The Linux Show

**Stephen** · 11-12-2003, 12:08 AM

Tonight Live: Darl quick duck!, and Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye>> on The Linux Show!!
Tuesday, November 11th, 2003 from Chicago IL the Home of Buddy Guy
Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.

At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.... Kevin Hill, Arne Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff Gerhardt are all back live tonight. We have an interesting show lined up for tonight.

Segment One- The News. We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the week including: Darl Spews on, Gates to Give Comdex keynote, ,a clueless pundit or two........ and way more.

Segment Two- Moving To Linux- A book by Marcel Gagné

Tonight we will be joined by long time Linux Show friend Marcel Gagné. Marcel has been a guest on TLS before as a interesting and dynamic member of our community. We are pleased to have him on the show once again, and for such a good reason, the release of his new book Moving To LINUX This book is also subtitled as a tease, "Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye."

Marcel Gagné is probably best known as the award-winning author of the Linux Journal "Cooking with Linux Series", for which he received the Readers' Choice award for favorite column three years in a row. His first book was the highly acclaimed "Linux System Administration : A User's Guide".

Marcel is also one of the best known advocacy voices of the Linux community, he has written over 200 articles on Linux and open source projects for various publications including Linux Journal, InformIT, Unix Review, SysAdmin magazine, and others. A long-time systems and network administrator, he now runs a systems and network consulting firm, is a published science fiction author and editor, a pilot, an avid science and astronomy buff, and a former top 40 disc jockey. He also folds a mean Origami T-Rex and is one hell of a nice guy.

Jeffs Review so far....
"I have to tell you the truth, it is show time and I have only had the chance to read a few chapters in Marcels new book. But so far I really love it. It is an idea first time primer to the Linux newbie and more readable than Linux for Dummies. I am also very happy that there is a companion CD. Just like Marcel's well know column at Linux JournalCooking with Linux the book is laid out in a very well organized step by step fashion. This will make all the more easier for the newbie. I also love the fact that Marcel does not take life so serious, and can inject humor in the book. The ONLY suggestion I would make is that marcel write a companion piece that would create a series of tasks or exercises to supplement each chapters topic. That would make this very well written book also available as a text material. We need more good Linux Texts and this is a candidate."

The show starts in just under three hours from this post.

**Stephen** · 11-18-2003, 11:32 PM

Tonight Live:Enterprise IT Week Open Source Town Hall Meeting >> on The Linux Show!!

Tonight Live: On The Linux Show!!
Tuesday, November 18th, 2003 from Chicago IL VIA Las Vegas, NV
Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.

TONIGHT AT A SPECIAL TIME

At 5:45pm pt, PLEASE adjust to your time zone.... We have a unique show for tonight on the Linux Show.

Segment One- The Enterprise IT Week Open Source Town Hall Meeting.
We will be broadcasting the Open SOurce Town Hall Meeting tonight live from the Key note stage following Darl McBrides Keynote to discuss Open Source in the Enterprise. It should prove to be a very interesting discussion as a representative from SCO will be at the event.

Here is the "official" description of the Town Hall Meeting from The Enterprise Week Expo site.

The Open Source Town Hall Meeting
Conference chairman Jack Powers moderates a Town Hall discussion on the implications of the SCO actions and the future of Open Source. (Open to all registered CDXPO visitors.)
Panelists:
Jeff Gerhardt, Host and Producer, The Linux Show
Steven J. Henry, Chair, IP Transactions Group, Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
David Schatsky, Senior Vice President of Research, Jupiter Research
Chris Sontag, Senior Vice President and General Manager, SCOsource, The SCO Group

A couple of important notes of consideration.
1) For those of you who have been giving Jupiter Media a lot of grief about inviting McBride to Speak (his keynote), you should be aware that this Town Hall Meeting was in place as a platform for opposing views (truths) from long ago. The complaints about Jupiter are not warranted. If fact the reverse is true. With all the lies spewing from SCO, the more often they speak at events, the more foolish they (SCO) look.

2) It is entirely possible that this show may not come off as expected. The network reliability here at the Mandalay Bay is "ify" at best. If this does not work we will attempt to record the segment and broadcast it this coming Thursday evening.

Segment Two- Open Discussion-

The regular panel will be having a conversation about their impressions of the Town Hall Meeting as well as any important news coming out of Vegas (comdex) this week. There will be a 5 to 10 minute break between segments to shift equipment around.

Looks like an interestings show it will start in just over 3 hours from this post.

**Stephen** · 12-03-2003, 12:24 AM

Tonight Live: Desktop Distro Standards, do we need them? >> on The Linux Show!!!
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2003 from Chicago IL the Home of
Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.

At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.... Kevin Hill, Arne Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff Gerhardt are all back live tonight. We have a very different show lined up for tonight.

Segment One- The News. We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the week including: ,a clueless pundit or two........ and way more.

Segment Two- Desktop Linux Distros, do we really need a standard one?- What is Bruce up to this time???

Tonight we are going to have our old friend Bruce Perens on the show. We are going to discuss the effort by Bruce and a number of folks in creating a universal Desktop Distro of the Linux Kernel. This concept was announced a month ago at a Desktop Linux conference where he announced the creation of userlinux.com/. You may also want to read about another similar effort at http://freedesktop.org/~jg/roadmap.html

Advance disclaimer. Some of us at TLS are not sold on this idea. That is why we thought it fair to invte Bruce and have him sell us on the idea. Please note that although we may not be convinced yet does not mean this is an adversarial situation. There is room for disagreements from time to time even with friends.

**aay** · 12-03-2003, 06:36 PM

Last night's show was very interesting. They had Bruce Perens on discussing his upcoming new project: UserLinux. UserLinux is supposed to be a desktop based Linux distro, based on Debian, that will be developed on a cost sharing model between various companies. The idea is that instead of using a Distro like Red Hat (which you now have to pay for and which has the potential for vendor lock in) companies will contribute money/resources to the UserLinux Consortium. In return anyone will be able to use UserLinux without paying a per seat fee (i.e. it's fee as in beer). UserLinux will then coordinate with hardware vendors to make sure that things work and are supported. It sounds like a good idea. Hopefully it will work. You can still listen to the archived version of last night's show on The Linux Show's web site.

**Stephen** · 12-09-2003, 11:04 PM

Tonight Live: The KDE Desktop >> on The Linux Show!!
Tuesday, December 9th, 2003 from Chicago IL the Home of Lemon Heads
Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.

At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.... Kevin Hill, Arne Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff Gerhardt are all back live tonight. We have launched a new thread and will contiune that for tonights show.

Segment One- The News. We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the week including: Linus delves into US Copyright Law, A Novell officer speaks on move to Linux, Microsoft Hot Air, a clueless pundit or two........ and way more.

Segment Two- A Look at KDE from the top- What is Bruce up to this time???

Tonight we are going to joined by George Staikos and Aaron J. Seigo, two of the most currently active participants in the KDE project. KDE is a network transparent contemporary desktop environment for UNIX/Linux workstations. The KDE project is a large open group of developers consisting of several hundred software engineers from all over the world committed to free software development. The KDE project is a free software project. Each and every line of KDE code is made available under the LGPL/GPL licenses. This means that everyone is free to modify and distribute KDE source code. This implies in particular that KDE is available free of charge to anyone and will always be free of charge to anyone.

Aaron has been a UNIX developer since the early 1990s and Linux user since 1994. Today Aaron works almost exclusively with Free Software. After the release of KDE2, Aaron began contributing to the KDE project via the weekly Kernel Cousin KDE (now KDE Traffic) and source code patches. Today he maintains several applications and classes in KDE, is active in the KDE usability project and helps out with project PR from his home in Calgary, Alberta.

George Staikos is a professional software developer and Linux hobbyist from Toronto, Canada. (Two Canadians in one show, WOW!) He has been using and developing for Linux since 1993, and has been a KDE developer since 1999. He is presently a member of the core KDE development team and the North American press contact for KDE. George is self employed, developing Linux, KDE, and generally portable GUI and web software.

KOffice is a free, integrated office suite for the KDE desktop. The application suite consists of a word-processor, spread-sheet, presentation application, organizer and more. For more information about KOffice visit http://www.koffice.org.

Another week another good show it will start in just under 4 hours from this post and if you can not listen live then as always the show goes up in the archives ASAP after the show finishes.

**Stephen** · 12-17-2003, 01:10 AM

Tonight Live: The GNOME 2.4 Desktop >> on The Linux Show!!
Tonight Live: On The Linux Show!!
Tuesday, December 16th, 2003 from Chicago IL the Home of Da Bearse
Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.

At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.... Kevin Hill, Arne Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff Gerhardt are all back live tonight. We are continuing our Desktop thread and will contiune that for tonights show.

Segment One- The News. We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the week including: Linus delves into US Copyright Law, A Novell officer speaks on move to Linux, Microsoft Hot Air, a clueless pundit or two........ and way more.

Segment Two- The GNOME 2.4 Desktop-

Tonight we are going to joined by Jeff Waugh and Leslie Proctor of the Gnome Foundation. Our topic is GNOME 2.4 Desktop. GNOME runs on a variety of platforms, including GNU/Linux (commonly called Linux), Solaris, HP-UX, BSD and Apple's Darwin. GNOME includes powerful features such as high-quality smooth text rendering and first class internationalization and accessibility support, including support for bi-directional text.

Jeff Waugh is the head beekeeper of the GNOME Release Team, a director of the GNOME Foundation, and President of the Sydney Linux Users Group. In his spare time, he is an independent IT consultant specialising in Open Source and Free Software.

Leslie Proctor has been involved in GNOME and free software since early 1999. She coordinated the press and marketing efforts for the launch of GNOME, and has been involved with the project since that time as the Marketing Lead for the GNOME Foundation. A marketing and public relations professional with almost 20 years of experience, Leslie is also a writer, speaker and open source software advocate. She is a member-elect of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors.

The GNOME Foundation is comprised of hundreds of volunteer developers and industry-leading companies, the GNOME Foundation is an organization committed to supporting the advancement of GNOME. The Foundation provides organizational, financial and legal support to the GNOME project and helps determine its vision and roadmap. GNOME is an entirely free user environment for desktops, networked servers and portable Internet devices. The modern architecture and design of GNOME includes a technically advanced application development platform and a powerful end-user desktop environment. Major leading software industry and computer manufacturers support the GNOME development effort, which is led by a worldwide community of volunteers. More information on GNOME is available at www.gnome.org.

Well it was KDE last week Gnome this week the shows starts in just under 2 hours from this post.

**Stephen** · 12-30-2003, 10:36 PM

Tonight Live: LinuxWorld Conference News, Plus Watching User Linux Grow >> on The Linux Show!!
Tonight Live: On The Linux Show!!
Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 from Chicago IL the Home of Lemon Heads
Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.

At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.... Kevin Hill, Arne Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff Gerhardt are all back live tonight. The desktop thread is over for a couple weeks

Segment One- The News. We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the week including: the new Kernel, news from LWE, the User Linux Progress, more community related acquisitions, a clueless pundit or two........ and way more.

Show Links:

Kernel 2.6 Released
MySQL 5.0.0 Released
Finance Ministry in Israel Weaning off MS
FLOSS in Iran
VPN Router Project nears initial release
Wikipedia asks for aid and apparently gets it quickly
Frontiers of Fun
Redhat buts Sistina
Related: EMC buys VMWare

Segment Two- LinuxWorld Conference & Expo News-

Tonight we are going to joined by Warwick Davies Group Vice President IDG World Expo to talk about what is new this year with our favorite Linux Conference (now that ALS is gone), the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo held next month January 20th through 23rd at NYC's Javit's center. The event is of course put on by the folks at IDG World Expo, a business unit of IDG.

If you have been living under a rock the last few years, LinuxWorld Conference & Expo is the premier event exclusively focused on Linux and open source solutions. As the world's most comprehensive marketplace for open source products and services, LinuxWorld provides business decision-makers with information and resources to implement Linux and open source solutions into business infrastructure and enterprise networks. Plus it is fun.

Editorial Note: TLS will be broadcasting17 hours of live broadcasts from the Javits Center in NYC over the three day run of the event. As we embark upon our 7th year of webcasting TLS (The Linux Show), we find it very gratifying that we can renew our long relationship with the folks at IDG who have been so kind over the years to give us their support in bringing our broadcast to their technology events.

Warwick Davies is a Group Vice President at IDG World Expo responsible for the Macworld Conference & Expo and LinuxWorld Conference & Expo brands. Warwik recently joined the company in July 2003. Before joining IDG World Expo, he was an independent consultant helping companies quickly and profitably discover and launch international business opportunities in the high tech and biotech sectors.

Prior to running his own consulting business, he was Vice President of Expositions and International Business Development at DCI, one of North America's premier business and technology conference and exposition organizers. At DCI, Warwick conceived and launched DCI's international conference program, including events in the UK, Germany, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain. He also held worldwide responsibility for DCI's Customer Relationship Conference and Exposition.

Prior to joining DCI, Warwick held a series of international sales, marketing, operations and administration management positions with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Lufthansa Germana Airlines, Hertz Corporation and the British Government. Warwick is also author of The Freeport Experiment, a book detailing the success and failures of the UK free trade zones. He holds a BS in Economics from Northeastern University.

The last show of the year it starts in just under 4 and a half hours from now and as always the show goes into the archives ASAP after the finish of the live show and the IRC chat room is at irc.thelinuxshow.com on the channel #linuxshow.

**Stephen** · 01-07-2004, 01:07 AM

Tonight Live: The Best of 2003 >> on The Linux Show!!
Tonight: On The Linux Show!!
Tuesday, January 6th, 2006 from Chicago IL the Home of Da Bearse (Jauron is gone!!!!)
Tonight on www.thelinuxshow.com.

Kevin Hill, Arne Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff Gerhardt bring a very special annual show tonight reviewing the top stories and events for 2003. We pound our chest for successful predictions, and pontificate on what is coming in 2004.

Segment One- The Top Stories of 2003
Segment Two- Predictions for the future.

This is one of our favorite shows of the year as we will take select calls from people who would like to offer their opinions on the past and coming year. If you would like to join us send us an email to staff@thelinuxshow.com and tell us what topic you want to talk about. Plus as usual you can always join us on the IRC

Also, if you have a last minute gift to buy and do not want to deal with all the crowds, we would like to direct your attention to a special program we are offering for that hard to buy for geek on your list, Give The Gift of Domain.

The yearly wrapup show it's always a good one it will start in just under 2 hours from this post.

**Stephen** · 01-13-2004, 11:55 PM

Tonight Live: Spy VS Spy or is that SCO vs OSDL (and Novell and Intel and...)>> on The Linux Show!!
Tonight Live: On The Linux Show!!
Tuesday, January 13th, 2003 from Chicago IL
Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.

At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.... Kevin Hill, Arne Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff Gerhardt are all back live tonight.

Segment One- The News. We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the week including: Russ Rants on X11, Bogus Legal ruling, OSDL vs SCO, Novell vs SCO, Intel vs SCO, DOC with a MAC, Joe Barr(newsforge) on the Linux and Main screw job, a clueless pundit or two........ and way more.

Show Links:
Speak Freely to disappear on Jan. 15th
Realtime Linux patch hits the web
Redhat to contribute copyrights in eCos code base to the Free software Foundation
Microsoft to extend Win98 support
Yahoo tests RSS with MyYahoo
"Linux Threat" may be behind Microsofts extending support for Win98
Microsoft ads bash Linux
Another lawsuit in Linux Land
Enjoying NASA's Maestro on your Linux desktop
New Economy Hack: Turning consumers into producers
Judge deletes suit by ReplayTV owners
Business Week: Asia loves Linux
University adapts laser to slice cheese

Segment Two- More news and our plans for next week at LWE

All news for this show it starts in about 3 hours from this post and as always the show goes into the archive ASAP after the finish of the show.

**Stephen** · 01-21-2004, 07:11 PM

For any of you fans out there this weeks show is a three day affair coming to you live from the Linux World Expo a schedule of the show times appears here. The archives will be available for viewing each day so check schedule page to see if the archive(s) you are interested in has been uploaded.