Summary: 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,
