Free Software Round Table (FSRT)

Just an updated to the previous post. I forgot to mention that ICON is this week, April 3rd-5th. Here is more complete list of panels/talks at which FSRT people will be present:

• Cyber-Crime (Marriott - Salon A, Fri @ 8:30PM) Matt
• Science & Superheroes (SCCC - A 115, Fri @ 10:00PM) Matt
• Evil Scientists (SCCC - A 315, Sat @ 4:30PM) Matt
• Supercomputing (SCCC - A 322, Sat @ 6:00PM) Matt, Brian
• LUGSB Linux Install Q&A (SCCC - A 122, Sat @ 7:30PM) Matt, Ilya, Kupo, Jonathan
• Linux & Open Source Tech (SCCC - A 122, Sat @ 8:30PM) Matt, Brian, Ilya, Kupo, Jonathan
• Build-it-yourself Gadgets (SCCC - A 122, Sat @ 9:30:00 PM) Brian, Jonathan
• Privacy and Security (SCCC - A 122, Sat @ 12:00PM) Matt
• Practical Nanotechnology (SCCC - A 221, Sun @ 4:00PM) Matt

We briefly mentioned I-CON on our last show. Its an awesome convention which has taken place here on long island for 27 years. The content is quite diverse, officially "Science Fiction, Fact And Fantasy." Some of the hosts from FSRT are will be participating in the panels.

Here is a list of panels at which FSRT people will be present at:

• Supercomputing (Fieldhouse @ SCCC A322 6:00pm)
• LUGSB Linux Install Q&A (Fieldhouse @ SCCC A122 7:30pm)
• Linux & Open Source Tech (Fieldhouse @ SCCC A122 8:30pm)

There will be many other interesting talks & panels check out the I-CON schedule.

This episode is hosted by: Benjamin Kudria, Virtual Bill Burns, Brian Fix, Chris Knadle, Ilya (dotCOMmie) Sukhanov, Matt Newhall and engineered by Bobanero.

The following topics were discussed:

• Reactions to Eric Raymonds claim that GPL is no longer needed [1][2][3]
• TomTom vs MSFT [1][2][3][4][5]
• fsync (ext4 "bug") [1]
• IBM to buy SUN?! [1]
• Linux.com relaunches [1][2]

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This episode is hosted by: Benjamin Kudria, Bill Burns, Brian Fix, Chris Knadle (in the studio!!!), Ilya (dotCOMmie) Sukhanov and engineered by Bobanero.

The following topics were discussed:

• Linux Radio Comercial [1]
• Bill to require people to maintain logs for their Access Points (WIFI) [1]
• Science Commons [1]
• Open Access [1]

 

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 This episode is hosted by: Benjamin Kudria, Bill Burns, Chris Knadle, Ilya (dotCOMmie) Sukhanov, Justin Seyster, Kupo and engineered by Bobanero.

The following topics were discussed:

• Cold Boot attack update, and possible solution
• $10 India laptop
• Geode CPU EOL
• GCC plugins
• KDE 4.2, Linus on KDE
• Obama curious about Open Source

 

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This episode is hosted by: Benjamin Kudria, Bill Burns, Brian Fix, Chris Knadle, Ilya (dotCOMmie) Sukhanov and engineered by Bobanero.

The following topics were discussed:

• QT now released under LGPL [1] [2]
• Thank you SGI, for freeing the GNU/Linux 3D desktop! [1]
• Linux 2.6.28 is released. Notable features: GEM, ext4. [1] [2]
• BTRFS Merged into 2.6.29 [1]
• Debian 5 on the horizon [1] [2] [3]

 

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This episode of FSRT is hosted by: Benjamin Kudria, Bill Burns, Chris Knadle, Ilya (dotCOMmie) Sukhanov, Kupo.

 

The following topics were discussed:
• USB 3.0
• Australian ISP filtering
• FCC Comissioner is nuts
• National Security Letters, Gag order ruled unconstitutional
• Cisco & GPL
• Atheros openHAL

 

Guest engineer: George Agathos

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Welcome to the Free Software Round Table (FSRT) radio show. We broadcast live one to two times a month (Third and Fifth Saturday of the month) at 22:00 Eastern time on WUSB (90.1 fm). The topics of discussion vary, but for the most part deal with Free (Open Source) Software and your rights pertaining to computing. You can talk to us during the show by joining #fsrt on irc.freenode.net or using the web chat interface.

 Our panel of hosts changes from show to show, but our more regular hosts are: Bill Burns, Ilya Sukhanov (dotCOMmie), Kupo, Brian Fix, Chris Knadle, Ben Kudria.

The show is Engineered by Bobanero of WUSB.

After a lot of procastination we've updated our show archive. We'r now up to date. Unfortunatelly we could not locate 1 full episode and about 15 minutes of another. If anyone has rips of our stream or a time machine please let us know.

 This is the 24th episode; summary will appear when available.

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