Linux Outlaws

Linux Outlaws 101 - FISL, Fo' Shizzle

feedback@linuxoutlaws.com (The Linux Outlaws) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:49:13 +0200

MP3 - 1 hour 56 minutes 25 seconds, 53.3 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

On this show: Dan and Fab review Fedora 11, talk about the Mono Wars, catch up to the news of the last two weeks, discuss a shitload of releases and much, much more.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:23 | Introduction

Fab was at the best Bruce Springsteen concert ever in Frankfurt on Friday — you can see Fab in this video in the crowd at about 2:45
Moritz Schmidt-Degenhard aka. zahnersatz published a great interview with us
Dan thanks John Pinner, Richard Taylor and everyone at EuroPython 2009 for making him so welcome last week, listen out for audio from that in a future episode
Check out the PDPC’s fossevents.org
Now for real: Pirate Bay retrial denied, judge declared unbiased
Kernel vulnerabilities affect Ubuntu 6.06, 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04
Got excess FAT in your operating system? There’s a patch for that!
Beer of the Week: Warsteiner Pilsener

0:13:54 | Releases & News

0:58:10 | Microwatch

The London Stock Exchange will abandon failed Windows platform
Microsoft ditches Money — Encarta and MS Flight Simulator dead, too!

1:05:30 | Review

Dan and Fab review Fedora 11 “Leonidas”, also check out Dan’s in-depth writeup for more details.

Software Tip: Project Hamster, a time tracking application for Gnome

1:33:3 | Feedback

Donations: Thanks to Jezra, Dan C. and Ryan K.
Peter Cannon: tells us about a new UK site for Arch Linux fans he set up — if you want to help out get in touch with him, they are looking for people
Nick Ali plugs the Atlanta Linux Fest 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, September 19th
Kyle Lamond has finally convinced his dad to try Linux and he’s very happy with Ubuntu — how cool!
David Ramsey Cain tells us that he has set up a LUG for Walworth County and they organised an install fest and Linux showcase which happened earlier this week
Gordon Sinclair wants to put out an appeal for help with the BasKet project as the only developer has apparently no time to work on it and the project may die without help
Daniel Tiecher sent us a link to this picture of the Brazilian President posing with Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde
Will Noakes sent us an article comparing browser speeds in the wake of Firefox 3.5
Other emails this week from Oliver Garbe, Mike aka. Blupr, Teis Dreijer, Matthew Copperwaite aka. yaMatt, Cult, David Ellis (The Computer Nerd), kienan, St3v3, Alfred Nutile, Sirko from Radio Tux, Upchuck, Mark_uk, Alistair Munro, Frank Bell, Dave S., The Glza, Bob Konior and Keijo Knutas
Fab mentions the HTC Hero Android phone
The USB drive for real outlaws
Dan will be talking about audio production on Linux at Manchester Free Software at The Lass O’Gowrie pub in Manchester, Tuesday 21st at 7pm

Song: Making Me Nervous by Brad Sucks from the album I Don’t Know What I’m Doing — suggested by David Ramsey Cain

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

Linux Outlaws 100 - Outlaws on the Autobahn

feedback@linuxoutlaws.com (The Linux Outlaws) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:39:42 +0200

MP3 - 1 hour 9 minutes 10 seconds, 31.7 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

In this very special show Dan, Fab and producer Katy are driving down the A2 headed for Berlin, talking about all kinds of non-Linux related stuff.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

Recording Linux podcasts in a car was pioneered by Dave Yates of the Lotta Linux Links Podcast and refined by Chad Wollenberg of Linux Basement, this show is sort-of our homage to both of them
Special intro by the great Jonathan Kulp
Special thanks to producer Katy for assisting us and having the patience to let us waffle for over an hour on our drive down the A2

Questions from the #outlaws100 hashtag on identi.ca and Twitter:

Don Henry: What is a good size for a snack cake? What is the sound of one Linux Outlaw clapping? If you could be any major appliance which one would you be and why (anything bigger than a can opener)?
John Hunt: What are your all time favourite films?
Alistair Munro: If you could become a character in a film, which would you chose and why?
Ben Wilson: Where did I put my keys?
Aiden N.: What were your favourite MS-DOS games (eg. Commander Keen, Skyroads, etc.)?
Dan Dart: How long are your beards? How many ducks do you own personally? What is your favourite computer program? What is your favourite toy / sport / foodstuff / beer / place / celebrity? Precisely, to the nearest nanometre, how long is the average piece of string?
Gene Ryan: What forms of transportation do you use and what brand are they? Fab, what country would you emigrate to? How do I get this fucking squirrel off my face? Why doesn’t this hatch allow the F-word? Is there a a city in the US that you might want to visit?

The catholic saint Dan was talking about was Anthony of Padua
Video game references: Dungeon Keeper, Day of the Tentacle, Lemmings, Elite, Privateer 2: The Darkening, Prince of Persia
Dan talked about some aspects of the parliamentary expenses scandal in the UK
Dan recommended Spotify which is evil and the free version doesn’t work in Germany
Fab mentioned the movie Sharkwater
We also talked shortly about Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
Mentioned beers: Guinness, König Pilsener, Radeberger, Ottakringer Blech — Don’t drink and drive!
The actress Fab mentioned was Stacy Haiduk
This episode was recorded in a Renault Laguna, Fab also loves his Twingo

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons or Public Domain license specified by the artist under the provided link.

Linux Outlaws 99 - FUDCast (Linux Tag Special)

feedback@linuxoutlaws.com (The Linux Outlaws) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:52:18 +0200

MP3 - 1 hour 11 minutes 56 seconds, 33.0 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

In this special episode from Linux Tag in Berlin, Dan and Fab interview Paul Frields, Max Spevak and Máirín Duffy from Fedora, Jan Wildeboer from Red Hat and Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier from openSUSE about what’s going on in their respective communities right now.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:14 | Introduction

Berlin Drupal User Group
Ryan aka. yareckon
Moritz aka. zahnersatz — also check out his interview with us

0:11:57 | Interview: Paul Frields & Max Spevak (Fedora)

0:35:28 | Interview: Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier (openSUSE)

0:46:55 | Interview: Máirín “Mo” Duffy (Fedora)

Fedora Design Team

0:58:05 | Interview: Jan Wildeboer (Red Hat)

Song: We’re All Gonna Die by Byron from the album We’re All Gonna Die

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons or Public Domain license specified by the artist under the provided link.

Linux Outlaws 98 - It's Business Time

feedback@linuxoutlaws.com (The Linux Outlaws) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:58:40 +0200

MP3 - 1 hour 11 minutes 53 seconds, 32.9 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This time on a very special Linux Outlaws, Dan and Fab are actually in one room together and besides being silly and having a lot of fun talk about shitty beer, Moblin, German Internet censorship, Opera Unite, Valve possibly releasing native Linux games, Nvidia prefering Windows CE to Android and much, much more.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:05:01 | Introduction

This weeks live show was brought to you courtesy of Ana’s emotional blackmail, we’ll do anything for her!
Beers of the Week: König Pilsener & Ottakringer 16er Blech

0:07:21 | Releases & News

0:27:48 | Microwatch

0:32:58 | Review

We discuss the Moblin 2.0 beta. You might also want to watch this video for a visual walkthrough.

0:43:29 | Feedback

Donations: Thanks to The Great Roth
Daz Fuller is using OpenDNS to set up a shortcut for the forums, for which he just types “http://outlaws” — but Chromium broke this for him in a very funny way:
bgryderclock wrote to tell us he had a great time at SELF
James Stephenson sent us a correction to last show’s Pirate Bay story
Keith Game sent us a story about a Microsoft tech recommending Knoppix to fix Windows problems
Patrick Craenen wrote to us with another RIAA story
More emails this week from Oliver Ryde, Morgen Allen, Nido, Dan Dart, David Purse, Kie, Brian Hunt aka. zaphodbblx, Bob Kovacs, ZacharyJuda, Les Pounder (sent us a story about open source cars), Timothy LaFontaine, Scott, David Lidstone, Reine, Teis Dreijer, gavigai, Mickey Million, MC, 6r00k14n, Mark Adams, Matt P. and Matthew Copperwaite aka. yaMatt
Check out the new Linux Outlaws Planet, no that’s not Planet Outlaws

Song: The Wreck of the Southern Old 97 by Ernest Thompson from the Internet Archive —thanks to Jezra for the tip!

Linux Outlaws 97 - Clickety-Clack

feedback@linuxoutlaws.com (The Linux Outlaws) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:02:37 +0200

MP3 - 1 hour 31 minutes 58 seconds, 42.1 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week the Outlaws discuss the resurgence of the Mono wars, Libre.fm fussing over leaked albums, Squirrels on Leo Laporte’s face, USB 3.0 and multi-touch in Linux, the browserless edition of Win7 for Europe and there’s also some hockey talk and more.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:03:20 | Introduction

The Pittsburgh Penguins have won the Stanley Cup!
Thanks to Stephen Michael Kellat for playing our promo on his show, we played his LISNews Netcast Network promo at the start
Stockholm court: Pirate Bay judge wasn’t biased — yeah, right!
French HADOPI law fails once again
Beers of the Week: Salzburger Stiegl Bier and Wieselburger Gold — donated by Bernd

0:11:46 | Releases & News

0:37:22 | Microwatch

0:48:50 | Discussion

We discuss the recent resurgence of anti-Mono sentiments in the community as well as the arguments around Last/Libre.fm and “leaked albums”.

1:03:02 | Feedback

Donations: Thanks to Henry Standing and John H.
Forums: More lunacy, including squirrels taped to faces
Andrew Nixon emailed us to point out StormOS which is a desktop version of Nexenta — it’s still in beta at the moment but quite an interesting prospect
Gavin Steven is looking for arguments to convince people to use Linux and to counter pro-Windows points
Dave aka. Sojyujai tells us about his experiences with eMusic and gives a warning about the service
David Hunter wants some suggestions for a simple video editor on Linux
Other emails this week from Mr. Smoketoomuch, Tony Atkinson, Simon Vass, Morten, Cult, Steven (who suggested the Category5 vidcast for new users), Pierre Laguide, Kris, Kevan Vautier, John Priest, Jacob Todd, Beeza, Chad (not Wollenberg), Tim in Kansas, Scott Cann, gavigai (says “bing” means disease in Chinese), kieran, tloo, Frank Bell, Darrin Ritter and DaveQB

Song: Spider On The Roof (Live) by Keep Cool Vibration from the album Babylon Square Gardens

Linux Outlaws 96 - Screw You!

feedback@linuxoutlaws.com (The Linux Outlaws) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:12:06 +0200

MP3 - 1 hour 57 minutes 56 seconds, 54.0 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week Dan and Fab interview Stuart “Aq” Langridge of Canonical and formerly LugRadio about Ubuntu One, talk about the Pirate Party boarding the EU, Snowy, Bing and all the Linux news from Computex.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:49 | Introduction

The original Monkey Island is coming back!
We are giving away 20 free four-day tickets to Linux Tag, listen to the show for details
Beer of the Week: Puntigamer

0:09:48 | Releases & News

grml 2009.05
Linux Caixa Mágica 14
MilaX 0.4
Hymera Open 20090601
Calculate Linux 9.6 Xfce Edition
Absolute Linux 12.2.5
Untangle Gateway 6.2.0
Source Mage GNU/Linux 0.10.0
xPUD 0.9
Tiny Core Linux 2.0
Wine 1.1.23
Enlightenment E16 1.0.0
Amarok 2.1
Google Chrome Preview for Linux — who cares, we already have Chromium
Swedish Pirate Party boards the European Parliament
Springsteen and Dylan back catalogues coming to eMusic
Computex brings big news for Linux
Snowy — an AGPL web sync service for Tomboy
Linux Foundation to announce membership program, includes @linux.com email address
Software patents will be reviewed by the US Supreme Court

0:40:25 | Microwatch

0:48:46 | Interview

We interview Stuart “Aq” Langridge of Canonical (and former LugRadio host) about Ubuntu One, work at Canonical, Django, podcasting, football and much more.

Software Tip: Empathy, the instant messaging client

1:28:17 | Feedback

Donations: Thanks to Gerd F., Cam, Van P., Ryan K., Paul C.
We got audio feedback from Jon Kulp about the Behringer USB interface he bought
We also got send an amazing dance remix of some of our quotes by bgryderclock
Gerd Folberth from Austria picked up on a quote where Dan said something was “as useful as a chocolate teapot” and send us this video from the Naked Scientists
Douglas Whitfield wrote to tell us about an Open Everything event coming up in September
Daniel Devine sent us an email saying there’s supposed to be a new Toy Story film with new characters, so Debian is safe — he also tells us about laptops with OpenSolaris installed
George (aka. SoundChaser) is really paranoid about social networks
We had nice emails saying they enjoy the show from Andrew Mason and Leslie I’Anson
Also thanks to Chess Griffin, Tim in Kansas, Mike O’Donohue, David from Australia, Will Noakes, Aaron, Jim (Medeiros) Shingledecker, Kevin Daire, Buzzy Nielsen (told us about wondermark.com), Roger Merriman, Alistair Munro aka. B1ackcr0w, Ian Mackenzie and Markus Huggler aka. Magbeat (send us the following links: 1, 2)
T-Mobile USA pwned?
Send us your non-Linux questions for our 100th show on Twitter or identi.ca and tag them with #outlaws100

Song: The song The Ballad of Marv by Byron from the album We’re All Gonna Die — thanks to Mel for the tip!

Linux Outlaws 95 - All Those Sheep Got PDAs

feedback@linuxoutlaws.com (The Linux Outlaws) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:59:50 +0200

MP3 - 1 hour 28 minutes 37 seconds, 40.6 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week on Linux Outlaws: Google Wave, lots of Moblin news, Microsoft losing deals and sneakily installing Firefox plugins, Dan reviews Chakra and much more.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:52 | Introduction

Fab caused a massive server FAIL on Sunday and is very sorry for that!
Check out Dan’s new music show Rathole Radio
Someone added “Danish Weekend” to Urban Dictionary (see Episode 93)
Beers of the Week: Fab is drinking Ottakringer Helles, send to him by Bernd from Vienna — Dan got Weetwood Eastgate Ale from the guys at Chester LUG

0:10:33 | Releases & News

Nexenta Core Platform 2.0
CentOS 5.3 “Live CD”
Linux Mint 7 — G-L-O-R-I-A
PC/OS 10 “Open64 Workstation”
Calculate Linux 9.6
Hacao Linux 4.21
OpenSolaris 2009.06
Blender 2.49
Koffice 2.0.0
gPodder 0.16.0
Fedora is “pulling a Debian” — F11 release now June 9?
Default media player discussion for Ubuntu Karmic — will Banshee replace Rhythmbox?
Canonical is working on Moblin version of UNR
Linpus set to debut first Moblin 2.0 distribution for end users
Canonical developers aim to make Android apps run on Ubuntu
Google Wave to become the new email? — shiny!

0:39:09 | Microwatch

Microsoft loses lucrative kiwi deal
Swiss M$ deal on hold pending complaints by open source companies
Microsoft sneaks in Firefox extension via system update
This Week in Freedom-Hating: iTunes support confirmed for Palm Pre

0:50:10 | Review

Dan previews the Chakra Project Alpha 2.

1:00:41 | Feedback

Donations: Thanks a lot to Joe from Chester LUG, Mark M. and Marvin C.
Forums: The King of Fail is back in the house and apparently we weren’t the original Linux Outlaws
Scruffy Mogwai goes head-to-head with Wikipedia on kernel version numbering
gavagai sent us a video of the World Beard & Moustache Championships, apparently until recently Germany had always won, that’s now over
Markus Huggler aka. magbeat sent us a lot of information about the open source situation in Switzerland and the contentious Microsoft contracts
Michael aka. Blupr sent us a link to a cool image of Tux made out of source code
Rich Brown sent us a link to itsbetterwithoutwindows.com, an answer to the Microsoft/Asus site
Philip Durbin sent us an old, but very funny news story
Kristian Naugle asked us what software we use on Linux to create our artwork and Fab answers — make sure to check out the screencasts by heathenx and Richard Querin
Brett Murch asked us to mention an new distro he is involved with: Kongoni — they also have an IRC channel on Freenode at #kongoni
Thanks to James Polera, Matt Harrison, Jonathan Simpson, Gerd Folberth, Luke Platypuss, St3v3 and Mike Fuerst for their emails telling us the site was down
Also thanks to Jonathan Gates, Drew of Doom, Reine, Will Noakes, adrian15, Jonathan Groll, Matt Donnelly, Douglas Whitfield, Acidphlux and The Glza for their emails
Dell Mini 9 to be end-of-lifed

Song: War by Severed Fifth from the album Denied By Reign

Linux Outlaws 94 - Beer on the Stream

feedback@linuxoutlaws.com (The Linux Outlaws) — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:48:47 +0200

MP3 - 1 hour 59 minutes 53 seconds, 54.9 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

In this week’s, massively oversized episode: We interview the Linux Foundation’s Community Manager Brian Proffitt and talk about the Cisco/FSF settlement, the RIAA dissing the FSF, Microsoft and the Linux Foundation actually agreeing on something and much more.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:12 Introduction

Dan’s 29th birthday was on Monday
Happy Towel Day
Errata: Looks like Asus is still selling Eee PCs with Linux they are just not advertising it very well, Wolfram Alpha’s TOS require attribution
Congrats to The Linux Link Tech Show to their 300th episode today!
The Meet the GIMP vidcast has reviewed Fab’s Shiny Screenshots plugin and gave us a huge plug on their Episode 103 — thanks to Rolf Steinort!
DFEY have a logo design competition at the moment, it closes at midnight on May 31, cash prizes on offer!
Beer of the Week: Erdinger Weißbier

0:11:48 F/OSS Releases

0:21:44 News Stories

0:44:01 Microwatch

0:52:09 Interview

We interview Brian Proffitt, Community Manager at the Linux Foundation about what he does all day, the new Linux.com, the legacy content from the old Linux.com, LinuxCon and the new Moblin beta.

1:20:42 Software Tip

Wakoopa for Linux, a social network that’s all about application usage

1:27:54 Listener Feedback

Donations: Thanks to Christopher H. and Kevan V.!
Forums: We have over 1000 users now, it’s hard to install software on Linux, the Linksys WRT160NL open source router
x1101 sent us a Lifehacker article on re-enabling CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE for the new Xorg
Jake Tolbert wrote us on using parts of the Ubuntu Netbook Remix on normal laptops
Jason Greer found our New User Special very useful
Matt Harrison sent us a PHP script he wrote to generate certificates for the “Original Outlaws” forum members
GourdCaptain tells us Arch can be quite a lot faster than Ubuntu on older hardware
Kevan V. says the search term “Duck Porn” is still very popular with people searching for this site
Other email from: Benny, Kristian Naugle, Barry Postle, Joe Foy (told us about a Klingon Anti-virus), Germ aka. Jeremythegeek, Barry Williams, Russ, Ryan, lostnbronx, Dave Anderson, Drew DeKoning, Mike Hingley, Francesco Angelo Brisa, Jason, Rob van Son and Upchuck
Go Pens!
If you live in Europe, vote!

Song: Satellite by Major Major from their album Major Major

Linux Outlaws 93 - Danish Weekend

feedback@linuxoutlaws.com (The Linux Outlaws) — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:21:57 +0200

MP3 - 1 hour 37 minutes 16 seconds, 44.5 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week: Fab reviews the Shure SM58+X2u bundle, the new Linux.com, Wolfram Alpha, Intel gets slapped by the EU, the Ubuntu One controversy and a lot more.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:24 Introduction

The Windows 7 RC will reboot every two hours not every 2 weeks!
More news on the French HADOPI madness
Thanks to Jackie for her kind words on our New User episode
Jake Tolbert picked up on our interview with Christina Haralanova and had some interesting thoughts on comparing it with Eric Raymond’s viewpoint in The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Thomas Perl asked us to mention the first ever Mozilla Maemo Danish Weekend, a hackfest and festival for Mozilla and Maemo developers in Copenhagen from the 30th to the 31st of May

0:11:20 F/OSS Releases

0:19:54 News Stories

0:55:12 Microwatch

The Asus Eee PC — “It’s better with Windows”

1:03:34 Review

Fab reviews the Shure SM58+X2u bundle.

1:11:30 Listener Feedback

Donations: Thanks to Oliver R., Stuart G. & Luke E.
Forums: LugRadio Live 2009 discussion
Keijo Knutas sent us some recently released research on electronic police states: The UK is 5th and Germany is 10th on the list out of the 52 countries surveyed
Hendo send us a beard picture for our “Outlaw Wall of Wanted Beards”:
YaManicKill likes cuil.com as a Google alternative
We got a lot of feedback on Dan’s kernel panic in Episode 91
Jonathan Gregory from Wolverhampton says most Windows users are “digital magpies”
Jezra sent us an email about conduct on the forums
Other emails this week from: Dave S., Brent Foor, Michel Van der List, Nido, Thomas Perl, Luke Platypuss, Tony Elmer, JonTheNiceGuy, Brent Pieczynski, Per Lindstrom and Jim Medeiros
Alex Harrington asked us to mention Xibo, an AGPL licensed project he works on, they need a C++ coder to help them with their Linux client

Song: Your Reality by Steep from their album Your Reality — thanks to Marshall for the tip

Linux Outlaws 92 - New User Special

feedback@linuxoutlaws.com (The Linux Outlaws) — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:10:10 +0200

MP3 - 1 hour 14 minutes 20 seconds, 34.0 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

In this special episode, Dan and Fab give an introduction to Linux for new users. We tell you how to burn and install your first distribution, we try to explain some often used terms as well as some philosophical and political issues and we cover the basic concepts behind the OS.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

We mention our early Podcast Production Special
What is Linux, what is a Linux distribution?
The GNU toolchain
People: Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman (RMS), Eric Raymond
Guide on burning an ISO image of Ubuntu
Good starting distros: Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Mandriva, PC Linux OS
Package formats: deb, RPM
Where to find help: LinuxQuestions.org, Ubuntu Forums, Linux Outlaws Forums
Helpful podcasts: Linux Reality, Going Linux
Basic terms: kernel, shell, user space, desktop environment (Gnome, KDE), window manager
Philosophies: open source, Free Software, copyleft

Song: Beaten Up by Ben Walker from his album This Is Not An Album