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Welcome to Episode 46 of Destination Linux for 11-20-17

Today on the show we have a special guest

Alan Pope (Popey)

Recent quote Not Lying!!

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Some information on Alan’s Bio

Alan has been a Community Manager at Canonical primarily working on Ubuntu for devices but is pretty much anywhere and everywhere that Ubuntu is.

He first encountered Linux in the mid-1990s, and ran Red Hat then Debian on the desktop and server until Ubuntu Warty came out. Alan has been using Ubuntu since 4.10 – the Warty Warthog and never looked back.

Previously Alan spent 13 years working as a system admin on some evil German proprietary software, but did what he could for Ubuntu and Linux in his spare time.

Alan became an Ubuntu member in 2006 and has in the past been the contact person for the UK LoCo team, a member of the LoCo Council and a member of the EMEA Membership board and the Community Council. He quite dislikes forums. Alan likes cats.

Setup and ran the Screencast Team which aimed to create a set of tutorial videos for new Ubuntu users. As part of that he managed the Ubuntu Screencasts Site. Since then Alan has now handed this over to another Ubuntu member.

Often runs development releases of Ubuntu early in the cycle to provide testing, bug reporting and triage help.

Helping to organise OGGCamp – a barcamp style unconference.

The Ubuntu Podcast

Started the Ubuntu Podcast and continue to co-present, mirror, co-produce and co-manage the show along with a few other members of the UK LoCo Team Mark Johnson & Martin Wimpress

UBP has around 3,000 core subscribers with each episode downloaded about 10,000 times. You also recently hit 1.4 million downloads which is quite an achievement for a niche podcast.

Guest Host on other podcasts like Bad Voltage

Blog about Ubuntu

ROFL Learn not to be like this

News

Ubuntu 18.04 Daily Builds are now available

The schedule of the release of Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver with given dates are as follows:

Ubuntu Devs Want to Know How You Feel About Guest Sessions in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

New system sounds in 18.04? HT to Phoronix

Ubuntu Is Looking for a New Theme

Suru will be the default icon theme in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Papirus Icon Theme 2017.11.02 Released

This Week in Solus – Install #48

Brisk Menu 0.5.0 Released

Redcore Linux 1710 on DistroWatch

Redcore Linux version release.

Gaming

What I’ve been playing: ‘ This War of Mine’

Beastmancer, a monster taming tactical RPG is now on Linux

Steam

Official Site

Trüberbrook, a beautiful adventure game with Linux support, is on Kickstarter

Official Site

Kickstarter

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Welcome to Episode 45 of Destination Linux for 11-13-17

Today on the show we have a special guest from the Xfce development team

Sean Davis

Web Developer by day

Xubuntu Technical Lead all the time

Xfce core contributor

An Ubuntu Member

A contributor to several of the core applications included with Xubuntu including

And someone I will have to personally apologize to

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Sean Davis Welcome to the show

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Welcome to Episode 44 of Destination Linux for 11-06-17

We have some changes we’ve implemented this week:

Today on the show we have a special guest Dustin from Ubuntu Budgie. Dustin has been a guest in the past but for our new listeners…..

Dustin Krysak

@Bashfulrobot

Github

Ubuntu Budgie

Download Ubuntu Budgie 17.10

More info on the applets

New LibreOffice and Chromium snaps are available for testing

Canonical Has Joined the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board

You Can Now Install KDE Plasma 5.11.2 Desktop and Latte Dock on Kubuntu 17.10

Revamped Skype Desktop App Released

AMD Launches Ryzen Mobile Combining Zen And Vega To Take On Intel In Powerhouse Laptops

YouTube is fighting the ‘adpocalypse’ with a less trigger-happy flagging system

Firefox to Get a Better Password Manager

Firefox Implements Another Privacy-Preserving Feature Taken From the Tor Browser

Kaspersky: We uploaded US documents but quickly deleted them

Another article

3D printer runs Linux on BeagleBone, focuses on ease of use

South Korea: World’s first giant manned robot takes its first steps

5 Most Beautiful Linux Desktop Environments

Gaming

What Have I Been Playing: Sally Face

A very unusual but so far amazing psychological horror game made by Steve Gabry.

FORMULA ONE returns to Linux with F1 2017

F1 2017 is officially coming to Linux, releasing November 2nd from Feral Interactive

SuperTuxKart Update Adds New Tracks, Characters

You Can Now Play SuperTuxKart on Android!

City Game Studio, a sandbox management game will release next year, made on Linux

Adventure game ‘AER Memories of Old’ has released with same-day Linux support

5 of the Best Gaming Mice For Linux

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Welcome to Destination Linux for 10-30-17

This week we will be covering………….

But first, we have a viewer email

“I bought a second hand hdd from a sale the local school had. It’s a 2tb western digital blue I installed it, got it mounted and used it for about an hour before it became inaccessible. Reformatting at this point left me w a chunk of inaccessible data. Now either hdparm or disks put its status as frozen. From my understanding this can be fixed by power cycling the hdd without power cycling the computer? I’m wondering if this will be a continuous problem on this drive? Would the easiest solution be to put it in an external case?”

Noah J. Chelliah from the “Ask Noah Show”

Twitter

A business owner of Altispeed a company that provides network infrastructure, backend, client-side front-end, and tech support.

Former host of the insanely popular “Linux Action Show”

Jupiter Broadcasting Bio Page

And now with your own show. You are the host of the “Ask Noah Show”

News

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is Called ‘Bionic Beaver’

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Will Likely Ship With Linux 4.15

30th November: Feature Definition Freeze

LXQt 0.12 released With Better HiDPI Support, More Robust

Release LXQt 0.12.0

Xubuntu 17.10 released!

antiX-17 released

Linux Mint Throws Its Weight Behind Flatpak

Linux Mint Will Discontinue Its KDE Edition

Official Announcement

Coffee – A News and Weather App for Linux

Gaming

What Have I Been Playing:

TF2 w/ Rocco Jungle Inferno Update & CS Go w/ Dustin Krysak (Ubuntu Budgie)

If you thought we were bad at Rocket League – you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Hand of Fate 2 Release on November 7th

The next three major Steam sale dates have been leaked

Close-combat FPS ‘Return to Planet X’ is now on Linux, it’s actually not bad at all

Euro Truck Simulator 2 Coming To GNU/Linux Soon!

Bundle Stars is becoming Fanatical

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Welcome to Destination Linux Episode 42 – Unpolished, Raw & Difficult

News

Microsoft has already fixed the Wi-Fi attack vulnerability Krack Attack

PureVPN’s ‘non-existent’ logs used to track, arrest alleged internet stalker

Did PureVPN Cross a Line When It Disclosed User Information?

Ubuntu 17.10 released on Thursday Oct 19th

How to Upgrade to Ubuntu 17.10

Ubuntu GNOME Shell in Artful: Day 16

Ubuntu 17.10 Launches with GNOME 3.26, but You Can Still Use Unity

KDE

Plasma 5.11.1

Softpedia Article

LibreOffice Is Getting New Look for KDE’s Plasma Desktop Thanks to LiMux Project

Private Internet Access becomes a KDE Patron

Mate

Ubuntu MATE 17.10 + pre-install snap

https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-mate-artful-final-release/

This Week in Solus – Install #47

Fedora 27 Now Under Its Final Freeze

A Look At The New Features For Fedora 27

X.Org Server Security Vulnerability Patched in Ubuntu 17.04, 16.04 and 14.04 LTS

So the ‘Year of Linux’ never happened. When is it Chrome OS’s turn?

Gaming

What have I been playing:

Borderlands 2. I’ve put over a dozen hours into this triple A title and believe its one of the best FPS shooters of all time second to Doom 2016. Ridiculous laugh out loud humor, great story, amazing graphics, fantastic soundtrack. A must have title that’s native to Linux. The Prequel is just as amazing.

TF2 Update Jungle Inferno

GMG Article

Strategy game ‘Mushroom Wars 2’ arrives on Linux

News

Humble Bundle has been acquired by IGN

Official Announcement

Visceral Games Shut Down

Green Man Gaming Top 10 Sales Chart 16 October 2017

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StationX & Manjaro – Spitfire is available for Pre-Order

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Intro:

Welcome to episode 41 of Destination Linux

AIM Shutdown: AOL Instant Messenger alternatives

Purism Meets Its $1.5 Million Goal for Security Focused Librem 5 Smartphone One Week After Surging Past the 50% Mark

KDE Plasma 5.11 Officially Released With Vault, Better Wayland & More

Official Announcement

Ubuntu 17.10 New Features, Release Date and Upgrade Procedure

Chakra 2017.10 “Goedel” released

Development Release: Xfce PulseAudio Plugin 0.3.1

Mozilla pilots Cliqz engine in Firefox to slurp user browsing data

Firefox + Cliqz Privacy Notice

Mozilla changes review process for Firefox WebExtensions

Google Chrome Now Uses Native GTK Window Buttons on Linux

Russia reportedly stole NSA secrets with help of Kaspersky—what we know now

DHS bans Kaspersky from U.S. government networks

NVIDIA 387.12 Vulkan vs. OpenGL Performance Across Multiple CPUs

It’s OK To Suck At Games Our Rocket League Theme?

Gaming

What have I been playing:

Those still using AIM messenger will love this week’s pick. Star Wars Dark Forces

BATTALION 1944, a competitive WW2 FPS looks like it may come with Linux support

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Just Shy Of 2 Million Concurrent Players

Middle-Earth: Shadow of War Release

Humble “Endless RPG Lands” Bundle

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Welcome to Episode 40 of Destination Linux for 10/09/17

Interview with Michael Larabel

Michael Larabel is an American entrepreneur, software engineer, and technology analyst.

Phoronix

Founded on 5 June 2004 and attracts more than a quarter of a billion hits annually

Phoronix-Test-Suite

also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite.

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Welcome to Episode 39 of Destination Linux for 10/02/17

Correction from last week

Just to set things straight, ArchMerge is a separate project from ArchLabs with a completely separate team. There is no collaboration between ArchLabs and ArchMerge and they have a completely different vision about a distro. They each go their own way. I apologize for confusing the two together.

News

Ubuntu Is Dropping 32-bit Desktop Images

Last year OMGubuntu ran a poll asking how which version of Ubuntu you use: 32-bit or 64-bit. The results of that poll revealed that 92% run Ubuntu 64-bit already.

Badges and progress bar on Ubuntu Dock

Ubuntu Dock Now Supports Progress Bars and Badge Counts

Bad News for Users of TopIcons Plus…

Ubuntu Beta 2 Download

Ubuntu Budgie 17.10 Beta 2

Ubuntu Budgie 17.10 Beta 2 Download

Ubuntu MATE 17.10 Beta 2

Ubuntu Mate Beta 2 Download

It’s Beta season for all the ‘buntu’s…..Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Kylin

Kubuntu 17.10 Beta 2 Download

KDE Plasma 5.11 Desktop Will Be Coming to Kubuntu 17.10 Soon After Its Release

Adapta Theme is Now Available for the KDE Plasma Desktop

Adobe Brackets 1.11 Released

Opera Web Browser Now Has Built-In WhatsApp And FB Messenger

Chrome Extension Embeds In-Browser Monero Miner That Drains Your CPU

Linux 4.14 Is Up To Around 23.2 Million Lines Of Code

Linux Kernel Grows Past 15 Million Lines of Code 2012

Gaming

What have I been playing:

This week has been full of Half Life 2 gameplay. It’s a relic that’s sat in my Summer Sale games archive for a while and considered by many to be one of the best games ever created by Valve. I’ve finally broken it out and starting to play through the story. It runs beautifully on Linux and so far find the very hurried pace and a solid story to be incredibly engaging. The fact that I am playing this means Half-Life 3 is confirmed!

Half-Life: C.A.G.E.D. from former Valve worker should hopefully come to Linux

Might be worth letting them know in the post if you’re interested.

‘SC Controller’ has a pre-release to support more gamepads

Atari is launching a new gaming system, the ‘Ataribox’

Official Website

WWI FPS ‘Tannenberg’ from the developers of Verdun to see day-1 Linux support

Rocket League’s huge ‘Autumn Update’ is now available

The SNES Classic Mini Uses the Same Hardware as the NES Mini

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Welcome to Episode 38 of Destination Linux for 09/25/17

News

GNOME 3.26 “Manchester” Desktop Environment Debuts Officially, Here’s What’s New

Adaptive Transparency

Dash to Dock v61 Released with Unity-Style Launcher Backlights

MConnect, the Android GNOME Shell Extension, Has Been Updated

Nifty GNOME Global Menu Extension Is ‘Discontinued For the Moment’

Linux Mint 18.3 “Sylvia” Information Released

Official Announcement

Tails Roadmap

ArchLabs 2017.09 Minimo

ArchMerge

Gradio 6.0

Linux gets blasted by BlueBorne too

BlueBorne Vulnerability Is Patched in All Supported Ubuntu Releases, Update Now

Greasemonkey 4: Firefox 57 compatibility

postmarketOS: An Ultimate Linux Distro For Your Smartphones Is Coming

How Much Time Do People Spend on Their Mobile Phones in 2017?

Plasma Mobile and Purism’s Librem 5 Free Smartphone

GNOME Foundation Gives its Backing to Purism’s Linux Phone

Gaming

What I’ve been playing: Guns of Icarus Online – $4.99

Albion Online’s next free expansion

Humble Bundle “Very Positive”

Call of Duty: WW2 PC Open Beta Happening This Month

New Trailer

Rocket League Autumn Update

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Destination Linux EP37 – Philip & Bernhard of Manjaro

Welcome to Episode 37 of Destination Linux for 09/18/17

Welcome Philip & Bernhard

Manjaro

History Release

Manjaro Editions

Manjaro Net

Community Editions

I3 Edition

MATE

Budgie

Deepin

StationX collaboration

Spitfire Manjaro Special Edition

StationX Announcement

New 17.0.4 release features

Gellivara is the last edition of Manjaro Linux supporting 32bit Architecture. Read more about this decision here.

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