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http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:03:04 Intro: Mat Enders, Tony Bemus, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 8:25 Release Candidate: No RC this week Mainline: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:25:05 EDT Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.3 "So after the extra -rc release last weekend, now the final 3.3 is out there in the usual locations." "... the 3.3 release means that the merge window for 3.4 is now open..." Also with this release some of the Android kernel has been merged back into the mainstream kernel. Stable Updates: On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:17:49 EDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.25 Their were 41 files changed, 350 inserted, 131 files deleted On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:18:38 EDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.2.12 Their were 49 files changed, 377 inserted, 174 files deleted On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:59:08 EDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.26 Their were 11 files changed, 38 inserted, 25 files deleted On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:59:56 EDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.2.13 Their were 19 files changed, 73 inserted, 58 files deleted Kernel Quote: No Kernel Quote this week Linux and Android, together at last Distro Talk: Tony Time: 12:48 Distrowatch.com 3-23 - Pear OS 4 - Ubuntu-based Linux distribution of many names, including Pear Linux or Comice OS, has been released 3-22 - Bodhi Linux 1.4.0 - Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the latest build of the Enlightenment 17 window manager 3-22 - VectorLinux 7.0 "Light" - a desktop distribution featuring four lightweight desktop configurations with JWM, IceWM, Openbox and LXDE 3-21 - Legacy OS 4 "Mini" - Puppy-based desktop Linux distribution designed to run on obsolete Pentium 3/4 personal computers and laptops 3-19 - Zorin OS 6 "Lite" - Lubuntu-based distribution featuring the lightweight LXDE desktop environment Distro of the Week: Tony Debian - 1429 Fedora - 1484 openSUSE - 1978 Ubuntu - 2069 Mint - 3813 Tech News: Time: 21:09 LibreOffice Last 3.4 Release And Gets Ready For The Cloud On March 22nd The Document Foundation (TDF) announced the last maintenance release of the 3.4 fork. This fixes a security hole in XML handling along with small tweaks. Now the development efforts will focus on 3.5. They will also be driving towards LibreOffice in the cloud. Here is what Italo Vignoli, a TDF spokesman, had to say about the cloud: "At the moment we are focusing more on this because of some of the opportunities that are arising, which we can't disclose now," he explained. "We will have the cloud version out in April." They have already released 3.5.1 and they are also looking to port this version other platforms. LibreOffice for Android is well into development claimed Vignoli. It is about 80% complete with the majority of what is left to code being the interface. He then went on to say that after the release for Android is out they will then focus on the iOS port. TDF is also in the final stages of getting its certification program out. This will be a process of certifying developers and third party consultants, so enterprises looking to migrate to LibreOffice will be able to hire qualified people. TDF has been able to generate a lot of support from the community. They have been adding between 10 and 20 developers a month. They are steaming right along putting out 12 builds within 18 months. While LibreOffice parent OpenOffice still has not had a major release although Apache does say one is one its way. Iceland Becomes Latest Government To Announce Move To Open Source From the that is great news bag Iceland has announced plans to migrate every desktop to Open Source software. The plan is to complete the project within a year. This does not mean everyone will be on Open Source in a year.

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http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 52:04 Intro: Mat Enders, Tony Bemus, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 1:30 Release Candidate: None Mainline: 3.3-rc6 Stable Updates: On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:09:11 Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the release of Kernel 2.6.32.58 Greg had this to say about this kernel release: Kernel Quote: "This is the last 2.6.32 kernel I will be releasing. The 2.6.32 kernel is now in "extended-longterm" maintenance, with no set release schedule from now on. I STRONGLY encourage any users of the 2.6.32 kernel series to move to the 3.0 series at this point in time." Distro Talk: Tony Time: 3:50 Distrowatch.com 3-09 - Linux Mint 12 "LXDE" - fast and lightweight variant of the popular Ubuntu-based distribution 3-08 - CentOS 5.8 - 3-07 - IPFire 2.11 Core 57 - the latest update of the project's specialist distribution for firewalls Distro of the Week: Tony Debian - 1512 CentOS - 1653 Fedora - 1753 Ubuntu - 2306 Mint - 4265 Tech News: Time: 11:31 Microsoft Contributes "Mayhem" to Open Source No not literal mayhem all though they have done enough of that in the past. The point and click scripting "language". It is billed as a simple scripting system for non-programmers. Outercurve is going to be the organization trying to drive its use and development. Outercurve promotes collaborative software development within open source communities. Mayhem is licensed under the Microsoft Public License, which according to GNU.org is not GPL compatible. You can read the license in its entirety here (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/openness/licenses.aspx). Mayhem is supposed to allow regular users to have different services and devices interact with each other. Mayhem connects graphical programs in a way that is similar to how batch files string together programs in the Windows command-line environment. Like connecting an alarm clock to a coffee maker so your brew is ready for you in the morning. In fact just about any device or service within Windows ecosystem can be used to add events and reactions to Mayhem. Paul Dietz, who is Microsoft's project leader for Mayhem, said this about Mayhem: “Any interconnected device could communicate with any other through simple trigger events (if the alarm clock rings) and reactions (then start the coffee maker.) Unlike writing a program, the user simply selects an event and a reaction, and then turns on the connection between the devices. No code, app or programming required,” Mayhem takes instructions of the form "when this event happens, do this reaction" and an event could be for example: pressing a key on a game saying a verbal command or using an interface on your mobile phone Mayhem will also react to network-based events that use data from the Internet such as for example: stock prices or exchange rates weather social networking updates To aid in creating more Add-Ons to increase the power of Mayhem, the Outercurve Foundation is hosting the "Make Your Own Mayhem" Contest 2012. Developers are invited to submit any number of creative add-ons to Mayhem by midnight (Pacific Time), April 30, 2012. Submissions will be evaluated by judges Johnny Chung Lee, Rapid Evaluator, Google; IBM Fellow John Cohn, and MK Haley, Associate Executive Producer – Faculty, Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center. Awards include Honorable Mention, Most Awesome Add-on, People's Choice (most 'Likes' on entry video) and the Mayhem Master's Award 2012, awarded to the developer of the best collection of Mayhem add-ons. Over US$5000 in prizes will be awarded. Microsoft spun the not-for-profit open-source Codeplex Foundation group off in 2009. In 2010, they renamed themselves the “Outercurve Foundation.” Kernel 2.6.

http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:19:50 Intro: Mat Enders, Tony Bemus, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 6:46 Kernel News Release Candidate: On Sun, 4 March 2012 02:57:31 UTC Greg Linus Torvalds announced the release of Kernel 3.3-rc6 Nothing much to say about this -rc: it really is all small fixes and cleanups. In fact, it's been calm enough that this *might* be the last -rc, but we'll see how the upcoming week goes. --Linus Torvalds Mainline: Stays 3.3-rc6 Stable Updates: On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:45:57 UTC Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the release of Kernel 3.2.8 There were 9 files changed, 269 files inserted, and 129 files deleted This update only fixed one bug. A floating point issue with new x86 processors running in 32bit mode. On Thur, 1 March 2012 00:38:35 UTC Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the release of Kernel 3.0.23 There were 85 files changed, 1061 files inserted, 612 files deleted On Thur, 1 March 2012 00:39:27 UTC Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the release of Kernel 3.2.9 There were 98 files changed, 891 files inserted, 533 files deleted Kernel Quote: Not really kernel related but since it is Linus I am putting it in anyway. "If I can get 4000 upvotes for a rant on security people, just imagine what a picture of a cat could do... Mwahahaahaa... I'll get millions of +1's! Isn't that how these things work?" --Linus Torvalds Distro Talk: Tony Time: 10:30 Distrowatch.com 3-03 - Oracle Linux 5.8 - the latest update in the 5.x series of the distribution built from source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 3-03 - Linux Deepin 11.12.1 - one of the most active community distributions from China, released its version 11.12.1 on the leap day as an upgrade from its New Year release. 3-03 - Linux From Scratch 7.1 - Linux From Scratch is a book of instructions on how to compile a base Linux system from scratch, either from an existing Linux installation or a Linux live CD. It is intended primarily as an educational exercise for those wishing to get an understanding about how a Linux system works under the hood. 3-02 - BackTrack 5 R2 - Ubuntu-based distribution with a collection of tools for penetration testing and ethical hacking 3-02 - Plop Linux 4.2.0 - a utility live CD or DVD (with Fluxbox and GNOME 3) designed to rescue data from a damaged system, backup and restore operating systems, and automate common tasks 3-01 - FreeNAS 8.0.4 - the latest update of the project's FreeBSD-based operating system which provides free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services 2-29 - MINIX 3.2.0 - a free and open-source operating system based on a tiny microkernel architecture 2-29 - SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 - commercial enterprise-class Linux distribution for desktops and servers 2-28 - Network Security Toolkit 2.16.0 - a Fedora based live DVD providing easy access to a large number of open-source network security applications 2-27 - wattOS R5 - Ubuntu-based distribution featuring a clean and simple user interface in a customised LXDE desktop Distro of the Week: Tony openSUSE - 1474 whattOS - 1518 Fedora - 2286 Ubuntu - 2454 Mint - 4039 Tech News: Time: 30:57 Keep The ARM Architecture Open Back in December when the fecal matter really hit the fan over UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) commonly known as Secure Boot, or as it is better known to the Open Source community Restricted Boot. Microsoft apparently backpedaled and changed the specification for the Windows 8 logo certification stating that user must be able to control (and disable) the Secure Boot feature on any Windows 8 computer that is not based on ARM. This is still not an acceptable situation because the ARM processor is the de facto standard on small portable devices e.g. phones, tablets,

http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:10:55 Intro: Mat Enders, Tony Bemus, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 5:18 Kernel News Release Candidate: On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:27:09 UTC Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.3-rc4 He said it was delayed by a couple of days because they were trying to track dow a nasty floating point state corruption. On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 20:34:20 UTC Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.3-rc5 Linus said that there was nothing really odd going on. Maybe things are finally calming down. Mainline: 3.3-rc5 Stable Updates: On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:13:17 UTC Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.2.7 29 files changed, 268 files inserted, 168 files deleted On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:13:51 UTC Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.22 15 files changed, 108 files inserted, 57 files deleted Kernel Quote: "Sure, we'll backport the patches to -stable too for the boring people who don't want to help test development kernels. But wouldn't it be nice to have the bug fixed *and* feel like you are helping development by testing shiny new -rc kernels? You know you want to." --Linus Torvalds Kernel Quote: Sorry I could not find a relevant kernel quote this week. Distro Talk: Tony Time: 8:47 Distrowatch.com 2-24 - Dream Studio 11.10 - an Ubuntu-based distribution with focus on multimedia and creative work 2-22 - DragonFly BSD 3.0.1 - a major new version of the BSD operating system forked from FreeBSD in 2003 2-22 - ConnochaetOS 0.9.1 - rch-based Linux distribution for old computers (from i486 to Pentium MMX 166), built exclusively with "libre" software 2-21 - SystemRescueCd 2.5.0 - Gentoo-based live rescue disk for administrating or repairing a system and data after a crash 2-21 - Parted Magic 2012_2_19 - ive CD designed for data rescue and disk partitioning tasks 2-20 - PCLinuxOS 2012-02 "Phoenix Xfce" - featuring the Xfce desktop environment, has been updated to version 2012-02 Distro of the Week: Tony openSUSE - 1586 Fedora - 1628 Mageia - 1648 Ubuntu - 2200 Mint - 3848 XBOOT – Multiboot ISO USB Creator Tech News: Time: 24:06 BusyBox? ToyBox? My Head Hurts This was originally going to be an in depth look at this controversy. However after spending about 15 hours over 3 days my head hurts. I determined that in this format it could not be done justice so here we go with my CliffsNotes version. A few of the links referenced here go back to LWN articles. I am a subscriber so I can read them, I believe that they are also all available to the general public but if they are not I am sorry. On with the synopsis. The main part of the controversy involves Rob Landley, a former maintainer for BusyBox now lead developer for ToyBox, wanting to rewrite BusyBox from scratch under a BSD style license to give vendors a non-GPL licensed alternative. The controversy heated up after Tim Bird, a Senior Software Engineer for Sony Corporation, where he helps Sony put Linux into their products, joined the ToyBox development team. READER ADDED CORRECTION Rob had already written ToyBox long ago, under GPL.  He relicensed as BSD license after Tim Bird asked him for help writing a permissively licensed BusyBox replacement. This all then prompted Matthew Garret, A Red Hat developer and Kernel hacker, to make a blog post calling out other kernel developers to grant the Software Freedom Conservancy the right to pursue GPL violators in their stead. This all has produced quite the dust storm in the comments sections of these various websites. There has been some name calling and shouting that is just not good for any of us. The main focus of the dilemma is that currently Conservancy really only has BusyBox to use as a sledgehammer against non-compliers. When they go after these non-compliers they use BusyBox which is explicitly licensed under the GPL 2 only.

http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:08:32 Intro: Mat Enders, Tony Bemus, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 7:20 Release Candidate: No release candidate this week. Mainline: Remains 3.3-rc3 Stable Updates: On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:39:08 UTC Willy Tarreau announced the release of Kernel 2.6.27.61 2 files changed, 1 files inserted, 9 files deleted On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:24:46 UTC Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the release of Kernel 3.0.21 80 files changed, 797 files inserted, 353 files deleted On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:25:45 UTC Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the release of Kernel 3.2.6 80 files changed, 822 files inserted, 268 files deleted On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:31:11 UTC Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the release of Kernel 2.6.32.57 20 files changed, 128 files inserted, 61 files deleted Kernel Quote: Sorry I could not find a relevant kernel quote this week. Distro News: Tony Time: 9:00 Distrowatch.com 2-16 - Tiny Core Linux 4.3 - a small, but extensible Linux distribution for the desktop 2-16 - Ubuntu 10.04.4 - the fourth update of the distributions' current long-term support versions, originally released in April 2010 2-16 - Untangle Gateway 9.2 - a Debian-based distribution designed for firewalls and gateways. 2-16 - Scientific Linux 6.2 - a distribution built from source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 and enhanced with extra software for use in scientific and academic environments 2-15 - IPCop 2.0.3 - small, Linux-based firewall distribution 2-14 - Finnix 104 - small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for system administrators, based on Debian's testing branch: 2-12 - Frugalware Linux 1.6 - a general-purpose distribution for desktops and servers 2-12 - Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.02 - one of the first distributions featuring the recently released KDE 4.8 desktop Distro of the Week: Tony Chakra - 1768 Fedora - 1812 openSUSE - 1827 Ubuntu - 2440 Mint - 3949 Tech News: Time: 36:42 Contest For "Wheezy Artwork Announced By the Debian Project A new artwork contest for Debian version 7.0, code-named "Wheezy", has been announced by the project. They are looking for several different graphics and other artwork that will set the tone for the new release. These include Boot Screen Images, Installer Images, and Desktop Wallpaper. You do not need to have a complete set of images done to submit them for review. If an incomplete submission is selected they will ask the artist to then submit any missing works. Current submissions are available to review on the DebianArt/Themes page(http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes). A complete list of the rules and requirements for the contest can be found on the "Artwork For Wheezy" wiki page (http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktop/Artwork/Wheezy). Good luck all you graphic artists out there. Debian Has A Street Value Of $19.1 Billion James Bromberger, a Debian and CPAN developer, performed an analysis that determined it would cost $19.1 billion dollars to recreate all of the software included in Debian. He used Sloccount to count the lines of code used in Debian. Then he calculated how much it would cost, based on an annual salary of $72,533, to rewrite the 420 million lines of code. He also states that kernel 3.1.8 with its 10 million lines of code would cost about $540 million dollars. He also examined some other projects like Samba 3.6.1 from scratch would cost $101 million, and Apache 2.2.9 would cost $33.5 million. Apple Gives Linux Users A Big F.U. Changes to CUPS 1.6, the current development version, are going to have a large impact on the Linux community. The standard for open source printing has been maintained by Apple since 2007. Till Kamppeter announced these changes on the printing-architecture mailing list. Tim Waugh,

http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time 1:14:14 Intro: Mat Enders, Tony Bemus, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 1:02 Release Candidate: On Thur, 9 Feb 2012 03:36:37 Linus Torvalds released 3.3-rc3 With this to say: “Another week, another -rc. No big surprises, which is just how I like it. About a third of the patches are in ARM, but the bulk of that is due to the removal of the unused DMA map code form the bcmring support. So no complaints. The rest is fairly flat in the diffstat (== random small changes all over), although mostly drivers. More sound/hda (and asoc) updates, some target and IB updates, etc etc. Shortlog appended for your perusal, you can see the kind of largely "fix small details" almost all of it is,” Mainline: 3.3-rc3 Stable Updates: On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 18:15:32 UTC Greg Kroah-Hartman released 3.0.20 5 files were changed, 47 files were inserted, 25 files were deleted On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 18:16:22 UTC Greg Kroah-Hartman released 3.2.5 5 files were changed, 47 files were inserted, 25 files were deleted It was the same patch to both kernels containing the fix to the ASPM-related problem that would significantly increase power consumption on some systems. Kernel Quote: Greg Kroah-Hartman becomes a LibreOffice developer with this post. “Here are 4 patches removing some unused methods in the tree. All of these patches are contributed under the LGPLv3+ / MPL. Note, I also removed the line in the unusedcode.easy file at the same time, if I shouldn't have done that, let me know and I'll redo these patches. If I messed anything up, or the patches need more information within the body of the changelog, please let me know, and I'll be glad to respin them.” thanks, --Greg Kroah-Hartman Distro News: Tony Time: 4:04 Distrowatch.com 2-11 - Parsix GNU/Linux 3.7r2 2-11 - NetBSD 5.1.2 2-10 - Thinstation 5.0 - a small and open-source thin client operating system based on CRUX 2-10 - AV Linux 5.0.3 - a Debian-based multimedia oriented distribution with a custom kernel enabled for low-latency audio performance 2-9 - CrunchBang Linux 10 R20120207 - "Statler", a lightweight Debian-based distribution featuring the Openbox window manager 2-8 - Superb Mini Server 1.6.4 - Slackware-based server distribution 2-8 - Webconverger 11.2 - rowser-only live CD designed for Internet kiosks 2-8 - Sabayon Linux 8 - a modern Gentoo-based distribution with a choice of GNOME 3, KDE 4 and Xfce desktops RebeccaBlackOS - First Live CD Running Wayland Display Server This is inspired by Linux distributions of the same theme (Hannah Montana Linux, and Justin Beiber Linux) that have appeared in the Linux community, only this is Rebecca Black Linux. Oh yeah, it's also meant to be the first Wayland Live CD, and soon it will try to use Wayland instead of using X. This distribution is fan made. Yes. I am a fan of Rebecca Black. After reading that story it made me think, fan distros? Even though this disturbs me I want to include it for posterity. Here are a few: HannahMontana Justin Bieber Linux (also called Biebian) Demi Lovato Linux Distro of the Week: Tony Debian Sabayon Fedora Ubuntu Mint Tech News: Time: 28:15 2011 Stack Overflow User Survey Has Some Not So Surprising Results (Well To Me Anyway) It showed that Linux is the second most popular desktop for developers behind Windows. I believe that the only reason it is not number one is because of the many developers forced to use the corprate approved desktop from Microsoft. Let's look at the numbers from the 5,527 people who answered this question: Response Response Percent Count Linux 19.9% 1,105 Mac OS X 18.7% 1,035 Windows 7 48.0% 2,665 Windows XP 10.8% 600 Windows Vista 1.6% 86

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http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time 1hr 5min 1sec Intro: Mat Enders, Tony Bemus, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 15:53 Release Candidate: No release canidate this week Still on 3.3-rc1 Main Line : 3.3-rc1 Stable Releases: On Wednesday, 25 Jan 2012 at 20:46:47 Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the release of Linux kernel 3.2.2 There were 156 files changed, 1837 files inserted, and 1038 files deleted On Wednesday, 25 Jan 2012 at 22:34:34 Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the release of Linux kernel 2.6.32.55 There were 43 files changed, 215 files inserted, and 59 files deleted On Google Plus he said of the release "...for those stuck at the old release level." On Thursday, 26 Jan 2012 at 01:29:52 Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the release of Linux kernel 3.0.18 There were 111 files changed, 869 files inserted, and 453 files deleted Kernel Quote: “Since you've asked this I'm advised by my lawyer to respond to all such assumptions of legality of binary modules... For a Linux kernel containing any code I own the code is under the GNU public license v2 (in some cases or later), I have never given permission for that code to be used as part of a combined or derivative work which contains binary chunks. I have never said that modules are somehow magically outside the GPL and I am doubtful that in most cases a work containing binary modules for a Linux kernel is compatible with the licensing, although I accept there may be some cases that it is. ” -- Alan Cox This quote was the result of quite the lengthy dust-up of whether dma-buf will use EXPORT_SYMBOL or EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. The former would be required for it to work binary blob modules like those from Nvidia. Distro News: Tony Time: 27:51 Distrowatch.com 1-24 - GhostBSD 2.5 - FreeBSD-based desktop operating system and live media with a choice of GNOME or LXDE desktops. Distro of the Week: Tony GhostBSD - 1440 Debian - 1529 Fedora - 1850 Ubuntu - 1929 Mint - 4270 Tech News: Time: 34:38 Linux powered coffee roaster Microsoft schtum on Dropbox snags with IE Red Hat Virtualization Admin Console Requires Windows This is not really new news, but I just discovered this. I was looking around reading up on the most current release of RHEV (Red Hat Enterprise Vitalization) server 3, Released last week on the eighteenth. When I was reading the data sheet PDF - link in show notes – when I came across this little bit of information: RHEV Admin Client Operating systems supported •  Windows XP (x86 only), •  Windows 7 (x86, AMD64 or Intel 64), and •  Windows 2008/R2 (x86, AMD64, or Intel 64). Browser required •  Internet Explorer 7 and higher on Windows, with the . That is directly from the data sheet. Red hat requires Windows with IE 7 at the least in order to run the management console. I guess we should be happy that the management server itself with this release no-longer reuires Windows also. Come on Red Hat, the worlds largest Open Source company really should not be requiring Windows for anything. OpenOffice IBM Version All of the Linux distribution I can think of have left OpenOffice behind in favor of the new and improved LibreOffice. However IBM is still stuck on the OpenOffice train. When they announced probable end of life for Lotus Symphony earlier this week they also said that future efforts will be going into Apache OpenOffice. Ed Brill, Director of Messaging and Collaboration Solutions at IBM, said in a blog posting: "Our energy from here is going into the Apache OpenOffice project, and we expect to distribute an "IBM edition" of Apache OpenOffice in the future," The problem however is that since the fork that created Lotus Symphony the code has drifted far enough the OO can not be integrated with Lotus the same way Symphony was.

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http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time 1hr 6Min 46Sec Intro: Mat Enders, Tony Bemus, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 5:52 Kernel News Release Canidates None Main Line 3.2 no change Stable Releases Greg KH announced the release of the 2.6.32.54 Kernel Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:13:20 UTC There were 18 files changed, 167 files inserted, and 66 files deleted Greg KH announced the release of the 3.0.17 Kernel Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:21:36 UTC There were 52 files changed, 364 files inserted, and 179 files deleted Greg KH announced the release of the 3.1.9 Kernel Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:22:18 UTC There were 53 files changed, 367 files inserted, and 179 files deleted Greg KH announced the release of the 3.2.1 Kernel Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:25:05 UTC There were 63 files changed, 465 files inserted, and 200 files deleted Kernel Quote "Here's the different active kernel versions that I am maintaining at the moment: 3.2.y - this will be maintained until 3.3 comes out 3.1.y - there will be only one, maybe two, more releases of this tree 3.0.y - this is the new "longterm" kernel release, it will be maintained for 2 years at the minimum by me. 2.6.32.y - this is the previous "longterm" kernel release. It is approaching it's end-of-life, and I think I only have another month or so doing releases of this. After I am finished with it, it might be picked up by someone else, but I'm not going to promise anything. All other longterm kernels are being maintained in various forms (usually quite sporadically, if at all), by other people, and I can not speak for their lifetime at all, that is up to those individuals." -- Greg Kroah-Hartman There was also a bit of a dust up between Tim Gardner of Canonical and Greg Kroah-Hartman over maintenance of the 2.6.32 kernel once greg gives it up. It appears to have been started by a misunderstanding and a conclusion jump by Tim. Distro News: Tony Time: 9:25 Distrowatch.com 1-13 - PC-BSD 9.0 - desktop-oriented distribution based on the latest stable FreeBSD 1-12 - FreeBSD 9.0 - a major new version of the BSD operating featuring a brand-new system installer 1-12 - Webconverger 11.0 - a web browser-only specialist distribution for Internet kiosks 1-11 - Astaro Security Gateway 8.3 - specialist distribution for firewall and gateways 1-10 - Asturix 4 - Ubuntu-based desktop distribution with a custom desktop environment and many usability improvements 1-10 - Fuduntu 2012.1 - a new quarterly update of the distribution that was forked from Fedora last year 1-8 - Porteus 1.1 - Slackware-based live CD with a choice of Trinity (a KDE 3 fork), KDE 4 and LXDE desktops Mat did you know about the KDE 3 fork, Trinity? Distro of the Week: Tony Fuduntu - 1433 openSUSE - 1440 Fedora - 1495 Ubuntu - 1873 Mint - 4248 Tech News: Time: 25:12 Microsoft Now Collects Extortion On Approximatley 70% Of All US Sales Of Androids LG is the latest victim to pay Microsoft's extortion demands. They are the eleventh victim in this extortion scheme. A list of the other victims includes Samsung, HTC, and Acer. This leaves Motorola Mobility as the only major manufacturer to not sign an extortion agreement with Microsoft. I would wager that Microsoft has not even approached Motorola as Google now owns Motorola and those pockets are deep enough to scare off the Microsoft patent trolls. Microsoft now claims that they are collecting "royalties" on over 70% of all Android smart phones sold in the US. The terms of this latest agreement are unknown as Microsoft makes part of the agreement that the parties can not make public the patents covered by Microsoft's claims.

http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time 1hr 10Min 56Sec Intro: Mat Enders, Tony Bemus, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 10:53 Release Canidate Kernel There was no rc kernel this week as 3.2 was released to mainline. Mainline Kernel Linus officiallly released Kernel 3.2 on 1/4 so now the 3.3 merge window is officially open. Kernel 3.2 was delayed for a few days due to the holidays and people still sorting out some regressions. Which that there were some last minute reversions and small fixes. There werre not a lot of changes from the -rc7 release. And in linu's words "almost all of them are *tiny*." Stable Kernels the stable releases this week are 3.1.7 and 2.6.32.52 Both Kernels contain only one update and that is the same for both Kernels. It is a bugfix for resume issues. Distro News: Tony Time: 13:00 Distrowatch.com 1-7 - IPFire 2.11 Core 55 - a specialist Linux distribution for firewalls 1-6 - Incognito Live System 0.10 - Debian-based live CD with strong privacy-preserving features 1-4 - FreeNAS 8.0.3 - FreeBSD-based system designed to provide free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services 1-2 - BackBox Linux 2.01 - an Ubuntu-based distribution and live DVD tailored to penetration testing and security assessment tasks 1-2 - Gentoo Linux 12.0 - 1-1 - Dreamlinux 5 - a Debian-based desktop distribution featuring the latest Xfce desktop, a Mac OS X-like user interface, the SoftMaker office suite and a recent Linux kernel from the 3.1 series Distro of the Week: Tony Gentoo - 1520 Ubuntu - 1779 OpenSUSE - 1850 DreamLinux - 2831 Mint - 3949 Tech News: Time: 32:09 Is This The Final Nail In Mandriva's Coffin? Official details are mostly nonexistent as the official Mandriva pages has nothing to say. However if you can believe the gossip on forums then Mandriva will close its doors on 1/16. Mandiva has always had financial problems and this looks like it could be the final nail, but they have pulled the phoenix act off a couple of times in the past. Raphaël Jadot made this announcement on the Mandriva forums: "everything was fine, but there is a big problem: a minor shareholder (Linlux) refuses the capital injection required for Mandriva to continue, even though the Russian investor had offered to bear it alone. Except turnaround Mandriva should cease activity Jan. 16." I think what he means to say when he says "Except turnaround" is that Unless there is a turn around. He then posted a letter from Dominique Loucougain (CEO) to the shareholders, excerpted below: "The company LinLux SARL, a shareholder holding 42% stake in the company has again voted against each of the schemes proposed recapitalization." Basicaly what all of this boils down to is that even though a funding plan was put forward where the Russian company Rosa would bear the brunt of the financing LinLux SARL continued its veto of the financing scheme. If this does prove to be the end of Mandriva their will still have Mageia. Mageia is a fork of Mandriva Linux, supported by a not-for-profit organization. Their web page can be found at http://www.mageia.org/en/. New Lenovo Laptop Switches Between Linux And Windows Even though Lenovo is not the first manufacturer to offer Linux along with Windows on the same machine this does appear to be the most fully realized attempt. They are going to show it at this weeks CES (Consumer Electronics Show). The X1 Hybrid has a 13.3-inch (1366 by 768 pixel LED display) with your choice of Intel core i3, i5 or i7 CPU and up to 8GB of memory. It lets you switch over to Linux with the press of a button so you can max out battery life, Lenovo’s calling this feature Instant Media Mode (IMM).

http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time 1hr 22:48 Intro: Mat Enders, Tony Bemus, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 3:15 Linux 3.2-rc7 There it is, likely the last -rc in before final 3.2, so please do check it out in between your holiday festivities. Most of the changes are faily simple one-liners, but some qla4xxx driver updates stand out and in fact account for about 40% of the diff ("qla4xxx: fix flash/ddb support"). That, together with a VMWare DRI driver update and some dvb updates and the regular random driver fixes means that 80+% of the changes are in drivers. Some net updates, some SH updates, and then a (tiny) smattering of other stuff. The appended shortlog gives the (fairly boring) details - Linus Distro News: Tony Time: 7:14 Distrowatch.com 1-1 - openSUSE 12.1 "Edu Li-f-e" 1-1 - aptosid 2011-03 - 12-31 - siduction 11.1 - desktop-oriented distribution and live CD/DVD based on Debian's "unstable" branch, recently forked from aptosid 12-31 - ExTiX 9 - Ubuntu-based desktop distribution for 64-bit computers with GNOME Shell and Razor-qt as the available desktop environments and the latest stable Linux kernel 12-31 - Linux Deepin 11.12 - from China based on Ubuntu, announced its 11.12 release on the last day of the year 12-30 - Netrunner 4.0 - a Kubuntu-based desktop distribution featuring a carefully-tuned KDE desktop and integrated KDE and GNOME applications 12-30 - Endian Firewall 2.5 - an updated version of the project's Red Hat-based specialist distribution for firewalls 12-26 - Calculate Linux 11.12 - Gentoo-based distribution set with focus on desktop and server computing 12-26 - Tiny Core Linux 4.2 - a nomadic, ultra-small graphical desktop operating system 12-25 - Superb Mini Server 1.6.3 - a Slackware-based distribution for servers 12-25 - Semplice Linux 2.0.0 - a lightweight desktop distribution based on Debian's "unstable" branch and featuring the Openbox window manager 12-23 - Grml 2011.12 - a Debian-based live CD with an excellent collection of GNU/Linux software and scripts for system administrators Distro of the Week: Tony Debian - 1172 CentOS - 1223 Fedora - 1284 Ubuntu - 1571 Mint - 3909 Tech News: Time: 29:27 Vote On SOPA Delayed Until Mid January At The Earliest The SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) vote scheduled for 12/21/11 was postponed until January. A committee spokesperson said that they will not set a new vote date until they return from break in January. This means that the earliest that a scheduled vote could take place would be mid January. This is the second postponement of the committee vote on SOPA, which requires ISPs, Search Engines, and other content providers to alter DNS records and search results. Resulting in the censorship of foreign websites supposedly "dedicated" to providing copyright infringing material. The committee has already had two marathon sessions that ended abruptly after opponents expressed staunch apposition. The artists are not the one behind this law. The huge corporations, lawyers, and boards who are pushing this incredibly bad legislation. Here is a list of the companies behind just one of the lobbying groups pushing SOPA: ABC AFTRA – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists AFM – American Federation of Musicians AAP – Association of American Publishers ASCAP BMG Chrysalis BMI CBS Corporation Cengage Learning DGA – Directors Guild of America Disney Publishing Worldwide, Inc. EMI Music Publishing ESPN Graphic Artists Guild Hachette Book Group HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. Hyperion IATSE – International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians,