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This week we’ve been playing Command & Conquer. We discuss your recent feedback about snaps and Ubuntu rolling release. Then we bring you some command line love and go over the rest of your wonderful feedback.

It’s Season 13 Episode 14 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Stuart Langridge are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:

* Mark has been playing Command and Conquer.

* We discuss all your feedback about snaps and rolling releases.

* We share a Command Line Lurve:

* proselint – Linter for prose

sudo apt install python3-proselint

proselint text.md

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

* Draw on your Screen GNOME extension

* The Ballad of Lidl & Aldi by Mick MacConnell at John B. Keane’s Bar in Listowel

* Image credit: Esteban Lopez

* 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 become Sudoku masters and made Ubuntu MATE images for the Raspberry Pi. We discuss Pine64 announcing the PineTab, plus launching a new OS for PinePhone, the Ubuntu Appliance Portfolio announcement, what Ubuntu Certified device are, more GNOME performance improvements, and 20.04.1 being delayed. We also round up our picks from the tech news.

It’s Season 13 Episode 13 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Stuart Langridge 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 images of Ubuntu MATE 20.04 LTS for the Raspberry Pi.

* Stuart has been watching Cracking the Cryptic.

* We discuss the community news:

* Pine64 announces the PineTab

* Pine64 also launches new PinePhone community edition with PostmarketOS

* Canonical has launched the Ubuntu Appliance Portfolio

* People and processes behind “Ubuntu certified” devices

* New Patches Aim To Improve Smoothness & Latency Of NVIDIA On GNOME

* Ubuntu LTS point releases are delayed

* We mention some events:

* GNOME Community Challenge

* “Our goal is to encourage individuals or teams to submit stimulating ideas that will connect the next generation of coders to the FOSS community and keep them involved for years to come.”

* Win over $20,000

* Submit your idea by 1st July

* We discuss the news:

* Norway’s contact tracing app has been suspended

* GitHub names default branches “main” instead of “master”

* Google adds URL hiding to Chrome

* Image credit: Nareeta Martin

* 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 shaving our face and finding new monitors in unexpected places. We discuss if Ubuntu should become a rolling release, bring you a GUI love and go over all your wonderful feedback.

It’s Season 13 Episode 12 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Joe Ressington are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:

* Martin has new male grooming products.

* Mark has a new monitor.

* We discuss if Ubuntu should be a rolling release.

* We share a GUI Lurve:

* antimicro – Map keyboard buttons and mouse controls to a gamepad to playing games with no gamepad support.

* antimicrox – Continuation of antimicro.

sudo apt install antimicro

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

* Design brief AntennaPod logo update

* Image credit: Laura Schulze

* 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 making podcasts and porting games to Scratch. We discuss Mint breaking Chromium, possible new features in Groovy Gorilla, GNOME defeating a patent troll, ZFS on Ubuntu, microk8s coming to Windows and macOS and Lenovo shipping Ubuntu or more laptops and workstations. We also round up some of our favourite stories from the tech world.

It’s Season 13 Episode 11 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Joe Ressington are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:

* Joe has been making Late Night Linux, The New Show and 2.5 Admins podcasts.

* Martin has been helping port Antsy Alien Attack! to Scratch.

* We discuss the community news:

* Mint breaks chromium in APT. See the Chromium in Ubuntu – deb to snap transition blog for more details.

* OMG Ubuntu speculates on Groovy Gorilla features

* Didier Roche has a series of blog posts about ZFS

* microK8s is now available on Windows and MacOS

* Lenovo Makes Entire Workstation Range Available with Ubuntu

* We discuss the news:

* GNOME gets big open-source patent win

* Electronic Arts release CNC source code

* 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 launched

* Image credit: Nimish ChauhanThat’s all for this week! You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube. We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon. 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 teaching our children to build a PC. We discuss where in the world people talk about Ubuntu, bring you some command line love and go over a bumper crop of your wonderful feedback!

It’s Season 13 Episode 10 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 teaching his son how to build a PC.

* We discuss where people talk about Ubuntu.

* We share a command line lurve:

* cod – COmpletion Daemon

source <(cod init $ bash)

grep --help

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

* Joe’s (not that one) introductory Linux videos

* Pro Bash Programming, Second Edition by Apress. This link is an Amazon affiliate link and will earn a commission, with no additional cost to you, in the event of purchases.

* Image credit: Adhy Savala

* If you’d like to support the show we have a crowd funder.

That’s all for this week! You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube. 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 getting older and adding plugins to OBS Studio. We discuss Ubuntu being certified on the Raspberry Pi, Unity Remix, if Microsoft should buy Canonical and WSL getting GUI app support. We also round up our pick from the general tech news.

It’s Season 13 Episode 09 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 working on the OBS Studio snap.

* Mark has been getting older, and wiser.

* We discuss the community news:

* Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is now certified on the Raspberry Pi

* Unity is Not Dead thanks to Ubuntu Unity Remix

* Should Microsoft buy Canonical?

* Pop!_OS 20.04 released

* UBPorts OTA-12 release

* WSL is getting GUI app support

* We discuss the news:

* Microsoft was on “The wrong side of history”

* Academic supercomputers hacked

* NHSX releases contact tracing app beta

* Image credit: Lance Grandahl

* If you’d like to support the show we have a crowd funder.

That’s all for this week! You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube. 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.

We announce the Ubuntu Podcast crowd-funder on Patreon and why, after 13 years, we are seeking your support.

It’s Season 13 Episode 8.5 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this mini-show:

* We discuss the Ubuntu Podcast crowd funder we’ve setup on Patreon.

* Image credit: Kjartan Einarsson

That’s all for this week! You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube. We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon. 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 live streaming on YouTube. We discuss upgrading home networks and optimising power line adapters, WiFi and broadband connections. A bumper crop of network-related command line love and all your wonderful feedback.

It’s Season 13 Episode 08 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 live streaming on YouTube.

* We discuss upgrading and optimising home broadband, WiFi and power line adapters.

* The links below are Amazon affiliate links and will earn a commission, with no additional cost to you, in the event of purchases.

* TP-Link Archer AX6000 Next-Gen WiFi 6 Gigabit Dual Band Wireless Cable Router

* TP-Link TL-PA9020PKIT 2-Port Gigabit Powerline Starter Kit

* External Wifi Antenna 2.4G/5.8G 6dBi with RP-SMA Adapter Extension Cable

* WiFi Analyzer; optimize your WiFi network by examining surrounding WiFi networks, measuring their signal strength as well as identifying crowded channels.

* iperf3; a tool for active measurements of the maximum achievable bandwidth on IP networks.

* wavemon; an ncurses-based monitoring application for wireless network devices.

* tracepath; traces path to a network host discovering MTU along this path.

* nmtui; Text User Interface for controlling NetworkManager.

* We share another command Line Lurve:

* ss – another utility to investigate sockets

sudo ss -tlp

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

* Including a program to automatically set fan speed on most Thinkpad laptops.

* Image credit: Antonino Visalli

That’s all for this week! You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube. 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 making a New Show and playing Ring Fit Adventure. We discuss Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu popularity and Canonical profitability, Ubuntu Core security audit, Groovy Gorilla is coming, Ubuntu Studio switches to KDE, Folder Colors adds Yaru support and Ubuntu Server has a self-updating installer. Plus we round up some of our favourite tech stories.

It’s Season 13 Episode 07 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 doing The New Show.

* Mark has been playing with Ring Fit Adventure.

* We discuss the community news:

* Mark Shuttleworth talks about Ubuntu popularity and Canonical profitability.

* Cybersecurity firm Rule4 have done a security audit of Ubuntu Core as an IoT platform.

* Ubuntu 20.10 will be “Groovy Gorilla” and was named by one of the presenters.

* Ubuntu Studio switching desktop environments.

* Ubuntu Folder Colours in 20.04.

* Self-updating server installer.

* We discuss the news:

* Billy Mitchell takes his Donkey Kong high-score cheating case to court

* Nintendo reportedly suffers leak

* ICANN withholds consent for sale of .org registry

* Image credit: Robert Collins

That’s all for this week! You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube. 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 playing DOOM 64 and discuss what’s new in Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS. We bring you some command line lurve and go over all your wonderful feedback.

It’s Season 13 Episode 06 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 playing DOOM 64.

* We discuss What’s new in Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS?

* We share a Command Line Lurve:

* complete – Add tab completion to bash commands

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

* Image credit: Kenny Luo

That’s all for this week! You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube. 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.