Yes it’s the episode you’ve all been waiting for the one where Evan Prodromou kicks our spuds. And if you was hoping to read what is in this episode before listening, tough you’ll have to download it and find out what happened.

On behalf of Matt and I we’d like to say “Thanks Evan and is it up yet?”

Raspberry Pi http://www.raspberrypi.org/

Cotton Candy http://sprig.gs/5c

Gumstix http://www.gumstix.com/

Ninja http://sprig.gs/5m

Cubox http://www.solid-run.com/products/cubox

Lintop http://www.linutop.com/index.en.html

Freedom hating MP3 61.01MB
Freedom loving OGG 52.07MB

Show Length: 01:28:54

Feedback music: Typewriter Song by: Leroy Anderson
Licensed Under: CC Attribution

Start & Ending Music: Thai Dance Music by: Thai
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This episode starts with a bit of a surprise even though most of you have started to learn that “Nothing surprises us with this show.” we hear the teams thoughts on the recent news about Kubuntu and how they think it’s no big deal. Pete is shocked at the rising popularity with Twitter while Matt seems to think it’s good that every man and his dog is playing on there, plus we hear how mad impressionable fools with more money than sense are buying the shows merchandising crap.

Pete moans about Red Hat and the eye watering cost to become certified while marveling at the affordable prices on offer from Canonical, the team tell Mark Shuttleworth to contact the UK board of education to gain recognised qualifications and hope that they’ll curry favour and riches with their idea.

Pete makes an apology regarding Evan Prodromou co-hosting the show but assures us that the date has been fixed. Matt lets slip that “The podcast that cannot be named.” has far better feedback music than tdtrs, and the team go through the emails where Pete treats the listeners thoughts with his usual contempt.

Freedom hating MP3 79.05MB
Freedom loving OGG 71.03MB

Show Length: 01:55:41

Intro Music: They Horrible by: The Dead Rise To Seep
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Feedback music: Typewriter Song by: Leroy Anderson
Licensed Under: CC Attribution

Ending Music: Thai Dance Music by: Thai
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So here is the second show of 2012 and it’s a fun packed load of old twaddle as usual. Pete shows that he is clearly a professional podcaster now by completing three, yes three segways during the random chat section.

Matt tells us all about his new found love for NginX and how it thumbs it’s nose at Apache. The team also discuss Ubuntu TV which Canonical deliberately delayed till after EP18 so that TDTRS didn’t get a scoop on other podcasts.

The main topic this episode is “The Blackout Effect” discussing what, if any, effect people and wikipedia’s blacking out of their websites had on the SOPA protests.

Finally Matt and Pete in an effort to push glue up hill wade their way through the fifty two paragraph feedback emails that was sent in. And in the closing minutes Matt tells us some worrying news about EP20! What can it be? Oh god I have to listen now!

Pacman4 (wiki): http://sprig.gs/4j

Allan McCrae’s Pacman/pgp blog post: http://sprig.gs/4k

SOPA Effect: http://sprig.gs/4l

TDTRS at the Post Office: http://sprig.gs/46

Freedom hating MP3 EP19.mp3 84.04MB

Freedom loving OGG EP19.ogg 71.08MB

Show Length: 02:02:52

Intro Music: Thai Dance Music by: Thai
Licensed Under: CC Atribution

Interlude music: Overjoy Dub by: PistONE
Licensed under: art libre

Interlude music: Ma Poupée by: David TMX
Licensed Under: CC-BY

Room x1101 intro: The Sting by: Scott Joplin
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Feedback music: Typewriter Song by: Leroy Anderson
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♫ ♪ “The boys are back in town, the boys are back in town.” ♬ ♩

Yes, Matt and Pete return from their Crimble break stuffed full of chocolates and tangerines. The team tell us about the gifts Santa delivered and how one of them does like a nice pair of comfy slippers. Pete tells us about his dog Archie and his visit to the vets (Not for the faint hearted) while Matt is totally confused as to why it’s in the show. We hear how one of the co-hosts will be signing autographs at FOSDEM while the other will be sat eating cold bake beans in front of a candle.

Matt makes a slight mistake and links to the wrong G+ post (This is not facebook.) where Pete gets all passionate about ‘Contributing’ (Pete’s rant) The subject on everyone’s lips at the moment is SOPA and the guy’s offer this up for discussion in Room x1101.

The main topic this episode is “Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Arch, Debian, Fedora - How much does it all matter?” the guys come up with a brilliant idea for a definitive Linux distribution and Pete actually teaches Matt something for a change!

Matt gets to uphold his firm belief in openness and lays the TDTRS accounts open to scrutiny by the community revealing the amount of dosh that’s been donated to date. During the feedback details Pete completely loses it about a hand bag incident over Identi.ca.

This is not facebook: http://sprig.gs/3x

Pete’s rant: http://sprig.gs/3w

Freedom hating MP3 EP18.mp3 86.05MB

Freedom loving OGG EP18.ogg 76.03MB

Show Length: 02:05:53

Intro Music: Thai Dance Music by: Thai
Licensed Under: CC Atribution

Interlude music: Overjoy Dub by: PistONE
Licensed under: art libre

Feedback music: Typewriter Song by: Leroy Anderson
Licensed Under: CC Atribution