It’s Episode Thirty of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!

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In this week’s show:

• We chat about OggCamp 2015 with Les Pounder.
• We go over your feedback.
• We have a command line love, from Alan: sed -n '1p;$p'
• We chat about developing cross-platform games in HTML5, the continuing saga of Mark’s laptop, building a kernel the Ubuntu Way, and getting a cheap Jolla phone.

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]
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It’s Episode Twenty-nine of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!

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In this week’s show:

We look at what’s been going on in the news:

• Dell’s head of China told The Wall Street Journal that NeoKylin Linux is shipped on 42 percent of the PCs it sells into China.
• Let’s Encrypt are working towards general availability over the next couple of months and passed a major milestone by issuing its first certificate.
• Volkswagen shares have plunged more than 18% after US regulators found that some of its cars could manipulate official emissions tests
• IBM are releasing open source blockchain thingummy (and Imogen Heap’s music idea #longread
• Italy’s Ministry of Defense drop Microsoft Office in Favor of LibreOffice and adopt the Open Document Format (ODF).
• It was decided at this year’s DebConf to stop producing new CD ISOs/images for future Debian updates onward.

We also take a look at what’s been going on in the community:

• Big Bug Bonanza Ubuntu 16.04 LTS – call for participation
• Community Council call for nominations.
• Replacing the Startup Disk Creator – call for Python coders
• Ubuntu Developers discuss the future of Snappy Personal, Unity 8, Mir, Convergence
• UbuContest – send us your opinions on the entries

There are even events:

• DevRelCon – London, UK – 30th September
• Oggcamp returns! – Liverpool, UK – 31st October

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]
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It’s Episode Twenty-eight of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson is back with Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!

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In this week’s show:

• We chat about backing up and reinstalling applications on different devices. We mention Aptik and Timeshift and Mackup.
• We go over your feedback, including…
  • If you fancy resurrecting transcriptions of the podcast, take a look at the wiki.
  • Get the latest Terminator (not the film); find out more.
  • The Unload Tab.
• We have a command line love, from Nathanael Olander: Use screen -s ttyname to make using screen easier, :sessionname ttyname if you forget initially, screen -r tty if you have an attached tty that isn’t actually in use that you need to use. Though we mention byobu too…
• We chat about how to re-enable GPU acceleration in Chrome, learning Java again, moving /boot and / partitions to somewhere else, and Open Media Vault for Network Attached Storage (NAS).

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]
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It’s Episode Twenty-seven of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson is back with Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!

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In this week’s show:

We look at what’s been going on in the news:

• There’s an experimental build of Unity Editor for Linux!
• Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, Cisco, Intel, Netflix, and Amazon have launched a new consortium, the Alliance for Open Media
• Mycroft, open source’s answer to Google Now and Amazon Echo, has reached its funding goal on Kickstarter.
• Mozilla is beginning to preview its iOS Firefox browser, with a roll out for testing in New Zealand.
• The Eagerly Awaited Raspberry Pi Display has gone on sale
• America’s broadband watchdog is suffering a backlash over plans to control software updates to Wi-Fi routers, smartphones, and even laptops.
• Oracle appears to be making redundancies in the ranks of its Java evangelists team.

We also take a look at what’s been going on in the community:

• Fork of the open-sourced Ubuntu One filesync code
• The Next Generation SDK
• Bringing Glucosio to Ubuntu Phone will help meet their goal of reaching as many people as possible with tools to help improve diabetes outcomes
• A free, libre and open-source webcomic…

There are even events:

• Oggcamp returns!

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]
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It’s Episode Twenty-six of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson is back with Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!

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In this week’s show:

• We chat about Firefox and Chrome and whether Firefox’s new changes will turn it around.
• We go over your feedback, including a list of the apps we discussed in our Ubuntu Phone review a few episodes ago (you can find them all in the uApp Explorer):
  • Telegram – encrypted instant messaging like WhatsApp
  • Seshat – reading Kindle ebooks
  • Notes – writing notes; syncs with Evernote
  • uDropCabin – basic mobile client for Dropbox
• Also, here’s the list of links about Mint MATE:
  • http://mintcast.org/2015/03/12/mintcast-220-martin-wimpress-and-ubuntu-mate/
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijybh8cyBsI
  • http://thepipodcast.com/the-pi-podcast-1-ubuntu-mate/
• We have a command line love, hstr) from Chris.
• We chat about getting LibreOffice working on the Ubuntu Phone, watching frankly amazing TV, going on holiday and eating a lot of pierogi (but not bringing any back for us), and listening to the Third World Linux podcast.

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]
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