Summary: http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Intro: Tony Bemus and Mat Enders Time: 0:40 Kernel News: Mat The current development kernel is 3.2-rc2, released on November 15. Being an -rc2 release of a large merge-window, it is reasonably sized. Even though this has been the largest linux-next in the history of linux-next, rc2 has the exact same number of commits since rc1 as there were during the 3.1 release. There are numerous fixes and somw ktest improvements. Stable updates: The 3.0.9 and 3.1.1 stable kernels were released on November 11. Both contain a large quantity of important fixes. Distro News: Tony Time: 2:18 Distrowatch.com 11-19 - Tiny Core Linux 4.1 11-19 - Puppy Linux 5.2.2 "Wary", "Racy" 11-18 - IPCop 2.0.2 - , a specialist Linux distribution for firewalls designed primarily for home and SOHO users 11-17 - Incognito Live System 0.9 - Debian-based live distribution with the goal of providing complete Internet anonymity for the user 11-16 - openSUSE 12.1 - one of the oldest and most prominent Linux distributions on the market Distro of the Week: Mint openSUSE Fedora Commodore Ubuntu Tech News: Time: 7:06 Wine 1.3.33 Has Been Released Version 1.3.33 of wine for running Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris, and MAC OS X has been released. This version has improvements to bidirectional text layout for writing in Arabic. Also some fixes fir WinHTTP proxy, a new version of Wine Gecko 1.4 based on the Mozilla Gecko layout engine, along with many bug fixes. New in this release Text output is now supported in the DIB engine. Improved HTTP proxy support. Several cursor fixes. Actual Android Tablet Beats Microsoft Vaporware Tablet Microsoft has been kicking around the concept of touch-screen for along time with never having developed a product that is usable by the average user or targeted at the mass market. They are currently working with Samsung (the leading Android phone maker who wrongfuly pays Microsoft a royalty fee for using Android) to release a 40 inch Surface tablet running Windows 7 and the Surface 2.0 software. Ironically, within a week of Microsofts announcement of the vapourware tablet, an actual Android tablet beat Microsoft's surface by creating a bigger, 65-inch, tablet running Android. Ardic Technology's press release has this to say, "We developed what we believe is the world's largest Android touch "tablet". Whether you call it a tablet, smartboard or touch panel, it's the biggest thing running the Android operating system that we know of. The beautiful 65-inch LCD touch screen can be used to do everything that an Android tablet can do: download apps, play games, watch HD movies, browse the web, edit documents, run photo slideshows and more." How it works? The screen is an optical touch screen that supports two-point gestures. The unit itself does not have a processor, memory or hard disk. Just USB and HDMI ports along with a power source. It is powered by a 10-inch Android tablet that utizes an Nvidia Tegra 2 chip with 1GB RAM. The touch screen has a dock with USB (for the touch input) and HDMI (for audio and video). What is clearly evident is that Microsoft's vaporware can't even keep up with Android's reality. You can see a video of the Ardic tablet in action at: wacky youtube URL see the show note for the actual URL. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X1NyZRX_Tk Berlin court upholds the GPL A DSL router manufacturer lost its case against Cybits, a producer of web-filtering software. The GPL (General Public Licence) was central AVM Computersystems case against Cybits. AVM Computersystems tried to get a legal sanction against Cybits to prevent them from making changes to the code they use in thier routers, a piece of code covered by the GPL in the Fritz!Box product.
