Podcast Season 1 Episode 1

Posted at 2:00pm on Tuesday February 3rd 2009

Title: Jesus Jelly

In this episode: Torvalds switches to Gnome, should we encourage people to run free software on a non-free OS, and is Mono a force for good or one big anti-Microsoft troll?

What's in the show

News: KDE 4.2 is released, Torvalds switches to Gnome, Fedora defaults to ext4 and Qt goes LGPL
Hot Topic: with KDE 4.2 running so well on Windows, is it OK to run free software on a non-free OS?
Discovery of the week:
- Paul: CSharpRepl
- Graham: Renoise 2
- Mike: MyPaint
- Andrew: Silverlight pain
OpenBallot: is Mono a good thing or the root of all evil?
Special offer: subscribe to Linux Format magazine and save up to to 55% - that's just $7.62 an issue!

Presenters: Andrew Gregory, Paul Hudson, Graham Morrison, Mike Saunders

Download as high-quality Ogg Vorbis (43MB)

Download as low-quality MP3 (45.3MB)

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Your comments

Good Show

Donoreo (not verified) - February 3, 2009 @ 9:59pm

I just finished listening to it. Very well done.

Downloading it now :) It

Grimnir512 (not verified) - February 4, 2009 @ 12:22pm

Downloading it now :) It really says something about FOSS if the high quality download is only ~2mb bigger than the low quality one. :P

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DoubleDiode (not verified) - February 4, 2009 @ 2:35pm

Thanks for the podcast. Is there going to be an rss feed for the mp3 and ogg files so I can subscribe to them?

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Rhakios the anonymous (not verified) - February 4, 2009 @ 8:52pm

There is an overall RSS feed if you look at the "About Tuxradar" section at the bottom. Presumably the podcast will feature.

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DoubleDiode (not verified) - February 4, 2009 @ 9:41pm

Thanks "Rhakios the anonymous". I saw that feed, but I want one that I can use to auto-download the sound files. The one you refer to does not let me do that.

Hmm - I seem to see it as

Ugly_spud (not verified) - February 5, 2009 @ 12:05pm

Hmm - I seem to see it as the high quality download is actually just over 2Mb smaller than the poor quality download.

iTunes

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - February 5, 2009 @ 4:46pm

Any chance of the podcast being made available through iTunes for us freedom-haters? :D

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Rhakios - February 5, 2009 @ 9:52pm

DoubleDiode

I wonder if that's possible with bittorrent downloads? All the RSS feeds I've seen for podcasts (i.e. those on the BBC) have employed direct download.

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Mean-Machine (not verified) - February 5, 2009 @ 11:58pm

The podcast download rss would be more than welcome!

Remember to use Ogg Vorbis.

Loved it!

Linuxfreak78 (not verified) - February 6, 2009 @ 12:27am

I must admit, I just stumbled upon your podcast just before work this morning, and was late because I decided to go ahead and download. Nevermind the fact that I also got nothing done while I worked! Regardless, I loved the podcast and look forward to many more in the future. Keep up the good work!

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Kestrel (not verified) - February 6, 2009 @ 1:46pm

It is not a podcast till you have a RSS feed with audio enclosures. That is what podcast means. Otherwise it is just a recording on internets. Sort of old school, I must say.

Quality

Rhakios - February 7, 2009 @ 3:27pm

After thinking about this for a little while and reflecting on the overall sound quality compared to other things I've downloaded from the internet, I was impressed by the clarity and the good balance between the several voices, so that each was equally audible.
I was left wondering if the Saffire LE Graham reviewed in #112 played a part in this and indeed if the entire podcast was produced in Linux. If so, it "the making of..." might make an interesting article either here or in the magazine.

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Dave (not verified) - February 8, 2009 @ 12:59pm

Another vote for the podcast RSS feed please.

thanks

Very professional, very dry

Paul S (not verified) - February 8, 2009 @ 4:00pm

All in all I liked it. I guess it can't be any more light hearted as it's tied into the magazine.

"Gnome" is something else entirely..

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - February 12, 2009 @ 1:30am

Great work guys, but there's no such thing as "Gnome", it's GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment). Just like KDE (K Desktop Environment) is not "Kde" :-)

Need RRS Feed

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - February 20, 2009 @ 7:36pm

Just to add....another vote for a RSS Feed so I can automatically download with Icepodder along with all my other podcasts. If we have to go to the site lots of us will forget.

Yay for OSS on WIndows.

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - September 16, 2009 @ 7:52am

Something I think you miss about OSS running on Windows is that there are many people who have to use Windows at least some of the time for work. If such a person were to be forced to choose between Windows and Linux they would choose Windows. After all a person has to eat.

So say a person wants to run a organizer. Of course all he really need is two different programs which are able to import/export data in a common format, but then he has to learn to use two different programs. So the best thing would be one program that runs on both Windows and Linux and can export data.

I really don't care whether KDE runs on Windows, but I do want QT and components responsible for other parts of the KDE API to run on both, to make it easier for open source developers to run on both.

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