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http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/LOsv9snH3RM Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 14:19 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 18:02 Mary Distro Review Time: 28:02 Convention Scene: Tech News: Time: 49:53 Is it Alive? - Mary Time:1:08:49 Listener Feedback Time:1:15:29 Outtro Music Time: 1:32:04 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 14:19 Release Candidate: On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:59:49 PDT Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.7-rc3 He had this to say about it: "Nothing particularly stands out here. Lots of small fixes, exemplified by the series of memory leak fixes in usb serial drivers. Just a lot of random stuff.. Most of it is drivers (all over: drm, wireless, staging, usb, sound), but there's a few filesystem updates (nfs, btrfs, ext4), arch updates (arm, x86 and m68k) and just random stuff." --Linus Torvalds Mainline: 3.6 Stable Updates: On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:01:41 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.49 With 32 files changed, 545 lines inserted, and 120 lines deleted On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:02:45 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.16 With 50 files changed, 380 lines inserted, and 219 lines deleted On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:03:56 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.6.4 With 103 files changed, 1060 lines inserted, and 1006 lines deleted On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:34:59 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.50 With 28 files changed, 180 lines inserted, and 152 lines deleted On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:35:48 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.17 With 56 files changed, 468 lines inserted, and 285 lines deleted On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:38:11 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.6.5 With 98 files changed, 1254 lines inserted, and 960 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: "But ah, the ability to configure things. And I have wobbly windows again. I do understand why some gnome people think that KDE may have gone a bit overboard on the configuration ability, though. Because some of the "you can configure everything" things are just odd. Like being able to rotate those desktop widgets any which way you want. "I wonder what that odd rotation thing on the widget control bar does? Whee - trippy"." --Linus Torvalds Distro Talk: Tony Time: 18:02 Distrowatch.com 10-28 - Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.10 - KDE-centric desktop Linux distribution 10-29 - Finnix 106 - a small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for system administrators, based on Debian's testing branch 10-29 - Parabola GNU/Linux 2012.10.17 - Arch-based distribution containing strictly free software only 10-30 - Slackel KDE-4.9.2 - a live Slackware-based distribution with the very latest KDE desktop environment 11-1 - OpenBSD 5.2 - multi-platform BSD-based UNIX-like operating system 11-2 - Tiny Core Linux 4.7 - minimalist but extensible graphical Linux distribution for desktop computers 11-2 - Arch Linux 2012.11.01 - a popular rolling-release Linux distribution 11-3 - DragonFly BSD 3.2.1 - BSD operating system originally forked from FreeBSD 4 Distro of the Week: Tony Arch - 1571 Fedora - 1689 Ubuntu - 2020 Mageia - 2883 Mint - 3773 Mary Distro Review - Tiny Core Linux Time: 28:24 There is an old adage that can be applied to this distro: “Packs small and plays big. But I would add one more part-- provided that you can unlock the suitcase. I have to say that TinyCore was an interesting yet, at times, frustrating distro to review. Tiny Core describes itself as the Linux kernel and a set of command-line (text interface) tools. The version I downloaded for the review was the Tiny Core Plus version because I want a graphical interface, darn it! The Vitals: Name: Tiny Core Linux

http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:31:16 Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/EOmSFK6ST_g Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 13:52 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 17:03 Mary Distro Review Time: 26:27 Tech News: Time: 47:22 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 1:14:05 Listener Feedback Time: 1:21:41 Outtro Music Time: 1:28:56 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 13:52 Release Candidate: No RC Mainline: 3.6 Stable Updates: On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 10:23:30 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.6.3 With 85 files changed, 940 lines inserted, and 297 lines deleted On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 10:24:17 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.47 With 47 files changed, 480 lines inserted, and 126 lines deleted On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 10:25:12 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.15 With 71 files changed, 583 lines inserted, and 297 lines deleted On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:44:08 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.48 This is to revert one patch in 3.0.47 Kernel Developer Quote: "So really Rasberry Pi and Broadcom - get a big FAIL for even bothering to make a press release for this, if they'd just stuck the code out there and gone on with things it would have been fine, nobody would have been any happier, but some idiot thought this crappy shim layer deserved a press release, pointless." --Dave Airlie Distro Talk: Tony Time: 17:03 Distrowatch.com 10-22 - Zenwalk Linux 7.2 "Live" - "Zenlive" and based on the latest version of Slackware Linux 10-23 - Puppy Linux 5.4 "Precise" - "Precise" edition, a small Linux distribution built from Ubuntu 12.04.1 and compatible with Ubuntu 12.04 DEB packages 10-23 - DEFT Linux 7.2 - Ubuntu-based live distribution with a large collection of free and open-source tools for incident response, cyber intelligence and computer forensics tasks 10-24 - Proxmox 2.2 "Virtual Environment" - "Virtual Environment" edition, an open-source virtualization platform for running virtual appliances and virtual machines, based on Debian GNU/Linux 10-24 - BackBox Linux 3.0 - Ubuntu-based live DVD designed for penetration testing and forensic analysis tasks 10-25 - CRUX 2.8 - independent and customisable Linux distribution designed for more advanced Linux users 10-26 - Linux Lite 1.0.0 - beginner-friendly Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution with Xfce as the preferred desktop environment 10-27 - FreeNAS 8.3.0 - free and open-source Network-Attached Storage (NAS) operating system based on FreeBSD 10-25 - 10-25 - Distro of the Week: Tony Fedora - 1472 Puppy - 1736 Mageia - 2618 Ubuntu - 2725 Mint - 3891 Mary Distro Review-Alien Section OS Time: 26:27 Alien Section OS Linux Review Since it's the season of Hallowe'en and ghosts and goblins, I decided that I wanted a distro that reflected the spirit of the season. What better distro to review than Alien Section OS (http://www.aliensectionos.tk/index.html). According to the distro's site, Alien Section OS is an Openbox operating system based on Crunch-bang/Debian, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint. That's right! Instead of a single Linux distro with multiple desktops, we have a single desktop on top of multiple distros—but not at the same time, of course. Now you may be wondering how all of those distros are rolled into a single distro—is it a five-headed ugly alien baby or will is it an attractive sleek spaceship. Let's find out. The Vitals: Name: Alien Section OS Maintainer: Mark Jack Distro Latest Birthday: 7/27/2012 Derivative: Debian Kernel: 3.2.0 Review Desktop: OpenBox Out of the Alien Section OS mother ship we have: Alien Section OS Debian Edition Squeeze Final (stable) , Wheezy (test) Alien Section OS v1.10 Debian Edition Wheezy

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http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/-aPY85Mrfsw Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 18:38 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 20:54 Mary Distro Review Time: 30:46 Tech News: Time: 46:17 Is it Alive? - Mary Time:1:13:20 Listener Feedback Time: 1:20:58 Outtro Music Time: 1:36:41 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 18:38 Kernel News Release Candidate: No release candidate. Mainline: 3.6 is released Here is what Linus had to say about it: "The shortlog below is obviously just the log since -rc7, the changes in 3.6 since 3.5 are too many to list. There haven't been any huge new architectures or filesystems, it's all "solid progress". That may not sound all that exciting, but the devil is in the details, and there's a lot of small fixes all over." --Linus Torvalds Stable Updates: On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 11:16:25 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.5.5 With 283 files changed, 2763lines inserted, and 1499 lines deleted On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 11:17:13 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.12 With 235 files changed, 2304 lines inserted, and 958 lines deleted On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 11:17:47 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.44 With 139 files changed, 1031 lines inserted, and 544 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: “I wish there were more people in the legal profession like Judge Posner. The man has his head screwed on right!” --Linus Torvalds Distro Talk: Tony Time: 20:54 Distrowatch.com 9-30 - Hanthana Linux 17 "LXDE" - "LXDE" edition, a lightweight live CD built from Fedora 17 and featuring the LXDE desktop environment 10-1 - Fuduntu 2012.4 - rolling-release distribution forked from Fedora 10-2 - OS4 13 "OpenDesktop" - "OpenDesktop" edition, an Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the Xfce desktop 10-2 - Absolute Linux 14.0 - lightweight desktop distribution based on Slackware Linux and featuring the IceWM window manager 10-3 - CAINE 3.0 - Ubuntu-based live DVD offering a complete digital forensic environment in a friendly graphical interface 10-5 - Cinnarch 2012.10.01 - Cinnarch is an Arch-based Linux distribution featuring the user-friendly Cinnamon (a fork of GNOME Shell) as the graphical desktop 10-6 - AriOS 4.0 - Ubuntu-based Linux distribution with a highly customised and enhanced GNOME Shell Distro of the Week: Tony OpenSUSE - 1616 OS4 - 1806 Ubuntu - 1983 Mageia - 2591 Mint - 3052 Mary Distro Review Time: 30:46 Absolute Linux Review This week's review is of Absolute...Linux. Not to be confused with the vodka maker, Absolut, but I have to admit I wondered wondered how an Absolut-designed vodka bottle would look. Tux on the rocks, anyone? OK enough of that. On to my review. The Vitals: Name: Absolute Linux Maintainer: Paul Sherman Distro Latest Birthday: 14.0 was released 10/2/2012 Derivative: Slackware Kernel: 3.2.29 Review Desktop: IceWM Live Environment: There is no live environment for Absolute Linux. You boot to the installer menu. The Big Three Default Browser: Chrome Office Suite: Abiword (the key with this distro is light-weight) Mail Client: Mail notification Setup window—for Gmail or other mail client but no email client is installed by default. Default File Manager: SpaceFM 0.8 (GTK-based app so it has a nautilus look to it. It's a tri-panel file manager with directory tree, device list, and navigation panel.) The Install Process: The install process starts with this notice: Remain calm while your machine is assimilated. So, I followed that instruction and my machine was indeed assimilated into a no-frills install process. The standard options are available during install, partition management, keyboard,

http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/qnrNA0uXYmY Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 4:00 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 5:15 Mary Distro Review Time: 8:10 Linux (etc) Convention Scene for October 2012 Time: 18:00 Tech News: Time: 22:30 Listener Feedback Time: 33:18 Ohio Linux Fest 2012 Recap Time: 37:45 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 4:00 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 5:15 Distrowatch.com 9:23 - ArtistX 1.3 - Ubuntu-based live DVD packed with free software for creating audio, video and graphics media files 9-23 - Slackware Linux 14.0 - Distro of the Week: Tony Fedora - 1815 LuninuX - 1834 Ubuntu - 2534 Mageia - 3194 Mint - 5157 Mary Distro Review Time: 8:10 The Distro Drive-by edition of What's on sda6. A special edition for the 2012 Ohio Linux Fest Each week, I select a distro to review. This week I am doing something a little different—Distro Drive-by. No, it's not a segment where I shoot a couple of Distros and drive away at a high rate of speed. It's a series of quick summaries of recent distros, designed to inform and hopefully entertain. Our first drive by is Cr OS Linux (spelled C-r-O-S) – formerly known as Chrome OS Linux. This distro claim to fame is that it's built around the revolutionary Chromium browser then the site goes on to say it: ...provides a lightweight Linux distribution similar to Google Chrome OS for the best web browsing experience on any x86 PC, netbook or notebook. To reduce confusion, it posts a disclaimer that “Chrome Linux is not related to Google,” despite the fact Google Chrome's logo is prominently displayed on the project link I clicked from Distrowatch . Wow, I thought. Is this a browser-based OS, ala netbook style? Perceptions don't meet reality here. It seems that “being built around the revolutionary Chrome browser” means that you boot into a traditional desktop with an open Chrome browser. The Chrome instance does contain a robust set of Google tools, but there didn't seem to be anything revolutionary to see here. Aside from that disappointment, there are a few interesting things about this distro that I'd be remiss for omitting. 1. CroOS Linux was built via the OpenSuse builder service, so OpenSuSe branding is prevelant. 2. It uses Cinnamon for its desktop (1.6) 3. It uses the 3.4.6 Linux kernel. 4. It sports a dashboard and social toolbar, but it's only available when the Chrome browser is open. This dashboard allows you to connect to Facebook, Yahoo!, Twitter, Myspace, and LinkedIn. The dashboard also contains a chat client, news summary video (BBC), Youtube video channel, and games. There was nothing here that made me think wow—I gotta get this. 5. The most interesting feature of this distro is the InSync beta 5 client for Google drive. I have a couple of Google accounts and supplied a set of credentials for one of them. Insync automatically added my Google documents that I had on-line to the Insync home folder. Very slick.I wa impressed. 6. Lastly, my wireless did not work with CrOS Linux. http://susestudio.com/a/jMOVxa/cr-os-linux http://getchrome.eu --------------------- The next drive-by is Zest Linux. With a name like Zest you know it has to be refreshing. It is if you're into keyboard window managers. As the distro's philosophy section of their web site notes: Zest was built mainly for the Linux enthusiast. In fact it is more of a console based system and many commands have to be actually typed. The GUI features a wallpaper, and the dwm window manager including a simple status bar and a mouse pointer. (And let me tell you they're doing you a favor by including desktop wallpaper)

http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/H3Rd9oS--D8 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 11:31 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 17:52 Mary Distro Review Time: 23:15 Tech News: Time: 49:04 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 1:05:57 Listener Feedback Time: 1:16:55 Outtro Music Time: 1:39:30 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 11:31 Release Candidate: On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 15:59:09 PDT Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.6-rc6 This is what he had to say about it: "Fairly normal statistics: two thirds drivers, with the remaining third being a mix of architecture updates, filesystems (gfs2 and nfs) and random core stuff (scheduler, workqueue, stuff like that)." --Linus Torvalds Mainline: 3.5 Stable Updates: On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:29:06 BST Ben Hutchings released kernel 3.2.30 With 168 files changed, 1543 lines inserted, and 577 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: This weeks quote comes to us from none other then Linus himself. "Minky has gone from catching shrews to catching (and bringing inside) this thing. It was adorable, but compared to shrews the young ground squirrel was (a) fast as heck, and (b) much smarter. Which made it much harder to catch-and-release. Dammit, Minky." --Linus Torvalds Distro Talk: Tony Time: 17:52 Distrowatch.com 9-16 - Hanthana Linux 17 - Fedora-based distribution on a 3.5 GB live DVD with a large number of applications, media codecs and custom artwork 9-18 - Superb Mini Server 2.0.0 - Slackware-based server distribution 9-19 - Tails 0.13 - Debian-based live DVD with a strong focus on Internet privacy 9-19 - Snowlinux 3 "E17" - Debian-based distribution featuring the latest Enlightenment 17 desktop: 9-20 - GeeXboX 3.0 - Linux media centre distribution for embedded devices and desktop computers 9-20 - Manjaro Linux 0.8.1 - Arch-based Linux distribution featuring the latest Xfce desktop 5-27 - Distro of the Week: Tony Sabayon - 1602 Ubuntu - 1678 Fedora - 1853 Mageia - 1931 Mint - 2919 Mary Distro Review Time: 23:15 Linux Review I can't hear with that tinfoil hat covering my ears.. Qubes OS is a security-oriented Linux distribution whose main concept is "security by isolation." They accomplish this goal by using domains implemented as lightweight Xen virtual machines. Think of a series of separate silos, each with its own set of folders, applications, etc. Its goals are contradictory but Qubes seems to pull it off—for the most part. Strong security through domain isolation but making it as seamless a desktop experience as possible. They pull it off through clever architecture. The Vitals: Name: QubesOS Maintainer: Joanna Rutkowska (and others) Distro Latest Birthday: 1.0 on 9/4/2012 Derivative: Fedora 17 (64-bit based) Kernel: 3.2.7-10 Review Desktop: KDE Live Environment: There is no live environment. The boot menu only provides for install options. Qubes can be installed on an external USB disk if someone wants to try it. They don’t recommend installing Qubes in a virtual machine, such as on VMWare, Parallels or Virtual PC. I agree. I tried it. It didn't work. The Install Process: The install process for Qubes was generally typical, aside from a screen that asked whether I wanted to use the standard set of default virtual machines Qubes provides (aka AppVMs), only the system VMs (networking and firewall) or I preferred to create my own. There is a virtual machine template which allows you to easily create additional virtual machines if you need them. The template is based on the 64-bit version of Fedora 17 If you select the standard VMs, when Qubes reboots after install you will have::

http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:42:57 Un-edited Live session – http://youtu.be/A1950JVeQQ8 Contact Us: show at smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 6:52 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 8:48 Tech News: Time: 31:49 Kevin on Android and Apple Time: 46:45 Listener Feedback Time: 1:18:14 Outtro Music Time: 1:35:53 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 6:52 Release Candidate: Mainline: 3.5 Stable Updates: On Wed Sep 12 2012 - 11:04:27 EDT Ben Hutchings released kernel 3.2.29 With 84 files changed, 1673 lines inserted, and 555 lines deleted On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:38:39 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.43 With 47 files changed, 259 lines inserted, and 150 lines deleted On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:40:04 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.11 With 88 files changed, 540 lines inserted, and 307 lines deleted On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:40:46 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.5.4 With 114 files changed, 881 lines inserted, and 504 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: This weeks quote is from Alan Cox "Swansea at it's best, just post tourist season. Lots of sun but not blazingly hot, sea, sand and quiet. Fresh made Lebanese lamb bi ajine from the marvellous Lebanese pastry shop in town and Joe's ice cream. Alas the one thing it won't do is magically finish the accounts for me so back to the paperwork." Distro Talk: Tony Time: 8:48 Distrowatch.com 9-09 - PureOS 6.0 - desktop Linux distribution with GNOME 3 based on Debian's "testing" branch 9-10 - Epidemic GNU/Linux 4.0 - Debian-based Brazilian desktop Linux distribution featuring the KDE desktop and a number of user-friendly enhancements 9-11 - IPFire 2.11 Core 62 - a specialist distribution of Linux for firewalls 9-12 - Parted Magic 2012_09_12 - a specialist live CD providing utilities for disk management and data rescue tasks 9-13 - Super OS 11.10 - an Ubuntu-based distribution with extra applications, media codecs, browser plugins and other enhancements 9-13 - Zentyal 3.0 - Ubuntu-based distribution for small business servers 9-13 - Bodhi Linux 2.1.0 - Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the Enlightenment 17 desktop 9-14 - openSUSE 12.2 "Edu Li-f-e" - "Edu Li-f-e" edition, an openSUSE variant specifically tailored to schools 9-15 - Sabayon Linux 10 - Gentoo-based distribution with a choice of four desktop environments (GNOME 3, KDE, MATE and Xfce) 9-15 - Lightweight Portable Security 1.3.6 - live CD with a goal of allowing users to work on a computer without the risk of exposing their credentials and private data to malware, key loggers and other Internet-era ills. Distro of the Week: Tony PCLinuxOS - 1795 Ubuntu - 1858 openSUSE - 1954 Mageia - 2090 Mint - 2904 Tech News: Time: 31:49 Intel says Clover Trail Atom CPUs can't run Linux Intel sits in a pretty dominant position in the chip making business, with the exception of one sector: mobile devices. For smartphones and tablets ARM is the market leader due to its low power, high performance chip designs working so well for those form factors. Intel hopes to change that with the introduction of the next Atom chip, codenamed Clover Trail. But even before the Clover Trail processors are available, Intel has limited the market for them by stating Clover Trail Atom chips will only work with Windows 8. In other words, they won’t run Linux and Intel wont support them running Linux. http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/intel-says-clover-trail-atom-cpus-cant-run-linux-20120914/ Do Your SSL Certs Meet Microsoft's New Requirements? Warning from Microsoft to the entire Internet: make sure that your digital certificates are at least 1024 bits. As of Oct. 9, 2012,

http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:13:22 Un-edited Live session - http://youtu.be/N126dsvJP48 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 2:53 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 5:27 Mary Distro Review Time: 19:23 Tech News: Time: 37:43 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 49:47 Listener Feedback Time: 59:45 Outtro Music Time: 1:06:56 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 2:53 Release Candidate: On at, 8 Sep 2012 23:43:45 Linus Torvalds released kernel Linux 3.6-rc5 But there was no announcement Mainline: 3.5 Stable Updates: none Kernel Developer Quote: Is from Greg Kroah-Hartman “"Real" boats all lined up in the harbor, and Kay Sievers trying to paddle away from me as fast as possible” Distro Talk: Tony Time: 5:27 Distrowatch.com 9-01 - OLPC OS 12.1.0 - Linux distribution created under the initiative of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project to provide children in developing countries with low-cost laptops 9-01 - Zorin OS 6.1 "Educational Lite" - "Educational Lite" edition, a lightweight Lubuntu-based distribution specially created for deployment in schools 9-02 - Liberté Linux 2012.3 - Gentoo-based live CD distribution with strong Internet privacy features 9-02 - Linux From Scratch 7.2 - a book of instructions on how to build a base Linux system from scratch by utilising an existing Linux system or a live CD 9-02 - SolusOS 1.2 "Legacy" - Debian-based desktop Linux distribution with GNOME 2 9-03 - Slackel KDE-4.8.5 - Slackware-based desktop Linux distribution 9-03 - SystemRescueCd 3.0.0 - live CD containing a large number of data rescue and disk management utilities 9-04 - Qubes OS 1.0 - Fedora-based security distribution for the desktop with a number of isolated domains implemented as lightweight virtual machines running under Xen 9-05 - openSUSE 12.2 - 9-06 - Kiwi Linux 12.08 - Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution with many popular extras, such as browser plugins, media codecs, archiving tools, etc 9-06 - Ubuntu Christian Edition 12.04 - Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution designed for Christians, as well as churches, Bible study schools and other religious organisations 9-07 - Network Security Toolkit 2.16.0-4104 - a Fedora based live DVD with a good collection of open-source network security applications 9-08 - PCLinuxOS 2012.09 "KDE FullMonty" - Linux distribution with a special desktop layout and a large number of applications 9-08 - Arch Linux 2012.09.07 - 9-08 - Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.09 - an updated build of the project's distribution featuring the new KDE 4.9.1 desktop Distro of the Week: Tony PCLinuxOS - 1268 Ubuntu - 2045 Mageia - 2246 openSUSE - 2759 Mint - 2947 Mary Distro Review Time: 19:23 Turnkey Linux Review 100 distros of Linux on the wall; 100 distros of Linux. Take one down, boot in the cloud, 99 distros of Linux on the wall... I must confess that preparing this Linux distro review was one of the most interesting and fun activities I have had to date, except when I won that bet with Mat! What I found so fun about Turnkey Linux is that it's not really a single distro, but over 100 specially constructed, ready-to-use distros. These distros are special purpose distros—preloaded with an application package tuned and ready to go. For this week's Linux review I had to throw out my standard format—you know where I tell you the default browser, mail client, office suite, etc., because it didn't apply. The Vitals: Name: Turnkey Linux Maintainer: Alon Swartz and Liraz Siri Distro Latest Birthday: 12.0 on 8/30/2012 Derivative: Debian Squeeze 6.0.4 (transitioned from Ubuntu with this release) Kernel: 2.6.32 Review Desktop: N/A

http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: Un-edited Live session - http://youtu.be/Nioc4U_gKS8 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 22:19 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 24:58 Mary Distro Review Time: 40:08 Mary Convention Scene Time: 58:10 Tech News: Time: 1:06:21 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 1:29:39 Listener Feedback Time: 1:31:52 Outtro Music Time: 1:35:00 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 22:19 Release Candidate: No rc this week Mainline: 2.5 Stable Updates: On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:47:50 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.42 with 21 files changed, 283 lines inserted, and 279 lines deleted On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:48:46 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.10 With 37 files changed, 408 lines inserted, and 339 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: Todays quote comes from Greg Kroah-Hartman. "Today was a new one, someone emailed asking questions about a kernel "assignment" that was being asked of them by a company to determine if they had kernel development skills to get a job with them. Now I suppose you can say that asking the community to do your work for you is a valuable kernel development skill, but for some reason, I don't think that this is what the employer was looking to try to determine..." Distro Talk: Tony Time: 24:58 Distrowatch.com 8-25 - Zorin OS 6.1 "Lite" - Ubuntu-based Linux distribution for featuring the LXDE desktop 8-26 - wattOS R6 - a lightweight and energy-efficient, Ubuntu-based Linux distribution (with LXDE) designed for older computers 8-27 - Scientific Linux 6.3 "Live" - 8-27 - KNOPPIX 7.0.4 - Debian-based live distribution with LXDE as the default desktop and a separate edition for visually impaired computer users 8-28 - Tiny Core Linux 4.6 - a minimalist but extensible Linux distribution with a simple and fast graphical user interface 8-29 - Turbolinux 12.5 - a Japanese operating system for desktops and embedded systems. one of the world's oldest surviving Linux companies in the world 8-29 - Descent|OS 3.0 - Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the MATE (a fork of GNOME 2) desktop environment 8-30 - SchilliX 0.8 - OpenSolaris-based (text mode-only) live CD 8-30 - TurnKey Linux 12.0 - library of Debian-based virtual appliances, integrating the best open-source software into ready-to-use solutions Distro of the Week: Tony Debian - 1234 Zorin - 1347 Ubuntu - 2038 Mageia - 2547 Mint - 2982 Mary DistroReview Time: 40:08 Adonis Linux Review Is that a distro in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? In Greek mythology, Adonis was the god of beauty and desire, a central figure in various mystery religions. Adonis is also a Linux distribution with the ultimate goal to provide a highly customizable system that leaves the user in control. Would this distro be a god of beauty and desire? We shall see... The Vitals: Name: Adonis Aurora Alpha Maintainer: Barry Martin Distro Latest Birthday: Submitted to Distrowatch on June 1, 2012 Derivative: Currently Ubuntu but the web site indicated the possibility of switching to Debian. Kernel: 3.2.0 Review Desktop: Cinnamon but plans to add others Live Environment: Live boot took approximately 2.5 minutes. (I don't think I've mentioned my timing parameter—it's when I can open the start menu, I consider the system booted –at least enough to be useful.) The Adonis desktop was clean, but it had a dark theme...lots of grey and black. There was an install icon on the desktop (Thanks!). Oops, the Ubuntu icon is still showing! Speaking of logos, the Adonis logo is kind of interesting. It's the word “Adonis”which was shaped by using the Debian logo in various shapes and forms.

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http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:13:27 Un-edited Live session - http://youtu.be/wVmqDw23_64 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 8:44 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 11:27 Mary Distro Review Time: 20:40 Tech News: Time: 35:39 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 47:32 Listener Feedback Time: 55:24 Outtro Music Time:1:13:27 Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 8:44 Release Candidate: No new release candidate Mainline: 3.6-rc1 Stable Updates: On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 19:04:32 BST Ben Hutchings released kernel 3.2.26 With 11 files changed, 8 lines inserted, and 33 lines deleted On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 08:56:18 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.40 With 57 files changed, 351 lines inserted, and 171 lines deleted On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 08:57:35 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.8 With 128 files changed, 1154 lines inserted, and 673 lines deleted On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 08:58:30 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.5.1 With 145 files changed, 1270 lines inserted, and 729 lines deleted On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 01:49:56 BST Ben Hutchings released kernel 3.2.27 With 76 files changed, 862 lines inserted, and 455 lines deleted Kernel Developer Quote: --Alan Cox on his love of epub3 and Gnome3 "epub 3 even includes javascript which must be almost a sufficiently bloated and stupid idea that Gnome3 will be running to adopt epub3 for its help file format" Distro Talk: Tony Time: 11:27 Distrowatch.com 8-04 - Bridge Linux 2012.8 "Xfce" - an Arch-based distribution and live CD 8-04 - Arch Linux 2012.08.04 - new installation CD/USB image for Arch Linux, version 2012.08.04: 8-07 - antiX 12 - Debian-based distribution designed to run efficiently on older and low-specification computers 8-07 - NetSecL OS 4.0 - openSUSE-based Linux distribution featuring the LXDE desktop and a number of extra security features 8-07 - ROSA 2012 "GNOME" - "GNOME" edition, a Mandriva-based Linux distribution featuring the GNOME 2 desktop 8-08 - Scientific Linux 6.3 - an enterprise-class distribution built from source package for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 8-09 - LinHES 7.4 - Arch-based distribution centred around MythTV and designed for Home Theatre PCs (HTPC) 8-09 - Untangle Gateway 9.3 - Debian-based network gateway with pluggable modules for network applications Distro of the Week: Tony Damn Small - 1462 Ubuntu - 1613 Arch - 2001 Mint - 2978 Mageia - 3168 Mary Distro Review Time: 20:40 PCLinuxOS XFCE Review Is That all there is.... A few months ago someone suggested I take a look at PCLinux OS. Rather than use the well-worn KDE and Gnome desktops, I decided to give LXDE a whirl this week. . Vitals: Name: PCLinuxOS Maintainer: Not known Distro Latest Birthday: 2.00 Stable on July 24, 2012 Derivative: Independent but originally forked from Mandriva Kernel: uname -a tells us that PCLinuxOS uses the 3.2.18 kernel Review Desktop: XFCE Obtaining/Downloading: No problem downloading or burning—except for the fact I had run out of CDs and had to use a DVD to burn the CD-sized ISO to disk. Live Environment: I had a problem-free boot to PCLinuxOS's XFCE desktop. I was prompted to apply updates in two phases using Synaptic. There was a problem with Caliber e-reader which appeared to resolve itself. At least I took no action after acknowledging it. Must have been the system. Before I started exploring, I confirmed that both wireless and my video display were working properly. No problem whatsoever; PCLinuxOS handled both easily and correctly PCLinuxOS's version of XFCE looked pretty standard. The LXPanel at the bottom contained the standard icons for the most part.

http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:23:47 Un-edited Live session - http://youtu.be/nXX8p0emWGw Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 11:05 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 13:33 Mary Distro Review Time: 23:46 Tech News: Time: 36:50 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 52:06 Listener Feedback Time: 1:04:09 Outtro Music Time: 1:16:51 Kde Release Party Picture Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 11:05 Release Candidate: On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 18:17:59 PDT Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.6-rc1 He had this to say -- "Yeah, it's actually only just over 12 days since 3.5 was released, but I hate the people who send me last-minute pull requests, so I like pulling the rug out from under people who plan on doing their pull request in day 13 of the 14-day merge window. If that was your plan, screw that. ... Anyway, on to the stuff merged. As usual, even the shortlog is too big to usefully post, but there's the usual breakdown: about two thirds of the changes are drivers (with the CSR driver from the staging tree being a big chunk of the noise - christ, that thing is big and wordy even after some of the crapectomy). Of the non-driver portion, a bit over a third is arch (arm, x86, tile, mips, powerpc, m68k), and the rest is a fairly even split among fs, include file noise, networking, and just "rest". …" Mainline: 3.6-rc1 Stable Updates: On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 01:22:40 BST Ben Hutching released kernel 3.2.24 With 110 files changed, 1212 lines inserted, and 835 lines deleted On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:18:37 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.4.7 With 27 files changed, 183 lines inserted, 74 lines deleted On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 12:48:36 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.39 With 38 files changed, 826 lines inserted, and 355 lines deleted On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:50:06 BST Ben Hutchings released kernel 3.2.25 With 90 files changed, 1263 lines inserted, and 589 lines deleted Distro Talk: Tony Time:13:33 Distrowatch.com 7-29 - Kororaa Linux 17 - Fedora-based distribution optimised for desktop computing (codename 'Bubbles') 7-30 - Vine Linux 6.1 - the oldest and most prominent community distribution of Linux in Japan (code-named "Pape Clement") 7-30 - Parted Magic 2012_07_28 - a specialist live CD with a large collection of utilities for disk management and data rescue tasks 7-31 - Stella 6.3 - CentOS remix designed specifically for the desktop - with GNOME 2 8-03 - IPFire 2.11 Core 61 - specialist Linux distribution for firewalls 8-04 - ClearOS 6.3.0 "Community" - CentOS-based distribution for servers 8-04 - Toorox 08.2012 "Xfce", "Lite" - Gentoo-based live DVD Distro of the Week: Tony openSUSE - 1246 Zorin - 1277 Ubuntu - 1667 Mint - 2978 Mageia - 3149 Mary Distro Review Time: 23:46 Luninux Review Send in the Clones Originally called aBsolutex3, Luninux started as a hobby in November 2010. The distro was submitted to DistroWatch under the name of Sn0wL1nuX, however when Lars Torben's SnowLinux was introduced, the project decided to change the name of the distro to LuninuX OS to avoid any confusion. Vitals: Name: LuninuxOS Maintainer: Not known Distro Latest Birthday: 12.00 Stable on July 24, 2012 Derivative: Ubuntu 12.04 – which was obvious when I clicked on the details icon in the system settings area. (Big Ubuntu Logo) Kernel: 3.2.0-27-generic (uname -a) Review Desktop: Customized Gnome 3 shell Obtaining/Downloading: 1.2GB DVD downloaded from Luninux site without a problem. Live Environment: I loaded Luninux to my Dell. Desktop is Gnome3 that has been customized to resemble a Mac interface. Docky configured with 3d, depth-of-vision panel, all shiny and nice,

http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:31:13 Un-edited Live session - http://youtu.be/nAzWpFicpcc Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page Summary Kernel News: Mat Time: 8:30 Distro Talk: Tony Time: 9:46 Mary Convention sceen Time: 17:38 Kevin O'Brien - OLF Promo Mary Distro Review - What's on SDA6 Time: 42:32 Tech News: Time: 1:02:00 Is it Alive? - Mary Time: 1:11:55 Listener Feedback Time: 1:17:14 Outtro Music Time:1:23:39 Penguinarium Pictures Intro: Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 8:30 Release Candidate: Mainline: Stable Updates: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:16:41 Greg Kroah-Hartman Released stable kernel 3.4.6 With 39 files changed, 459 lines inserted, and 155 lines deleted Distro Talk: Tony Time: 9:46 Distrowatch.com 7-22 - Arch Linux 2012.07.15 - Since Arch Linux is a strictly rolling-release distribution, this release merely provides an updated system installer and it does not represent a new Arch Linux "version" in the traditional sense of the word. 7-23 - openmamba GNU/Linux 2.0.10.1 - an updated version of the project's independently developed distribution featuring the KDE desktop and using the RPM package management format 7-23 - Peppermint OS Three - a major new version of the project's lightweight desktop Linux distribution based on Lubuntu 7-23 - Linux Mint 13 "KDE" - the "KDE" edition of Linux Mint 13 7-25 - VortexBox 2.1 - a Fedora-based distribution designed to turn an unused computer into an easy-to-use music server or jukebox 7-26 - Bodhi Linux 2.0.0 - Ubuntu-based distribution and live CD featuring the latest Enlightenment 17 desktop 7-27 - LuninuX OS 12.00 - Ubuntu-based distribution featuring a customised GNOME 3 desktop 7-27 - Zorin OS 6 "Educational", "Gaming" - Ubuntu-based distribution, designed for students and gamers 7-28 - BigLinux 12.04 - Kubuntu-based Brazilian distribution for the desktop (with support for Portuguese and English languages) 7-28 - Calculate Linux 12.0 - Gentoo-based distribution for desktops and servers Distro of the Week: Tony Peppermint - 1401 Arch - 1699 Ubuntu - 1715 Mageia - 2885 Mint - 4121 Mary Convention sceen Time: 17:38 Texas Linux Fest 2012, August 3 & 4, 2012 Norris Conference Center San Antonio, TX The TX Linux Fest covers a wide spectrum of Linux and open source software topics. One of the speakers this year is Joe (Zonker)Brockmeier who will speake about How to Create Your Own Cloud. http://2012.texaslinuxfest.org/ Open Help Conference & Sprints, August 10-15, 2012 Newport on the Levee (Newport KY) Cincinnati, Ohio The Open Help Conference will bring together leaders in open source documentation and support, as well as people from across the technical communications industry interested in community-based help http://openhelpconference.com/ 12th Annual Linux Kernel Summit, August 27 - 29, 2012 Sheraton San Diego · San Diego, CA The Linux Kernel Summit brings together the world's leading core kernel developers to discuss the state of the existing kernel and plan the next development cycle. This is an invitation-only conference. Linux Plumbers conference 2012, August 29-31, 2012 - Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina San Diego CA The Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) is a developer conference for the open source community. The LPC brings together the top developers working on the “plumbing” of Linux — kernel subsystems, core libraries, windowing systems, etc. http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2012/ Kevin O'Brien - OLF Promo Mary Distro Review - What's on SDA6 Time: 42:32 Openmamba Review ± The openmamba web site proudly announces its ready-to-use operating system for notebooks,