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  <title>Hacker Public Radio</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>HPR0988: LFNW: Dawn McKenna of McKenna Interpreting Services</title>
    <author>davidglennwhitman.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (David Whitman)</author>
    <link>http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=209</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Linux Fest North West Week Special

All week we are airing the interviews that were recorded at the Linux Fest Northwest took place on April 28 and 29, 2012
http://linuxfestnorthwest.org

Dawn McKenna of McKenna Interpreting Services

Dawn McKenna of McKenna Interpreting Services organized a group of volunteer sign language interpreters for the Linux Fest.
http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/sponsor/mckenna-interpreting-services
If you want to get more information about how to organize sign language interpretation at your event contact Dawn at spiderterp@gmail.com 
Dawn had a very cool computer mouse with a spider trapped inside.
The HPR table was next to this group and these folks were really fun to be around. Lots of energy and you could tell they were really into their craft.
Thanks to all the volunteer sign language interpreters! YOU ROCK!

]]>
</description>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Linux Fest North West Week Special

All week we are airing the interviews that were recorded at the Linux Fest Northwest took place on April 28 and 29, 2012
http://linuxfestnorthwest.org

Dawn McKenna of McKenna Interpreting Services

Dawn McKenna of McKenna Interpreting Services organized a group of volunteer sign language interpreters for the Linux Fest.
http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/sponsor/mckenna-interpreting-services
If you want to get more information about how to organize sign language interpretation at your event contact Dawn at spiderterp@gmail.com 
Dawn had a very cool computer mouse with a spider trapped inside.
The HPR table was next to this group and these folks were really fun to be around. Lots of energy and you could tell they were really into their craft.
Thanks to all the volunteer sign language interpreters! YOU ROCK!

]]>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>HPR0987: LFNW: Larry Cafiero - the Crunchbang guy</title>
    <author>davidglennwhitman.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (David Whitman)</author>
    <link>http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=209</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Linux Fest North West Week Special

All week we are airing the interviews that were recorded at the Linux Fest Northwest took place on April 28 and 29, 2012
http://linuxfestnorthwest.org

Larry Cafiero - the Crunchbang guy

http://larrythecrunchbangguy.wordpress.com/category/lfnw/


Larry the CrunchBang Guy is Larry Cafiero, 54, who runs Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, which provides Free/Open Source Software solutions for the small business/home office environment. He has been an advocate for Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) since the fall of 2006. Toward the end of 2006, he had an epiphany or satori regarding the social, philosophical, political and economic benefits of using FOSS on his favored hardware, which at the time consisted of the Mac PowerPC platform (although he has warmed up to Intel machines as of late). He organized a project to promote GNU/Linux which turned out to be the Lindependence events in Felton, California, in 2008. Larry’s brush with fleeting fame came in 2006 as the Green Party’s candidate for Insurance Commissioner in California (270,218 votes, 3.2 percent). He has been using CrunchBang on a regular basis since July 2011.


See Larry's video of his LFNW Presentation at:
http://archive.org/details/LinuxfestNorthwest2012


]]>
</description>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Linux Fest North West Week Special

All week we are airing the interviews that were recorded at the Linux Fest Northwest took place on April 28 and 29, 2012
http://linuxfestnorthwest.org

Larry Cafiero - the Crunchbang guy

http://larrythecrunchbangguy.wordpress.com/category/lfnw/


Larry the CrunchBang Guy is Larry Cafiero, 54, who runs Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, which provides Free/Open Source Software solutions for the small business/home office environment. He has been an advocate for Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) since the fall of 2006. Toward the end of 2006, he had an epiphany or satori regarding the social, philosophical, political and economic benefits of using FOSS on his favored hardware, which at the time consisted of the Mac PowerPC platform (although he has warmed up to Intel machines as of late). He organized a project to promote GNU/Linux which turned out to be the Lindependence events in Felton, California, in 2008. Larry’s brush with fleeting fame came in 2006 as the Green Party’s candidate for Insurance Commissioner in California (270,218 votes, 3.2 percent). He has been using CrunchBang on a regular basis since July 2011.


See Larry's video of his LFNW Presentation at:
http://archive.org/details/LinuxfestNorthwest2012


]]>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>HPR0986: LFNW: Interview with Scott Newlon of MintCast</title>
    <author>davidglennwhitman.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (David Whitman)</author>
    <link>http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=209</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Linux Fest North West Week Special 

All week we are airing the interviews that were recorded at the Linux Fest Northwest took place on April 28 and 29, 2012
http://linuxfestnorthwest.org

mintCast
mintCast is &quot;a podcast by the Linux Mint community for all users of Linux.&quot; Keep up to date on the latest happenings in the Mint community along with reviews and tutorials on how to get the most out of you Linux system.


http://www.mintcast.org/


I interviewed Scott on April 29, 2012 at a picnic table outdoors.

dw

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</description>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Linux Fest North West Week Special 

All week we are airing the interviews that were recorded at the Linux Fest Northwest took place on April 28 and 29, 2012
http://linuxfestnorthwest.org

mintCast
mintCast is &quot;a podcast by the Linux Mint community for all users of Linux.&quot; Keep up to date on the latest happenings in the Mint community along with reviews and tutorials on how to get the most out of you Linux system.


http://www.mintcast.org/


I interviewed Scott on April 29, 2012 at a picnic table outdoors.

dw

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    <pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>HPR0985: LFNW: A Short Talk with Thomas Stover</title>
    <author>davidglennwhitman.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (David Whitman)</author>
    <link>http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=209</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Linux Fest North West Week Special 

All week we are airing the interviews that were recorded at the Linux Fest Northwest took place on April 28 and 29, 2012
http://linuxfestnorthwest.org




Thomas Stover presented: User Space C Development
Contact Thomas at:
http://www.thomasstover.com/



A special Thank You to Thomas for the interview.

]]>
</description>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Linux Fest North West Week Special 

All week we are airing the interviews that were recorded at the Linux Fest Northwest took place on April 28 and 29, 2012
http://linuxfestnorthwest.org




Thomas Stover presented: User Space C Development
Contact Thomas at:
http://www.thomasstover.com/



A special Thank You to Thomas for the interview.

]]>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  <item>
    <title>HPR0984: Going Linux: Introduction to Podcasting with Linux</title>
    <author>admin.nospam@nospam.hackerpublicradio.org (HPR Admins)</author>
    <link>http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=159</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Syndicated Thursdays


A chance to showcase other Creative Commons works. We try to expose podcasts, speeches, presentations, music, etc that you may not have heard. If you have suggestions for items then send your recommendation to admin at hpr and we'll add it to the queue.


Today it's the turn of the Going Linux podcast http://goinglinux.com/. The show is hosted by Larry Bushey and Tom Chaudoir and is aimed as providing a gentle introduction to linux.




In this introduction to using Linux and Linux applications to record a podcast, we focus on doing it on the cheap. We reveal the hardware and software we use. We discuss that you don't have to have a fast, new computer and expensive recording equipment to make a good quality podcast recording. From recording to editing, and from creating a feed to creating a supporting website, we talk about the free and open source software we use. We also give some tips on the logistics of the recording process and hosting your audio files for free.


Links discussed in this episode:

CommonCraft Video: Podcasting In Plain English http://www.commoncraft.com/video/podcasting

Hardware:

Headsets: Logitech USB Headset, Playstation USB Headset
Microphone: Audio-Technica ATR30
Mixer: Alesis Multimix 8 USB

Software:

Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net
Skype http://skype.com
Skype Call Recorder http://atdot.ch/scr
EasyTag http://easytag.sourceforge.net
RSS 2.0 specification: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
iTunes info: http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatson/podcasts/tips.html

Creative Commons license:

http://creativecommons.org/about
Legal considerations for podcasters:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide
Google's Feed Burner http://www.feedburner.com
Web hosting: http://www.site5.com/in.php?id=44470-6
Editing the website: http://kompozer.net
Audio file storage: http://www.archive.org
]]>
</description>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Syndicated Thursdays


A chance to showcase other Creative Commons works. We try to expose podcasts, speeches, presentations, music, etc that you may not have heard. If you have suggestions for items then send your recommendation to admin at hpr and we'll add it to the queue.


Today it's the turn of the Going Linux podcast http://goinglinux.com/. The show is hosted by Larry Bushey and Tom Chaudoir and is aimed as providing a gentle introduction to linux.




In this introduction to using Linux and Linux applications to record a podcast, we focus on doing it on the cheap. We reveal the hardware and software we use. We discuss that you don't have to have a fast, new computer and expensive recording equipment to make a good quality podcast recording. From recording to editing, and from creating a feed to creating a supporting website, we talk about the free and open source software we use. We also give some tips on the logistics of the recording process and hosting your audio files for free.


Links discussed in this episode:

CommonCraft Video: Podcasting In Plain English http://www.commoncraft.com/video/podcasting

Hardware:

Headsets: Logitech USB Headset, Playstation USB Headset
Microphone: Audio-Technica ATR30
Mixer: Alesis Multimix 8 USB

Software:

Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net
Skype http://skype.com
Skype Call Recorder http://atdot.ch/scr
EasyTag http://easytag.sourceforge.net
RSS 2.0 specification: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
iTunes info: http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatson/podcasts/tips.html

Creative Commons license:

http://creativecommons.org/about
Legal considerations for podcasters:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide
Google's Feed Burner http://www.feedburner.com
Web hosting: http://www.site5.com/in.php?id=44470-6
Editing the website: http://kompozer.net
Audio file storage: http://www.archive.org
]]>
</itunes:summary>
    <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit>
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  <item>
    <title>HPR0983: Freedom is not Free 5 - Get Involved</title>
    <author>zwilnik.nospam@nospam.zwilnik.com (Ahuka)</author>
    <link>http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=198</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Rounding off his series on &quot;Freedom&quot;, Ahuka finishes off with &quot;Get Involved&quot;

Remember that you should check out the following link https://ohiolinux.org/node/187, and http://www.zwilnik.com/]]>
</description>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Rounding off his series on &quot;Freedom&quot;, Ahuka finishes off with &quot;Get Involved&quot;

Remember that you should check out the following link https://ohiolinux.org/node/187, and http://www.zwilnik.com/]]>
</itunes:summary>
    <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <guid>http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr0983.mp3</guid>
    <itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit>
  </item>
  <item>
    <title>HPR0982: LITS: Episode 005 - pmount</title>
    <author>admin.nospam@nospam.hackerpublicradio.org (Dann)</author>
    <link>http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=7</link>
    <description><![CDATA[
In our continuing journey around the command line, Dann takes us to visit the outer edges and talks about the pmount command.



NAME
       pmount - mount arbitrary hotpluggable devices as normal user


As ever the very very detailed shownotes can be found on his site http://www.linuxintheshell.org


Don't forget that he also has a video component, and as ever this one is worth a watch.

]]>
</description>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[
In our continuing journey around the command line, Dann takes us to visit the outer edges and talks about the pmount command.



NAME
       pmount - mount arbitrary hotpluggable devices as normal user


As ever the very very detailed shownotes can be found on his site http://www.linuxintheshell.org


Don't forget that he also has a video component, and as ever this one is worth a watch.

]]>
</itunes:summary>
    <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit>
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  <item>
    <title>HPR0981: Review Indiana LinuxFest 2012</title>
    <author>zwilnik.nospam@nospam.zwilnik.com (Ahuka)</author>
    <link>http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=198</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Indiana LinuxFest is at http://www.indianalinux.org/cms/
My web site is at http://www.zwilnik.com/

To submit a talk for Ohio LinuxFest, please go to https://ohiolinux.org/callfortalks for more information.

Remember to support free software!]]>
</description>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Indiana LinuxFest is at http://www.indianalinux.org/cms/
My web site is at http://www.zwilnik.com/

To submit a talk for Ohio LinuxFest, please go to https://ohiolinux.org/callfortalks for more information.

Remember to support free software!]]>
</itunes:summary>
    <pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit>
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  <item>
    <title>HPR0980: Broadband for Rural North</title>
    <author>ken.fallon.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (Ken Fallon)</author>
    <link>http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=30</link>
    <description><![CDATA[
#da12bb #HPR
In todays show Ken talks to Chris Conder of the Broadband for Rural North (http://b4rn.org.uk/).



Located in the very pretty but the rural Forest of Bowland in Lancashire in the UK, and tired of putting up with slow 'broadband' they decided to put together their own network. They tried shared wifi, 3 and 4G mobile networks, MMDS and Satellite yet all proved to be unreliable.


So over tea and cake they came up with a plan.

A 240 Kilometer (150 mile) plan.
A 1 gigabit (1000mb/sec) fiber optic connection plan.
A let's give a connection to every one of the 1700 homes, farms, schools, churches and businesses, in the area plan

And while they were at it they designed it to be: 

redundant with a dual homed backbone direct to the UK's Internet exchange
upgradeable with ducts large enough to take multiple fibers
laid through some of the most rugged, mountainous area of Lancashire to get to the people that need it most. (And let's be clear here, nothing to do with the fact that they will need to use dynamite to blast their way through the rocks.)



Chris herself has lived in the Lune Valley for many years and is married to a farmer in Wray. She has been involved with the community in many roles over the years; for instance school governor and chair of Wray Endowed school during the eighties and early nineties and more recently supporter of a number of rural broadband projects. In 2002 she began campaigning for rural broadband and over the next few years helped establish a wireless network around Wray and a satellite network for rural farms. A founder member of Wray Com Com in 2003 (http://www.wraycomcom.org.uk/) and Wennet CIC in 2005 (http://www.wennetcic.co.uk). She is a pioneer of self installation fibre and a regular speaker at broadband events on the topic of rural broadband and DIY fibre build. 
She is also a 'online animator' for high speed broadband for Europe. She posts on the blog (http://daa.ec.europa.eu/group/2/content&quot;) and your feedback would be MORE than welcome. Europe assures her that they are listening. You can contact her at c.conder@b4rn.org.uk and be sure to tweet the hash tag #da12bb

The Photos



The Map

View B4RN core route phase 1 in a larger map

The Movie



The Links


http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Building-a-GSM-network-with-open-source-1476745.html
http://b4rn.org.uk/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/b4ruralnorth/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/B4RN-rural-broadband/105319176241916
https://plus.google.com/u/0/107690974539762837235/posts
https://twitter.com/#!/dig2agig
http://www.wraycomcom.org.uk/
http://www.wennetcic.co.uk
http://daa.ec.europa.eu/group/2/content

]]>
</description>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[
#da12bb #HPR
In todays show Ken talks to Chris Conder of the Broadband for Rural North (http://b4rn.org.uk/).



Located in the very pretty but the rural Forest of Bowland in Lancashire in the UK, and tired of putting up with slow 'broadband' they decided to put together their own network. They tried shared wifi, 3 and 4G mobile networks, MMDS and Satellite yet all proved to be unreliable.


So over tea and cake they came up with a plan.

A 240 Kilometer (150 mile) plan.
A 1 gigabit (1000mb/sec) fiber optic connection plan.
A let's give a connection to every one of the 1700 homes, farms, schools, churches and businesses, in the area plan

And while they were at it they designed it to be: 

redundant with a dual homed backbone direct to the UK's Internet exchange
upgradeable with ducts large enough to take multiple fibers
laid through some of the most rugged, mountainous area of Lancashire to get to the people that need it most. (And let's be clear here, nothing to do with the fact that they will need to use dynamite to blast their way through the rocks.)



Chris herself has lived in the Lune Valley for many years and is married to a farmer in Wray. She has been involved with the community in many roles over the years; for instance school governor and chair of Wray Endowed school during the eighties and early nineties and more recently supporter of a number of rural broadband projects. In 2002 she began campaigning for rural broadband and over the next few years helped establish a wireless network around Wray and a satellite network for rural farms. A founder member of Wray Com Com in 2003 (http://www.wraycomcom.org.uk/) and Wennet CIC in 2005 (http://www.wennetcic.co.uk). She is a pioneer of self installation fibre and a regular speaker at broadband events on the topic of rural broadband and DIY fibre build. 
She is also a 'online animator' for high speed broadband for Europe. She posts on the blog (http://daa.ec.europa.eu/group/2/content&quot;) and your feedback would be MORE than welcome. Europe assures her that they are listening. You can contact her at c.conder@b4rn.org.uk and be sure to tweet the hash tag #da12bb

The Photos



The Map

View B4RN core route phase 1 in a larger map

The Movie

]]>
</itunes:summary>
    <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  <item>
    <title>HPR0979: Sunday Morning Linux Review Episode 029</title>
    <author>admin.nospam@nospam.hackerpublicradio.org (Various Creative Commons Works)</author>
    <link>http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=158</link>
    <description><![CDATA[
http://smlr.us
Total Running Time: 54:30
Intro:
Mat Enders, Tony Bemus, and Mary Tomich
Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner
Kernel News: Mat
Time: 4:56
Release Candidate:
No Release Candidate This Week
Mainline:
3.4-rc4
Stable Updates:
On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:47:47 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.29
There were 55 files changed, 500 inserted, 207 deleted
On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:49:38 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.2.16
There were 69 files changed, 488 inserted, 247 deleted
On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:50:18 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.3.3
There were 78 files changed, 538 inserted, 319 deleted
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:14:55 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.30
There were 66 files changed, 314 inserted, 266 deleted
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:46:54 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.3.4
There were 96 files changed, 544 inserted, 382 deleted
Distro Talk: Tony
Time: 7:13
Distrowatch.com 

4-24 &amp;#8211; Tails 0.11 &amp;#8211; Debian-based live DVD designed for anonymous Internet surfing
4-24 &amp;#8211; Scientific Linux 5.8  &amp;#8211; distribution rebuilt from source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 and enhanced with extra software and tools useful in academic environments
4-24 &amp;#8211; Linux Mint 201204 &amp;#8220;Debian&amp;#8221; &amp;#8211; Linux Mint 201204 &amp;#8220;Debian&amp;#8221; edition
4-24 &amp;#8211;  Untangle Gateway  &amp;#8211; Debian-based distribution designed for firewalls and gateways
4-25 &amp;#8211; Tiny Core Linux 4.5 &amp;#8211; ast and minimalist Linux distribution for desktop use
4-25 &amp;#8211; Dragora GNU/Linux 2.2 &amp;#8211; &amp;#8220;libre&amp;#8221; distribution built from scratch and featuring Xfce as the default desktop
4-25 &amp;#8211; ClearOS 6.2 &amp;#8220;Community&amp;#8221; &amp;#8211; based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 and designed for small business servers and gateways
4-25 &amp;#8211; Swift Linux 0.2.0 &amp;#8211; lightweight desktop distribution with IceWM &amp;#8211; now based on Linux Mint&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8220;Debian&amp;#8221; edition
4-26 &amp;#8211; BackBox Linux 2.05 &amp;#8211; Ubuntu-based distribution designed to perform penetration tests and security assessments
4-26 &amp;#8211; * Ubuntu 12.04 &amp;#8211; Canonical&amp;#8217;s flagship operating system featuring the Unity user interface and Head-Up Display menu system
4-27 &amp;#8211; Proxmox 2.1 &amp;#8220;Virtual Environment&amp;#8221; &amp;#8211; an open-source virtualization platform for running virtual appliances and virtual machines, based on Debian GNU/Linux
4-28 &amp;#8211; ROSA 2012 RC &amp;#8211; Mandriva Linux and enhanced with a variety of innovative desktop utilities and applications

ROSA Icons – Making KDE look even better
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/04/21/replace-oxygen-with-rosa-theme-on-any-kde-powered-distribution/
Creepy – A python program that aggregates twitter and flickr geolocation information.
http://diveintoinfosec.wordpress.com/
Distro of the Week: Tony

Magia &amp;#8211; 1453
Swift &amp;#8211; 1457
Fedora &amp;#8211; 1727
Ubuntu &amp;#8211; 4732
Mint &amp;#8211; 5153

Tech News:
Time: 21:09
Google Drive Released, Not So Much For Linux
The long rumored on line storage from Google has been announced as a reality. Unless of course you are running a Linux desktop. I don&amp;#8217;t know but if it where me and my entire business was built on top of Linux that it might be the first client I produced. They have an Android client how difficult can it be.
Every subscriber will get 5GB for free with the opportunity to upgrade to any of the following plans.
Storage &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Monthly Rate
25 GB &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; $2.49
100 GB &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; $4.99
200 GB &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; $9.99
400 GB &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; $19.99
1 TB &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; $49.99
2 TB &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; $99.99
4 TB &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; $199.99
8 TB &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; $399.99
16 TB &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; $799.99
You can access the service at dirve.google.com. Although it is currently not ready for me (insert picture). It will support over 30 file types that you will be able to open right in your browser. It will integrate with Google+, Gmail, and Google Docs. You can share files or folders with anyone, and control whether they will be able to view, edit or comment on your stuff. Extensive search capabilities including OCR for pictures and scanned documents. And my favorite feature document rollback for up to thirty days. Google Drive tracks all changes so that when you save a document, a new revision is saved. You can look back as far as 30 days.

Slackware Alive And Well Despite Rumors
When the main website for Slackware went down the rumor mill went into hyper-drive. These Discussions where hot and heavy on LinuxQuestions.org and DistroWatch. The discussions very quickly shifted from website problems to the long term viability of Slackware. This was compounded by Eric Hameleers, a top Slackware contributor, when he posted this early in the LinuxQuestions discussion &amp;#8220;Old hardware, lack of funds…&amp;#8221;. I am sure that it was not his intended effect but this was like throwing gasoline onto an already raging fire. The conversation quickly veered into the what can be done to save Slackware land.
The fires where then fanned even higher when Caitlyn Martin, developer of Yarok Linux, made this statement on Distrowatch disparaging the long term viability of Slackware:
&amp;#8220;You remember that comment about my involvement in the development of a Slackware derivative? Forget it. We&amp;#8217;re already discussing about delaying the release and rebasing off of something with a more secure future,&amp;#8221;
This successfully torqued off a large number of people in the discussions on both websites. She responded to these comments by maintaining her stance that she was only concerned about upstream stability. The positive to come out of Martin&amp;#8217;s comments was that it prodded Hameleers into clarifying his comments:
&amp;#8220;The slackware.com server is down. This is a technical malfunction. It costs money to do something about that. Something will be done about that server, but if it takes a while, it is most likely caused by prioritizing and finances. Slackware was without its own web server for a long time in the past. And still active are ftp.slackware.com and connie.slackware.com, so what&amp;#8217;s the big deal?
This turning of the rumour mill is pretty much unfounded, and I see some of the same old people pouring oil on the fire as usual.
There is no reason to doubt the availability, stability and long term viability of Slackware, the distribution. It has not been a one-man show for some time, the development effort is substantial and plainly visible in the ChangeLog, and there are no plans to switch to another development model or even ditch the distribution.&amp;#8221;
Hameleers went into greater detail about Slackwares finacial situation on LinuxQuestions:
&amp;#8220;It&amp;#8217;s not that difficult: if everybody suddenly stops buying stuff from the Slackware store, then Slackware will not last another year in its present form&amp;#8211;the Store sales are Pat&amp;#8217;s income (and it feeds several other people too), but remember, the core team surrounding Pat do not get a penny of these revenues at all. Therefore, the rest of the team is not impacted in any way by Slackware sales figures and we will keep working with Pat on the distribution just like we have been doing for the past years. Look at the ChangeLog&amp;#8211;sometimes there is a period of relative silence but that does not mean that no work is being done. Like last week, the updates can come in big gulps. Slackware will not die, its philosophy will not change, the team is dedicated and full of ideas.
&amp;#8220;If people start chickening out and cancel their subscriptions, then that is a pity. Thankfully, I see lots of other Slackware users who decided that this is a good point to make a donation or buy something at the Store (if their financial situation allows it). Thanks to all of you for &amp;#8216;supporting the cause.&amp;#8217; And remember&amp;#8211;if you can not financially support Slackware, then helping your fellow Slackware users in forums like this one is an invaluable form of support as well! Slackware will not die because of financial issues, it will die if all of its users leave.&amp;#8221;
As Hameleers points out a project like Slackware can never really go away as long as there is a strong community around it. Even if the project folds financially and Patrick did not transfer the copyrights on Slackware to the community it would continue under a different name. However for now there is absolutely no indication that any of that is either in the near or distant future.

Hungarian Government Solidifies Commitment To ODF
Last year the Hungarian government announced that from April 2012 forward all government documents needed to be produced in an internationally recognized open document standard. To further this commitment they are going to invest 370 million HUF (Hungarian Forint) which is approximately 1.7 million USD in applications that utilize the open document format (ODF). The two main beneficiaries of this investment will be the Department of Software Engineering at the University of Szeged and Multiráció, an open source development company.
Multiráció developed an open office suite, originally based on OpenOffice.org, called EuroOffice. they are now going to produce a version for tablets and improve the collaborative functions within EuroOffice. Kázmér Koleszár, a developer at Multiráció, said that the development responsibilities would break out like this:
&amp;#8220;The University of Szeged will do the quality assurance and usability related research and tool development. Multiráció will develop the office application and work on several extensions.&amp;#8221;
All I have to say is good on you Hungary I wish that countries like mine would do more to push open formats. I have even considered suing entities like may state government for their continued use of proprietary formats on their websites.

Microsoft Office 15 to support ODF 1.2
Microsoft has told attendees at the ODF Plugfest in Brussels that the next versions of Microsoft&amp;#8217;s Office products, Office 15 and Office 365, will support Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2.
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Microsoft-Office-15-to-support-ODF-1-2-1560464.html

Less Than 25% Of OSS Used In Corporations Managed Correctly
Sonatype released the results of a recent survey showing that 500 out of 2500 respondents said they were locked down to only use corporate approved components. Only 49% said that their companies had a policy in place. Then 63% indicated that their corporate standards where not enforced or that they did not have a policy.
Sonatype also noted that the use of open source components is on the rise. Almost 80% of respondents said they used open source tools regularly. Around 50% have migrated to an open source development stack. Also over 65% claimed to contribute to open source projects.
In their press release Sonatypesaid this about the use of open source:
“Key to modern development practices is the use of open source components to build mission critical applications,”

Red Hat, SUSE, And IBM Form Partnership While Canonical Stays On The Sidelines
IBM&amp;#8217;s new POWER server line will be available with either Red Hat or SUSE Linux but not Ubuntu. After more than a year in development IBM rolled out their new POWER server systems and solutions. These machines are Linux specific utilizing the POWER7 processor-based hardware. These machines are targeted at midrange to large range enterprises. they are designed for big data analisis and delivering open source infrastructure services. Canonical chose not not to offer their server product on these units. Coould that be due to a fear of having to actually support an enterprise class customer.
This is how IBM envisions the use of this new server line:
“The new PowerLinux Solutions and supporting systems are designed to provide customers with lower deployment time and costs, and greater performance, dependability and workload density than competitive x86 platforms at similar price points.”
So where was Canonical in all of this? they had been working with IBM to deliver Ubuntu on IBM&amp;#8217;s System p mini computer. That partnership however floundered into nothing.
Here is how Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical’s founder, spun the announcement:
“We don’t support POWER because, by mutual agreement with IBM, there’s little to no overlap between the POWER user base and Ubuntu. People are choosing Ubuntu for farms of commodity servers, and POWER has been adopted for highly-specialized mission-critical roles. If IBM ever wanted to reach either the cloud or bulk computing market with POWER, then I expect the stats above would be relevant for their choice of OS, because they reflect the real choices of those markets.”
Hunh? I had a hard time following that statment but what I think it boils down to is this. IBM and Ubuntu agree that Ubuntu would be hard pressed to actually support a large enterprise customer. IBM, Red Hat, and SUSE still believe that their is a market out there for the big machine built on quality hardware. As opposed to large farms of x86 systems trying to do the job of a bigger machine.
Convention Scene
Time: 36:17
AnDevCon III
Android Developers conference
May 14 &amp;#8211; 17
AnDevCon III is the technical conference for software developers building Android apps.
http://www.andevcon.com/AndevCon_III/index.html
Libre Graphics Meeting 2012
May 2 &amp;#8211; 5 2012
The 7th Libre Graphics Meeting will take place in Vienna at the UAS Technikum.
The conference is the number one event for users and developers of free software for graphic design, photography, 3D modeling and animation.
http://libregraphicsworld.org/
Flossie 2012
May 25 &amp;#8211; May 26, 2012 , London
Flossie 2012 is a free, two-day event for women who work with or are otherwise interested in Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS) and in Open Data, Knowledge and Education.
http://www.flossie.org/?tribe_events=flossie-unconference-for-spring
Linaro Connection
May 28/ through 6/1
Gold Coast Hotel Hong Kong.
Convention to discuss and develop features, infrastructure and optimizations for the Linux kernel, Android, Ubuntu and beyond on ARM.
http://www.linaro.org/
LinuxTag
May 23 – 26, 2012
Linux Tag the most important place for Linux and open source software in Europe. The 18th LinuxTag will take place o at the Berlin Fairgrounds.
http://www.linuxtag.org/2012/
FOSSCOMM
May 12 &amp;#8211; 13 2012
FOSSCOMM (Free and Open Source Software Communities) is a Greek conference aiming at Open Source enthusiasts, developers, and communities. The fifth FOSSCOMM will take place at the Technological Educational Institute of Serres, Greece.
http://serres.fosscomm.gr/
Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) 2012
May 21-22 2012
San Francisco, CA, USA – Hyatt Regency San Francisco
Open sources influence on cCloud, data, mobile software
https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/31601/50188/?&amp;amp;
The Samba eXPerience 2012
in Göttingen, Germany is the 11th international Samba conference for users and developers. Meet the Samba Team and discuss requirements, new features and get an update on current developments! The conference is organized by SerNet.
May 8th &amp;#8211; 11th, 2012 &amp;#8211; Hotel Freizeit In Göttingen &amp;#8211; Germany
The Utah Open Source Foundation
Utah Open Source Conference
“Storming the cloud 5/3-5
This year’s conference will be graciously hosted by Utah Valley University in their Computer Science and Engineering Building,
Mil-OSS
Military Open Source Software
The Rise of Open Source in a Declining Budget
Charleston, SC 5/22-24
Penguicon
Time: 39:36
Mat &amp;#8211; grsecurity, sound redirection (ls -la &amp;gt; /dev/dsp)
Mary &amp;#8211; HP Lovecraft
Tony &amp;#8211; BYOBU
Chrome Remote Desktop – Provide remote connection between two computers. Chrome Remote Desktop is available in the Chrome Web Store
Listner Feedback
Time: 46:19
J. Mathis &amp;#8211; Trisquel Gnu/Linux
Outtro Music
Time: 48:32
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Intro:
Mat Enders, Tony Bemus, and Mary Tomich
Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner
Kernel News: Mat
Time: 4:56
Release Candidate:
No Release Candidate This Week
Mainline:
3.4-rc4
Stable Updates:
On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:47:47 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.29
There were 55 files changed, 500 inserted, 207 deleted
On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:49:38 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.2.16
There were 69 files changed, 488 inserted, 247 deleted
On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:50:18 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.3.3
There were 78 files changed, 538 inserted, 319 deleted
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:14:55 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.30
There were 66 files changed, 314 inserted, 266 deleted
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:46:54 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.3.4
There were 96 files changed, 544 inserted, 382 deleted
Distro Talk: Tony
Time: 7:13
Distrowatch.com 

4-24 &amp;#8211; Tails 0.11 &amp;#8211; Debian-based live DVD designed for anonymous Internet surfing
4-24 &amp;#8211; Scientific Linux 5.8  &amp;#8211; distribution rebuilt from source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 and enhanced with extra software and tools useful in academic environments
4-24 &amp;#8211; Linux Mint 201204 &amp;#8220;Debian&amp;#8221; &amp;#8211; Linux Mint 201204 &amp;#8220;Debian&amp;#8221; edition
4-24 &amp;#8211;  Untangle Gateway  &amp;#8211; Debian-based distribution designed for firewalls and gateways
4-25 &amp;#8211; Tiny Core Linux 4.5 &amp;#8211; ast and minimalist Linux distribution for desktop use
4-25 &amp;#8211; Dragora GNU/Linux 2.2 &amp;#8211; &amp;#8220;libre&amp;#8221; distribution built from scratch and featuring Xfce as the default desktop
4-25 &amp;#8211; ClearOS 6.2 &amp;#8220;Community&amp;#8221; &amp;#8211; based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 and designed for small business servers and gateways
4-25 &amp;#8211; Swift Linux 0.2.0 &amp;#8211; lightweight desktop distribution with IceWM &amp;#8211; now based on Linux Mint&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8220;Debian&amp;#8221; edition
4-26 &amp;#8211; BackBox Linux 2.05 &amp;#8211; Ubuntu-based distribution designed to perform penetration tests and security assessments
4-26 &amp;#8211; * Ubuntu 12.04 &amp;#8211; Canonical&amp;#8217;s flagship operating system featuring the Unity user interface and Head-Up Display menu system
4-27 &amp;#8211; Proxmox 2.1 &amp;#8220;Virtual Environment&amp;#8221; &amp;#8211; an open-source virtualization platform for running virtual appliances and virtual machines, based on Debian GNU/Linux
4-28 &amp;#8211; ROSA 2012 RC &amp;#8211; Mandriva Linux and enhanced with a variety of innovative desktop utilities and applications

ROSA Icons – Making KDE look even better
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