Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes: Room 101: in honour of our 101st show, we shamelessly steal an idea from a British television programme and nominate one thing each
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to "go into Room 101", by which we mean that it should be banished for all time beyond the sight of humankind (1.45) [Nominate your candidates for banishment in the LugRadio forums!] We talk about Webwise's Phorm, the latest Internet advertising wheeze of dubious legality in the UK, with Becky Hogge from the Open Rights Group: what can you do about Phorm, why is it bad, and is there any stopping it? (18.25) [Do you think Phorm is a good idea? Do your ISP or your country implement something similar? Tell us about it in the forums] After the last episode's discussion of Evolution, we were challenged to all try a different email client for a week. The team report back on what it's like to spend a week using a different MUA (41.10) A suggestion from LugRadio Community Hero mrben on how to advocate Free formats inoffensively sparks a discussion about the idea of a "restricted formats wizard" in Linux distributions. Do distros do enough to promote the use of unencumbered formats for media? Do we as a community do enough? Do we do too much? (59.20) [Would you like to see a restricted formats wizard? Tell us how it should work in the forums] Your emails, including an avalanche of comment prompted by the section in the last episode about Gobuntu. You too can contact the show and win the truly exclusive LugRadio black t-shirt! (1.20.50)
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