Podcast Season 3 Episode 19

Posted at 1:24pm on Thursday October 6th 2011

Title: Best Laid Schemes

In this episode: Canonical launches an app developer portal and there's a new mobile Linux initiative. We create a whole new section of the podcast, discover lots of things and discuss whether secure booting will hinder Linux adoption.

Sorry for the delay! More through luck that judgement, we're back on an every-other-Thursday schedule.

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What's in the show:

News:
Discovery of the week:
- Jonathan:
  - Geek.com is reporting that there are approx. 2000 pre-orders per hour for Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet.
- Efrain:
  - We should write an investigative article on the potential for Android Market piracy.
- Graham:
  - PulseAudio 1.0 has been released.
  - and so too has Ardour 2.8.12.
- Andrew:
  - MuLinux is still awesome.
  - OpenOffice.org on our office Macs runs really well, thanks to their 8GB of RAM.
  - And how dated does a 1990 issue of National Geographic, titled 'Yugoslavia: A House Much Divided' now feel?
- Mike:
  - The TEA text editor is packaged as an ELF binary with no dependencies (other than Qt), including the pixmaps, manual and Morse code generator.
New Section: Rants and Raves
Speak Your Brains:
Open Ballot: Will "secure boot" hinder Linux adoption?

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Presenters: Andrew Gregory, Efrain Hernandez-Mendoza, Graham Morrison, Jonathan Roberts and Mike Saunders.

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Your comments

Nice one

Heiowge (verified?) (not verified) - October 6, 2011 @ 2:37pm

Enjoyed the podcast but I'm struggling to hear Effy speak. Any chance of getting him (or whoever gets his seat next time) their own mic?

Absolutely agree with Jon

Spangwiches (not verified) - October 6, 2011 @ 4:04pm

The new gdm style is both aesthetically and functionally nasty.

I've not noticed any problems (or in fact any difference at all) in Gnome Shell itself since updating to 3.2 though (also on Arch).

I'm looking at Slim as a replacement for gdm but I like the simplicity of just running gdm as a daemon. Slim seems to require quite a lot of configuration and I'm not sure I can be arsed for the sake of a login screen.

More on UEFI and Linux.

DruKe - October 6, 2011 @ 6:12pm

You can't do Linux with the enabled. The kernel source code is under GPL v3 which requires being able to compile it yourself.
You cannot compile a private key into it (unless whomever signed the physical chip) is willing to give you their private key.. which I highly highly doubt would ever happen.
For good reason too.

Audrey Horne ...

mutant albino penguin (not verified) - October 6, 2011 @ 8:34pm

... is the goddess-like young lady with the crush on Agent Cooper in Twin Peaks. It was most definitely a compliment!

New Microphones please

Ray Woods (not verified) - October 6, 2011 @ 11:47pm

Your microphone technique sound like 'pass the parcel', with hands grappling the microphone as it is passed around the table. How about investing in a microphone for each member of the team, microphone stands and an audio mixer? It will do wonders for the audio quality.

At worse, you could use two microphones in stereo mode (shared between the team on each side of the table) then, using mix down to mono in Audacity.

But isn't Android becoming ever more a closed OS?

N900 user Penguin (not verified) - October 7, 2011 @ 9:45am

Just to get this out of my feathers - as a long time listener and user of a N900, please can you stop knocking Meemo etc. Yes we know they have lost their main backers and will become specialist distros but they are still linux and still open source which Android is slowly moving away from. Would like to see a distro that can be used on all platforms ,desktop,laptop, mobile etc but an open one.

oh and stop up grading your macs and get new mikes

sorry for that ,feel better now .

thanks for the great

Anonymous inside my house (not verified) - October 7, 2011 @ 1:10pm

thanks for the great podcast.

i was getting bored of earring about DIY..

:-D

good podcast

Anonymous Penguin - October 7, 2011 @ 8:02pm

seems to have got some Mojo back. But the sound quality was dreadful.

You know it actually sounded like Mike said "..Firefox was breaking peoples HardOns.."

P.S.

Anonymous Penguin - October 8, 2011 @ 10:44pm

Ive never had a "Hardon" in front of my computer and I object to the inference.

For Anonymous penguin (last one)

heiowge (not verified) - October 8, 2011 @ 10:50pm

You've never lived! lol. That's what the internet was made for!

Microphones

Eponymous Nanguin (not verified) - October 12, 2011 @ 3:29pm

As long as you're using a mike each, since there are 5 of you, how about releasing the podcast in 5.1 surround? It'd be like we were really there! :o)

for Eponymous Nanguin

heiowge (not verified) - October 12, 2011 @ 3:58pm

So who gets the .1 of a microphone?

@MOD Joshua

Huw - October 13, 2011 @ 7:51am

I believe they said "/var/lib", not "/bar/lib"