Summary: 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.
