Episode 95: 2011 In Review

• Where the Linux jobs are. (oregonlive.com)

• HP to open source WebOS. (news.yahoo.com)

• Linux Mint and a Banshee debacle? (omgubuntu.co.uk)

• BluRay Support comes to Linux. (phoronix.com)

• FCC Sides with Google, in Google Wallet debacle on the Nexus Prime. (abcnews.go.com) (fcc.gov)

• New hosts for mintCast

• Debian 6

• The death of IPv4

• The Linux takeover of Stock Exchanges

• Ubuntu vs Banshee

• Red Hat’s new obfuscated kernel

• New members join the Linux Foundation (Panasonic, Toyota, etc…)

• Red Hat’s billions

• The Canterbury Project

• Novell’s big patent sale

• OpenSUSE decides on a numbering scheme that no one understands

• Humble Bundles

• Oracle abandons OpenOffice to the Apache Foundation

• Unity as the default Ubuntu 11.04 shell

• Gnome 3

• Attachmate lays off their Mono devs

• Xamarin

• Microsoft buys Skype for A LOT of money

• Duke Nukem gets released, and is instantly panned as horrendous

• 3.0 Linux Kernel

• IPV6 day

• Adobe drops Linux support for Air

• mintCast is named one of top three podcasts by Linux Format magazine.

• Power regressions in Linux Kernel

• LMDE Update packs

• Google buys Motorola

• Linux turns 20, Debian 18, KDE 15

• Linux Foundation & Kernel.org get hacked

• Microsoft strong-arms Android vendors into licensing agreements

• Windows 8 Secure boot – death to booting Linux?

• Meego becomes Tizen (maybe)

• Passing of Steve Jobs, Dennis Ritchie

• and of course, the Higgs Boson

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