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This week we review the Dell XPS 13 (9370) Developer Edition laptop, bring you some command line lurve and go over all your feedback.

It’s Season 11 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 review the Dell XPS 13 (9370) Developer Edition

* Australia

* Belgium

* France

* Germany

* Ireland

* Italy

* Netherlans

* Norway

* Spain

* Sweden

* United Kingdom

* USA

* We share a Command Line Lurve:

* cointop – Interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies

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

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Image credit: Dawid Zawiła

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 a MoodleMoot and bought more retro Thinkpads. We discuss the cost of the HTC Vive Pro, Cloudflare’s privacy focused public DNS service, Mozilla’s updated manifesto and project MojoAL. We round up some events and community news.

It’s Season 11 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:

* Mark has been at a MoodleMoot.

* Alan has been buying more retro Thinkpads.

* Martin is still working on Ubuntu MATE 18.04.

* We discuss the news:

* HTC Vive Pro “starter” price down to $1,100 with accessories

* Cloudflare announces privacy-focused dns

* Mozilla marks 20th anniversary with updated manifesto

* Project MojoAL announced

* We discuss the community news:

* This week in Lubuntu development

* Egmde: Wayland reboot

* GNOME Devs working on fixing memory leak

* gksu is dead. Long live PolicyKit

* We mention some events:

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

* Linux Game Jam 2018: 6th to 15th of April 2018 – Planet Earth.

* Linuxwochen: April to June in Austria.

* 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 writing Go and created a macro keyboard. We’re joined by Michael Tunnel from TuxDigital to discuss KDE Plasma, bring you some command line love and go over your feedback.

It’s Season 11 Episode 04 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Michael Tunnell are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

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

* Mark has been developing with Go.

* Michael has made a macro keyboard.

* We discuss KDE Plasma.

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* ranger – ncurses file manager

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

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Image credit: Nikita Kachanovsky

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 tracking flight VS 105 on Flight Aware and are joined by Michael Tunnell from tuxdigital.com. We discuss some news and bring you the latest from the Ubuntu Community.

It’s Season 11 Episode 03 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Michael Tunnell are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We talk to Michael Tunnell from tuxdigital.com.

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We discuss the news:

* WebOS goes open source

* Facebook claims CA ‘stole’ its data

* Cosmologist Stephen Hawking dies aged 76

* We discuss the community news:

* Firefox is now available as a snap

* We mention some events:

* FOSS Talk Live – Sat, 9 Jun 2018, London, UK.

* Oggcamp – Sat Aug 18th to Sun Aug 19th 2018, Sheffield, UK.

* Linux Information Day (or Linux Info-Tag) – 21st April 2018, Germany.

* Image credit: Andrew Welch

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 interview Will Cooke, Manager of the Ubuntu Desktop team, about the changes we can expect to see in Ubuntu 18.04.

It’s Season 11 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 interview Will Cooke about the upcoming Ubuntu Desktop (Bionic Beaver) 18.04 LTS release.

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Image credit: Kim Gorga

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 discuss what we’ve been up to during the season break and the changes we’re making to the podcast this year.

It’s Season 11 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 since Christmas 2017 and the changes we’re making to the podcast this season.

* We discuss the community news:

* Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Beta 1 Released for Participating Flavors

* Ubuntu adds Minimal Install option to installer

* More diagnostics data from desktop

* We mention an event:

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

* Image credit: Brendan Church

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 get confy in a new chair, conduct our Perennial Podcast Prophecy Petition Point and go over your feedback. This is the final show of the season and we’ll now be taking a couple of months break to eat curry, have a chat and decide if we’ll be returning for Season 11.

It’s Season Ten Episode Forty-Two 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 bought a Secretlab TITAN chair. It is very comfy.

We review our 2017 predictions:

Alan

* Multiple devices from Tier one vendors will ship with snappy by default (like Dell, HP, Cisco) “top line big name vendors will ship hardware with Ubuntu snappy as a default OS”

* No

* GitHub will downsize their 600 workforce to a much smaller number and may also do something controversial to raise funds

* No – 723 according to wikipedia

* Microsoft will provide a Linux build of a significant application – possibly exchange or sharepoint

* No?

* Donald Trump will not last a year as president

* Sadly not.

Mark

* There will be no new Ubuntu phone on sale in 2017

* Yes

* The UK government will lose a court case related to the Investigatory Powers Act

* Yes and Yes.

* This time next year, one of the top 5 distros on Distrowatch will be a distro that isn’t currently in the top 20.

* No

Martin

* Ubuntu 17.10 will be able to run Mir using the proprietary nvidia drivers and Steam will work reliably via XMir. It will also be possible to run Mir in Virtualbox.

* No

* A high profile individual (or individuals) will fall victim to one of the many privacy threats introduced as a result of the Investigatory Powers Bill. Intimate details of their online life will be exposed to the world, compiled from one of more databases storing Internet Connection Records. The disclosure will possibly have serious consequences for the individuals concerned, such as losing their job or being professionally discredited.

* No

* The hype surrounding VR will build during 2017 but Virtual Reality will continue to lack adoption. Sales figures will be well below market projections.

* Maybe?

We make our prediction for 2018:

Alan

* A large gaming hardware vendor from the past will produce new hardware. Someone of the size/significance of Sega. Original hardware, not just re-using the brand-name, but official product.

* Valve will rev the steamlink, perhaps making it more powerful for 4K gaming, and maybe a minor bump to the steam controller too

* A large government UK body will accidentally leak a significant body of data. Could be laptop/USB stick on a train or website hack.

Mark

* Either the UK or US government will collapse

* A major hardware manufacturer (not a crowd funder) will release a device in the form factor of a GPD pocket

* I will specifically buy (i.e.

This week we’ve taken a stroll around a parallel universe and watched some YouTube. Patreon updates it’s fee structure and then realises it was a terrible idea, Mozilla releases a speech-to-text engine, Oumuamua gets probed and Microsoft release the Q# quantum programming language.

It’s Season Ten Episode Forty-One 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 exploring Oxford in a parallel universe.

* Alan has been watching YouTube.

* We discuss the news:

* Patreon announce that they are Updating Patreon’s Fee Structure and the Internet caught fire. Since recording this episode Patreon have said, We messed up. We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change.

* Mozilla releases Speech-to-text engine and a voice training dataset

* Oumuamua to be probed

* Microsoft’s Q# quantum programming language out now in preview

* We discuss the community news:

* Testing a switch to default Breeze-Dark Plasma theme in Bionic daily isos and default settings

* How to migrate LXD from DEB/PPA package to Snap package

* Bye Bye LastPass, hello bitwarden

* We mention some events:

* Google CodeIn: 28th November to 17th January 2018 – All around the world.

* FOSDEM 2018: 3 & 4 February 2018. Brussels, Belgium.

* UbuCon Europe 2018: 27th, 28th and 29th of April 2018. Xixón, Spain.

* This weeks cover image is taken from Wikimedia.

That’s all for this week! 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 an old man is confused by a modern gaming mouse. We talk to Ikey Doherty from the Solus project about Linux Steam Integration and how snaps are improving game delivery for all users of Linux. We have a multi-player love and go over your feedback.

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

In this week’s show:

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

* Alan has bought a new Razer Death Adder Classic gaming mouse.

* We discuss Linux Steam Integration with it’s creator Ikey Doherty.

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We share a multi-player lurve:

* ssh sshtron.zachlatta.com – SSH Tron – Multiplayer Tron in your terminal.

ssh sshtron.zachlatta.com

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

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This weeks cover image is taken from Wikimedia.

That’s all for this week! 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 seen The Darkness and failed to get a PowerColor RX Vega 56 to work in a Razer Core. In a crowd-ed news segment, we discuss the Gameshell, the Nimabtus drone simulator, the Gemini PDA and the Librem 5 ringtones.

It’s Season Ten Episode Thirty-Nine 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 seeing The Darkness.

* Martin has been failing to get a PowerColor RX Vega 56 to work in a Razer Core.

* We discuss the news:

* Gameshell

* Nimabtus drone simulator

* Gemini is an ultra-thin clamshell mobile device with fully integrated tactile QWERTY keyboard, that fits in your pocket.

* Librem 5 Ringtone contest winners

* We discuss the community news:

* Linux Themes & Third-Party Icons

* Just got to install both my @SolusProject #Steam snaps from the @snapcraftio store on edge channel. Very happy ^_^

* Which Linux Distribution Boots The Fastest?

* Unity Development Roadmap

* We mention some events:

* Google CodeIn: 28th November to 17th January 2018 – All around the world.

* This weeks cover image is taken from Wikimedia.

That’s all for this week! 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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