Episode 043 – Mat’s Birthday




Show-mp3 – Sunday Morning Linux Review show

Summary: 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,