Not a proper episode this time, because here at LugRadio Towers we’re all still recovering from eating one million mince pies (that’s right, one million. We counted.). Instead, a sort of compilation: listen to a few amusing things and a few outtakes, and we take the opportunity to point out some parts of the LugRadio community that you might not know about. Get out there and get involved, you know it makes sense! Remember as well the “Pimp My LugRadio” competition: produce some LugRadio promotional material (a video, an audio trailer, a mashup, a poster, or whatever you can think of) and send us a link to it: the best one wins a brand-new Asus Eee PC running Linux. We hope you had a good Christmas, and you have a very happy New Year. From all of us here at LugRadio to all of you listening, welcome to 2008! Here’s to another great year.

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

• Alexandre Juillard from the Wine Project talks about where Wine is, why it isn’t finished, and what’s coming next (2.02) [Do you use Wine? Tell us about it on the LugRadio forums]
• This week in LugRadio Top Trumps, we look at Adam Sweet’s scores in the five categories, freedom-crusading, tinkering, underdog, community, and cheapness. Adam talks about why he’s interested in Linux and open source (11.36)
• The Asus EEE PC, a small-form-factor Linux-based laptop that’s recently been released and is selling like hotcakes, is reviewed by the team. Does the device live up to the hype? (23.46)
• The LugRadio Predictions Segment: once again we step up to the plate to tell you what we think will happen over the next 12 months in the open source world. With free bonus slagging for us being wrong (occasionally) this time last year (40.12) [What do you think will happen in 2008? Do you think we're wrong? Tell us on the LugRadio forums]
• In Pimp My LugRadio, the LugRadio Christmas competition, you can win an Asus EEE PC! Listen to the show to find out how! (54.34)
• Your letters. This week this includes a shoeing for Adam and Chris for not mentioning VirtualBox in the last show, the new Blender open movie “Peach” project, Stuart’s man-boobs, whether sudo is a good idea, Ogg Vorbis support on hardware, and Adam getting his blog 0wned (59.48)

This episode includes the tune Steady B, from Trafic de Blues’ Fin de cavale album, which is licenced as CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 2.5, which means that this episode is also under the same licence (a minor change from our normal licence for episodes).

Thanks to EfficientPC for donating the EEE PC for us to review and then give away in our competition!

The President’s energy plan won’t stop the pain at the pump. But there’s no reason to panic. Here’s why:

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

• The return (briefly) of the long-lamented Hype or Shite segment, with Hypervisor or Shite! Chris and Adam explain what virtualization is actually all about and why people should care: if you’re wondering what the difference between Xen and VMWare and QEmu actually is, or you like the idea of having one server which is actually thirty servers, then this is the section for you! (2.00) (Discuss virtualisation here on the LugRadio forums)
• How do we deal with people giving “advice” to newbies where the advice is malicious trolling that deletes their hard drive? Is this symptomatic of a wider problem? Should we be changing the way Linux works to try and counteract this problem? (23.45) (Discuss this subject on the LugRadio forums)
• Why do we actually bother with all this? Why spend all this time working with Linux and open source? The first of a new series looking at the reasons we think people get into all this stuff, and what that means (35.20) (Tell us why you got into Linux on the LugRadio forums)
• Your emails, covering all sorts of things like robotics, OpenStreetMap, Microsoft’s Open Source lab, and Robert Plant (46.15)

This episode includes the tune Steady B, from Trafic de Blues’ Fin de cavale album, which is licenced as CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 2.5, which means that this episode is also under the same licence (a minor change from our normal licence for episodes).

We’ve also changed the way we encode mp3s, so if you were having problems listening to the mp3s in season 5, let us know if it’s fixed. If you were having trouble and you are still having trouble, please contact us via the LugRadio forums and let us know.