Linux Matters

This week we’ve be stoving in people’s heads with spades and buying tablets. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is out! We discuss GNOME Shell UX plans, the GNOME extension for Snapcraft, Ubuntu on LinuxONE mainframes and a new release of Mir. We round up some events and our picks from the tech news.

It’s Season 13 Episode 05 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 hosting popey spades and OpenSpades public server; snap install openspades to join the fun!

* Martin now Lives in a 3 tablet household, Lenovo Smartab P10, Lenovo Smartab M10 and Fire HD 10 Kid Edition

* We discuss the community news:

* Ubuntu 20.04 LTS arrives!

* GNOME Shell UX Plans

* Heather Ellsworth blogged about the Snapcraft GNOME Extension

* A UK map made of squares

* Ubuntu and the new IBM LinuxONE III LT2

* Mir 1.8.0 Released

* We mention some events:

* Akademy: 4th to 11th of September 2020 – Online

* Akademy consists of panels, workshops and BoFs on KDE projects and applications, Plasma, Plasma Mobile, coding, contributing and more.

* Ubuntu Masters Virtual Event: 30th April

* Technical deep-dive discussions, interact with the speakers, and access resources to help kick you off these ideas in your own organisation.

* We discuss the news:

* Inkscape 1.0 Inches closer after 16 years in development

* GitHub is now free for teams

* Into the Breach 1.2 released with Linux support

* Image credit: Elaine Howlin

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.

This week we’ve been playing virtual board games. We discuss the new generation of Linux phones, bring you some command line love and go over all your wonderful feedback.

It’s Season 13 Episode 04 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 board games.

* We discuss the new generation of Linux phones.

* We share a Command Line Lurve:

* systemctl --user restart pulseaudio – Restart PulseAudio, the right way.

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

* Image credit: Jordan McDonald

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 auditing Thinkpads and making beta releases of Ubuntu. We round up some of what’s new in the Ubuntu flavours Focal Fossa beta releases and discuss stories from the tech world.

It’s Season 13 Episode 03 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 as been working on Beta release of Ubuntu; both the orange and green versions.

* Alan has been auditing his ThinkPads.

* We discuss the community news:

* Release notes for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

* Lubuntu 20.04 LTS Beta Released!

* Kubuntu Focal Fossa (20.04 LTS) Beta Released

* Ubuntu Budgie 20.04LTS Release Notes

* Ubuntu Kylin 20.04 LTS Beta Released!

* Ubuntu MATE 20.04 Release Notes

* Ubuntu Studio 20.04 LTS Beta (Focal Fossa) Released

* Xubuntu 20.04 Release Notes

* Ubuntu Testing Week

* We mention some events:

* GUADEC 2020: 22 to 28 of July 2020

* GUADEC 2020 – the GNOME Developer Conference will now be a virtual online event.

* Akademy 2020: Some time in August/September 2020.

* Akademy – the KDE conference, will also be online some time around August/September

* We discuss the news:

* Phoronix is reporting on the March 2020 Steam Survey results

* 3D printers are finally useful

* Image credit: Emmy Smith

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.

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This week we’ve been live streaming Ubuntu development and replacing VirtualBox with Bash. We discuss Mark’s new Linux Steam PC set-up, bring you some musical command-line love and go over all your feedback!

It’s Season 13 Episode 02 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 Ubuntu development and creating a replacement for VirtualBox in Bash.

* We discuss a Mark’s new Linux Steam PC and in-home streaming setup.

* We share a Command Line Lurve:

* ncspot – ncurses spotify music client

sudo snap install ncspot

ncspot

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

* Image credit: Miguel Orós

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.

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This week the band is back together. We’ve been bringing new life into the universe and interconnecting chat systems. Distros are clad in new wallpapers, Raspberry Pi’s are being clustered with MicroK8s and the VR game industry has been revolutionsed.

It’s Season 13 Episode 01 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 having a baby

* Alan has been setting up an IRC to Telegram bridge with matterbridge.

* We discuss the community news:

* Xubuntu launches its wallpaper contest for 20.04

* Ubuntu Studio announces its wallpaper contest winners for 20.04 LTS

* The 10 finalists

* Serial gallavanter Martin Wimpress has announced the Focal Fossa mascot, Felicity

* The World Cup of Ubuntu Desktops has been won by Hardy Heron

* Rhys Davies has written about building your own computing cluster with Raspberry Pis and MicroK8s

* The partnering MicroK8s Pi cluster tutorial

* Daniel Foré of Elementary OS ran a crowdfunding campaign for an in-person AppCenter development sprint

* Ubuntu-fr has some cool t-shirts for sale

* We mention some events:

* FOSS Talk Live is sadly not happening. We hope to see you next year instead.

* We discuss the news:

* Everyone loves Half-Life: Alyx

* Fight COVID-19 with Folding@Home

* Registered Moodle sites jump by 30% in 1 week

* Image taken from Bekky Bekks

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.

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This week we’ve been making a low latency point-to-point game streaming application, discuss what it takes to create each Ubuntu distro release, bring you some command line love and go over the last of your feedback for 2019.

It’s Season 12 Episode 36 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope 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 a low latency point-to-point game streaming application for 8-bit Versus.

* We discuss what happens in each 6 month Ubuntu development cycle and how Ubuntu is created.

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* autojump – a faster way to navigate your filesystem

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

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Image taken from Desert Strike published in 1992 for PC by Electronic Arts.

That’s all for this year! 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 talking to the BBC about Thinkpads and Ubuntu goes Pro. We round up the news from the Ubuntu community and discuss our picks from the wider tech news.

It’s Season 12 Episode 35 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope 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 talking to the BBC about Thinkpads.

* We discuss the community news:

* Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Web Services

* Introducing elementary OS 5.1 Hera

* Linux Mint 19.3 “Tricia” Beta

* Lubuntu Focal Fossa 20.04 LTS Wallpaper Contest

* GTK CSD support in KDE

* Lots of bugs in 32-bit x86 Linux entry code

* Fake version of dateutil discovered on PyPI

* We mention some events:

* FOSDEM 2020: 1 to 2 of February 2020 – Brussels, Belgium.

* We discuss the news:

* Mozilla Launches Free Firefox VPN Beta Test

* Genius sues Google

* Firewatch developer’s next game “on hold” after Valve acquisition

* Image taken from Feud published in 1987 for the ZX Spectrum by Bulldog Software.

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 in Vancouver and planning for Ubuntu 20.04. We respond to all your distro hopping feedback and bring you a command line love.

It’s Season 12 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:

* Martin has been in Vancouver at the Product Strategy sprint for Ubuntu 20.04

* We discuss a segment.

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We share a type of Lurve:

* mergerfs – a featureful union filesystem

* Have a listen to Jupiter EXTRAS episode 28 a chat with mergerfs developer Antonio Musumeci.

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

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Image taken from Buggy Boy published in 1987 for Commodore 64 by Elite Systems.

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 to the Linux Application Summit in Barcelona. We round up news from the Ubuntu and desktop Linux community and bring you our picks from the wider tech news.

It’s Season 12 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:

* Alan has been in Barcelona at Linux Application Summit.

* We discuss the community news:

* We reduced our Docker images by 60% with –no-install-recommends

* Jonathan Riddel blogs about LAS 2019

* Ubuntu Focal Fossa (20.04) daily builds available

* Google and fwupd sitting in a tree

* The Open Book is an open hardware ebook reader

* We discuss the news:

* Pine64 announce limited Pinephone availability

* New NextCry Ransomware Encrypts Data on NextCloud Linux Servers

* Private Internet Access acquired $95.5million

* Slimbook announces high-end Linux laptop

* Valve announces Half-Life: Alyx

* Image taken from The Sentinel published in 1986 for the BBC Micro by Firebird Software.

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 become addicted to Sedna SSD to PCIe controller cards. We discuss why distro hoppers are the worst, bring you some GUI love and round up our listener feedback.

It’s Season 12 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:

* Martin has developed an addiction for Sedna SSD to PCIe adpaters.

* We discuss why “distro hoppers” are the worst!

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We share a GUI Lurve:

* Simple GNOME app with stopwatch, timer, and world clock support

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

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Image taken from Dungeon Keeper published in 1997 for PC by Electronic Arts.

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.