GeekRant

After a few weeks of giving short shrift to recent tech news, the guys dive into the interesting stories on the Web.

A combination of a question from a listener and recommendation from the President cause Seth and Mark to spend an hour pontificating wildly about law, politics and other things they know nothing about.

With mobile systems and integrated appliances proliferating and desktop use declining over all, where does that leave Desktop Linux in the near future?

With their costumes tucked safely away for another year the guys look at the news of the week and respond to questions from listeners.

Mark and Seth open up the email inbasket for another Listener Feedback episode.

Chris shares his impressions of Manjaro Linux after living with it for several weeks.

Jen Wike Huger, a technical writer and the content manager for OpenSource.com joins us to talk about how openness affects schools, government, education and more.

The guys comment on the news of the week and stumble into a debate on the merits of targeted advertising and the ad-supported Web.

The guys respond to listener feedback about their recent episode on piracy and ethics.

Mark and Seth are joined by Beth Lynn Eicher to talk about the Ohio Linux Fest- one of the oldest and Linux gatherings in the US.