Linux Matters

This week we’ve been moonlighting on all the podcasts and live streaming to share Ubuntu bug reporting skills. We discuss Ubuntu on Raspberry Pi 4, Debian’s new homepage, elementary updates and Fedora 31. We also round up some events and our picks from the tech news.

It’s Season 12 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 moon lighting on Linux Lads, Infinitely Galactic not just once, but twice and had Brunch with Brent on Jupiter EXTRAS.

* Alan has been on stay-cation and did a Better Bug Battling in Ubuntu 19.10 live stream, then made a short Reporting bugs in Ubuntu video.

* We discuss the community news:

* Roadmap for Ubuntu official support for the Raspberry Pi 4

* Debian project has a new home page proposal

* elementary updates for October

* 19.10 Rygel bug

* Fedora 31 is released

* We mention some events:

* GUADEC 2020 and 2021 announced

* We discuss the news:

* It’s Official: Microsoft Edge is Coming to Linux

* Deezer announce Spleeter

* GitLab considering banning support staff from some regions

* Image taken from Ikari Warriors published in 1986 for the Amstrad CPC by Elite.

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 live streaming, we discuss our time at OggCamp 2019, bring you some command line love and go over all your amazing feedback.

It’s Season 12 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:

* Alan has been Live streaming on YouTube.

* We discuss Oggcamp 2019!.

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* detox – Remove problematic characters from file names

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

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Image taken from Quadralien published in 1988 for the Amiga by Logotron Ltd.

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 UbuCon Europe and preparing for a new baby. We round up the community news including updates from Regolith, Xubuntu, ZFS on Ubuntu, GNOME fighting patent trolls and we discuss some of our news picks from the tech world.

It’s Season 12 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:

* Martin has been to UbuCon and got a new job.

* Mark has been doing baby things.

* We discuss the community news:

* Regolith adds support for Ubuntu 19.10

* Install Xubuntu 19.10 on a Raspberry Pi 4

* A detailed look at Ubuntu’s new experimental ZFS installer

* Stress testing CPU Temperatures

* The Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Codename Has Been Revealed…

* GNOME files a defence egainst patent troll

* Ubuntu is 15 years old

* We discuss the news:

* Linux on DeX is Dead, Says Samsung

* Phoronix Publish interview with ex-CTO at Purism

* UK government drops adult content blocking plans

* Image taken from DOOM published in 1993 for PC by id 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 doing ITIL Foundation training. Following the release of Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine), we discuss our wish list items for Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 (Focal Fossa), bring you some command line love and go over all your feedback.

It’s Season 12 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:

* Mark has been doing ITIL Foundation training.

* We each present our wish list items for Ubuntu Desktop 20.04.

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* mosh – Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity

mosh user@host

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

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Image taken from Super Sprint arcade machine manufactured in 1986 by Atari Games.

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 LEGO Worlds and tinkering with Thinkpads. We round up the news and goings on from the Ubuntu community, introduce a new segment, share some events and discuss our news picks from the tech world.

It’s Season 12 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:

* Martin has been playing LEGO Worlds.

* Alan has been playing with ThinkPad X61s.

* We discuss the community news:

* The State of Robotics – September 2019

* UbuCon Europe – Sintra Parks and Palaces Cultural Visit Program

* Scarlett Moore has been to Akademy

* Heather Ellsworth has blogged about adding snap metadata to upstream projects

* GStreamer Conference 2019 (including GStreamer and PipeWire hackfests)

* In career corner this week:

* Ubuntu Desktop Software Engineer – Focused on WSL

* We mention some events:

* Linux Application Summit: 11 to 15 of November 2019 – Barcelona, Spain.

* SeaGL – Seattle GNU/Linux Conference: 14 to 15 of November 2019 – Seattle Central College, WA, USA

* Seeking volunteers: email [email protected]

* We discuss the news:

* UK Internet usage peaks at 21:00 on Wednesdays

* Atari VCS architect quits project

* Calibre 4.0 is out

* Image taken from Exile published in 1988 for the BBC Micro by Superior 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 tourists in our home town, we review the Dell Precision 3540 Developer Edition laptop, bring you some command line love and go over all your wonderful feedback.

It’s Season 12 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:

* Mark has been a tourist in Oxford.

* We review the Dell Precison 3540.

* Dell Precision 3540 – USA

* Dell Precision 3540 – UK

* We share a Command Line Lurve:

* jpegoptim --strip-all -t *.jpg – utility to optimize/compress JPEG files

* optipng -strip all -o7 *.png – Advanced PNG Optimizer

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

* Script to inject files into GTK recently used

* Image taken from Interstate ’76 published in 1997 for PC by Activison.

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 have been syncing Google Photos to a local server. We discuss the Ubuntu 19.10 beta release including the flavours, updates on 32-bit package commitments in Ubuntu, porting MATE to Wayland, and round up some community events.

It’s Season 12 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:

* Alan has been using gphotos-sync.

* We discuss the community news:

* Ubuntu 19.10 beta released

* Lubuntu 19.10 beta

* Kubuntu 19.10 beta

* Ubuntu Budgie 19.10 beta

* Ubuntu MATE 19.10 beta

* 32-bit package commitments announced

* Porting MATE Apps to Wayland

* We mention some events:

* UbuCon Europe 2019: 10th to 13th of October 2019 – Sintra, Portugal.

* OggCamp: 19 to 20 of October 2019 – Manchester, UK.

* Talk about Clear Linux Saturday 2nd November at 3:30pm, The Harcourt Hotel, Dublin. Hosted by the Dublin Linux Community.

* Linux Application Summit: 11 to 15 of November 2019 – Barcelona, Spain.

* We discuss the news:

* Richard Stallman has resigned as president and board member of the Free Software Foundation.

* GNOME Foundation defending against patent lawsuit

* Image taken from Wings published in 1990 for the Amiga by Cinemaware.

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 cataloging hardware (mostly crusty Thinkpads). We interview Kyle Fazzari, serior robotics engineer at Canonical, bring you some command line love and go over all your feedback.

It’s Season 12 Episode 24 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Kyle Fazzari are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

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

* Alan has been cataloging hardware.

* We interview Kyle Fazzari; senior robotics engineer at Canonical.

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We share a command line Lurve:

* datefudge – Run a command with a different date to the current one

datefudge "1 May 2007" date -R

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

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Image taken from Gran Turismo published in 1997 for PlayStation by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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 Pillars of Eternity. We discuss boot speed improvements for Ubuntu 19.10, using LXD to map ports, NVIDIA Prime Renderer switching, changes in the Yaru theme and the Librem 5 shipping (perhaps). We also round up some events and some news from the tech world.

It’s Season 12 Episode 23 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope and Mark Johnson 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 Pillars of Eternity

* We discuss the community news:

* Boot speed improvements for Ubuntu 19.10

* Using lxd proxy device to map ports between host and containers

* nVidia optimus Linux Switching Applet updated

* 19.10 Yaru Theme will be light by default

* Librem 5 Phone ships (or does it)

* We mention some events:

* OggCamp: 19 to 20 of October 2019 – Manchester, UK.

* Linux Application Summit: 11 to 15 of November 2019 – Barcelona, Spain.

* Talk about Clear Linux Saturday 2nd November at 3:30pm, The Harcourt Hotel, Dublin. Hosted by the Dublin Linux Community.

* We discuss the news:

* Pinephone shipping soon

* EU governments use Nextcloud

* Microsoft announced exFAT for Linux

* Firefox Private Network

* Image taken from Wing Commander published in 1990 for PC by Origin 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 playing with the GPD WIN 2. We interview Sarah Townson about Science Oxford and making fighting robots, bring you some command line love and go over all your feedback.

It’s Season 12 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:

* Martin has been making Ubuntu MATE 19.04 for the GPD WIN 2.

* We interview Sarah Townson about Science Oxford and making fighting robots.

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We share a command Line Lurve:

* Ubuntu LTS Enablement Stacks

Desktop

sudo apt install --install-recommends linux-generic-hwe-18.04 xserver-xorg-hwe-18.04

Server

sudo apt install --install-recommends linux-generic-hwe-18.04

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

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Image taken from Shadow of the Beast published in 1989 for the Amiga by Psygnosis.

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.