Episode 0x19: GNOME 3.2 and Other Topics

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x19_GNOME-3-2-and-other-topics.ogg"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in Ogg/Vorbis format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_ogg_button.png"/></a> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x19_GNOME-3-2-and-other-topics.mp3"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in MP3 format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_mp3_button.png"/></a> </p> <p> <p>Karen and Bradley discuss the GNOME 3.2 release, Karen interviews Jos Poortvliet, Bradley complains about identi.ca web interface and they discuss together UEFI &ldquo;secure&rdquo; boot, and the PyPy Python 3 campaign. </p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:40)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/08/05/living-in-the-past.html">wrote a blog post about how GNOME 3 is not for him</a>.</li> </ul> <h4>Segment 1 (07:14)</h4> <ul> <li>Karen interviewed <a href="http://blog.jospoortvliet.com/">Jos Poortvliet</a></li> </ul> <h4>Segment 2 (21:04)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley mentioned <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-September/msg00115.html">Shaun McCance's post to desktop-devel about response bias</a>, which he posted on user survey thread. (25:04)</li> <li>Karen mentioned that <a href="http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointOne/ReleaseNotes">GNOME 3.2 has been released with new features</a>, such as better window resizing. (28:57)</li> <li>Bradley pointed out that <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gnats/">gnats was one of the earliest Free Software bug tracking</a> systems. (30:37)</li> </ul> <h4>Segment 3 (31:53)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley mentioned that he feels like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfrozen_Caveman_Lawyer">the unfrozen caveman lawyer</a> when trying to use <a href="http://identi.ca">identi.ca</a> now. (32:54)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned <a href="http://mjg59.livejournal.com/138973.html">Matthew Garrett's blog post about UEFI so-called &ldquo;secure&rdquo; booting</a>. (37:36)</li> <li><a href="http://pypy.org/py3donate.html">PyPy is trying to raise funds to support Python 3 on PyPy</a>. (41:20)</li> </ul> <hr width="80%"/> <p>Send feedback and comments on the cast to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">&lt;[email protected]&gt;</a>. You can keep in touch with <a href="https://faif.us">Free as in Freedom</a> on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by <a href="http://identi.ca/conservancy">following Conservancy on identi.ca</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/conservancy">and Twitter</a>.</p> <p>Free as in Freedom is produced by <a href="http://danlynch.org/blog/">Dan Lynch</a> of <a href="http://danlynch.org/">danlynch.org</a>. Theme music written and performed by <a href="http://www.miketarantino.com">Mike Tarantino</a> with <a href="http://www.charliepaxson.com">Charlie Paxson</a> on drums.</p> <p><a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png" hspace=10 /></a> The content of <span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound" rel="dc:type">this audcast</span>, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0)</a>. </p>