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This week we get the Hades Canyon NUC fully working and play Pillars of Eternity II. We discuss the falling value of BitCoin, backdoored Docker images and Microsoft getting into hot water over their work with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Plus we round up the community news.

It’s Season 11 Episode 15 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 got his Hades Canyon NUC working properly with Ubuntu MATE 18.04.

* Mark has been playing Pillars of Eternity II.

* We discuss the news:

* Bitcoin has lost more than half its value since last year’s all-time high

* Backdoored images downloaded 5 million times finally removed from Docker Hub

* Microsoft are recieving flak for celebrating work with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

* We discuss the community news:

* Chromium as a snap using Mir

* A Complete Look At Spectre V1/V2/V4 & Meltdown

* Ubuntu Touch RC OTA-4 is Here

* Bitfolk ask their users how to deal with overage notifications

* Timo Aaltonen posted about the Status of Ubuntu Mesa backports

* Image credit: Victoria Palacios

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 show was recorded in front of a live studio audience at FOSS Talk Live on Saturday 9th June 2018! We take you on a 40 year journey through our time trumpet and contribute to some open source projects for the first time and discuss the outcomes.

It’s Season 11 Episode 14.5 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this live show:

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

* Martin has been at the Electron Maintainers Summit in Prague.

* Mark has been fixing a leaky toilet.

* Alan has been at a GNOME Software design sprint.

* We take a journey through the time trumpet:

* 40 years ago – Happy 40th Anniversary to the Original Intel 8086 and the x86 Architecture

* 20 years ago – Bruce Rebuts Linus on KDE/Gnome

* 10 years ago – Mozilla releases Firefox 3

* 10 years ago – Google release Chrome Developer Preview

* Martin challenges Alan and Mark to contribute to some open source projects for the first time and we discuss the outcomes.

* Mark contributed to Drupal and Active window control applet (KDE).

* Alan contributed to Debian and KDE.

* Image credit: Marius Quabeck

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 review the KDE Slimbook II, experiment with Linux on the Hades Canyon NUC and play some Track Mania Nations Forever. We also bring you some command line love and go over your feedback.

It’s Season 11 Episode 14 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 getting his 1337 gamer vibe on with a 10 year old racing game and experimenting with the Hades Canyon NUC.

* We review the KDE Slimbook II.

* Read the accompanying KDE Slimbook II review Alan wrote.

* We share a Command Line Lurve:

* snap set core refresh,schedule – Set the snap refresh schedule

sudo snap set core refresh.schedule=4:00-7:00

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

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Image credit: Joshua Allwood

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 to Devon and built a 3D printer. The FBI tells everyone to reboot your routers, PUBG sues Fortnite, GDPR happened, the Mosquitto project gets sponsorship and we round up the community news.

It’s Season 11 Episode 13 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 building an Anet A8 3D Printer.

* Mark been to Devon.

* We discuss the news:

* The FBI tells everybody to reboot their router

* PUBG sues Epic over similarities between Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds

* GDPR has arrived!

* Open Source Mosquitto project lead gets sponsorship

* We discuss the community news:

* New Dell precision laptops running Ubuntu

* Nomintations are open for the Ubuntu technical board

* New policy for lapsed Ubuntu Members to rejoin

* This 38-inch Curved Monitor from LG has a Ryzen CPU and Supports Ubuntu

* We mention some events:

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

* Awarded DotEveryone fairer tech event grant to run a Coder Dojo.

* Image credit: Sharon McCutcheon

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 an Ubuntu Core laptop, discuss whether Linux on the desktop is rubbish, bring you a virtual private love and go over your feedback.

It’s Season 11 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 has installing Ubuntu Core on an old Thinkpad.

* We discuss whether desktop Linux is rubbish and has failed.

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We share a Virtual Private Lurve:

* DO_Tinfoil

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

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Image credit: Mike Wilson

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 reconstruct a bathroom and join the wireless gaming revolution. We discuss the Steam Link app for Android and iOS, the accessible Microsoft Xbox controller, Linux applications coming to ChromeOS and round up the community news.

It’s Season 11 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:

* Mark has been reconstructing his bathroom.

* Martin has been re-organising his office and going wireless with the Corsair K63 keyboard and Logitech G903 mouse.

* We discuss the news:

* Steam Link App Coming to iOS and Android

* Microsoft announce new accessible Xbox controller

* Google Announce Linux apps coming to Chrome OS

* We discuss the community news:

* Dylan McCall wrote up using Ubuntu Core, NextCloud and Syncthing

* Trust and security in the snap store

* GS Connect as part of 18.10

* Remove 32bit ISO’s for Ubuntu Budgie 18.10 onwards

* Flavours – and talking to each other

* We mention some events:

* FrOSCon: 25th and 26th August 2018 – University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg.

* Image credit: Rodion Kutsaev

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 smashing up a bathroom like rock stars. We discuss the Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) LTS release, serve up some command line love and go over your feedback.

It’s Season 11 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:

* Mark has been smashing his bathroom.

* We discuss the Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) LTS release.

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* yes – repeatedly output “y” or specified string for piping into interactive programs

yes | fsck /var

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

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Image credit: Kirstyn Paynter

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 made a snap of Linux Tycoon, one of us has been moonlighting on another podcast and went to UbuCon Europe 2018. We discuss the release of the AtariBox, the release of Rise of the Tomb Raider for Linux, Iran blocking Telegram and round up the community news.

It’s Season 11 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:

* Alan has been playing with MS-DOS and made a snap of Linux Tycoon.

* Martin was a guest on Destination Linux EP67 and went to UbuCon Europe 2018.

* We discuss the news:

* AtariBox launch date announced

* Rise of the Tomb Raider released

* Iran blocks Telegram

* We discuss the community news:

* No demand for torrents?

* GOG announces support for 18.04 and flavours/derivatives

* Purism and UBports officially collaborate to offer Ubuntu Touch on Librem 5

* We mention some events:

* freenode live 2018: 3rd & 4th November 2018 – Bristol, UK.

* OggCamp: OggCamp is requesting call for papers.

* Missing Maps: Mapathon event in Reading, UK.

* Image credit: Nick Fewings

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 play with Windows 98 on a crusty Thinkpad from the past, interview David Britton from the Ubuntu Server team, bring you some command line love and go over all your feedback.

It’s Season 11 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:

* Alan has been Playing with Windows 98.

* We interview David Britton from the Ubuntu Server team.

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* pastebinit – send anything you want directly to a pastebin from the command line

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

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Image credit: Ryan Loughlin

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 meet a sloth and buy components for the Hades Canyon NUC. The Windows File Manager gets open sourced, Iran are going to block Telegram, PostmarketOS explore creating an open source baseband, Microsoft make a custom Linux distro called Azure Sphere and we round the community news.

It’s Season 11 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:

* Mark met a sloth.

* Martin has been buying Samsung 960 Pro SSDs and HyperX Impact DDR4-3200 RAM for the Hades Canyon NUC.

* We discuss the news:

* Windows File Manager gets Open Sourced

* Iran lives on Telegram

* PostmarketOS Developers explore creating an open-source baseband for MediaTek SoCs

* Microsoft will distribute its own version of Linux

* We discuss the community news:

* Re-evaluating Ubuntu’s Milestones

* Didier Roche blogs about snapping the communititheme

* Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter returns!

* Debian 10 “Buster” scheduled for release Mid-2019

* Ubuntu Studio Plans a Reboot for 18.10 release

* We mention some events:

* UbuCon Europe: 27 to 29 of April 2018 – Xixón, Asturies, Spain

* Image credit: Jerry Kiesewetter

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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