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This week we’ve been playing Fall Guys. We discuss the Pinebook Pro and Pine Phone (we have hardware), bring you some command line love and respond to your wonderful feedback.

It’s Season 13 Episode 24 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 playing Fall Guys.

* We discuss discuss is the PinePhone and Pinebook Pro.

* We share a Command Line Lurve:

* version – Tells you the version of a program

version java

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

* Image credit: Wynand van Poortvliet

* 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.

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This week we’ve using new wireless headphones and test driving a Tesla. We discuss Mark Shuttleworth responding to feedback about Snapcraft, Jupiter Broadcasting regaining independence, Ayatana Indicators becoming cross-distro, Yaru Colors and we round up our picks from the tech news.

It’s Season 13 Episode 23 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 using new headphones.

* Alan has been test driving a Tesla model 3 performance.

* We discuss the community news:

* [The Manjaro community has a new home](https://forum.manjaro.org/t/welcome-to-the-new-manjaro-forum/151

* Mark Shuttleworth speaks

* Jupiter Broadcasting is independent again

* Ayatana Indicators and the recent news about cross-distro support

* Yaru Colors

* We discuss the news:

* WSL2 is being backported to older versions of Windows 10

* Apple have blocked Fortnite from the app store

* Windows 95 is 25

* Scots wikipedia isn’t in scots

* Image credit: Jonathan Bean

* 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.

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This week we’ve been trying to fix ice-makers and creating a new Discord server. We discuss appealing to communities, bring you another command line love and go over all your wonderful feedback.

It’s Season 13 Episode 22 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 trying to fix his ice-maker.

* Martin has been creating a Discord server.

* We discuss appealing to communities.

* Partly triggered by the university of costumed heroes video from the FSF.

* We share a command line love:

* nvtop – NVIDIA GPUs htop like monitoring tool

sudo apt install nvtop

nvtop

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

* WASD “Skeletor” mechanical keyboard.

* Ooni – portable wood-fired pizza oven.

* Image credit: Yan Ming

* 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.

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This week we’ve been exploring our computing past and getting sweets not computers from Amazon. We discuss new point releases of Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04 and 20.04, an Ubuntu restrospective infographic and KDE Neon 20.04. We also round up some events and tech news.

It’s Season 13 Episode 21 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 exploring his computing past.

* Martin has been getting sweets, not computers, from Amazon.

* We discuss the community news:

* 20.04.1 is out!

* 18.04.5 and 16.04.7 are on the way!

* Canonical publishes retrospective Ubuntu infographic

* KDE Neon 20.04 is out

* We mention some events:

* SeaGL 2020 CfP: 13th to 14th of November, 2020 – Virtual (Seattle) USA.

* We discuss the news:

* The National Museum of Computing launches virtual tour

* Toshiba bows out of the laptop business

* Mozilla axes 250 jobs to focus on “products”

* Bloke keeps getting sent bathtime toys in the post

* Image credit: William Daigneault

* 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.

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This week we’ve been building Monster Joysticks and playing Red Alert. We discuss the proliforation of Ubuntu Remixes, bring you some GUI love and go over all your wonderful feedback.

It’s Season 13 Episode 20 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 building Monster Joysticks

* Mark has been playing Red Alert.

* We discuss the proliforation of Ubuntu Remixes.

* Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix

* Ubuntu DDE Remix

* Ubuntu Unity Remix

* We share a GUI Lurve:

* ScreenRuler

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

* Ergodox-EZ

* Image credit: Kameron Kincade

* 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.

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This week we’ve been going retro; making an Ubuntu Retro Remix and playing ET:Legacy. We discuss the new release of digiKam, Intel GPU driver tweaks, Ubuntu Web Remix, Thunderbird 78 and Mir 2.0! We also round up our picks from the tech news.

It’s Season 13 Episode 19 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 making an Ubuntu remix for retro gamers.

* Alan has been playing ET Legacy.

* We discuss the community news:

* digiKam 7.0.0 is released

* Interesting Intel GPU Driver Nugget

* Ubuntu Web Remix, an alternative to Chrome OS built around Firefox

* Thunderbird 78 is out

* Mir 2.0.0 Released

* We mention no events because there is a global pandemic or something.

* We discuss the news:

* Secure boot is not so secure

* Get the full details here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/GRUB2SecureBootBypass

* Shutter stroll is a nice looking game

* Microsoft is dropping support for PHP on windows #wsltotherescue

* Minesweeper with roguelite elements is coming to Linux!

* Image credit: Erik Mclean

* 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.

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This week we’ve been making operating systems for the Raspberry Pi 4. We discuss our favourite gadgets, bring you a verrrry long command line love and round up all your wonderful feedback.

It’s Season 13 Episode 18 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 making Ubuntu MATE 20.04 for the Raspberry Pi 4.

* We discuss some of our favourite gadgets.

* We share a Command Line Lurve:

* A very, very long command line love

lsblk -bdno NAME,SIZE | grep -v loop | while read dev size; do model=$(

sdd 50346 hours ( 5.74 years) 2.73TiB TOSHIBA DT01ACA3

sdc 50346 hours ( 5.74 years) 2.73TiB TOSHIBA DT01ACA3

sda 50345 hours ( 5.74 years) 2.73TiB TOSHIBA DT01ACA3

sdb 50062 hours ( 5.71 years) 2.73TiB TOSHIBA DT01ACA3

sde 48991 hours ( 5.58 years) 0.23TiB VB0250EAVER

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

* Image credit: Mike Petrucci

* 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.

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This week we’ve been filling in forms and doing kitchen renovations. We discuss popularity contest being removed from Ubuntu, 19.10 going EOL, KDEs cross-platform storefront and Linux adopting inclusive language. We also round up our picks from the wider tech news and share an event; remember those!

It’s Season 13 Episode 17 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 filling in Form E.

* Mark has been doing kitchen renovations(!)

* We discuss community news:

* The “popularity contest” package will be removed from future versions of ubuntu

* Ubuntu 19.10 – Eoan Ermine goes EOL

* KDE Applications App Stores and Downloads

* Linux Adopts Inclusive Language

* We mention some events:

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

* We discuss the news:

* The UK government has ordered that Huawei kit be removed from the UK’s 5G network

* Nokia is not dead

* Flutter comes to desktop linux

* Image credit: Les Triconautes

* 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.

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This week we’ve been re-installing Ubuntu 20.04. Following WWDC, we discuss Linux Desktop aspirations, bring you some command line love and go over all your wonderful feedback.

It’s Season 13 Episode 16 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 re-installing Ubuntu.

* We discuss Linux Desktop aspirations.

* We share a Command Line Lurve:

* bashtop – “the cool top alternative”.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bashtop-monitor/bashtop

sudo apt update

sudo apt install bashtop

bashtop

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

* Rolling Rhino Illustration

* Grumpy Groundhog

* Image credit: Zdeněk Macháček

* 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.

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This week we’ve been helping HMRC and throwing a 10th birthday party. We discuss “Rolling Rhino”, split personality snaps, UBPorts supporting Project Treble devices, ZFS on Ubuntu 20.04 plus our round-up from the tech news.

It’s Season 13 Episode 15 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 doing user testing for HMRC.

* Martin has been doing a lockdown 10th birthday.

* We discuss community news:

* Ubuntu “Rolling Rhino”; as seen on YouTube

* Split Personality Snaps

* UBports GSI brings Ubuntu Touch to any Project Treble-supported Android devices

* ZFS focus on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: ZSys properties on ZFS datasets

* We discuss the news:

* THEVIC20 is a full size re-imagined version of Commodore’s ‘wonder computer’ from the 1980s

* Apple has announced that Macs will be moving away from Intel chips

* UK virus-tracing app switches to Apple-Google model

* Mozilla partner with Comcast to enable DNS-over-HTTPS

* Image credit: The Creative Exchange

* 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.

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