Podcast Season 2 Episode 20

 Podcast RSS feeds: Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and Opus.

Title: Benefit or a hazard?

The Linux Outlaws podcast will come to an end before Christmas. Italy has freed itself of the Microsoft Tax. Real Time Linux needs funds and FreeBSD can legally drink in Georgia. Firefox OS is going to run on Raspberry Pis and, don’t worry, the NSA is on our side. Plus we’ve also got an epic Finds of the Fortnight and an insightful Voice of the Masses.

What’s in the show:

• News:

  • After 7 years, the Linux Outlaws podcast is coming to an end. The Italian Supreme Court has banned the Microsoft Tax on the sale of new PCs. Real Time Linux may be stopped due to lack of funding. It’s been 21 years since the first stable release of FreeBSD. Mozilla’s Firefox OS is coming to a Raspberry Pi near you. Mike Rogers, director of the NSA, has said the NSA released a patch to Heartbleed only a day after they and the rest of the world discovered it. And there’s a new Underhanded C Contest.

• Finds of the Fortnight:
  • #linuxvoice on Freenode:
    • <pwaring> Static site building with Perl and templer.
    • <pwaring> There’s a huge list of static site building generators at staticgen.com.
    • <james_olympus> The BBC has removed some RSS feeds facilitating iPlayer access, and broken some not-so-very smart TVs in the process.
    • <dutchie> Cheap online backup for the truly paranoid – tarsnap.
    • <einonm> The UK Government’s Community Development Handbook.
    • <popey> A slick open source media server called MediaBrowser.tv.
    • <popey> There’s a Kickstarter campaign to create a Jolla ‘other half’ keyboard.
  • Graham:
    • Be careful if you play with Google’s Cardboard.
    • The Nexus 5 seems relatively easy to repair (but don’t blame us if it goes wrong).
  • Andrew:
    • Nominate your heroes for the Free Software Awards.
    • China is de-Windowsifying before 2020.
  • Ben:
    • TestDisk is awesome for recovering from ‘dd’ mistakes.
• Vocalise Your Neurons:
With Mike going AWOL this episode, we didn’t have any neurons to read, but if you’d like yours revealed next time, email mike@linuxvoice.com. Thanks!
• Voice of the Masses: GCHQ is upset. Does this mean we’re winning back our privacy?

Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory and Graham Morrison.

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Duration: 59:06

Theme Music by Brad Sucks.