S10E05 – Supreme Luxuriant Gun

6th April 2017 Samantha

We discuss Microsoft shutting down CodePlex, banks being denied access to iPhone NFC chips, Google Open Source, the UK Home Secretary not understanding encryption, Android overtaking Windows and Mastodon the new decentralised social network you can’t join.

This show was recorded prior to Mark Shuttleworth’s announcement about Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, rather than Phone and convergence. We’ll be discussing this news in a future episode of the Ubuntu Podcast.

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It’s Season Ten Episode Five of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Stuart Langridge are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our Google+ page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

S10E04 – Sulky Meek Work

30th March 2017 Samantha

We discuss the best open source operating system on the planet, the mighty Ubuntu MATE! One of us went to a Devin Townsend Project gig, Maps.me is our GUI love and we discuss ways to upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 to 16.04.

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It’s Season Ten Episode Four of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

  • We discuss what we’ve been upto recently:
  • We interview Martin Wimpress, the charismatic (and devilishly handsome) lead developer of Ubuntu MATE about how it has taken the world by storm and remains the best open source operating system implementation available today, leaving all others in the dust. Well, maybe not all the others but definitely better than openSUSE. Isn’t everything though?
    • Yes, Martin writes the show notes ;-)
  • We share a GUI Lurve:
    • Maps.Me – An open source maps an navigation app using OpenStreetMap data.
  • And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!

  • This weeks cover image is taken from Wikimedia.

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our Google+ page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

S10E03 – Aloof Puny Wren

23rd March 2017 Samantha

We discuss website owners filing bugs with Mozilla, GitLab acquiring Gitter, Moodle remote code execution, Windows 10 adverts, KDE Slimbook, 32-bit PowerPC EOL in Ubuntu, a new Vala release and the merger of Sonar GNU/Linux and Vinux.

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It’s Season Ten Episode Three of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our Google+ page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

S10E02 – Wiry Labored Sense

16th March 2017 Samantha

It’s Season Ten Episode Two of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

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The same line up as last week are here again for another episode.

In this week’s show:

  • We discuss what we’ve been up to recently, Mark has been gardening and Martin has been spending BitCoin.
  • We review the Entroware Aether laptop.
    • Reviewed specification: i5 CPU, 8GB RAM, 1920×1080 display, 128GB SSD. £694.95.
    • If you want to enable playback of DRM protected DVDs on Ubuntu then run the following in a terminal:
      • sudo apt install libdvd-pkg and follow the prompts.
  • We share a Command Line Lurve:
  • And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!
  • This weeks cover image is taken from Wikimedia.

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our Google+ page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

S10E01 – Verdant Bitter Passenger

9th March 2017 Samantha

It’s Season Ten Episode One of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

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The three amigos are back for Season 10.

In this week’s show:

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our Google+ page or comment on our sub-Reddit.