Linux Matters

This week we’ve been to FOSS Talk Live and created games in Bash. We have a little LXD love in and discuss 32-bit Intel being dropped from Ubuntu 19.10. OggCamp tickets are on sale and we round up some tech news.

It’s Season 12 Episode 11 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:

* We’ve all been to FOSS Talk Live

* We discuss the community news:

* Development under LXD

* Using LXD under WSL2

* i386 dropped in ubuntu 19.10

* We mention some events:

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

* We discuss the news:

* Linux Worm Hits Unpatched Exim Servers

* Windows 7 EOL is Linux’ Last Best Shot

* Software below the poverty line

* Samsung TVs Should Be Virus Checked

* Image taken from 1942 arcade machine manufactured in 1984 by Capcom.

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 playing with tiling window managers, we “meet the forkers”, bring you some command line love and go over all your feedback.

It’s Season 12 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 playing with i3wm.

* We “meet the forkers”; when projects end, forks are soon to follow.

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We share a command line lurve:

* firejail – Firejail Security Sandbox

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

* “Steambox“

* Image taken from Salamander arcade machine manufactured in 1986 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.

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This week we’ve been cabling and tinkering with RGB on Razer keyboards and mice. We discuss a new application for visually impaired users called Magnus, updates from Ubuntu MATE and LibreOffice plus a round up of news from elsewhere in the open source and tech world.

It’s Season 12 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:

* Mark has been cabling and relocating.

* Martin has been RGB’ing to the max with his new BlackWidow Tournament Edition Chroma keyboard and old Lancehead Tournament Edition mouse.

* We discuss the community news:

* Magnus – A very simple screen magnifier.

* Ubuntu MATE 19.10 – New video player?

* LibreOffice 6.3 Drops 32-bit Linux Builds

* We mention some events:

* FOSS Talk Live: Saturday 8th June 2019 – London, England. At the Harrison Bar (near Kings Cross) from midday.

* We discuss the news:

* Stop theming my app

* MNT Reform

* New US visa requirements

* Image taken from Great Giana Sisters published in 1987 for Commodore 64 by Rainbow 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.

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This week we have been migrating a Pebble to Rebble, discuss WSL2, bring you some command line love and go over all your feedback.

It’s Season 12 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 migrating his Pebble to Rebble.

* We discuss WSL2.

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* Remove duplicate lines from files keeping the original order

awk '!visited[$0]++' your_file > deduplicated_file

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

* Mark’s baby fund

* Image taken from Spyro the Dragon published in 1998 for the 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.

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This week we’ve been installing Lineage on a OnePlus One and not migrating Mastodon accounts to ubuntu.social. We round up the Ubuntu community news from Kubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Peppermint OS and we discuss some tech news.

It’s Season 12 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 installing Lineage 16 on a OnePlus One.

* Mark has not been migrating to ubuntu.social

* We discuss the community news:

* Kubuntu have Plasma 5.16 beta available for testing

* Design and web team summary

* Ubuntu MATE 19.10 early development

* Ubuntu Flavours Meeting

* Peppermint OS 10 released

* Canonical announced support for Ubuntu on WSL

* We mention some events:

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

* We discuss the news:

* Google stops doing business with Huawei

* IBM 360 Model 20 Rescue and Restoration

* MongoDB data held to ransom

* Image taken from R-Type arcade machine manufactured in 1987 by Irem.

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 moving servers, discuss the recently announced Librem One services, bring you some command line love and go over your feedback.

It’s Season 12 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 moving servers.

* We discuss Librem One.

* Underscoring Our Transparency: First Librem One Bug Report

* Purism Explains Why There Are Trackers In Librem One Chat

* We share a Command Line Lurve:

* alias df="df -x squashfs" – Hide snap mounts from df

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

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Image taken from International Karate+ published in 1987 for Commodore 64 by System 3.

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 talk about our trip to LFNW. We discuss the new budget-friendly Dell Precision laptops shipping with Ubuntu, the Ubuntu Developer Desktop Survey, the most power efficient Ubuntu flavour and Mark Shuttleworth’s views on the Ubuntu Desktop. We discuss Pine64’s updates for May 2019, Easy Anti Cheat for Linux and the new Windows Terminal.

It’s Season 12 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 and Martin have been to Linux Fest North West and enjoying American culture.

* We discuss the community news:

* Announcing the budget-friendly, Linux-based Dell Precision mobile workstations

* Developer Desktop Survey

* Benchmarked: The Most Power-Efficient Ubuntu 19.04 Flavor Will Surprise You

* Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu, IPO and OpenStack

* We mention some events:

* OggCamp 2019 – call for papers: October 19 to 20 of October 2019 – Machester, UK.

* We discuss the news:

* Pine64 – May 2019 News

* Easy Anti Cheat for Linux on pause. Since recording this episode Epic Games released a statement that Easy Anti-Cheat is actually still supported for Linux.

* Microsoft announces Windows Terminal and WSL 2

* Image taken from Superfrog published in 1993 for the Amiga by Team17.

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 trying a new distro for retro gaming. We discuss if we should be advocating for people to switch to desktop Linux, bring you some command line love and go over your feedback.

It’s Season 12 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:

* Alan has been playing with batocera Linux.

* We discuss if we should we bother advocating for people to switch to Linux on the desktop?

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* tree -H '.' -L 1 --noreport --charset utf-8 > index.html – Make a static HTML directory index

tree -H '.' -L 1 --noreport --charset utf-8 > index.html

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

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Image taken from Ant Attack published in 1983 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 to Moodlemoot, finished hanging doors and watched some Game of Thrones. We discuss the Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) release for all the flavours and round up some news.

It’s Season 12 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 has been watching Game of Thrones and working on Ubuntu MATE.

* Mark has been at MoodleMoot and finished his doors.

* We discuss the community news:

* Ubuntu 19.04 Release Notes

* Lubuntu 19.04 Release Notes

* Kubuntu 19.04 Release Notes

* Ubuntu MATE 19.04 Release Notes

* Ubuntu Budgie 19.04 Release Notes

* Ubuntu Studio 19.04 Release Notes

* Xubuntu 19.04 Release Notes

* We mention some events:

* Linux Fest North West: April 26 – 28, 2019 Bellingham Technical College, WA, USA.

* We discuss the news:

* Sam Hartman is the new DPL

* Scientific Linux announces a move to CentOS

* The Samsung Galaxy fold is breaking. Already.

* Image taken from Wizball published in 1987 for Commodore 64 by Ocean 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 have been upgrading disk drives (again) and playing Elite Dangerous. We discuss Mark’s homebrew Raspberry Pi based streaming box, bring you some command line love and go over your feedback.

It’s Season 12 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:

* Alan has been upgrading drives. Send help!

* Mark has been playing Elite Dangerous.

* We discuss Mark’s DIY streaming box made with a Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ and LibreELEC.

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* rdfind – Rdfind is a program that finds duplicate files

* https://www.ostechnix.com/how-to-find-and-delete-duplicate-files-in-linux/

rdfind ./somedir

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

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Image taken from Light Force published in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum by Faster Than Light.

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.