Podcast Season 1 Episode 14
Posted at 3:47pm on Wednesday August 5th 2009
Title: Tron with Ponies
In this episode: SUSE Studio is out; Debian adopts timed releases, should we be giving coverage to companies who don't support Linux and should geeks prefer Free internet services over free internet services?
What's in the show
- News: Novell's online distro builder, SUSE Studio, is released. Alan Cox quits as TTY maintainer after criticism from Linus Torvalds. Debian adopts time-based release freezes and KDE 4.3 is finally here.
- Hot Topic: Should we be giving coverage to manufacturers who don't support Linux?
- Discovery of the week:
- Paul: Finding Pink Ponies in the Open Font Library
- Graham: Creating text adventures with Gnome Inform 7
- Mike: Playing with Pink Ponies
- Andrew: Converting a library of Ogg Vorbis files with PACPL
- Open Ballot: Should geeks prefer Free internet services over free internet services?
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Presenters: Andrew Gregory, Paul Hudson, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders
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Your comments
your laughs are too loud ;)
Iraklis (not verified) - August 5, 2009 @ 4:45pm
hi guys. great show as always. just one small problem. when i set the speaker volume at a level where i can hear you talking, when you all laugh i almost go deaf :P
Hardware....
Ram - August 5, 2009 @ 5:02pm
Why not get readers to review hardware that the've recently purchased, if manufacture arn't willing to put up for review.
Thoughts ?
The day I can go into any
Muzer_cbatli (not verified) - August 5, 2009 @ 6:13pm
The day I can go into any shop and buy any piece of hardware I like - whether it's manufactured by Broadcom, Apple, NVIDIA, generic webcam brand #643, or anyone else, and know it will work on Linux, is the day I know open-source has won.
Oh, and don't go about giving too much praise to Intel just yet (though on the whole they deserve praise). The Intel GMA950 is a pain to use. A pain I tells ya! You try installing UNR on the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 and see how many headaches you get! The only supported resolution is 1024x768 and there is no graphics accelleration (changing tabs in UNR takes about 30 seconds).
I like KDE a lot. I cannot live without a terminal that follows you around. Dolphin has that. Nautilus doesn't. I cannot live without kioslaves (much better than gnome's similar offerings). And I cannot live without the way that apps communicate with each other and all feel part of the same system. I have never got that with gnome. It may be buggy, but those bugs have been getting rarer and rarer.
Open services
stuart - August 5, 2009 @ 6:22pm
With hardware the evil empire punishes companies that advertise that they support Linux. Perhaps a better initial target would be to service companies who support FOSS. This would be IPS's hosting companies and the like.
So long plasma-widget-network-manager, we all hated you!
Muzer_cbatli (not verified) - August 5, 2009 @ 7:38pm
I am SO GLAD that they finally got rid of that unstable piece of masking tape that is plasma-widget-network-manager! That was pretty much the only thing that was making KDE4.2 and the 4.3RCs unstable! They've moved all that functionality into knetworkmanager and it's MUCH better. Now if it were to crash, it wouldn't bring down my whole desktop!
[something] popular wizards?
Phylum - August 6, 2009 @ 11:23am
Can anyone give me any ideas at all?
I never understand the very first sentence of each episode of every podcast.
This episode is about python, last one was about swine flu?
RE: popular wizards
JR - August 6, 2009 @ 1:13pm
It's "Contary to popular wishes, [etc]"
Tux radar doing good job
panayara (not verified) - August 6, 2009 @ 5:10pm
Yes It is realy a good job
http://shibuvarkala.blogspot.com
Totally should have used the
Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - August 7, 2009 @ 10:25am
Totally should have used the squeaky duck for the censorship bit. :3
In case Mike get bored with the ponies
menthol_penguin - August 8, 2009 @ 3:24pm
he can try something more hands on a and make his own Tux mascot;-)
http://www.mediafire.com/?3vbww0wmzjk
That link should work, if not try this one
http://www.ubuntu1501.com/2007/09/make-your-open-papercraft-tux.html
And thanks for such a brilliant podcast. I find it hugely amusing and the one last thing is actually very useful (shock horror;-))
Just saying here
Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - August 8, 2009 @ 7:04pm
Another very good podcast.
Laugh and the world laughs with you...
Le Pinguin Anonyme (not verified) - August 10, 2009 @ 7:53am
I agree with Iraklis' comment. I usually download podcast and listen to it on the way home in the car. Couldn't you pass the audio though audacity or something just to take the edge off the sudden bursts of laughter?
Come back Open Ballot, (almost) all is forgiven!
The penguin is mightier than the sword. (not verified) - August 13, 2009 @ 6:41am
OK then, I know we criticised some of the Open Ballot topics, but please do bring back this spot - the podcast is not the same without it!
How about though, that you invite listeners to submit ideas for future ballots through these comments pages, then if we don't like the ballot topic, we only have ourselves to blame.
I'd personally be interested in a ballot on what would be your ultimate desktop distribution, what standard packages would it contain, and does such a distro exist? But I'm sure others have better suggestions.
Now, where did I leave my pony...
Fortnight Find - Suggestion
Baldrick - August 13, 2009 @ 7:25am
Maelstrom - a great addicting game
http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/Maelstrom/
Too much Bass ?
Baldrick - August 13, 2009 @ 7:29am
I find I have to turn the bass down so I don't get thrashed in the car when someone bangs the desk or microphone.
weekly podcast?
Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - August 18, 2009 @ 4:56pm
You should make your podcast weekly instead of every fortnight . . . oh well, only one more day of withdrawal.
weekly podcast
menthol_penguin - August 18, 2009 @ 6:52pm
I completely agree with AP's suggestion. Come on guys, we need your humour and wisdom. You keep me sane(ish) ;-)
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