Podcast Season 4 Episode 16
Title: Patent orgy
In this episode: Apple vs. Samsung woes. Mageia is getting very popular. Twitter joins the Linux Foundation and Miguel de Icaza thinks OS X killed the Linux desktop. Share in the wonder of our discoveries, hear Andrew and Graham rant and rave and feel part of the team in Open Ballot.
What's in the show:
- Lightning News:
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Samsung has lost in this summer's blockbuster court case, Apple vs. Samsung episode 4. Mandriva-derived distro Mageia is number 2 in DistroWatch's 6 month rankings. Twitter joins the Linux Foundation. Robert Rosario removes his code after alleged GPL abuses, Miguel de Icaza thinks OS X killed the Linux desktop and Firefox 15 is out, hotpickers.
- Discovery of the week:
- Graham:
- The last version of AV Linux is awesome.
- Effy:
- Orange won't update his Android phone until a month before the contract expires.
- Andrew:
- If you don't like KDE 4, then Razor-qt may be for you.
- Ben:
- F-Droid, an Android market place for Free Software.
- ctrl-r on Bash is brilliant for accessing your command history.
- Graham:
- Rants and Raves
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Andrew rants and Graham raves.
- Speak Your Brains:
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Thanks to John Wickliffe for his thoughts. You are awesome! If you want similar complementary things said about you next episode, email graham.morrison@futurenet.com.
- Open Ballot: should technical court cases be decided by technical people?
- We're updating Facebook again.
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Presenters:Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Efrain Hernandez-Mendoza and Graham Morrison
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Your comments
Jon
gregoriosw - August 30, 2012 @ 4:40pm
Nobody responded in Podcast 15 comments. Did Jon leave the magazine for good?
Root to success
newbs - August 30, 2012 @ 5:01pm
Effy - Having rooted my Galaxy S 2 ages ago when ICS was taking an age to get pushed to my phone, I would recommend it. While you're at it, have a look at CyanogenMod and see if there is a version for your phone. It takes out all the guff that manufacturers lay on top of Android and frees up your phones memory for other awesomeness.
Great stuff as always, and that includes the last episode.
@gregoriosw
TuxRadar fan (not verified) - August 30, 2012 @ 5:04pm
It was mentioned in episode 14 (look at the comments). Jon said he'd got another job.
Jon
gregoriosw - August 30, 2012 @ 5:06pm
I totally missed that for some reason. I suspect I got distracted at work while listening to the podcast!
Excellent
Peter (not verified) - August 31, 2012 @ 10:33am
Great podcast as always guys!
Shouting at my newsagents for not having a copy of your most recent issue. Gonna have to order it online!
Re: RSS broken
TuxRadar - August 31, 2012 @ 11:32am
Thanks for the positive comments!
And thanks for the link to the RSS validator. I've just spent some time fixing the various problems, so the RSS should be functional again now. Not sure how so many errors crept in!
Graham
@newbs
Effy (not verified) - August 31, 2012 @ 11:55am
Newbs, thanks for you comment.
Yesterday I had a look (in video) at the latest version of CyanogenMod and a there is a version for my phone, it looks like that will be the route I am going to take as soon as my contract finishes!
Muchas gracias again!
Efrain
Audio
Brian36 (not verified) - August 31, 2012 @ 1:09pm
Thanks for the mag and podcast, guys. The audio was tad weak with one or two. I had to stop the washing-up to listen!
Identi.ca
Gordon (not verified) - August 31, 2012 @ 2:14pm
The contempt for Identi.ca is palpable and very sad from a group of folks who understand FOSS, and should at least be treating it as an equal citizen. I'd have thought you'd have more respect for fellow FOSS folks. Don't bother making a special case by making people ask for it, then deigning to do it, only do it if you want to show some respect for fellow FOSS folks. Other than that it's a hollow gesture. No point in only doing it once in a blue moon, we'd rather you stay honest and just ignore us.
Apart from that, great show as always.
Oh, and you're CAPTCHA is a nightmare.
@Gordon
Peter (not verified) - September 2, 2012 @ 2:05pm
All CAPTCHAs ARE NIGHTMARES.
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