Free Software Round Table (FSRT)

This episode is hosted by: Ilya (dotCOMmie) Sukhanov, Jonathan Dahan, Justin Seyster, Kupo, and engineered by Bobanero. We also had a special guest, Scott Shawcroft who started and continues to run the OS Watershed project.

The following topics were discussed:

• Free Software Day [1]
• BFS Scheduler [1]
• OS Watershed, interview with Scott Shawcroft [1]
• IBM employees switch Symphony from Microsoft Office [1]
• Debian switches to upstart [1]
• Linux kernel version 2.6.31 [1] [2]
• RHEL, xen -- no, KVM yes [1]
• Gimp single window mode [1] [2]

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This episode is hosted by: Bill Burns, Chris Knadle, Ilya (dotCOMmie) Sukhanov, Jonathan Dahan, and engineered by Bobanero.

The following topics were discussed:

• SCO wins a battel [1]
• IBM Make inroads in SUN market [1]
• Evading sensorship courtesy US govt [1]
• Revelaing password to authorities (UK) [1]
• Akonabi project [1]
• KDE 4.3 [1]
• Debian 2 year releace cycle [1]
• OS Watershed [1]

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This special 2 hour episode is hosted by: Bill Burns, Chris Knadle, Ilya (dotCOMmie) Sukhanov, Kupo, and engineered by Bobanero.

The following topics were discussed:

• Linux kernel null pointer exploit [1] [2]
• Microsoft first source code 'contribution' to kernel [1]
• Getting your cat to agree to EULA [1]
• Palm pre phones home [1]
• Palm pre pretends to be iPhone [1]
• iPod linux integration, quit wining [1]
• Defcon 16: fake ATM [1]
• Defcon 16: fake Korean reportes [1]
• Defcon 15: Dateline reported ousted [1]
• Defcon 16: discovering feds with RFID[1]
• Passport information sniffing [1]
• Defcon 16: [1]
• Intermission
• DDos Attacks on Twitter + Facebook [1]
• Chinese filtering firewall, no more [1]
• DLP [1][2] [3]
• Ethernet Drivers, Myricom, Infiniband
• Linux incompatibility list [1]
• Song of the Grass-Mud Horse [1][2]
• Linux bloat
• 50% of GPL projects use GPLv3[1]
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This episode is hosted by: Bill Burns, Chris Knadle, Ilya (dotCOMmie) Sukhanov, Jonathan Dahan, Kupo, and engineered by Bobanero.

The following topics were discussed:

• Geeknic++, The first North East LUG meetup camping trip. [1]
• Libre.fm [1]
• Red Hat join S&P 500 [1]
• Null pointer security flaw in kernel version 2.6.30 [1]
• Fat free FAT [1]
• Ksplice in ubuntu [1]
• Stallman on Mono, C#. [1]

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The show scheduled for June 20th has been preempted by the WUSB blues marathon. Don't miss it, there is going to be lots of excellent music. Our next show will be on July the 18th, expect a quiz on blues then!

This episode is hosted by: Bill Burns, Chris Knadle, Ilya (dotCOMmie) Sukhanov, Jesse, Jonathan Dahan, and engineered by Bobanero.

The following topics were discussed:

• Cisco and FSF finally settle [1] [2]
• Moblin [1] [2]
• Virtualization on Linux [1] [2] [3]
• Linux Unified kernel [1] [2] [3]
• Cyber Security Czar [1] [2]
• China builds secure OS on freeBSD [1]

Extra: Running Windows viruses with Wine

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This episode is hosted by: Benjamin Kudria, Bill Burns, Brian Fix, Ilya (dotCOMmie) Sukhanov, Kupo and engineered by Bobanero.

The following topics were discussed:

• Open Invention Network, Finding prior art to patents. [1] [2]
• Hippocratic Oath for programmers [1]
• Firefox extension war [1]
• Debian switched to eglibc [1] [2] [3]
• Oracle buys Sun [1]
• Future of Open Office [1] [2]
• Phoenix BIOS HyperSpace [1]
• LLVM distributions [1]

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This episode is hosted by: Benjamin Kudria, Bill Burns, Brian Fix, Chris Knadle, Ilya (dotCOMmie) Sukhanov and engineered by Bobanero.

The following topics were discussed:

• Wikipedia relicensing content [1]
• Tom Tom vs Microsoft Settlement [1]
• Fedora break-in digest [1]
• Phones:
  • Android
  • Moblin to be hosted on linux.com [1]
  • OpenMoko RIP [1]
• Government openness [1] [2]

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Bad news! Matt Lee will not be on todays show after all. I'm hoping to reschedule the interview for an upcoming show.

The good news is that the show is still on so tune in!

Our next episode will feature a special guest. The Campaigns Manager Matt Lee will talk little about some of the happening at FSF and other fun things.

Make sure to tune in on April 18th at 22:00 EDT. And while the show is live join the IRC channel to interact with the hosts and other fellow listeners.

Also, if you would like us to invite someone to the show send us a note either via the contact link on left menu or by IRC.