Linux Outlaws
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| Linux Outlaws | |
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| Hosting | Fabian Scherschel and Dan Lynch |
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| Language | English |
 RSS |
http://feeds.feedburner.com/linuxoutlaws-ogg |
| Updates | Varies (~Weekly on Sundays) |
| Audio format | Ogg Vorbis, MP3 |
| Debut | 5 September 2007 |
| Genre | Talk show (Linux, Free and open source software) |
| Website | http://www.linuxoutlaws.com/ |
Linux Outlaws is a Linux News and Technology Podcast, presented by Fabian Scherschel and Dan Lynch. The show covers news and developments that the presenters encounter in their daily usage of Linux. The shows's production is based in Europe, has a community forum, and multiple micro-blogs dedicated to fostering inter-communication among fans of the podcast.
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[edit] Presenters
[edit] Fabian Scherschel
Fabian Scherschel is a university student from Bonn, Germany who works part-time as a tech support for a large ISP and otherwise spends his time hacking stuff, listening to rock music, or watching Firefly. He is currently running Ubuntu Hardy on his main system. Fabian's main Web/Blogsite is currently LinuxOutlaws.net.[1]
[edit] Dan Lynch
Dan Lynch is a programmer, musician, and full-time layabout from Merseyside, UK. He used to work for the NHS as a .NET developer before turning his back on the Dark Side to become an open source enthusiast. He has been committed to the open source ethos ever since. Dan's Linux-focused website is currently Adventures in Open Source.[2]
[edit] Format
Each episode generally has a global download count of over 2000 and is often presented with both a serious attitude and a humorous bent. Both Dan and Fabian are described as "down to earth, normal, everyday people" by listeners and reviewers alike[1]. The presenters claim not to be Linux experts, but only to be trying very hard to provide listeners with a good time, entertainment, and interesting Linux-related information.
Linux Outlaws is segment-based, and focuses the show on discussion of various topics throughout the show. Regular features include News and Releases, a look at recent development in free culture and at new releases of Linux distributions and occasionally notable piece of free software. Episode 43 saw the introduction of a Micro-watch sub-segment, concentrating on Microsoft®-related news.[2]
In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback includes content from both presenters and listeners. Other segments include Tip of the Week and Beer of the Week, where Fabian recommends a brand of beer.
On occasion some shows are produced as specials to focus on one single topic, including the release of Ubuntu 8.04 and an interview with Bradley M. Kuhn.[3][4]
[edit] History
The first episode of Linux Outlaws was September 5th 2007. At the time both Dan and Fab were also hosting another Podcast "Rathole radio" [3]
[edit] Production
Linux Outlaws is recorded simultaneously by the presenters in their respective homes - Bonn, Germany and Merseyside, England - and published in both the Ogg Vorbis and MP3 formats. The process involves recordings made by each presenter on his own machine, as well as a backup analogue recording by Fabian.[5]
[edit] List of Episodes
| Release Order | Title | Original airdate | Episode Number |
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| 68 | "Episode 68 - The Episode of the Beast" | December 15, 2008 | 067 |
| This week: The FSF Free Software Foundation sues Cisco, teacher says Free Software doesn’t exist, Fab reviews CrunchBang Linux and the Linux Defenders defend Linux. | |||
| 67 | "Episode 67 - Host Busses Don't Grow on Trees" | December 9, 2008 | 067 |
| This week on the show: Linux on the iPhone, Cuban cigars, host busses, more German government fail and an interview with Thomas Perl of gPodder, Python 3000 and much more… | |||
| 66 | "Episode 66 - Ramrod" | November 27, 2008 | 066 |
| This week on the show: Fab reviews Fedora 10, the X-Men use Ubuntu, Microsoft will make your SQL data explode and much more… | |||
| 65 | "Episode 65 - Engage Crap Mode!" | November 25, 2008 | 065 |
| The Outlaws talk about Debian Linux, the Apple G1, the Open Source Consortium throwing their toys out of the pram, Ubuntu on Advanced RISC Machine (ARM) and Microsoft’s “open source” website. | |||
| 64 | "Episode 64 - Lick My Lenny" | November 15, 2008 | 064 |
| This week, the Outlaws talk about the foreign ministry of Germany moving their embassies to Linux, possible slogans for Debian Lenny, Microsoft retiring Windows 3.x and much more. Includes Fab’s review of LittleBigPlanet for the PS3. | |||
| 63 | "Episode 63 - Love at First Skype" | November 9, 2008 | 063 |
| In this episode, the Outlaws interview Dann Washko from The Linux Link Tech Show about Mono, Linux in general and how The Linux Link Tech Show got started. | |||
| 62 | "Episode 62 - Ballmer Island" | November 3, 2008 | 062 |
| This time, despite having not actually that much to talk about, the Outlaws nonetheless manage to rathole together a show of epic proportions again. | |||
| 61 | "Episode 61 - Bono Jacon, You've Got Mail!" | October 29, 2008 | 061 |
| This week, the Outlaws have some Linux news as usual and also interview Jono Bacon about his recent Severed Fifth album release, Ubuntu and also Free Software and Free Culture in general. | |||
| 60 | "Episode 60 - ...Poking a Hole Into Your Firewall" | October 25, 2008 | 060 |
| On this episode: Intrepid Ibex beta review, a bag of tips and a mountain of email. | |||
| 59 | "Episode 59 - Big, Honkin' IDE..." | October 20, 2008 | 059 |
| The Outlaws are back with a jam-packed show full of releases, news and a lot of waffling. Also stay tuned for the second half of content to be released as another show later this week... | |||
| 58 | "Episode 58 - Light Horse Harry" | October 5, 2008 | 058 |
| his week on the show: the Outlaws have a new server, if Linux distros were footballers, RMS condemns cloud computing — Dan & Fab discuss, Ballmer hints at Windows Cloud OS, Novell/Mono and Microsoft and a review of Dropbox. | |||
| 57 | "Episode 57 - Free as in Beer" | September 29, 2008 | 057 |
| Dan and Fab talk about what happened in Open Source in the last week, poke the usual fun at Redmond and interview Steve McIntyre, the Debian Project Leader. | |||
| 56 | "Episode 56 - Have you Had Your Eyes Tested Lately?" | September 22, 2008 | 056 |
| This time, the Outlaws talk about Canonical Ltd paying developers to pimp the Linux desktop, Microsoft killing the Seinfeld ads, a virus on the ISS, DRM in clothing and a lot more. | |||
| 55 | "Episode 55 - Your Shipment of Feedback Has Arrived" | September 19, 2008 | 055 |
| The Outlaws are back with another feedback-only show. | |||
| 54 | "Episode 54 - Compiling in Coffee Shops" | September 16, 2008 | 054 |
| In this first show of the second year of Linux Outlaws, Dan and Fab talk about the Elonex Webbook, Spore running in Wine, Microsoft using Apache for the Mojave Experience site, the code name for Ubuntu 9.04 and much more. | |||
| 53 | "Episode 53 - Duck Porn?!" | September 8, 2008 | 053 |
| We are back! This week, Dan & Fab talk about what duck porn has to do with Microsoft, that Fedora got p0wned and what else happened in the Open Source world in the last two weeks. Dan interviews Becky Hogge from the Open Rights Group. | |||
| 52 | "Episode 52 - Not Sponsored by Dell" | August 24, 2008 | 052 |
| In the longest Linux Outlaws to date, Dan and Fab talk lots of open source as well as freedom-hating and interview Evan Prodromou from identi.ca about his Laconica project. | |||
| 51 | "Episode 51 - Too Young for Jail" | August 17, 2008 | 051 |
| Dan Lynch and Fabian Scherschel talk about Storms in the Cloud, Trouble with OpenGL 3.0, Microsoft’s Olympic FAIL and DokuWiki. | |||
| 50 | "Episode 50 - The Big Five-O" | August 10, 2008 | 050 |
| Fabian Scherschel and Dan Lynch, despite being blocked in China, talk about masturbating monkeys, all kinds of Linux and F/OSS stories and keep a watchful eye on what Microsoft is up to. | |||
| 49 | "Episode 49 - Summer of Crap" | August 2, 2008 | 049 |
| Fabian Scherschel and Dan Lynch talk about all kinds of Linux news, Microsoft sponsoring Apache, Belgian beer, read a ton of listener emails and learn what exactly the Network Block Driver does. | |||
| 48 | "Episode 48 - LugRadio Live" | July 25, 2008 | 048 |
| In this special episode, Fabian Scherschel and Dan Lynch bring you interviews and coverage from LugRadio Live UK 2008. | |||
| 47 | "Episode 47 - Hip with Da Yoof" | July 15, 2008 | 047 |
| Fabian Scherschel and Dan Lynch talk about Gentoo, complete nutters in the open source world, another silly initiative out of Redmond and much more. | |||
| 46 | "Episode 46 - Failover to Fab" | July 8, 2008 | 046 |
| This week on the show, Dirk Shnerkelburger and Mr. Hubcaps.co.uk talk about the end of LugRadio, the first Intrepid alpha, identi.ca and the Diablo games. | |||
| 45 | "Episode 45 - The Cabbage-Eatin' Bird" | July 1, 2008 | 045 |
| On this week’s show, Dan Lynch and Fab Scherschel talk about lots of Linux and open source related mobile phone news, Gobuntu, Songbird and lots of other stuff. Featuring patent-pending CrapALERT™-technology. | |||
| 44 | "Episode 44 - Welcome to KDE 5 (openSUSE 11 Special)" | June 26, 2008 | 044 |
| This week brings you a special show where with review of the latest openSUSE release and also a fair bit of talk about KDE 4. | |||
| 43 | "Episode 43 - The Unbreakable Car" | June 17, 2008 | 043 |
| This time, Fab reviews Bazaar. Also lots of feedback, many rants and talk about version numbering as well as Hans Reiser again. | |||
| 42 | "Episode 42 - Don't Panic!" | June 12, 2008 | 042 |
| This time ‘round, Linux Outlaws bring you The Ultimate Answer, a warehouse full of coke, Obama pimpin’ OpenOffice, a review of Gnome Do and much more. | |||
| 41 | "Episode 41 - Now with File Retention Technology" | June 5, 2008 | 041 |
| In this show: Big Buck Bunny review, OpenSUSE KDE4 beta review, installing an alternate kernel on Ubuntu as well as the usual news and stuff. | |||
| 40 | "Episode 40 - Software Freedom, Lawsuits & Poker" | May 31, 2008 | 040 |
| In this special episode, Dan and Fab talk to Bradley M. Kuhn of the FSLC & FSC about software freedom, litigation against open source developers, the future and thread of web services that aren’t open, the AGPL and poker. | |||
| 39 | "Episode 39 - Come Back When You Can Grow a Beard" | May 27, 2008 | 039 |
| In this slightly belated episode (Fab had kernel troubles): Ballmer gets egged, the OLPC gets windozed, OpenMoko tries to be Qt, Microsoft loses another patent case and possibly their mind and Fab is in hangover-mode. | |||
| 38 | "Episode 38 - What Are They Smoking Up In Redmond?" | May 19, 2008 | 038 |
| On the show this time: F9 is released, Debian has a hole, Microsoft smokes crazy shit, they discover thermo-nuclear hamsters and Fab is cranky during the whole episode. | |||
| 37 | "Episode 37 - So Good You Need A Shower Afterwards" | May 11, 2008 | 037 |
| This week, it’s the show that got recorded twice. Topics are: SCO-bashing, MS-bashing, lots of releases (including PROJECT COPY-LINUX), anecdotes and other stuff. As well as a beer review and comic book recommendation. | |||
| 36 | "Episode 36 - Open Source Chain Gang" | May 4, 2008 | 036 |
| The Outlaws cover Hans Reiser conviction for murder and charges against Kip Macy for alleged tennant terror. Fab reviews Rockbox and Xfce and they talk about GTA IV on the PS3. | |||
| 35 | "Episode 35 - The Hardy Special" | April 24, 2008 | 035 |
| In this episode Dan and Fab talk about the upcoming new Ubuntu version, 8.04 Hardy Heron. | |||
| 34 | "Episode 34 - Powered by Flexiboost" | April 22, 2008 | 034 |
| In this episode: Shoeings galore, Microsoft pisses off Fab once and for all, MySQL goes half-closed and lots of funny emails. | |||
| 33 | "Episode 33 - Boba Fett of the Tech World" | April 13, 2008 | 033 |
| Some anecdotes and stuff at the start: Dan’s mate Will got into trouble for downloading last week’s show because of the title. We also talk about our latest server downtime & IRC debacle. Thanks for all your donations! | |||
| 32 | "Episode 32 - Porn to Own" | April 7, 2008 | 032 |
| Title’s got you interested, eh? This week: Fab does Jürgen Prochnow, a story from arsetechnica, we learn what a Gerrymander is and much, much more… | |||
| 31 | "Episode 31 - Listener Feedback" | April 5, 2008 | 031 |
| Another metric buttload of emails… | |||
| 30 | "Episode 30 - Late Night Outlaws" | April 1, 2008 | 030 |
| On this show: Bruce Perens’s bid for the OSI board, Apple’s EULAs suck, a look at the Hardy beta, Wormux and more. | |||
| 29 | "Episode 29 - It's a Bloody Nightmare" | March 26, 2008 | 029 |
| On the show this time: Lots of M$-bashing again, Dan’s Windows rant and much more. | |||
| 28 | "Episode 28 - Listener Feedback" | March 24, 2008 | 028 |
| First dedicated listener feedback episode. Released a bit later than originally planned but full of juicy content nonetheless. | |||
| 27 | "Episode 27 - Interoperability My Arse" | March 17, 2008 | 027 |
| In this show: The usual Microsoft bashing, Canonical’s Landscape, Fab’s CeBIT coverage and much more. | |||
| 26 | "Episode 26 - Babies Leaping on Ballmer" | March 9, 2008 | 026 |
| This week: Ubuntu Brainstorm, leap year babies mad at Ballmer, Debian stuff and IE8 and standards compliance. | |||
| 25 | "Episode 25 - A Long Walk for the Dog" | March 3, 2008 | 025 |
| Dan gives us the lowdown on Foresight Linux, The Ubuntu release after Hardy will be called “Intrepid Ibex”; some more not-so-serious suggestions for further releases, Microsoft releases Server 2008 — yawn!, Google doesn’t like OOXML (somehow Borat is involved), They talk about Frets on Fire, the open source Guitar Hero clone written in Python and the fact that the original SimCity has been open sourced as Micropolis | |||
| 24 | "Episode 24 - Linux in Education (Twenty Four)" | February 25, 2008 | 024 |
| On this special episode, we talk about Linux in schools and universities and Dan sticks a fork into his Dell. | |||
| 23 | "Episode 23 - Just Wondering What The Hell The Noise Was" | February 18, 2008 | 023 |
| This week: Crazy accents galore, Linux kernel exploit, lots of Ubuntu news and more U-Boat games. | |||
| 22 | "Episode 22 - Alaaaaarm!" | February 12, 2008 | 022 |
| On the show this time: U-Boat games, Fab goes Debian, Stephen Fry loves open source and Linus calls Mac OS crap. | |||
| 21 | "Episode 21 - Beer from a Mug" | February 5, 2008 | 021 |
| This week, Dan and Fab talk about M$ buying Yahoo!, Nokia buying Trolltech, Linus and his mobile, the Gendarmerie and Ubuntu, the Dell XPS m1330 and EVE Online. | |||
| 20 | "Episode 20 - Spam, Spam, Spam" | January 30, 2008 | 020 |
| This week on the show: Sun buys MySQL, everybody loves Ubuntu, our electrocuting laptops, and a review of KDE 4 and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. | |||
| 19 | "Episode 19 - Podcast Production Special (A Day In The Life)" | January 20, 2008 | 019 |
| In this special episode, Dan and Fab explain in detail how we produce this show including what hard- and software they use for recording and publishing (with a special focus on the tools available in Linux as well as the problems that the platform still faces in this area). | |||
| 18 | "Episode 18 - Microsoft Emacs" | January 14, 2008 | 018 |
| This week on the show, Dan and Fab talk about McAfee’s hissy fit, Mozilla’s hapless marketing campaign, Microsoft’s Emacs plans, the Ubuntu-driven car and much more. | |||
| 17 | "Episode 17 - Extreme Load" | January 6, 2008 | 017 |
| Dan and Fab start off by mentioning that they both, absolutely independently from each other, bought the Dell XPS m1330 over the holidays — on the same day, in the same colour! They also both gave their best to dodge the Microsoft tax. We’ll have to see how that worked out once the machines arrive… | |||
| 16 | "Episode 16 - The Queen's Window Manager" | December 20, 2007 | 016 |
| This is the last episode of the year. We are gonna take a week off since it’s a busy time for anybody anyway and Fab will be completely without Internet access over the holidays. So enjoy this extra-long Christmas episode and then go and spend some time with your families, we’ll be back in 2008! | |||
| 15 | "Episode 15 - Shit Idea Perfectly Implemented" | December 16, 2007 | 015 |
| At the start of the show, Fab tells us why this episode will probably be released a bit late (as it indeed is) — but to make up for this, he announces our brand new line of Linux Outlaws merchandise. | |||
| 14 | "Episode 14 - Dan's Distro Special (The Naughty Santa)" | September 8, 2007 | 014 |
| We start the show off with asking the listeners if they rather had a forum or something else instead of the contribute site. If you have any ideas, write us email! | |||
| 13 | "Linux Outlaws 13 - Night Elf Mohawk" | December 2, 2007 | 013 |
| 12 | "Linux Outlaws 12 - Nearly as Good as LugRadio" | November 25, 2007 | 012 |
| Although we were aiming to do a shorter show this time, so that Dan wouldn’t miss England’s football match (we recorded the show last wednesday), we still hit 50+ minutes as usual — go figure. Anyway, we start with the amazing news that we came second (with 8/10 points, right behind the great LugRadio) in a review of Linux podcasts by Linux Format Magazine, the UK’s biggest Linux publication. Listener Feedback, New & Releases, and Package of the Week - Dan: Freeciv, a great open source, cross-platform Civilization clone && Fab: Inkscape, the ultimate open source vector graphics manipulation program | |||
| 11 | "Episode 11 - More Red Hat News?" | November 16, 2007 | 011 |
| Fab starts off with mentioning the integrated lab IT system (which runs Windows XP) he saw at the Medica tradeshow in Düsseldorf. Sorry for the dismal audio quality yet again, by the way. In trying to boost his voice, Fab must have done something stupid to his mixer this time. We promise, we’ll get it fixed for the next show. | |||
| 10 | "Episode 10 - The WRT54GL" | November 10, 2007 | 010 |
| This week Dan and Fab talk about the Linksys WRT54GL router which both of them use because it runs Linux and is very customisable for that reason. | |||
| 9 | "Linux Outlaws 9 - The Pain of Making Tea" | November 3, 2007 | 009 |
| This time we bring you quite a long episode since Fab’s CMOS battery was low on power and subsequently slowed down his system’s internal clock which in turn screwed up his timing of the show. The culprit has been found and exchanged for a fresh battery though, so next week’s show should be more typical in length again. | |||
| 8 | "Linux Outlaws 8 - Sheep Backups for Ewe" | October 27, 2007 | 008 |
| At the top of the show, we talk about why Dan is once again podcasting from a Windows machine (oh, the shame) and what Fab thinks about Gutsy, now that he has installed it and had some time to play with it. | |||
| 7 | "Episode 7 - The Gibbon Has Landed" | October 17, 2007 | 007 |
| This is our special episode to celebrate the release of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon which will be out today. | |||
| 6 | "Episode 6 - Kernel Panic at Thirty Thousand Feet" | October 13, 2007 | 006 |
| First thing is a rant from Fab again: He is worried about the fact that Google recently bought Jaiku which is a site that both Dan and Fab frequent a lot. Fab remarks that everything Google touches seems to turn into betas, kind of like the Midas touch of the Web 2.0 world. Dan says we have to reserve judgement for now and should wait to see what will happen with it. | |||
| 5 | "Episode 5 - MythTV Special" | October 6, 2007 | 005 |
| This week we talk about MythTV, which is a program that enables you to turn any Linux machine into a very sophisticated DVR system. Fab tells the story of his six week long struggle to transform a brand new PC he bought into a MythTV box and gives tips along the way about what to do and what not to do if you want to attempt such a project yourself. But first we start off with some listener feedback and two quick news stories | |||
| 4 | "Episode 4 - Your Own Private Robot Army" | September 30, 2007 | 004 |
| We start the show with Fab confessing that his BIOS ate his homework, i.e. the openSUSE Live DVD he downloaded wouldn’t boot on his system, keeping him from trying it out this week like as he had promised. He will give it another try at a later time. | |||
| 3 | "Episode 3 - Please Reboot Your Submarine" | September 24, 2007 | 003 |
| Microsoft got another kick in the nuts from the EU, Fab goes on to rant about the German government and their decision to change the German copyright law, SCO filed for bankruptcy and the story about the U.S. Army switching from Linux to Windows. | |||
| 2 | "Episode 2 - Now with Network Degradation" | September 16, 2007 | 002 |
| Follow-up to Fab’s package from last time: Big Huge Labs has a free online tool that lets you automagically create a harmonious colour palette from any photograph. | |||
| 1 | "Episode 1 - Wait, There's a Bus" | September 12, 2007 | 001 |
| To start off we introduce ourselves and Fab gives an overview of our plans for the podcast. Dan goes on and tells the story of his Linux epiphany and his discovery of how deep the rabbit hole really is. Fab explains how he got into using Linux. | |||
| 0 | "Episode 0 - Beta Introduction" | September 5, 2007 | 000 |
| Pre-show test episode giving introductions and setting the mood. | |||
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It has also received mentions from several other related podcasts, such as LugRadio and The Linux Link Tech Show.
