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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:

• Havoc Pennington and Colin Walters from Red Hat talk about the Gnome Online Desktop project - discuss this in the LugRadio forums! (1.23)
• Do we need rockstar programmers? Prompted by Thomas “marnanel” Thurman talking about the hard but unglamorous work that he and the rest of the Metacity team do, we discuss whether it’s a good idea to have “rockstar” hackers involved in a project - discuss this in the LugRadio forums! (26.40)
• El Bizarro’s Oblique Freak Show! This week on the freak show: Second Life! (41.00)
• The Finger Of God decides which distro is best, as requested by one of our listeners. Send us your choices and let the Finger decide! (54.10)
• LugRadio has been chosen as the best Linux podcasts in the Linux Format magazine Christmas issue. We’re pretty pleased by this, unsurprisingly (55.12)
• Your emails, and the best posts from the LugRadio Forums. A brilliant set of emails this time: thanks very much! Way too many to read, and we chose only the best — the very best email wins a LugRadio t-shirt every week, so get your mails in to show@lugradio.org, and look at lugradio.org/contact for our voicemail number and the LugRadio forums (56.58)

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:

• Adam Williamson from Mandriva Linux, who have just put out the new Mandriva 2008, talks about the release and where Mandriva are (1.33)
• The Distro Test. In the LugRadio Labs, the team test the best of the latest crop of distro releases — Mandriva 2008, OpenSuSE 10.3, Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon, and Fedora 8 (beta) — by putting them through a series of realistic tasks like connecting a printer, connecting to a Bluetooth phone, playing mp3s, and making the laptop we chose go to sleep. The results were…revealing! (19.40) [Give us your views -- on which is best or what we should have tested -- on the LugRadio Forums!]
• In El Bizarro’s Antique Freak Show, our tour around the wild and unexplored corners of the internet, we talk about the Otherkin (51.00)
• Bloodspell is a film created with the process of machinima, using a 3D game engine to create an animated movie (58.02) [Give us your views on the LugRadio Forums!]
• Your emails, and the best posts from the LugRadio Forums. Best email or post will win a LugRadio t-shirt from next episode! (69.33)