Podcast Season 3 Episode 14
Posted at 11:00am on Thursday July 21st 2011
Title: Live from Andrew's House
In this episode: Apple asserts its patents against HTC. CentOS 6 has been released while GNU Hurd might be ready for the next Debian. Listen to our discoveries and your opinions, and share our joy in finally managing to complete a You Dare Us challenge.
What's in the show:
- News:
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Apple has partially succeeded in asserting two of its patents against HTC (and Google has now pledged support for HTC). CentOS 6 has been released and GNU Hurd threatens to be ready for the next Debian release, according to the most recent progress report. And Mike and Graham are off to Portland next week for OSCON 2011. Say hello if you see them and check TuxRadar.com for reports on their adventure.
- Discovery of the week:
- Jonathan:
- Someone has found a way to break Google.
- Andrew:
- Installing Debian 6 is a 'labyrinthine' proces.
- Mike:
- Effy:
- IBM does good things for Linux.
- and Mission Burritos is opening a restaurant in Bath.
- Graham:
- A wonderful software synthesizer called 'din', thanks to the Linux Format announcement forums.
- Jonathan:
- You Dare Us:
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We all did it! And here's the results of our 'draw a penguin' challenge from the last episode:
- Jon:
- Mike:
- Effy:
- Graham:
- Andrew:
Let us know which one you prefer!
Interval music is called 'Once Tomorrow' by Josh Woodward (CC BY 3.0)
- Jon:
- Speak Your Brains:
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Your comments
Poor Tux. What have they done to you?
Anonymous_Penguin (not verified) - July 21, 2011 @ 12:26pm
What one earth was going through you minds when you mutilated Tux that way? I don't like any of these. But I do like the idea of a new updated version of Tux logo. Maybe done from those who work and have skills in graphics.
You Dare Us -
labinnsw - July 21, 2011 @ 12:56pm
It's hard to decide between Effy's and Graham's. I am going to give it to Graham because it seems to have more freehand involved. Effy you did a good job but it looks more like a CAD product. Jonathan excellent effort and good result. Mike and Andrew, please redo.
You Dare us - Drawings
YorkshireTyke (not verified) - July 21, 2011 @ 1:34pm
Jon's penguin gets my vote, how about doing this again but with everyone uses the same app for drawing.
Art Criticism
mawildpenguin (not verified) - July 21, 2011 @ 2:28pm
Jon's aquarelle penguin with highlights and shadow effort is my fav and definitely wins my vote
Effy's second with a font-art stylistically simple penguin (someone forward this to the opera browser)
Mike's surrealistically reminds us of how all Os's Except MikeOS are just a brick (no 'ceci n'est pas un OS/penguin' line?)
Graham's disney-ish penguin is cute .. but disney is not what you normally associate with free open source now is it?
anyone having trouble seeing Andrew's penguin bash head on keyboard 3 times then squint cross-eyed (jokes aside the effort of wanting to use old style turtle graphic is nice and it would look really nice on a retro style project for Linux)
Penguins
Huw - July 21, 2011 @ 2:30pm
You're a bunch of weirdos. Gotta give it to Jon though; that's an excellent effort. Graham's a close second.
Not listened to it yet but...
dazfuller - July 21, 2011 @ 2:47pm
I've got to wonder why it looks as though Mike picked up his penguin from a butchers as a block of meat? Is this what he's planning on doing to poor little Tux when MikeOS rules the world?
Jon's has my vote though, very cool and yet slightly creepy with those staring white eyes. What's that Tux, you want me to hurt people?
Re: Thanks guys!!!
TuxRadar - July 21, 2011 @ 4:52pm
No probs Joshua! And I uploaded 2.2 of MEMEDIT two hours ago -- I posted on the mailing list about it :-)
Mike
vote from me
Austin Prior (not verified) - July 21, 2011 @ 5:14pm
Andrew, your mondrian tribute gets my vote. Eventhough the whole point of Mondrian's work was to be non-representative rather than abstract or deconstructionist as you've gone for. But of course, maybe you're way ahead of me and are making an hilarious absurdist art-history joke to see if people are sophisticated enough to pick up on it.
Or maybe you want me to think that because you're masking what is really a quite trite and trivial work in overly intellectual claptrap.
Whatever you're going for, just know that I get it, OK? I'm dead clever, me. I know all about art and that. Just shut up.
Gosh this is stressful. Now I know why I quit my job as an art critic.
penguin
heiowge (not verified) - July 21, 2011 @ 11:48pm
I like mike's penguin best. Probably why I need to diet...
Hurd hurd hurd... hurd is the word... LOL. Big time! Cheers guys.
I too give a vote to Jon's -
dm319 the real one (not verified) - July 21, 2011 @ 11:54pm
I too give a vote to Jon's - what a cutie! second to the mondrian (though I didn't realise mondrian was meant to be non-representative - you learn something new every day!)
Oh, great now GNU wants to
Worried Penguin (not verified) - July 22, 2011 @ 10:51am
Oh, great now GNU wants to destroy linux as well, ie by making Linux distros run on herd kernel so there's no more linux to it. Well they'll have to take a number. They can have the core utiltys but I'm sticking to a Linux kernel (and I'm sticking to X.org (and I'm sticking to GNOME 2 )).
GNU/GNU
andyy.splash - July 22, 2011 @ 2:41pm
Now They have made Hurd nearly ready, and the GNU system is almost done, they will Have GNU/Hurd not GNU/Linux, and then we might be able to drop the GNU/ from Linux!! Since Stallman's tossing away Linux from GNU then can we sort out the name?
Love this podcast. =) It's
Daniel Jonsson (not verified) - July 22, 2011 @ 6:32pm
Love this podcast. =) It's really interesting and fun to listen to.
Well
Anonymous Penguin - July 22, 2011 @ 11:34pm
If The Bauhaus (collective) had had computers they would have loved GNU/Linux, but they'd have loved GNU/Hurd even more. Andrew wins.
Also they would tell you that a "Drawing is a Drawing" the method is irrelevant. A drawing is a "Drawing" by virtue of context.
"Had had" probably my favourite two words put side by side ever.
Penguin Stickers!!!
Sinister Albino Penguin (not verified) - July 23, 2011 @ 12:20am
Andrew's is my favourite. But PLEASE slip them all into the next issue of LXF as stickers, then we could use 'em to cover over our hated Windows keys & generally pimp our machines.
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Metasansana (not verified) - July 23, 2011 @ 1:58pm
These logos are depressing and scary :(.
I did like Andrew's right up
Dafydd - July 24, 2011 @ 2:16pm
I did like Andrew's right up until Austin Prior's reply and I got a bit confused about all the big words.
The eyes in Jon's are a bit soulless in a scary sort of a way.
I must say that I though this was going to be a rubbish You Dare Us. Thanks for proving me wrong.
Jon's design get my vote
tadcan (not verified) - July 24, 2011 @ 3:58pm
Jon's design get my vote
I read through the comments
tadcan (not verified) - July 24, 2011 @ 4:03pm
I read through the comments after voting and saw the link to MikeOS, I've been listening since ep.1 and thought that was a joke. Will put it in virtualbox and take a look.
Jon's is my clear winner
Adam Griffiths - July 28, 2011 @ 6:34am
It makes me feel happy and warm inside.
Jon's is awesome
Black Cow (not verified) - July 28, 2011 @ 8:48pm
Title says it all. Jon's is very nice. I do like Andrew's though. Nice and out of the in box.
Jon's wins, but at what cost to our souls?
Anonymous Penguin hiding behind a keyboard in Nailsea (not verified) - July 28, 2011 @ 11:31pm
The eyes! The eyes! Jon's evil Tux wins hands down. Especially when you know it was made with 'his pain' and a dagger in the N for good measure.
IBM video/commercial
Bob Wooden (not verified) - July 29, 2011 @ 8:55pm
Recently I have gotten into listening to podcasts. The first Tuxradar podcast I listened to was Season 3 Episode 14, your most currently released broadcast. Thanks for the great work!
One of the guys (sorry, don't know which one) was talking about a video he had run across lately from IBM. It featured various stars (including Mohammed Ali and others) and concluded with a child sitting in a chair. There was a series of these commercials IBM ran here in the United States when they (IBM) invested one billion dollars in Linux that first year they announced they were going linux. The general message was we (IBM) believe that Linux is the future of computers and we (IBM) are taking all our current customers this way, the good way.
We all know what IBM has done since for linux. It has turned out very well for them, as a company.
As an added note, I remember there being one commercial that featured Patrick Stewart (then in the height of Star Trek Next Generation stardom) commenting on the birth of a linux as compared to a child. That child sitting in the chair hungry for linux knowledge. We all hunger for knowledge, so please keep giving us more great broadcasts. Thanks, again!!
A Different Implementation of YUM
aSheepie - August 3, 2011 @ 2:39pm
You should try the Mexican Cornish pasties - they're really nice. My brother married a Mexican girl and she had a good recipe - when they go back to visit her relatives they always bring back chilis and get the local baker to make up a big batch for everyone - YUM!
Grahams penguin is my favorite
Grahams Penguin's #1 Fan (not verified) - August 30, 2011 @ 12:17am
It stares mournfully into my soul, with undying eyes of sheer misery. It should be the new SlackWare mascot!
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