Linux Matters

This week we’ve been using Unity and learning about code of conduct incident response. We bring you a bumper crop of news and events from the Ubuntu community plus we round up some of our favourite stories from the tech world.

It’s Season 12 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 using Unity.

* Alan has been on a training course for Code of Conduct Incident Response.

* We discuss the community news:

* 9th generation Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition.

* 8 Ways snaps are different.

* Design and web team updates.

* Enlightenment is not dead.

* Joey from OMG! Ubuntu! reviews the GPD MicroPC (which runs Ubuntu MATE)).

* Micro Kubernetes 1.16.0 beta has been released.

* Linux is 28 years old.

* We mention some events, all of which are sponsored by Ubuntu!

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

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

* Akademy: 7th to 13th of September 2019 – Milan, Italy.

* We discuss the news:

* GIMP has been forked because of its silly name.

* Webmin has announced it was hacked.

* Fairphone 3 launches.

* Image taken from Rebelstar Raiders published in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum by Red Shift 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 experimenting with lean podcasting and playing Roguelikes. We discuss what goes on at a Canonical Roadmap Sprint, bring you some command line love and go over all your feedback.

It’s Season 12 Episode 20 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Stuart Langridge are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

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

* Alan has been creating a lean podcast – TeleCast with popey.

* Mark has been playing Roguelikes.

* We discuss what goes on at a Canonical Product Roadmap Sprint.

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* Ctrl+X – Expand a character

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

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Image taken from Outrun arcade machine manufactured in 1986 by Sega.

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 fixing floors and playing with the new portal HTML element. We round up the Ubuntu community news including the release of 18.04.3 with a new hardware enablement stack, better desktop integration for Livepatch and improvements in accessing the latest Nvidia drivers. We also have our favourite picks from the general tech news.

It’s Season 12 Episode 19 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson 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 fixing his floor.

* Stuart as been playing with the new portal HTML element.

* We discuss the community news:

* Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS is released

* Desktop integration for Livepatch

* KDE has removed a feature from .desktop files which posed a security risk

* Improvements to Additional Driver options on the way

* Ubuntu 19.10 will have an experimental “ZFS on root” option

* We mention some events:

* The Linux Application Summit is coming to Barcelona in November: 12th to 15th November – Barcelona, Spain.

* Open EdTech Global Festival 2019: 21 to 22 of November 2019 – Barcelona, Spain.

* We discuss the news:

* Man gets “NULL” license plate with unexpected consequences

* Rust developers Facepunch announced the future of the game on Linux

* Facial recognition in use around King’s Cross Station

* kill -9 Linux Journal

* Image taken from Starglider published in 1986 for the Amiga by Rainbird.

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 running Steam in the cloud via an NVIDIA SHIELD TV. We discuss if we even need new distros and whether its more Linux apps we need. Plus we bring you some GUI love and go over all your feedback.

It’s Season 12 Episode 18 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Mattias Wernér are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

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

* Martin has been setting up Steam with Family view and library sharing in the “nvidia cloud” using the NVIDIA SHIELD TV

* Mattias has been snapping strife.

* We discuss creating new distros vs. creating new Linux apps and how do we advocate for more app development.

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We share a GUI Lurve:

* UBports Installer

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

* gpodder is still seeking a maintainer

* Image taken from Pilotwings published in 1989 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System by Nintendo.

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 more DIY, playing Slay the Spire and wrestling with CSS. We discuss a strictly confined snapped desktop environment, DNS over HTTPS as a snap, BT choosing Ubuntu for its 5G core and how the Ubuntu 19.10 development is progressing. We also round up some events and news from the tech world.

It’s Season 12 Episode 17 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Mattias Wernér 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 more DIY!

* Mattias has been playing with Slay the Spire and slaving away over CSS with Visual Studio Code.

* We discuss the community news:

* An example snap confined “desktop”

* DNS over HTTPS in a snap

* BT picks Canonical Ubuntu to build 5G core

* Ubuntu 19.10 Development Continues With Latest GNOME Updates, ZFS, Optimizations

* We mention some events:

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

* SeaGL 2019 – Call for papers: 15 to 16 of November, 2019 – Seattle Central College

* We discuss the news:

* GitHub blocking developers over US trade sanctions

* Blender feels the love from Epic and Ubisoft and Blender Foundation also officially publishes Blender in the Snap Store.

* Red Hat hold an AMA on reddit

* Floppy driver now orphaned

* Image taken from The Secret of Monkey Island published in 1990 for PC by Lucasfilm 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 learning about the crazy world of flat earthers. In a change to our scheduled programming we discuss Alan’s new lean podcasting experiment, bring you some command line love and go over all your feedback.

It’s Season 12 Episode 16 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, 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 watching flat earth and space denier debunking videos by SciManDan, Conspiracy Catz and Bob the Science Guy.

* We discuss a popey’s lean popdcasting project, Telecast with popey

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* netlify-cli – Deploy sites or configure continuous deployment straight from the command line.

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

* Hypra – the universally accessible OS

* Image taken from Glider Rider published in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum by Quicksilva 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 buying a new phone and playing with QEMU. We discuss the release fo Debian 10, Ubuntu users saying “Thank you”, Nvidia drivers, WSL and Ubuntu MATE for the GPD MicroPC. We also round up some events and tech news.

It’s Season 12 Episode 15 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 buying a new phone.

* Stuart has been playing with QEMU.

* We discuss the community news:

* Debian 10 Buster is released

* Will Cooke has a nice message

* Introducing ubuntu-wsl, the package making Ubuntu better and better on WSL including a fresh Ubuntu wiki page about WSL

* Ubuntu MATE 19.10 is coming to the GPD MicroPC

* Ubuntu LTS Linux Distributions Will Now Get The Latest Nvidia Drivers Installed Automatically

* We mention some events:

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

* Oggcamp 19: 19th to 20th of October 2019 – The Manchester Conference Centre, Pendulum Hotel, Manchester UK.

* We discuss the news:

* Internet group brands Mozilla “internet villain” for supporting DNS privacy feature

* Maintainer for gpodder.net needed

* Raspberry Pi 4 doesn’t work with some USB-C cables

* Image taken from Diablo published in 1996 for PC by Blizzard 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 installing macOS and Windows on a Macbook Pro and a Dell XPS 15. We discuss Running Challenges, bring you some command line love and go over all your feedback.

It’s Season 12 Episode 14 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Laura Cowen are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

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

* Martin has been using macOS Mojave and Windows 10.

* We discuss Running Challenges, a browser extension that allows you to play games with your parkrun results.

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We share a Command line lurve:

* fatsort – Sorts the file allocation table of your FAT formatted storage

sudo fatsort -n /dev/sdb1

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

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Image taken from Sega Rally Championship arcade machine manufactured in 1994 by Sega.

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 giving talks and spending 8 and a half years becoming a Doctor of Philosophy. We discuss 32-bit Intel packages in Ubuntu, the Eoan Ermine wallpaper competition, Mir still not being dead, the new Snap Store, some jobs you might want to apply for, UbuCon Europe, Oggcamp, the new Raspberry Pi 4 and round up some headlines from the tech world.

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

In this week’s show:

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

* Mark has been giving some talks.

* Dr. Laura has been working on her Ph.D.

* We discuss the community news:

* Ubuntu not to drop 32-bit packages, after all

* Wallpaper competition – Eoan Ermine 19.10

* Mir 1.3.0 Released

* Ubuntu Has Started Work On A New Desktop Snap Store

* Launchpad team are hiring

* Ubuntu Desktop team are hiring, also Iain Lane posted this on the GNOME blog

* We mention some events:

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

* Oggcamp 19: 19th to 20th of October 2019 – The Manchester Conference Centre, Pendulum Hotel, Manchester UK.

* We discuss the news:

* Shiny new Raspberry Pi

* Linux is now more popular than Windows on Azure

* The Microsoft ebook A-P-O-C-A-L-Y-P-S-E is upon us!

* FreeDOS is 25

* Image taken from Prince of Persia published in 1989 for PC by Brøderbund Software, Inc.

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 at the Snapcraft Summit in Montreal, we bring you some command line love and go over all your feedback.

It’s Season 12 Episode 12 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 and Martin have been to galavanting in Montreal.

* We discuss what when on at the fourth Snapcraft Summit.

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* dstat – dstat – Versatile Resource Statistics Tool

dstat

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

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Image taken from Nemesis arcade machine manufactured in 1985 by Konami.

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.