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This week we’ve been upgrading a Steam box. We discuss Steam Play beta and Proton, Google’s salty disclosure of security issue in the Android installer for Fortnite, and Windows 95 being available for all the things. We also round up the community news.

It’s Season 11 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:

* Mark has been upgrading his Steam box.

* We discuss the news:

* Valve realeases Proton

* Proton City – Check compatibility of Proton Games

* Community Compatibility Reports

* Google is irresponsible claims Fortnite’s chief in bug row

* You Can Now Run Windows 95 as an App on Windows, macOS, and Linux

* We discuss the community news:

* Ubuntu developer contributes to upstream project

* Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 Release

* Ubuntu Membership Board call for nominations

* KDE Neon Arrives For Pinebook)

* 18.04 images are now available for testing

* Bodhi Linux 5.0 Arrives with Moksha Desktop Improvements)

* 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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One of us has been vacationing in France. Alan went to Akademy and explains what went on. We’ve got some Webby love and go over all your feedback.

It’s Season 11 Episode 24 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 on holiday in the Dordogne and working in Montreal.

* Alan attended Akademy and we find out what went on.

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We share a Webby Lurve:

* anti-social – Scheduled blacklist for social media and other websites

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

* Akitio Node external GPU enclosure

* tvheadend Snap

* Stage 9 – Virtual Enterprise-D from Star Trek The Next Generation

* Image credit: Alina Grubnyak

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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We’ve been upgrading RAM and tooting in the fediverse. We discuss Hollywood embracing open source, a new release of LibreOffice, pacemakers getting hacked and fax machines becoming selfaware and taking over the planet. We also round up the community news and events.

It’s Season 11 Episode 23 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 RAM.

* Mark has been tooting on Mastodon.

* We discuss the news:

* Academy Software Foundation founded

* LibreOffice 6.1 released

* Malicious fax causes security panic

* Hack causes pacemakers to deliver life-threatening shocks

* We discuss the community news:

* Mystery Donation Lets Elementary Hire Full-Time Staff

* KDE Plasma 5.14 Desktop Environment Lets You Upgrade Your Computer’s Firmware

* Opera arrives as an Ubuntu Snap for most Linux distros

* We mention some events:

* FOSDEM: 2nd – 3rd Feburary 2019, Brussels

* OggCamp!: 18th – 19th August 2018. Sheffield, UK.

* Image credit: Hunter Johnson

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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Alan and Mark shoot the breeze about stuff, you know? They miss Martin and hope he comes back soon.

It’s Season 11 Episode 22 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope and Mark Johnson are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* BATHROOM CHAT!

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We discuss a negativity towards developers when bugs occur.

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* maybe – run a command and see what it will do to your system, without doing it

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

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Image credit: Ian Schneider

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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No Martin this week as we’ve let him off for good behaviour. So Mark and Alan bring you news, community info and events in this weeks show.

It’s Season 11 Episode 21 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:

* Going on holiday via AirBnB

* We discuss the news:

* Moodle ends partnership with blackboard

* Steam game is removed after allegations of sneaky cryptocurrency mining

* New firefox logos

* Krita removes links to source code from Windows Store listing

* We discuss the community news:

* Gervase Markham has died

* Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS is released

* The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre government has posted some security tips for Ubuntu 18.04

* Communitheme is now called “Yaru”

* We mention some events:

* Akademy 2018: 11 to 17 of August 2018 – Vienna, Austria..

* Debian’s 25th birthday celebration meetups: August – Lots of places.

* OggCamp!: 18th to 19th of August – Sheffield, UK.

* Image credit: Lyndsey Burk

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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We get an Entroware laptop fixed. We discuss Ryan’s Linux journey, bring you some command line love and go over all your feedback.

It’s Season 11 Episode 20 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Ryan are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

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

* Mark has been getting his Entroware laptop fixed.

* We discuss Ryan’s journey getting into Linux.

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* sparky – ASCII art game where you play a dog

snap install sparky

sparky

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

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Image credit: Vitaly

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 recover from a failed disk in a ReadyNAS and get to grips with the Amazon Kindle Oasis E-reader. npm gets pwned, Debian 9.5 is released, the Snap Store get verified publishers, categories and other improvements. Humble Bundle offer a Linux Geek Book Bundle, we also round up the community news and events.

It’s Season 11 Episode 19 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Ryan are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

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

* Alan has been replacing a failed disk

* Ryan has purchased and been using an Amazon Kindle Oasis

* We discuss the news:

* NPM gets owned, again

* Debian 9.5 Gets Released

* Snap Store Website Gets Even Better

* Linux GEEK Humble Book Bundle

* We discuss the community news:

* 17.10 Artful Aardvark is dead. Upgrade to 18.04 now!

* The Free Culture showcase is open for 18.10

* Minimal Ubuntu cloud images now available

* We mention an event:

* OggCamp!: 18th to 19th of August – Sheffield, UK.

* Scheduled track information now live!

* Social events are happening on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday night. It would be helpful if you can take the quick Social Survey

* Sponsored by Entroware, The OggCamp Community, Ubuntu supported by Canonical, and OpenSUSE.

* If you have a younger person coming along who might want to join the Coder Dojo, sign them up for a “younger person” ticket to help us estimate numbers.

* Image credit: Alex Read

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 using GameMaker 1.4 on Windows to patch Spelunky for Linux. We interview some of the Ubuntu Communitheme team, round up the community news and go over your feedback.

It’s Season 11 Episode 18 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 using GameMaker 1.4 on Windows to patch Spelunky Classic HD.

* We discuss the community news:

* Ubuntu Studio have released a Free Guide to Audio Production on Linux

* A first look at desktop metrics

* Ubuntu 16.04 LTS certified for Intel NUC for IoT device development

* Xubuntu Development Update June 2018 and Xubuntu Development Update July 2018

* We mention some events:

* OggCamp: 18th to 19th of August 2018 – Sheffield, UK.

* Libre Application Summit: 6th to 9th of Sept 2018 – Denver, Colorado.

* We interview members of the Ubuntu Communitheme team

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

* DietPi

* Zbox

* Image credit: Cédric Dhaenens

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 make a snap of Xonotic, interview Daniel Foré from elementary OS about the Beta release of “Juno” and round up the news.

It’s Season 11 Episode 17 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 snap of Xonotic, the Free and Fast Arena Shooter.

* We discuss the news:

* Google Could Be Preparing to Take On Sony, Microsoft in Console Wars

* Dell announe new precision developer edition laptops

* SUSE acquired from Micro Focus by EQT

* BBC releases computer history archive

* We interview Daniel Foré from elementary OS about the beta of “Juno”.

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Image credit: Christian Koch

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 TrackMania Nations Forever as a Snap. We review the Purism Librem 13 laptop and go over most of your feedback.

It’s Season 11 Episode 16 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 TrackMania Nations Forever.

* We review The Purism Librem 13 laptop.

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* bat – bat – cat with wings

bat some_file.txt

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

* Adventures in Linux and KDE

* One Year of postmarketOS: Mainline Calling!

* Image credit: Sabri Tuzcu

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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