mintCast 205 – A buncha news
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News:
- Linux Lands on NSA Watch List (eweek.com)
- NSA: Linux Journal is an “extremist forum” and its readers get flagged for extra surveillance (linuxjournal.com)
- If you read Boing Boing, the NSA considers you a target for deep surveillance (boingboing.net)
- IRS policy that targeted political groups also aimed at open source projects (arstechnica.com)
- Microsoft’s Android patent portfolio may not be as strong as they would like you to think (zdnet.com)
- Vivaldi / Spark tablet project announces time of death (omgubuntu.co.uk)
- Ubuntu Touch may be our last hope for a Linux tablet (networkworld.com)
- Quarterly tablet PC shipments to fall for the first time ever (zdnet.com)
- Andy Tanenbaum is retiring, and you can attend his last lecture (wikipedia.org) (cs.vu.nl)
- Krita reaches its fundraising goal (krita.org)
- Samsung postpones the first Tizen phone indefinitely (linuxgizmos.com)
Website:
- Willie – The Python IRC Bot
Tip:
- How to create a nifty distribution based theme inside your linux terminal
Pre-Show Music:
- “Solitude” by Celtic Chill (Jamendo.com)
- “Celticado – Celtic Men” by Adam R Sweet (Jamendo.com)
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