Podcast Season 4 Episode 1
Title: Freaky Friday
In this episode: We turn our news section into a lightening news section and briefly discuss Ubuntu, Red Hat, Plasma Active, Tizen, GKH, Samsung and Firefox. Hear our discoveries from the last couple of months, our rants and raves and your own awesome opinions in our internet famous Open Ballot.
Update: Here's Greg Kroah-Hartman's piece on patching the kernel.
What's in the show:
- New! Lightning News:
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Ubuntu introduces the HUD. Red Hat is increasing the support life of RHEL 5 and 6 to 10 years. Aaron Siego announces the first tablet PC that comes with Plasma Active pre-installed. Samsung may be merging its own custom OS interface, Bada, with Tizen, Meego's successor. Greg Kroah-Hartman is leaving Novell to become a fellow of the Linux Foundation. And Firefox 10 is now available.
- Discovery of the week:
- Efrain:
- Epson should be commended for its Linux driver provision.
- Jonathan:
- Def Poetry. And take a look at The The Impotence of Proofreading Your Own Work
- Vim embeds a book on how to use it.
- Graham:
- The Razor-qt desktop - thanks to spegal66!
- Ben:
- Mint's Cinnamon desktop is awesome.
- Andrew:
- What's going to happen to charity shops when we've all migrated to ebooks?
- Bloomberg has opened its API for programmers.
- A crowd sourced(ish) car company called Local Motors has developed the Rally Fighter car.
- Efrain:
- Rants and Raves
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Graham and Andrew say bad and good things about stuff.
- Speak Your Brains:
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Thanks for your contributions (honest!). If you'd like this section to continue, email graham.morrison@futurenet.com.
- Open Ballot: Which is the biggest threat to freedom - Google, Microsoft or Apple?
- Check to see if we're still on Facebook here.
- Special offer: subscribe to Linux Format magazine and save lots
Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Efrain Hernandez-Mendoza, Graham Morrison and Jonathan Roberts
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Your comments
Title Music
Penguin Tracker (not verified) - February 3, 2012 @ 1:20pm
i want a change of title music ,
get effy to play a tambourine, the rest of the team can whistle & clap...
The new office
Andrew Bowden (not verified) - February 3, 2012 @ 3:19pm
New offices? We need photos!
@Penguin Tracker
bananaoomarang - February 3, 2012 @ 7:19pm
Yes.
New Office
DoubleDiode (not verified) - February 3, 2012 @ 7:49pm
Not just photos, we need a guided video tour!
No Aqi
Anonymous Penguin - February 3, 2012 @ 8:05pm
Please don't let Jonathan read the news. Aqi is "like" Not good for a News reader. Sorry but its quite distracting?
P.S. I love grammar fascists. They make the Internet such a wonderful place to be.
Maybe if Google Et Al didn't Income Shift we'd have all had gone to better schools and stuff.
Pushing Twitter messages to G+
Alex (not verified) - February 3, 2012 @ 9:58pm
Dear Tuxradar team,
would it be possible that you push your tweets to Google+?
I'd appreciate it very much :)
welcome back. I missed you
enzro (not verified) - February 4, 2012 @ 1:39am
welcome back. I missed you guys. Continue the good work. APPLE is far more evil than Microsoft.
Title music
Hix (not verified) - February 4, 2012 @ 8:51am
isnt this the same music on Bit-Tech?
Re:Title music
Shakalaka (not verified) - February 4, 2012 @ 11:12am
I'm not sure when Bit-Tech started to use the Brad Sucks music, but it seems to be after TuxRadar. TuxRadar has used it for as long as I can remember.
and happy new year to you guys too!
Anonymous Penguine (not verified) - February 6, 2012 @ 12:47am
Just listened to your podcast - it made 1/3rd of the journey from oxford to manchester go by in a much more amusing fashion!
I remember banging on to you guys about how awesome maemo and meego was (I use an N900) - I think you, of all people, would be the most likely to appreciate it. It's sad it was killed off for non-technical reasons.
Brad sucks must stay!!!
PS, I'm really looking forward to linux mint being really good. That way I will have a desktop I can recommend to new people. At the moment, I'm not actually suggesting anyone switch. 10.04 is just too old (I use it, but with separate repos for libreoffice and firefox). 11.04 is annoying and buggy. fedora is no good for someone who actually wants to use their laptop for playing dvds/mp3s etc. and I've never really gotten linux mint. But cinnamon looks promising.
PPS - firefox 10 IS good news - I think firefox is really excellent. It's fast, and I currently prefer using it over google chrome. It seems to be more reliable with loading webpages, and I also like the chunky gtk2 tabs and buttons.
Mike
Anonymous Penguinian (not verified) - February 6, 2012 @ 11:35am
Awesome podcast guys, but I still miss Mike though
For what it's worth
Mihaly - February 6, 2012 @ 3:06pm
Noticed recently in a random papershop in sydney:
Linux Format Magazine with Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu live installs... Thanks, very much, was juxt a tad too late, I've set up Mint but great anyway, Live distros still rule!
Is that really the latest magazine? We aren't just held back for any reason are we? - Are we?
mihaly
There is no such thing as a problem
without a gift for you in its hands
Linux Driver Tutorial!
Tykin (not verified) - February 6, 2012 @ 5:39pm
Don't forget to put up Greg Kroah-Hartman's Linux Driver tutorial! Is there a link for that?
Epson drivers
Anonymous Penguin!! (not verified) - February 7, 2012 @ 7:39pm
I recently bought an Epson all-in-one and also found the drivers online, just like Effy, although I did search for them first before buying the printer. The drivers are pretty good and installation was easy, no worse than in Windows.
PS, who registered the name Anonymous Penguin ?
+1 to Effy playing the
Welsh Penguin (not verified) - February 8, 2012 @ 9:23am
+1 to Effy playing the tambourine whilst the others whistle and clap. Pleeeeeeeeeeease.
Oh, and carry on letting Jonathan read the news. It's not AQI it's just a Cornish accent? Love a "grammar nazi" post with grammatical errors though? Haha?
Dell printers too
Peter (not verified) - February 8, 2012 @ 5:13pm
Both of my dell laser printers came with a CD which also included linux drivers. Annoyingly the printer doesn't work without the official drivers! They are easily installed though.
Making a nuisance of yourself.
Linuxrich (not verified) - February 8, 2012 @ 8:41pm
There were a couple of comments about writing to your MEP/contacting Michael Gove on a couple of issues. How many people actually do stuff like that?
I do! I've written to my MEP recently about ACTA and Windows mandating that ARM device boot loaders leave the manufacturer locked with no option to unlock.
Canonical being Evil
CetiaPeace (not verified) - February 9, 2012 @ 4:18am
I think it is worth noting that Red Hat/Fedora have successfully built a single product whilst heavily investing in the upstream and now they are a 1B$ Open Source company.
Why is it that Canonical can't do the same; and they are still not making money (as far as I know).
Great podcast guys.
Jellyman - February 9, 2012 @ 12:31pm
I reckon you should do the "lightning news" section every podcast, most listeners know and understand what's happening in the news and it's a quick way of getting your opinions about news items. I miss Mike already though, maybe you should do a link-up with him?
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