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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. In this show we're talking about: Starting out on your own: if you're thinking of setting up your own company working with technology or the web or open source, what do you need to do to make it successful? Is it possible to compete in the market as a one-man show? Is it just too risky? (1.19) [How can you make money running your own company? Tell us in the LugRadio forums] The State Of the Mozilla: Firefox is the poster child for open source software, but are they forgetting their open-source base and not supporting the free desktop? There have been lots of accusations of this -- is it actually the truth? Secondly, Mozilla's rendering engine, Gecko, seems to be losing the war for being an embedded engine to WebKit. Are people heading away from Mozilla's technology? (20.00) [What do you think of the Mozilla project's approach? Tell us in the LugRadio forums] We announce that LugRadio will end at LugRadio Live UK this July, and talk about why the show's going out on a high. Tell us what you think: send us email or post on the forums (37.15) If you could fix any problem in the open-source world what would it be? Thoughts on usability, modularisation, the web, and shared user accounts (44.15) Your emails -- this week you're talking about McGyver, gun control, power metal, freedom hatred at the FSF, other Linux podcasts that we think that you should be listening to, and LugRadio Live UK which is in less than a month! (73.40)

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes us answering the burning questions that you want answered, and also: The cynicism of brands by sysadmins (1.30) [Discuss this in the LugRadio forums] A Burning Question A new model for the music industry - after we discussed different ways that the music industry could work in episode 14, we look at your feedback, talk about what we've learned from thinking about this and the nature of recording contracts, and lay out one attempt to find a solution: Severed Fifth (21.42) [Discuss this in the LugRadio forums] A Burning Question LugRadio Live UK is in less than a month! Prepare yourselves: contact us quickly if you want to grab one of the last few places in the LRL exhibition (60.05) A Burning Question Your emails: this week we're talking about Ruby vs Python, honest music listeners, KDE 4 and whether we hate it, OpenSolaris, Linux on mobile phones, mail clients, and Linux Magazine featuring a picture of Aaron Bockover almost naked. Send us your emails! (71.15) This episode includes the tune Steady B, from Trafic de Blues' Fin de cavale album, which is licenced as CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 2.5, which means that this episode is also under the same licence (a minor change from our normal licence for episodes).

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show, discussing our unrealised hopes and dreams for the open source desktop, includes: Cairo: it was supposed to revolutionise the graphical look of the Gnome desktop, and as far as we can tell nothing has changed. Where are our beautiful pictures? (3.43) [Discuss this in the LugRadio forums] Linux on mobile phones: it's not only the year of the Linux desktop every year, but it's the year in which Linux really takes over the embedded market. And it never happens. Mobile phones running Linux never appear in the market. Why? (15.52) [Discuss this in the LugRadio forums] What does "the community" actually mean? Lots of companies are trying to build an open source community around their products, and they don't succeed because they don't know how. An extended segment of our views, including Jono speaking on how he thinks community management should work (27.17) [Discuss this in the LugRadio forums] Your emails and feedback! This week you and we are talking about the LugRadio Syndrome, the freedom slider and a restricted formats wizard, spam, the new world of email security and SPF, abandoning technical books, Guns 'n' Roses, media players, and the subject that wouldn't die, Gobuntu (69.31)

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes: Room 101: in honour of our 101st show, we shamelessly steal an idea from a British television programme and nominate one thing each to "go into Room 101", by which we mean that it should be banished for all time beyond the sight of humankind (1.45) [Nominate your candidates for banishment in the LugRadio forums!] We talk about Webwise's Phorm, the latest Internet advertising wheeze of dubious legality in the UK, with Becky Hogge from the Open Rights Group: what can you do about Phorm, why is it bad, and is there any stopping it? (18.25) [Do you think Phorm is a good idea? Do your ISP or your country implement something similar? Tell us about it in the forums] After the last episode's discussion of Evolution, we were challenged to all try a different email client for a week. The team report back on what it's like to spend a week using a different MUA (41.10) A suggestion from LugRadio Community Hero mrben on how to advocate Free formats inoffensively sparks a discussion about the idea of a "restricted formats wizard" in Linux distributions. Do distros do enough to promote the use of unencumbered formats for media? Do we as a community do enough? Do we do too much? (59.20) [Would you like to see a restricted formats wizard? Tell us how it should work in the forums] Your emails, including an avalanche of comment prompted by the section in the last episode about Gobuntu. You too can contact the show and win the truly exclusive LugRadio black t-shirt! (1.20.50)

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes: To celebrate the one hundredth episode of LugRadio, we name one hundred cool things that the open source community have achieved, one for each of our shows. Keep it up, everyone. We're really proud. (1.55) The Gobuntu "Experiment" Has Failed -- well, that's how Aq feels about it. With no Gobuntu 8.04 official release, what does this mean for advocates of absolute software freedom, and do they have a leg to stand on? (4.20) Evolution, the Gnome mail client, is much maligned (not least by being compared to Microsoft Outlook). Is it really as bad as all that? (39.32) A quick reminder that although LugRadio Live in the USA is over, the original and best LugRadio Live right here in the UK is happening on July 19th and 20th in Wolverhampton -- submit your talks and requests for exhibition space! (66.57) Your emails, including abuse about the end of the show, complaints of us being like an uncomfortable famliy dinner, and a note about the team's love for Sony's products of greatness (67.58)

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things while in the glorious land of America in the LugRadio Live USA 2008 live recording. This show includes: Screw you, stupid users (hurriedly retitled to account for children in the audience): is there a point at which it's reasonable to say that software cannot be simplified further and that if some users can't grasp it, it's just not for them? Can free software meet every user's need -- can any software meet every user's need? Or is it reasonable to say that some people are just not suited for computers? (2.30) [Discuss this segment in the LugRadio forums] Our chance to reward some of the people at LugRadio Live USA: the roflcopter award, a birthday for the youngest member, a Dice raffle, the best exhibition at LRL USA, the person who sent the most people to the show, Jorge Castro's Miguel de Icaza impression. and Kynan Dent from Google in a dress (17.33) Is American culture too litigious, and is this affecting the free software community's ability to do things in the USA? How the fear of falling foul of the legal framework affected the organisation of LugRadio Live, and comments from the audience about whether this is widespread and what we, as a community, can do about it (34.17) [Discuss this segment in the LugRadio forums] A big thanks to our sponsors, Dice, LinuxQuestions, and Linux Pro Magazine, and a huge extra thanks to our main sponsor Google for making LugRadio Live USA happen! Thanks also to Mike Evans for all the brilliant design work done for the event; it looked great, and that's Mike's work.

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes: Scrum, the project methodology, is from the Agile Programming stable; a brief explanation of it and whether it's worthwhile (3.15) [Talk about how you run software projects in the LugRadio forums] Dave Neary talks about the Libre Graphics Meeting, what it's for, and how the LGM team are looking for donations to make this meeting happen -- you can donate to help them! (21.50) The egoless desktop -- does the open source community have an advantage over the proprietary world because we don't have to push the names of each project? Is it just as important to have people have loyalty to a particular piece of software even if there's no revenue stream? How vital are brands in the free software world? (38.10) [Discuss this topic in the LugRadio forums] LugRadio Live 2008 USA is this Saturday! One final reminder: if you want to go, you can pre-register for a ticket, and remember that there are some really cool prizes on offer if you recommend more friends to buy a ticket than anyone else does! See you all on Saturday... (62.28) Your feedback and emails! This week, including Flash mp3 players, stories about how you got into free software, Emacs, conferences, and the state of Linux in Thailand (70.00)

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes: Rob McQueen of Collabora talks about consulting in the open source world and what's going on with GStreamer (2.20) With recent small moves from Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails, among others, towards a Creative-Commons-ish sort of music release process, what's next for the music industry? Can a different model for music really exist? (14.58) [Discuss this on the LugRadio forums] Richard Querin wins the LugRadio competition to give Aza Raskin a new hat (39.37) Go and pre-register for LugRadio Live USA -- there's less than a month to go! If you recommend your friends to also pre-register, you can win an Asus Eee PC or a Neuros OSD media player (43.06) Django, the Python web framework: what's it all about? What's the point of it, and what's it for? (45.45) [Discuss this on the LugRadio forums] Your letters: this week we've got comments about, among other things, acceptable non-free software, unfairness to the absent Chris, which mp3/ogg player device people would recommend (send in your answers!), whether we do too much "meta" stuff, Rockbox, and Aq being a god of war (63.56)

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes: The Mono Worm Turns: Stuart, a past critic of the Mono project, explains how his views have changed and why he's less concerned than before (3.14) [What do you think of Mono? Discuss in the LugRadio forums] Blu-Ray wins: after a protracted battle for hearts and minds, the next DVD format for HD video will be Blu-Ray. What's that all about? The team discuss the new format and how it's relevant to what we do (19.52) [Discuss in the LugRadio forums] Microsoft have now committed to an "interoperability promise", but do we trust them? Can the leopard really change its spots, or is this just more of the same? Musings on Microsoft's past history, and why this time might be different (33.26) [Is it really different this time? Discuss in the LugRadio forums] A quick recap of the exhibition area at LugRadio Live and who's going to be there: if you want to exhibit your project at LRL USA in April, contact us, but time's running out! (62.48) Your thoughts, comments, bouquets and brickbats in our email box (64.58) If you'd like us to review your project or your product, drop us a line and let us know. Now in better stereo than the last episode! Yes, that's right, our new motto is "LugRadio: not quite as bad as before!" People have mentioned that (a) they don't like the stereo and (b) the encoding quality on the last show wasn't as good as usual from us. So, from now on, the high-quality mp3 will be bigger than before (because we've increased the quality of it) and the lower-quality mp3 will be mono (so people who don't like stereo can still listen to the show). Let us know on the LR forums if you discover any new issues, and thanks for the feedback.

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes: Your Shipment of Chris has arrived. Chris Procter, the most recent addition to the presenter roster, has some pretty strong views on various technical subjects; we challenge his viewpoints on servers and programming (1.15) [Discuss this segment in the LugRadio forums] The results of the Pimp My LugRadio competition! Our winner, who provided the best thing for promoting LugRadio, is Sean Ellis: Sean wins an Asus Eee PC! You can see all the entries at the Pimp My LugRadio page; marvel at Sean's winning entry, and at all the others! (19.55) Some more details about the upcoming LugRadio Live USA 2008, April 12th-13th, San Francisco -- registration is now open, and you should buy a ticket now! (23.41) The cult of celebrity: is there something separating those well-known people who hack on open source software and those who don't have their names in the limelight? We don't think so (39.23) [Discuss this segment in the LugRadio forums] We receive a plaintive and heartfelt cry for help from Aza Raskin: see lugradio.org/hat for more details and our latest competition, in which you can win the LugRadio Finger of God! (56.12) Your emails to the show: this week, you (and we) are talking about the Tuxcast podcatcher, other podcasts, Tunapie, a browser for internet radio and TV streams, your thoughts on whether WriteRoom is a good idea (and Pyroom, a clone for Linux), previous winners of the exclusive LugRadio t-shirts (if you won one, take a picture of yourself and blog about it!), technical support as per our previous discussion, fear of chins, and how much to pay for software (62.08) If you'd like us to review your project or your product, drop us a line and let us know. Thanks to EfficientPC for donating the EEE PC for us to review and then give away in our competition!

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes: We review the fish command line shell and wonder whether shells can ever be interesting (1.50) [Tell us about why shells are important, or why no-one should care, or your views on fish at the LugRadio forums] Pimp My LugRadio, the competition to win an Asus Eee PC, approaches its end: get your entries in (something to promote LugRadio) by the 18th of February if you want to win! (9.15) We review the Dell M1330 laptop to see whether it's any good (11.11) Why can't home users get paid support for Linux at a reasonable price? Would it be a good idea for distributors to offer phone support, or is IRC good enough? (23.39) [Do you want phone support? Do your parents? Why won't it work? Discuss on the LugRadio forums] In the second part of the LugRadio Lock-In, we talk about whether distributions should innovate ahead of their upstream projects, or whether new work should happen upstream by default (38.50) We want to hear from you! Get in touch with suggestions for the LugRadio Krypton Factor, if you want to exhibit your project or company, run a BoF, or be part of the crew atLugRadio Live USA, and your ideas for Cool vs. Care (71.01) Words from you: your emails! This week we're talked to (and are talking about) audio prompts, Linux Fest Northwest, jokes about fish (not the shell), the MSI Megabook laptop, Frets on Fire (an open source Guitar Hero clone), Fedora porn sites, PyCon 2008 in the US, buying software, buying Windows, KDE 4 again, and vendor lock-in (74.47) LugRadio Live USA 2008 is now only two months away! Prepare yourselves. And go watch the LRL2008 USA promotional video and post it on your own blog! (87.50) If you'd like us to review your project or your product, drop us a line and let us know. This episode includes music from Lonely Anger from Dystopian Origins II by natlyea, under a CC-BY licence. Many thanks! Thanks to EfficientPC for donating the EEE PC for us to review and then give away in our competition!

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and the returning (for one show) Matt Revell, standing in for Adam Sweet, talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes: The KDE project have released KDE 4.0, their shiny and rebuilt new version which will take them into the next five years. We've tried it out to see what we think. (2.30) [What did you think of KDE 4.0? Was naming it 4.0 the right decision? Let us know on the LugRadio forums] In the first of a two-part interview, we talk to Aaron Seigo and Will Stephenson of the KDE project, live from the KDE 4.0 release event in Mountain View. They tell us about how the event's going: Aaron will also be on the next show to respond to our reviews and concerns about KDE 4.0 (22.46) In the final LugRadio Top Trumps, Jono gives his scores in the five criteria that we think define the reasons why people are interested in Linux. With extra bonus scores from Matt! (29.17) [How do you score? Tell us, or tell us what the criteria should have been, on the forums] Lots of things from all of you. We're pointed at fish, a replacement command-line shell to use instead of bash. K3B plays fanfares when you manage to burn a CD, and we talk about audio alerts being integrated into the desktop. Aq gets shoed about buying a proprietary laptop and loses his temper, as someone writes in to say that their laptop worked perfectly. People have been happily using the new Nokia N810, and we've got a review of it sent in to us. The LugRadio forums have been discussing KDE 4.0 and their approach of naming it 4.0 even though it's still in development, in advance of our review of the same. (55.22) We're asked what would make us leave the world of free software. A forums post asked the question, and we take this opportunity to answer. Go tell us what would make you leave! (69.22) This episode includes the tune Steady B, from Trafic de Blues' Fin de cavale album, which is licenced as CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 2.5, which means that this episode is also under the same licence (a minor change from our normal licence for episodes). Thanks to EfficientPC for donating the EEE PC for us to review and then give away in our competition!

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes: We speak to Sacha "Sago" Goedegebure from the Peach Project, the new open movie project from the Blender team, who produced Elephant's Dream. What's going on with the project, what's it like to make an open movie, and is it going to be as weird as Elephant's Dream? (1.51) [Have you donated to Peach? Talk about the project in the LugRadio forums] This week on LugRadio Top Trumps*: Stuart talks about why freedom is important, why the underdog isn't important, how a lifetime of free Unixes comes about when your home computer is too rubbish to run Windows, and how he scores in the five categories of freedom crusading, tinkering, cheapness, community, and underdogness (14.58) The LugRadio Lock-In: is vendor lockin a good idea? Should Linux distributors tie their server and desktop products together to make them work better and more easily, without necessarily pushing those changes to other Linux distros first? Does this necessarily need to be at the expense of their Linux competitors? (34.04) [Would you like to see Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Server tied more closely together? Comment on the LugRadio forums] LugRadio Live USA! We can finally confirm the dates: LRL USA 2008 will happen on 12-13th April, 2008, at the Metreon in San Francisco! You'll be able to buy tickets soon; keep an eye on the LugRadio website and the forums for details. The Call For Papers is now open; if you would like to submit a talk, or you'd like your project or company to exhibit, contact us and let us know (52.20) The Pimp My LugRadio competition, where you produce some promotional material for LugRadio and win an Asus Eee PC, is still running; get your entries in as soon as you can! We've had a load of great entries so far; get yours in now (54.54) Your emails and forum posts! This time, we talk about old-fashioned Unixes again, Hacker Public Radio, brown noses, Adam's shopping habits, virtualisation, our brown masters, and the latest Theo de Raadt and Richard Stallman grudge rematch (56.54) This episode includes the tune Steady B, from Trafic de Blues' Fin de cavale album, which is licenced as CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 2.5, which means that this episode is also under the same licence (a minor change from our normal licence for episodes). Thanks to EfficientPC for donating the EEE PC for us to review and then give away in our competition!