Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and the returning (for one show) Matt Revell, standing in for Adam Sweet, talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:

• The KDE project have released KDE 4.0, their shiny and rebuilt new version which will take them into the next five years. We’ve tried it out to see what we think. (2.30) [What did you think of KDE 4.0? Was naming it 4.0 the right decision? Let us know on the LugRadio forums]
• In the first of a two-part interview, we talk to Aaron Seigo and Will Stephenson of the KDE project, live from the KDE 4.0 release event in Mountain View. They tell us about how the event’s going: Aaron will also be on the next show to respond to our reviews and concerns about KDE 4.0 (22.46)
• In the final LugRadio Top Trumps, Jono gives his scores in the five criteria that we think define the reasons why people are interested in Linux. With extra bonus scores from Matt! (29.17) [How do you score? Tell us, or tell us what the criteria should have been, on the forums]
• Lots of things from all of you. We’re pointed at fish, a replacement command-line shell to use instead of bash. K3B plays fanfares when you manage to burn a CD, and we talk about audio alerts being integrated into the desktop. Aq gets shoed about buying a proprietary laptop and loses his temper, as someone writes in to say that their laptop worked perfectly. People have been happily using the new Nokia N810, and we’ve got a review of it sent in to us. The LugRadio forums have been discussing KDE 4.0 and their approach of naming it 4.0 even though it’s still in development, in advance of our review of the same. (55.22)
• We’re asked what would make us leave the world of free software. A forums post asked the question, and we take this opportunity to answer. Go tell us what would make you leave! (69.22)

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!

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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:

• We speak to Sacha “Sago” Goedegebure from the Peach Project, the new open movie project from the Blender team, who produced Elephant’s Dream. What’s going on with the project, what’s it like to make an open movie, and is it going to be as weird as Elephant’s Dream? (1.51) [Have you donated to Peach? Talk about the project in the LugRadio forums]
• This week on LugRadio Top Trumps*: Stuart talks about why freedom is important, why the underdog isn’t important, how a lifetime of free Unixes comes about when your home computer is too rubbish to run Windows, and how he scores in the five categories of freedom crusading, tinkering, cheapness, community, and underdogness (14.58)
• The LugRadio Lock-In: is vendor lockin a good idea? Should Linux distributors tie their server and desktop products together to make them work better and more easily, without necessarily pushing those changes to other Linux distros first? Does this necessarily need to be at the expense of their Linux competitors? (34.04) [Would you like to see Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Server tied more closely together? Comment on the LugRadio forums]
• LugRadio Live USA! We can finally confirm the dates: LRL USA 2008 will happen on 12-13th April, 2008, at the Metreon in San Francisco! You’ll be able to buy tickets soon; keep an eye on the LugRadio website and the forums for details. The Call For Papers is now open; if you would like to submit a talk, or you’d like your project or company to exhibit, contact us and let us know (52.20)
• The Pimp My LugRadio competition, where you produce some promotional material for LugRadio and win an Asus Eee PC, is still running; get your entries in as soon as you can! We’ve had a load of great entries so far; get yours in now (54.54)
• Your emails and forum posts! This time, we talk about old-fashioned Unixes again, Hacker Public Radio, brown noses, Adam’s shopping habits, virtualisation, our brown masters, and the latest Theo de Raadt and Richard Stallman grudge rematch (56.54)

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!