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Episode 0x19: GNOME 3.2 and Other Topics


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Karen and Bradley discuss the GNOME 3.2 release, Karen interviews

Jos Poortvliet, Bradley complains about identi.ca web interface and
they discuss together UEFI “secure” boot, and the PyPy
Python 3 campaign.

Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:40)
  • Bradley wrote
  • a blog post about how GNOME 3 is not for him.
    Segment 1 (07:14)
    • Karen interviewed Jos
    • Poortvliet
      Segment 2 (21:04)
      • Bradley mentioned Shaun
      • McCance's post to desktop-devel about response bias, which he
        posted on user survey thread. (25:04)
      • Karen mentioned that GNOME 3.2 has
      • been released with new features, such as better window
        resizing. (28:57)
      • Bradley pointed out that gnats was one of the earliest
      • Free Software bug tracking systems. (30:37)
        Segment 3 (31:53)
        • Bradley mentioned that he feels like the
        • unfrozen caveman lawyer when trying to use identi.ca now. (32:54)
        • Bradley mentioned Matthew Garrett's blog
        • post about UEFI so-called “secure” booting. (37:36)
        • PyPy is trying to raise
        • funds to support Python 3 on PyPy. (41:20)

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