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LugRadio Live and Unleashed, the show recorded in front of the audience at LugRadio Live 2007! With the four large gents: Stuart Langridge, Adam Sweet, Jono Bacon, and Ade Bradshaw, and a cast of thousands in the audience (well, hundreds, anyway). The show features:

• LRL Stories: people at LugRadio Live tell us what they thought and what they liked
• Software patents: can we just ignore America and build a Linux distribution that everyone can use and which can play mp3s?
• Awards: prizes and congratulation to people who have done good things, including the people who travelled furthest to LRL and the LugRadio Community Hero
• Server stuff: how should you set up email?
• Ade announces that this is his last show. We say goodbye and introduce the new presenter, Chris Procter
• We announce that LugRadio is coming to America! Yes, in 2008 there will not only be LugRadio Live but also LugRadio Live USA! Book your tickets for March!

This is the end of season 4. We’ll shortly be releasing a special show recorded at Guadec, the Gnome user and developer conference, and then we shall return in September for the all-new season 5, with Chris P now a full member of the team. Thanks very much for all your listening over this last season, and we’ll see you in September!

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, and the long-lost Matt Revell (standing in for Ade and Adam), in the last regular show of series 4, talk about:

• The BBC are about to release iPlayer, a way of watching the last week of BBC shows…if you’re on a Windows machine which supports DRMed Windows Media Player files. Is this a good idea? Is there anything they could have done instead? (2.38)
• This week Jono are mostly been playing with…UPnP media sharing between Linux and the PlayStation 3 (22.21)
• Ian “Howlin’ Mad” Murdock from Sun talks about Project Indiana, Sun’s project to produce an easily-installable version of OpenSolaris (29.17)
• Google Adsense: problems that we’ve had with it, alternatives to Adsense, and what can be done about it (36.52)
• By ‘eck, it’s fooked: things that are fooked, in particular Bluetooth integration under the free desktop and simple file sharing (45.40)
• Emails and voicemails: you speak to us! Thanks for all your emails over this series — send us more over the summer! (57.36)
• Final LugRadio Live details! Which social events are going on around LRL this year! LugRadio Live 2007 is this Saturday and Sunday: if you’re coming and haven’t yet booked a ticket, go to http://lugradio.org/live and see the Register page to buy a ticket or tell us you’re going to buy one on the door! (76.16)