Linux Outlaws 361 – Leather Trousers

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0:01:36 Introduction

• Fab had another TV appearance

• Richard Kiel is dead


• Microsoft buys Minecraft; more on the topic in Steel Rain 5

0:14:14 Bodhi & Acquisitions

• Bodhi Linux project leader steps down


• Micro Focus wants to buy Attachmate / Suse


• HP is buying Eucalyptus

0:25:26 Red Hat News

• Red Hat’s CTO goes to Google


• Red Hat releases Satellite 6

0:36:19 Hamburg, Munich, Turin

• Hamburg creates open data site

The LiMux story continues to simmer:

• The Greens are investigating if the switch back to Windows will happen and how much it would cost^DE


• The major’s office still says Linux is a problem; workers in the city administration are apparently saying that their systems are inferior to the installs in private homes and corporations^DE


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  Meanwhile, the city’s CIO says it’s not Linux that’s the problem but the fact that users aren’t supported well enough and that the systems generally are lacking in places^DE

  
  


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  Turin is switching from XP to Ubuntu

  
  

0:48:32 Security

• Freenode servers compromised


• Unpatched vulnerability in the AOSP browser


• Bug in Enigmail prevents encryption for BCC recipients

0:59:37 Minix & RPM

• Minix 3.3.0 has been released


• RPM now supports soft dependencies

1:02:26 Feedback

• Phil Thompson writes about Windows 8.1 with Bing


• Michael Tenen wrote to get advice on a Moto Guzzi from Fab

• Torin Doyle recommends two browsers: Pale Moon and SRWare Iron; he also writes us about cricket

1:19:11 Song

• Your Nasty Love by T-Bird & The Breaks (licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0)