Linux Matters

We’ve been playing with PCI Express to SATA SSD adapters and we discuss UBPorts becoming a foundation, Ubuntu 14.04 entering ESM, Ubuntu 19.04 beta, Ubuntu MATE 18.04 for the Raspberry Pi and GPD Pockets. Plus we round up some community events and news headlines.

It’s Season 12 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:

* Martin has been experimenting with the Sedna PCI Express (PCIe) Dual 2.5 Inch SATA III SSD Adapter.

* We discuss the community news:

* The UBPorts foundation is ready for launch

* 14.04.6 release and ESM

* 19.04 beta is out

* Ubuntu MATE 18.04 and 19.04 for GPD Pocket & Pocket 2

* Ubuntu MATE 18.04 Beta 1 for Raspberry Pi

* We mention some events:

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

* 6th UK Open source awards – June 12, 2019 Edinburgh, Scotland

* FOSSTalk Live – June 8th, 2019 London – The Harrison Pub

* We discuss the news:

* Valve Index VR headset details accidentally released

* New UK Social media watchdog

* GPS has a Y2K

* Image taken from the Bombjack arcade machine manufactured in 1984 by Tehkan.

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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To ease ourselves into Season 12 we have a chat about what we’ve been up to since the end of Season 11.

It’s Season 12 Episode 00 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We have a chat about what we’ve been up to recently.

* Mark has been hanging doors and playing Sunless Skies.

* Martin has been watching Game of Thrones and started Wimpy’s World YouTube channel.

* Alan has been galavanting around the world and trying to reduce his screen time.

* We all went to our first Ubuntu Podcast listener get together at BrewDog.

* Image taken from Frontier published in 1993 for the Amiga by GameTek.

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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We’re having a Get Together in Reading, UK on Saturday March 16th 2019. The exact venue is not decided yet, but will be in Reading town centre.

We’d like to gauge how many people might come, so please sign in and mark yourself as wanting to come.

* https://gettogether.community/events/717/listener-get-together/

It’s Season 11 Episode 99 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson is connected and speaking to your brain.

Back in November 2018 we conducted a poll on Twitter to see what kind of social event our listeners were interested in. Overwhelmingly (and perhaps unsurprisingly) you chose a Pub/Restaurant meet, so that’s what we’re doing.

It’ll be a relaxed social event with the presenters having a beer or fruit-based drink, and maybe some food to be decided later.

Do let us know if you’d like to come by marking yourself attending here.

* Image credit: Israel Palacio

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 Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our Google+ page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

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This week we have been writing Bash scripts and using Code page 437. We bring you our predictions for 2019 and also our listener predictions for 2019, plus a command line lurve and all your feedback.

It’s Season 11 Episode 42 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 been writing a lot of Bash and getting reaquainted with Code page 437.

* We present our predictions for 2019.

Alan (10 points each)

* Elon Musk will continue to stay stupid stuff on Twitter. Something will trigger his removal from either Boring Company, Tesla or SpaceX.

* A significant size vendor (not Google), will make a viable Android competitor to iPad.

* A new Raspberry Pi will be released which has a completely different form-factor to the existing models.

Mark (15 points each)

* ~50% of Steam games will be whitelisted to play via Proton. Perhaps 2% Linux market share.

* A Facebook executive will be prosecuted by a government.

Martin (7.5 points each)

* AMD graphics cards will outperform nvidia RTX with Radeon Rays.

* The first device running Google’s Fuscia will come to market.

* A Steam games console powered by Steam OS will be released and officially endorsed by Valve.

* Microsoft release another significant, established, desktop application for Linux.

Listener predictions via Telegram

* McPhail

* Canonical will be bought by… Sports Direct – (just think of the merchandising possibilities)

* Repeating my failed prediction of last year and say that snaps will run natively on the WSL.

* Raymond Larabe Jr

* I predict that Martin will have a new nvidia 20 series GPU running on another NUC by June.

* Sergio Schvezov

* I think either MS Office or a major Abobe product will be offered as a snap.

* Diddledan

* Linus will throw in the towel after yet another incident involving abbrasive behaviour resulting in a gamergate like attack on Linux.

Listener predections via email

* Paul Waring

* A triple-A game title will be released with Linux supported from day one, as opposed to being ported years later by a company like Feral.

* Mark Shuttleworth will sell off a significant stake in Canonical to a third party.

* Another large company (IBM?) will launch a public cloud offering to compete with Google Cloud, AWS and Azure.

* Andreas Abendroth

* Canonical buys Microsoft.

* Microsoft extends the time for support of Windows 7.

* Torin Doyle

* Either Void Linux or Solus will shutdown sometime next year.

* Canonical will be bought out by Microsoft

This week we have been playing Super Smash Bros Ultimate and upgrading home servers from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04. We discuss Discord Store confirming Linux support, MIPS going open source, Microsoft Edge switching to Chromium and the release of Collabora Online Developer Edition 4.0 RC1. We also round up community news and events.

It’s Season 11 Episode 41 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 upgrading home server(s) from 16.04 to 18.04.

* Mark has been playing Super Smash Bros Ultimate.

* We discuss the news:

* Discord Store will support Linux

* MIPS goes open source

* Microsoft will base future versions of the Edge browser on Chromium

* Collabora Online Developer Edition (CODE) 4.0 – RC 1

* We discuss the community news:

* Robert Ancell has blogged about GIFs in GNOME and Interesting things about the GIF image format

* Fixing broken Dropbox sync support

* KDE apps at the snap of your fingers including a snap of the entire KDE Plasma desktop.

* More Ubuntu laptops are available from Dell

* Mir News: 14th of December 2018

* We mention some events:

* FOSSTalk Live: 8th June 2019 – London – The Harrison Pub

* Image credit: Ben Hershey

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 Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our Google+ page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

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This week we’ve been playing on the Nintendo Switch. We review our tech highlights from 2018 and go over our 2018 predictions, just to see how wrong we really were. We also have some Webby love and go over your feedback.

It’s Season 11 Episode 40 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 on his Nintendo Switch.

* We review the tech highlights from 2018 and go over our 2018 predictions.

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We share a Webby Lurve:

* Cockpit – The easy-to-use, integrated, glanceable, and open web-based interface for your servers

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

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Image credit: Paul 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 Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our Google+ page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

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This week we’ve been flashing devices and getting a new display. We discuss Huawei developing its own mobile OS, Steam Link coming to the Raspberry Pi, Epic Games laucnhing their own digital store and we round up the community news.

It’s Season 11 Episode 39 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 flashing all the things. Lineage on the Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7, Nexus 9, Nexus 10 and moto Style X. UBports 16.04 on the BQ Aquaris M10 FHD.

* Alan has been playing with a new display.

* We discuss the news:

* Huawei is Developing its own Mobile OS

* Steam Link app comes to the Raspberry Pi

* Fortnite and Unreal developer Epic Games are launching their own digital store

* We discuss the community news:

* Xubuntu Will Stop Producing 32-bit ISOs Beginning With Xubuntu 19.04

* Snapcraft 3.0

* Nautilus 3.30 – status

* MATE panel running in Mir

* New features in Forkstat

* We mention some events:

* FOSDEM ’19: 2nd to 3rd of Feb 2019 – Brussels, Belgium.

* Image credit: Elijah O’Donell

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 Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our Google+ page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

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This week we’ve been donating to Wikipedia and discuss Mark’s Snappy Adventure. We bring you some command line love and go over all your feedback.

It’s Season 11 Episode 38 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 donating to Wikipedia.

* We discuss Mark’s “Snappy Adventure”.

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* youtube-dl – Download an entire YouTube channel

youtube-dl -f best -ciw -o %(title)s.%(id)s.%(ext)s -v https://www.youtube.com/ubuntupodcast

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

* Termux Android App

* Image credit: Jess Watters

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 Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our Google+ page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

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This week we’ve been building a new home server using SnapRAID and upgrading a Thinkpad to Ubuntu 16.04. Samsung debut the beta of Linux on DeX, Wireframe Magazine is out, the Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ is available, Ubuntu 18.04 will be supported for 10 years and we round up community news.

It’s Season 11 Episode 37 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 building a new home server using an ICY DOCK Black Vortex, SnapRAID and mergerfs.

* Alan has been upgrading a Thinkpad to Ubuntu 16.04.

* We discuss the news:

* Samsung’s Linux on DeX enters beta with an Ubuntu desktop

* Wireframe Magazine is out

* Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ announced

* Ubuntu 18.04 will be supported for 10 years!

* We discuss the community news:

* William Wold posted another Mir update to the Ubuntu Community Hub

* Daniel Van Vugt updates the Desktop team with his GNOME Shell Performance work

* Updates to Editor’s Picks in GNOME Software

* Image credit: Toshiyuki IMAI

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 Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our Google+ page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

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This week we’ve been resizing partitions. We interview Andrew Katz and discuss open souce and the law, bring you a command line love and go over all your feedback.

It’s Season 11 Episode 36 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 resizing partitions, with mixed success.

* We interview Andrew Katz about open source and the law.

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* hub – hub is a command-line wrapper for git that makes you better at GitHub

snap install hub

hub ci-status

hub issue

hub pr

hub sync

hub pull-request

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

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Image credit: Greyson Joralemon

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 Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our Google+ page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

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