Linux Matters

This week we get crafty, discuss if Ubuntu is still exciting, bring you some command line love, round up all your wonderful feedback and visit ThinkPad corner.

It’s Season 13 Episode 34 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 up to recently:

* Alan has been crafting.

* We discuss if Ubuntu is still exciting and if it should drop GNOME.

* We share a command line lurve:

* vramfs – VRAM based file system for Linux

sudo apt -y install gcc libfuse3-dev make opencl-headers

git clone https://github.com/Overv/vramfs

cd vramfs

make

sudo cp bin/vramfs /usr/local/bin

# Mount vram

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/vram

sudo vramfs /mnt/vram 2GB -d 0

* And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!

* 8BitDo Wireless USB Adapter

* KDE Quarter Tiling

* Image credit: Daniel Jensen

* We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.

* You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

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 Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Telegram group.

This week we’ve been hacking Steam controllers and making fast home directories. We round up the Ubuntu community news, discuss the 21.04 codename, Raspberry Pi images for Ubuntu MATE, Trisquel 9.0, snap speed improvements and turn our lights on and off from GNOME Shell. We also round up some news from the rest of the tech world.

It’s Season 13 Episode 33 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 up to recently:

* Mark has been hacking his Steam controller.

* Martin has been making a very fast home directory.

* We discuss the community news:

* New community council elected

* New LoCo council sought

* New membership board sought

* 21.04 is Hirsute Hippo

* Ubuntu MATE 20.04.1 LTS and Ubuntu MATE 20.10 are available for the Raspberry Pi.

* Trisquel 9.0 “Etiona” is released

* Control Philips Hue Lights on Ubuntu with this GNOME Extension

* Snap speed improvements with new compression algorithm!

* We discuss the news:

* It’s a Raspberry Pi. It’s a keyboard.

* Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US

* Walmart sacks stock checking robots

* AI Camera operator confuses bald head for football

* Image credit: Dillon Shook

* We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.

* You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

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 Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or

This week we’ve been escaping from Hell and using Stadia controllers over WiFi. We

It’s Season 13 Episode 32 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 up to recently:

* Mark has been beating Hades; for the first time.

* Martin has been playing with Stadia controllers; including over WiFi with Stadia in a browser.

* We discuss all your tiling window manager feedback.

* We share a Command Line Lurve:

* liquidctl – Cross-platform CLI and Python drivers for AIO liquid coolers and other devices

liquidctl list

# animate the Corsair H115i cold plate

liquidctl set led color super-fixed 0000ff 1e90ff 0000ff 0000cd 00008b 000080 0000ff 1e90ff 0000ff 0000cd 00008b 000080 --match h115i

# set the Corsair H115i fan curve

liquidctl set fan speed 30 10 32 27 34 30 40 40 45 50 50 60 60 100 --match h115i

* And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP8266

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP32

* https://esphome.io/

* https://www.home-assistant.io/

* Image credit: Vladislav Muslakov

* We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.

* You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

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 Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Telegram group.

This week we’ve been upgrading computers and Ebaying stuff. We discuss the Windows Calculator coming to Linux, Microsoft Edge browser coming to Linux, Ubuntu Community Council elections and LibreOffice office getting Yaru icons. We also round up our picks from the general tech news.

It’s Season 13 Episode 31 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 up to recently:

* Martin has been upgrading his computer

* Alan has been selling stuff on eBay

* We discuss the community news:

* The Windows Calculator on Linux with Uno Platform

* OMG! Ubuntu! goes hands on with Microsoft Edge on Linux

* Ubuntu Community Council Elections

* LibreOffice now has a Yaru icon set in Ubuntu 20.10

* We discuss the news:

* Apple abandoning CUPS

* Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 now available!

* Meet the new BBC micro:bit

* Image credit: Annie Gray

* We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.

* You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

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 Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Telegram group.

This week we’ve been upgrading our GPUs. We discuss our experiences using IoT devices, bring you some command line love and go over all your wonderful feedback.

It’s Season 13 Episode 30 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 up to recently:

* Martin has been upgrading his computer with a Gigabyte RTX 3090 Gaming OC GPU

* We discuss our experiences using IoT devices.

* We share a Command Line Lurve:

* bpytop – Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor (BashTOP successor)

bpytop

* And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!

* https://kupferlauncher.github.io/

* https://github.com/kupferlauncher/kupfer

* Image credit: Markus Spiske

* We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.

* You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

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 Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Telegram group.

This week we’ve been hoovering with robots and playing Hades. We discuss snaps getting auto-theme install support, the Groovy Gorilla mascot, crowd sourcing featured apps for the Snap Store, touchpad gestures for Linux desktop and Mir still being alive and well! We also round up our picks from the tech news and bring you some events!

It’s Season 13 Episode 29 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 up to recently:

* Alan has been hoovering with Harvey.

* Mark has been playing Hades.

* We discuss the community news:

* Snaps getting auto-theme install option

* Ubuntu 20.10 gets a new wallpaper

* Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) Final Beta released

* Crowdsourcing Featured Applications

* Touchégg 2.0.0 – trackpad gestures

* Mir 2.1 is not dead

* We mention some events:

* FSF is 35 party – Friday, October 9th (12:00 EDT until 17:00 EDT). #fsf on freenode irc

* Linux Application Summit – 12th to 14th of November 2020 – Online

* MiniDebConf “Gaming Edition” – 21st – 22nd November 2020 – Online

* We discuss the news:

* MockA65xx – Universal 6502/85xx CPU replacement

* Hacktopberfest aftermath

* Public Health England misses a load of contact tracing records due to dodgy Excel import

* The Failed OUYA Game Console Seeing Work For Mainline Linux Kernel Support

* Image credit: Annie Spratt

* We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.

* You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

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 Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or

This week we have been writing a computer game. We take the tiling window manager challenge and discuss our experiences, bring you some command line love and go over all your wonderful feedback.

It’s Season 13 Episode 28 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 up to recently:

* Alan has been writing a game.

* We discuss our experiences using tiling window managers.

* Alan: Regolith

* Mark: FancyZones

* Martin: gTile

* We share a command line lurve:

* duf – Disk Usage/Free Utility

* And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!

* Image credit: Brett Jordan

* We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.

* You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

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 Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Telegram group.

This week we’ve been spying on our children and playing games on Twitch. We discuss the Ubuntu Community Council revival, GNOMEs new versioning scheme, Geary adding encryption support, Plasma 5.20, Xfce 4.16, Ubuntu Touch OTA-13 and Microsoft Edge coming Linux. We also round up our picks from the wider tech news.

It’s Season 13 Episode 27 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 up to recently:

* Mark has been setting up a nursery camera

* Martin has been playing Hotshot Racing, Her Majesty’s SPIFFING and Broforce on Wimpy’s World Twitch channel.

* We discuss the community news:

* Ubuntu Community Council to be revived

* Call for Ubuntu Community Council nominations

* New GNOME versioning scheme

* Geary: Transparent encryption and signing with GPG ( via Jeffrey Bouter on Telegram)

* Plasma 5.20 Beta

* Xfce 4.16 new features and improvements

* Microsoft Edge is coming to Linux in October

* Ubuntu Touch OTA-13 release

* We discuss the news:

* Wayback Machine and Cloudflare team up to archive more of the Web

* Melkhior’s Mansion coming soon

* Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably

* Old TV set interfered with village’s DSL Internet each day for 18 months

* Image credit: Siora Photography

* We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.

* You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

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

This week we’ve been playing with arcade boards and finishing DIY in the kitchen. We discuss if old technology is more fun than new technology, bring you a command line love and go over all your wonderful feedback.

It’s Season 13 Episode 26 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 up to recently:

* Alan has been playing with arcade games.

* Mark has been finishing his kitchen.

* We discuss if old technology is inherently more fun than new technology?

* We share a Command Line Lurve:

* opusenc – Podcasts on a Floppy disk

opusenc in.wav --downmix-mono --bitrate 6 --cvbr --framesize 60 out.opus

* And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!

* Image credit: Luuk Wouters

* We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.

* You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

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 Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Telegram group.

This week we have been watching The Mandalorian. We discuss a new look for UKUI, HP Z series computers with Ubuntu pre-installed, elementary OS on Pinebook, Active Directory integration in Ubuntu Desktop, and making apps for GNOME. We also round up some picks from the tech news.

It’s Season 13 Episode 25 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 up to recently:

* Martin has been watching The Mandalorian.

* We discuss the community news:

* Making apps for Linux, a proposal

* UKUI 3.1 Makes Some Major Visual Changes

* There’s Now an Official Todoist App for Linux

* HP Z series on Ubuntu

* elementary OS Adds Experimental Support for the Pinebook Pro

* Ubuntu 20.10 adding Active Directory support to the installer

* GNOME Power-Profiles-Daemon Taking Shape For Better System/Laptop Power Controls

* We mention some events:

* People Powered Community Building Book Club: Every Tuesday at 09:00PST from October 6th to December 15th – online.

* We discuss the news:

* Fall Guys to use Fortnite’s anti-cheat software

* Minecraft’s pack.png found at 3257840388504953787 x=49, z=0

* Super Mario 3D All Stars

* [Neil Buchanan is not Banksy](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-

* Image credit: Master Wen

* We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.

* You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

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 Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

* Join us in the