Linux Outlaws 126 - The Man with the Golden Laptop

Linux Outlaws 126 - The Man with the Golden Laptop: "



MP3 - 1 hour 46 minutes 25 seconds, 48.8 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.


This week: Lenovo ThinkPad X301 review, Black Screen of Death, Firefox dethrones IE in Germany, Palm target of GPL-infringement suit, lots of Google news and more…


If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode.


0:01:46 | Introduction




0:14:08 | Releases & News





0:48:59 | Microwatch



0:58:30 | In-Depth Topic


Fab reviews the Lenovo ThinkPad X301.





1:14:41 | Feedback





  • Andrew C. sent us information on a project called IceCream for cross compiling stuff

  • Andy Hunter sent us an email about [a boxed version of OpenSUSE he’s seen on Amazon for £50

  • Bob Konior tries to beat us in the shitty old computer challenge

  • Roger Light tells us about his app mosquitto (an open source mqtt broker) which came about as a direct consequence of Andy Stanford-Clark’s talk at OggCamp

  • We had emails about the Ubuntu One application list sharing idea from Spencer Dupre and x1101** pointing out that Synaptic can export a list of installed packages already — Fab recommends APTonCD

  • Other emails this week from Jacob Feltman, Martin Häger, Mark Law, Matthew Pherigo, James Lewis, satipera, Pete Martin, Jake Tolbert, Lorenzo, Daniel Devine, redbrain, Tony Ciak, Luke Platypuss, Brian Kemp, Michael White, GourdCaptain, Dan Beeler, Neal and Quarter Pounder


  • Event: Debian Bug Squashing Party, January 22-24 at Credativ GmbH.


Song: Song for the Eureka Stockade by David Rovics from the album Ten Thousand Miles Away


The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

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