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We always knew there was something different about Joe..

2012-05-16T00:51:01Z

Some days your wife shows you she loves you in creative and wonderful ways. For Joe Leuzzi today was not that day. In a flash back moment we get to see Joe persuing his first love. That's right as the lead singer of a Bon Jovi Cover band. All I have to say is that the Music worlds loss was Linuxinstall.net's Gain. Enjoy this and let Joe know what a stud he is in the comments....

Episode 70 - What linux should you choose?

2012-05-15T03:31:19Z

** Check out the video version of the podcast at the link below **

Running Time: 56:08

1) Introduction

Google vs oracle (We talk a little bit about this)
New Open Source version of Elders Scrolls Morrwind...Looks awesome...Who says linux can't do gaming?
Joe starts the discussion of whether or when it makes sense for a business to switch or jump from one distro to another?

2) News

Ubuntu is going to revolutionize the UI
Ubuntu to ship on 5% of PC's ???
Skypes Supernodes are being replaced with Linux Machines
Did you know that RedHat would let you host your apps on their cloud servers for Free?
Open Office UPDATED!!!! After 469 DAYS!!!

3) Conclusion

Recommendations for People to interview
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Check it out we recorded this live via Google Hangout On-Air. Watch for updates on how you can watch us record live. We will also be adding a chat room too. More details to come.

Open Office Updated after 469 Days!

2012-05-14T21:49:44Z

Wow, I'm not even too sure what to say about this one. I'm not sure who out there is still using Open Office, but if you are and you have been waiting for a software update, you are in luck!!!! The Apache Foundation has finally released an update to Open Office after their last update 469 days ago. I'm not sure if this is some sort of record or not (I'm sure there have been several software updates much longer then this, and I'm not talking about the follow up to the original Duke Nuke'em game either).

We really didn't have too much to say on this one, since none of us had the chance to acutally try out the update since I found the story shortly before we recorded. Check out the story over at ITWorld to see what they had to say.

Microsofts Linux Skype Servers

2012-05-14T21:45:00Z

I'm sure almost everyone reading this site has used skype at one time or another. After Microsoft purchased Skype a lot of people wondered what type of changes Microsoft would make to this software, as we all know, sooner or later it will be Redmondized.

One of the first big changes comes in the way that Skype handles it's peer to peer networking in regards to the supernodes being used. Microsoft has put together thousands of linux servers that will act as the supernodes to Skype. Check out what we think about this, and then read the article over on arstechnica.

Our Ubuntu Stories

2012-05-14T21:38:29Z

On the podcast we discussed a couple of Ubuntu stories. We try not to focus too much on any one distro and try to spread the love, so I figured I would just mention both of the stories in the same post here. (That and Skyrim is calling me, so I need to get these posted to get Brian off my back!)

So, the first Ubuntu story we discussed covered the past present and future of Ubuntu courtesy of bbc.com.

Our second story, was brought to us by Phoronix and discusses more of the shipping statistics of Ubuntu and their numbers in this regard.

Open Source Morrowind

2012-05-14T21:35:24Z

If you have ever listened to the show, you may have come to notice, that not only am I a linux junkie, but I love to game as well. I originally played Morrowind on the original Xbox, and on then on the PC. I have been a fan of the Elder Scrolls series for a while and seeing that an open source initiative is being worked on is pretty sweet. Check out the details on the project here.

The Oracle VS. Google Throwdown

2012-05-14T21:32:23Z

In the past couple of weeks, everone has been discussing the lawsuit of Oracle VS. Google. So we had to talk about it during the podcast. Here is one of the many articles you can find on the topic, thanks to ZDNet.

Check out our first ever Google Hangout On-Air recorded podcast...

2012-05-10T00:47:25Z

OK we know we need to clean some stuff up but as a first stab at it it's pretty awesome. Check it out and let us know what we could do better.

Do you want to host an app in the cloud for FREE?

2012-05-06T03:21:57Z

Redhat has you covered and it's absolutely free. While it's somewhat limited you can download a live CD of the software running on the server. The system is powered by Amazon Web Services. The system should automatically scale to what ever you need. Even if you need to expand there is no additional cost. It's interesting how little chatter we have heard about it. The interesting part of this is as much the free download to compete with VMWare as it is that we and a lot of others have missed that this happening a year ago.

Ubuntu wants to revolutionize the UI

2012-05-06T03:08:12Z

It would seem that Ubuntu is in a race with Microsoft and Apple to make a massive change to the way we use desktop. With the HUD and Unity they are trying to moving things in a new way and change the way we all work. While I am still on the fence on Unity the HUD is something I hope Apple and Microsoft embrace and extend. This is a nice article from the man himself, Mark Shuttleworth, about his plans for the future of User Interfaces.