and you are still having trouble, please contact us via the LugRadio forums and let us know.
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Bottom trumps
» LugRadio (podcast)Enclosure: [download]
Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:- The return (briefly) of the long-lamented Hype or Shite segment, with Hypervisor or Shite! Chris and Adam explain what virtualization is actually all about and why people should care: if you're wondering what the difference between Xen and VMWare and QEmu actually is, or you like the idea of having one server which is actually thirty servers, then this is the section for you! (2.00) (Discuss virtualisation here on the LugRadio forums)
- How do we deal with people giving "advice" to newbies where the advice is malicious trolling that deletes their hard drive? Is this symptomatic of a wider problem? Should we be changing the way Linux works to try and counteract this problem? (23.45) (Discuss this subject on the LugRadio forums)
- Why do we actually bother with all this? Why spend all this time working with Linux and open source? The first of a new series looking at the reasons we think people get into all this stuff, and what that means (35.20) (Tell us why you got into Linux on the LugRadio forums)
- Your emails, covering all sorts of things like robotics, OpenStreetMap, Microsoft's Open Source lab, and Robert Plant (46.15)
This episode includes the tune Steady B, from Trafic de Blues' Fin de cavale album, which is licenced as CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 2.5, which means that this episode is also under the same licence (a minor change from our normal licence for episodes).
We've also changed the way we encode mp3s, so if you were having problems listening to the mp3s in season 5, let us know if it's fixed. If you were having trouble and you are still having trouble, please contact us via the LugRadio forums and let us know.
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A quality production
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:- Havoc Pennington and Colin Walters from Red Hat talk about the Gnome Online Desktop project - discuss this in the LugRadio forums! (1.23)
- Do we need rockstar programmers? Prompted by Thomas "marnanel" Thurman talking about the hard but unglamorous work that he and the rest of the Metacity team do, we discuss whether it's a good idea to have "rockstar" hackers involved in a project - discuss this in the LugRadio forums! (26.40)
- El Bizarro's Oblique Freak Show! This week on the freak show: Second Life! (41.00)
- The Finger Of God decides which distro is best, as requested by one of our listeners. Send us your choices and let the Finger decide! (54.10)
- LugRadio has been chosen as the best Linux podcasts in the Linux Format magazine Christmas issue. We're pretty pleased by this, unsurprisingly (55.12)
- Your emails, and the best posts from the LugRadio Forums. A brilliant set of emails this time: thanks very much! Way too many to read, and we chose only the best -- the very best email wins a LugRadio t-shirt every week, so get your mails in to show@lugradio.org, and look at lugradio.org/contact for our voicemail number and the LugRadio forums (56.58)
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A quality production
» LugRadio (podcast)Enclosure: [download]
Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:- Havoc Pennington and Colin Walters from Red Hat talk about the Gnome Online Desktop project - discuss this in the LugRadio forums! (1.23)
- Do we need rockstar programmers? Prompted by Thomas "marnanel" Thurman talking about the hard but unglamorous work that he and the rest of the Metacity team do, we discuss whether it's a good idea to have "rockstar" hackers involved in a project - discuss this in the LugRadio forums! (26.40)
- El Bizarro's Oblique Freak Show! This week on the freak show: Second Life! (41.00)
- The Finger Of God decides which distro is best, as requested by one of our listeners. Send us your choices and let the Finger decide! (54.10)
- LugRadio has been chosen as the best Linux podcasts in the Linux Format magazine Christmas issue. We're pretty pleased by this, unsurprisingly (55.12)
- Your emails, and the best posts from the LugRadio Forums. A brilliant set of emails this time: thanks very much! Way too many to read, and we chose only the best -- the very best email wins a LugRadio t-shirt every week, so get your mails in to show@lugradio.org, and look at lugradio.org/contact for our voicemail number and the LugRadio forums (56.58)
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One From Four
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:- Adam Williamson from Mandriva Linux, who have just put out the new Mandriva 2008, talks about the release and where Mandriva are (1.33)
- The Distro Test. In the LugRadio Labs, the team test the best of the latest crop of distro releases — Mandriva 2008, OpenSuSE 10.3, Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon, and Fedora 8 (beta) — by putting them through a series of realistic tasks like connecting a printer, connecting to a Bluetooth phone, playing mp3s, and making the laptop we chose go to sleep. The results were...revealing! (19.40) [Give us your views -- on which is best or what we should have tested -- on the LugRadio Forums!]
- In El Bizarro's Antique Freak Show, our tour around the wild and unexplored corners of the internet, we talk about the Otherkin (51.00)
- Bloodspell is a film created with the process of machinima, using a 3D game engine to create an animated movie (58.02) [Give us your views on the LugRadio Forums!]
- Your emails, and the best posts from the LugRadio Forums. Best email or post will win a LugRadio t-shirt from next episode! (69.33)
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One From Four
» LugRadio (podcast)Enclosure: [download]
Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:- Adam Williamson from Mandriva Linux, who have just put out the new Mandriva 2008, talks about the release and where Mandriva are (1.33)
- The Distro Test. In the LugRadio Labs, the team test the best of the latest crop of distro releases — Mandriva 2008, OpenSuSE 10.3, Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon, and Fedora 8 (beta) — by putting them through a series of realistic tasks like connecting a printer, connecting to a Bluetooth phone, playing mp3s, and making the laptop we chose go to sleep. The results were...revealing! (19.40) [Give us your views -- on which is best or what we should have tested -- on the LugRadio Forums!]
- In El Bizarro's Antique Freak Show, our tour around the wild and unexplored corners of the internet, we talk about the Otherkin (51.00)
- Bloodspell is a film created with the process of machinima, using a 3D game engine to create an animated movie (58.02) [Give us your views on the LugRadio Forums!]
- Your emails, and the best posts from the LugRadio Forums. Best email or post will win a LugRadio t-shirt from next episode! (69.33)
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Divine Digits
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:- Quim Gil from Nokia talks about Maemo and the new Nokia N810 (1.51) Discuss this segment on the LugRadio forums!
- What's the best? The LugRadio Finger Of God speaks its wisdom to tell us what the best mail client, the best editor, and the best form of music is. Tell us what you'd like to see the Finger decide on next! (13.18)
- Should software vendors be held legally responsible for security holes in their products? (22.19) Discuss this segment on the LugRadio forums!
- Jono's journey into the wonderful world of Ubuntu packaging (36.56)
- Your emails! In this show, Nokia 770s and 800s, open source web applications, the KDE 4 release event, being too tight to buy a printer, Enlightenment live CDs, OOXML and Miguel de Icaza. Send in your emails to show@lugradio.org: best email of each week gets a LugRadio t-shirt! (59.51)
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Divine Digits
» LugRadio (podcast)Enclosure: [download]
Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:- Quim Gil from Nokia talks about Maemo and the new Nokia N810 (1.51) Discuss this segment on the LugRadio forums!
- What's the best? The LugRadio Finger Of God speaks its wisdom to tell us what the best mail client, the best editor, and the best form of music is. Tell us what you'd like to see the Finger decide on next! (13.18)
- Should software vendors be held legally responsible for security holes in their products? (22.19) Discuss this segment on the LugRadio forums!
- Jono's journey into the wonderful world of Ubuntu packaging (36.56)
- Your emails! In this show, Nokia 770s and 800s, open source web applications, the KDE 4 release event, being too tight to buy a printer, Enlightenment live CDs, OOXML and Miguel de Icaza. Send in your emails to show@lugradio.org: best email of each week gets a LugRadio t-shirt! (59.51)
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Lock, Stock, and One Smoking Barrel
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:- Where's our open source online office suite going to come from? There are plenty of web-based office programs now, but none of them are open source. Can the free software community build a project like this, and do we need to? (1.06)
- Greg Kroah-Hartman, kernel and udev developer, talks about the Linux Driver Project, kernel hacking, and what he's doing at Novell (18.15)
- Is the free software world eating itself alive? Criticism and cooperation across projects: should we all be nice or is it OK to stick the boot in? (26.48)
- A mystery tour...where is our mystery project of the week? (40.10)
- Emails from lots of people: keep sending them in! (53.50)
- LugRadio Live USA news: we're looking for venue suggestions (the DNA Lounge, which we were aiming for, is over-21 only, sadly!) Contact us at show@lugradio.org if you know of a good event venue for LRL USA in San Francisco.
Thanks to the Elephant's Dream team, who allowed us to use their music under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
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Lock, Stock, and One Smoking Barrel
» LugRadio (podcast)Enclosure: [download]
Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:- Where's our open source online office suite going to come from? There are plenty of web-based office programs now, but none of them are open source. Can the free software community build a project like this, and do we need to? (1.06)
- Greg Kroah-Hartman, kernel and udev developer, talks about the Linux Driver Project, kernel hacking, and what he's doing at Novell (18.15)
- Is the free software world eating itself alive? Criticism and cooperation across projects: should we all be nice or is it OK to stick the boot in? (26.48)
- A mystery tour...where is our mystery project of the week? (40.10)
- Emails from lots of people: keep sending them in! (53.50)
- LugRadio Live USA news: we're looking for venue suggestions (the DNA Lounge, which we were aiming for, is over-21 only, sadly!) Contact us at show@lugradio.org if you know of a good event venue for LRL USA in San Francisco.
Thanks to the Elephant's Dream team, who allowed us to use their music under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
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All things happen in fives
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and Adam Sweet return for season five of LugRadio! Our official welcome to Chris as a full-fledged member of the team. We're back, and it's gonna rock hard. Welcome to Season 5!- Why is server stuff so hard? The sysadmin half of the team (Adam and Chris) respond to accusations from the desktop half of the team (Jono and Aq) (2.43)
- Miguel de Icaza, leader of the Mono project, comes on the show to speak about Moonlight, the Mono team's implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight rich internet application system, and to give his side of the controversy surrounding the project (13.55)
- The Mystery Hunt: where is...XUL? (30.35)
- Adam reviews two Linux-based embedded devices, the Neuros OSD TV movie streamer and the GP2X handheld games console (39.40)
- Your letters, including geography abuse, stereo abuse, name abuse, and the Ontario Linux fest. Send us your emails to show@lugradio.org or through lugradio.org/contact (53.20)
- LugRadio Live USA is really happening! American listeners, come join us for a weekend of fun and frolics on March 22nd and 23rd in San Francisco (63.08)
Oh, and, for those of you reading this in an RSS reader, take a glance at the new design for http://www.lugradio.org/. Our thanks go out to Michael Evans for the design, and the LugRadio ninjas team for applying the new design to various other places in the LR web empire. There'll be more photos and so on going up shortly; let us know what you think and if you want to see anything else on the site!
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Summer 2007 Conference Special
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and Adam Sweet speak about many things. Over the summer, LugRadio were asked to be media partners for two conferences, GUADEC (the Gnome User and Developer European Conference) and PyCon UK, the first UK-specific Python conference. Here's a conference special from both those events! PyCon UK- Thoughts on PyCon (1.43)
- Stackless Python: Christian Tismer tells us all about what Stackless is and demonstrates his own hardcore coding abilities (5.46)
- Django: Simon Willison talks about the leading Python web framework, what's going on with it, and how Adrian Holovaty is a coke fiend (12.49)
- Zeth Green from the PyCon organising committee speaks about what it was like to run the conference (23.40)
- Wrap up and what we thought (30.02)
- A summary of Guadec, joined by special guest and Perl hacker Barbie (38.58)
- Quim Gil from Nokia speaks about what he's doing in the ice-cold nation of Finland and how this Guadec compares to the one he organised in 2006 (63.09)
- Lennart Poettering (Avahi and PulseAudio hacker) on what he's up to and what he thinks of the conference (71.09)
- PiTiVi: Edward Hervey goes from zero to hero by making sweeping changes to make the PiTiVi video editor much better in the space of 24 hours (75.08)
- Rob McQueen from Collabora on what his company are up to in the Gnome world (79.53)
Thanks for listening to this 2007 conference special, and thanks to the Guadec and PyCon organsers for inviting us to be media partners. If you'd like the LugRadio team to cover your conference, contact us at the show address!
LugRadio, season 5, will begin on September 24th, 2007. Prepare yourselves.
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LugRadio Live and Unleashed 2007
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LugRadio Live and Unleashed, the show recorded in front of the audience at LugRadio Live 2007! With the four large gents: Stuart Langridge, Adam Sweet, Jono Bacon, and Ade Bradshaw, and a cast of thousands in the audience (well, hundreds, anyway). The show features:- LRL Stories: people at LugRadio Live tell us what they thought and what they liked
- Software patents: can we just ignore America and build a Linux distribution that everyone can use and which can play mp3s?
- Awards: prizes and congratulation to people who have done good things, including the people who travelled furthest to LRL and the LugRadio Community Hero
- Server stuff: how should you set up email?
- Ade announces that this is his last show. We say goodbye and introduce the new presenter, Chris Procter
- We announce that LugRadio is coming to America! Yes, in 2008 there will not only be LugRadio Live but also LugRadio Live USA! Book your tickets for March!
This is the end of season 4. We'll shortly be releasing a special show recorded at Guadec, the Gnome user and developer conference, and then we shall return in September for the all-new season 5, with Chris P now a full member of the team. Thanks very much for all your listening over this last season, and we'll see you in September!
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The five best things about Britain
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, and the long-lost Matt Revell (standing in for Ade and Adam), in the last regular show of series 4, talk about:- The BBC are about to release iPlayer, a way of watching the last week of BBC shows...if you're on a Windows machine which supports DRMed Windows Media Player files. Is this a good idea? Is there anything they could have done instead? (2.38)
- This week Jono are mostly been playing with...UPnP media sharing between Linux and the PlayStation 3 (22.21)
- Ian "Howlin' Mad" Murdock from Sun talks about Project Indiana, Sun's project to produce an easily-installable version of OpenSolaris (29.17)
- Google Adsense: problems that we've had with it, alternatives to Adsense, and what can be done about it (36.52)
- By 'eck, it's fooked: things that are fooked, in particular Bluetooth integration under the free desktop and simple file sharing (45.40)
- Emails and voicemails: you speak to us! Thanks for all your emails over this series -- send us more over the summer! (57.36)
- Final LugRadio Live details! Which social events are going on around LRL this year! LugRadio Live 2007 is this Saturday and Sunday: if you're coming and haven't yet booked a ticket, go to http://lugradio.org/live and see the Register page to buy a ticket or tell us you're going to buy one on the door! (76.16)
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Long is the way
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Ade Bradshaw, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and a variety of other stuff including:- Why doesn't Aq run Debian instead of Ubuntu? Thoughts on the nature of software freedom, accidental wireless, and how to test a new OS (2.40)
- Fedora 7 was recently released: our resident Fedora expert speaks about what's changed and his thoughts (15.47)
- Linspire sign a cross-licence patent deal with Microsoft, following in the footsteps of Novell and Xandros: is this a trend? What are we doing? (34.56)
- The winner of the Getting High With Linux competition! The three entries are available on the Getting High With Linux competition page at LugRadio.org. (47.40)
- Your emails (not at the end of the show!) Send us email to the show email address, including your pictures of the presenters, and leave us audio messages on 0845 86 89 855 (51.27)
- LugRadio Live: there's less than three weeks to go! Go and register! July 7th-8th in Wolverhampton: be there (62.45)
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A Cave Less Travelled
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Ade Bradshaw, and Adam Sweet (in his first show as an official LugRadio presenter) talk about Linux, open source, and a variety of other stuff including:- AMD/ATI announced at the Red Hat Summit that they were committed to fixing the ATI problems with open source: is it likely to happen, and what would it mean? (0.51)
- A life recorder: if something existed that could record your entire sensory experience all the time, would you use it? How would it alter the world? (7.45)
- Aaron Seigo gives us an update on KDE4 (22.22)
- Buying a laptop for Linux: Ade's friend has a laptop where all the parts are supported by Linux but no one distro covers them all. What can we do about it, and should we be looking at Linux-specific hardware vendors? (39.03)
- Many, many of your emails! (58.00)
- LugRadio Live update, including a call for exhibitors: contact show@lugradio.org if you want to be part of the exhibition! Please also contact us if you're interested in doing a visual demo of something cool as part of the Hour of Power! (85.13)
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Anger Mismanagement
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge and Ade Bradshaw join Matt Revell for his last ever LUGRadio episode and talk about Linux, open source, and a variety of other stuff including:- Coopetition: is it really possible to both compete and work together with competitors?(1.19)
- Microsoft issue yet more patent threats, but do they actually mean anything? Should we be running scared or give them the "hand that ain't listening"? We talk to Bradley M. Kuhn from The Software Freedom Law Center and get his viewpoint. (11.30)
- Red Hat make a number of announcements at the Red Hat Summit. The team deliberate and try to understand exactly what they mean. (34.03)
- Your emails, Matt's last segment as a full member and introducing his spiky-haired replacement. (44.50)
- Revell's best and most wobbly bits. (65.41)