Linux Matters

This week we refactor a home network, discuss how gaming on Linux has evolved and grown in recent years, bring you a blend of love and go over your feedback.

It’s Season Ten Episode Thirty-Eight 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 upto recently:

* Mark as been doing some network refactoring.

* We discuss how gaming on Linux has evolved in recent years.

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We share a blend of Lurve:

* undistract-me – Notifications for long running command line tasks with undistract-me

* recent-notifications

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

* Freek van Mermet here is the Robot Car Kit used for the baloon battling fighting robots.

* 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 been upgrading from OpenWRT to LEDE and getting wiser, or older. GoPro open source the Cineform codec, Arch Linux drops i686, Intel and AMD collaborate on new Intel product family, 13 AD&D games have been released by GoG and IBM release a new typeface called Plex.

It’s Season Ten Episode Thirty-Seven 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 upto recently:

* Alan has been doing Upgrading from OpenWRT to LEDE.

* Martin is another year wiser.

* We discuss the news:

* Go-Pro open soucrces cineform codec

* Arch Linux drops i686 package support

* Intel & AMD collaborate on CPUs

* 13 AD&D games released by GOG

* IBM release a new typeface

* We discuss the community news:

* Full Circle Magazine Call for articles

* Call for participation in new theme

* Call for Contributors to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter

* Will Cooke proposes sunsetting the Desktop Team mailing list

* We mention some events:

* DevRelCon London 2017: December 6th 2017 – London, England.

* 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 perfect the roast potato, discuss Google Code In, bring you some GUI love and go over your feedback.

It’s Season Ten Episode Thirty-Six 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 perfecting the roast potato and buying the Razer Core v2.

* We discuss Google Code-In.

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We share a GUI Lurve:

* passmenu – dmenu interface to the pass password manager

* 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 been to Freenode #live and done some painting. We have a selection of killer news where everyone is killing something, except for SCO who are back from the dead.

It’s Season Ten Episode Thirty-Five 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 painting.

* Alan has been to freenode #live.

* We discuss the news:

* Linux Mint kills the KDE Edition

* Apple kills the “Camera button”

* Microsoft kills the Kinect

* Microsoft are on a rampage, killing free Windows 10 upgrades

* Vietnam kills bitcoin

* The SCO vs IBM Linux lawsuit is back from the dead

* We discuss the community news:

* Beavering away at the brilliantly bionic 18.04 LTS

* Ubuntu are participating in Google Code-In

* Mark Shuttleworth did an interiew

* Plasma Mobile Roadmap

* We mention some events:

* Surrey & Hampshire Makerspace Raspberry Jam: Sunday, 12 November 2017 from 12:00 to 15:00 – The Boileroom, Guildford, United Kingdom

* 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 been battling baloon fighting robots, discuss the Ubuntu 17.10 release, bring you some command line lurve and go over your feedback.

It’s Season Ten Episode Thirty-Four 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 battling baloon fighting micro:bit powered robots.

* We discuss the Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) release.

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* ubuntu-drivers – List/install driver packages for Ubuntu.

ubuntu-drivers list # Show all driver packages which apply to the current system.

ubuntu-drivers devices # Show all devices which need drivers, and which packages apply to them.

ubuntu-drivers autoinstall # Install drivers that are appropriate for automatic installation.

ubuntu-drivers debug # Print all available information and debug data about drivers.

* 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 been protecting our privacy with LineageOS and playing Rust. Telegram get fined, your cloud is being used to mine BitCoin, Google announces a new privacy focused product tier, North Korea hacks a UK TV studio, a new fully branded attack vector is unveiled and Purism reach their funding goal for the Librem 5.

It’s Season Ten Episode Thirty-Three 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 as been switching his phone to LineageOS.

* Martin has been playing Rust, alot.

* We discuss the news:

* Telegram fined for not decrypting messages

* In yr cloud, mining yr bitcoinz

* Google announces Edward Snowden level account security

* UK TV drama about North Korea hit by cyber-attack

* Key Reinstallation Attacks

* Librem 5 passes funding goal

* We discuss the community news:

* Final Freeze for Ubuntu Artful (17.10)

* Didier Roche is still blogging

* KDE Plasma 5.11 released

* 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 been playing Wifiwars, discuss what happened at the Ubuntu Rally in New York, serve up some command line lurve and go over your feedback.

It’s Season Ten Episode Thirty-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 upto recently:

* Alan has been playing with WifiWars.

* We discuss the Ubuntu Rally in New York.

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* pulsemixer – curses mixer for PulseAudio

sudo snap install pulsemixer

pulsemixer

* 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.

Ubuntu Rally

Trouble comes to NYC

Inside the Ubuntu Rally

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 been playing Wasteland 2 and switching back to Firefox. We also discuss Amber Rudd (dullard UK home secretary) not needing to understand encryption, Mycroft 2 is vertical, Firefox is going Quantum, Uber being banned in London and a new Linux laptop from Google.

It’s Season Ten Episode Thirty-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 upto recently:

* Mark has been playing Wasteland 2.

* Martin has been switching from Chrome to Firefox 56.

* We discuss the news:

* UK home secretary Amber Rudd doesn’t need to understand encryption

* Mycroft 2: This time it’s vertical

* Mozilla announces Firefox Quantum

* Transport for London doesn’t think Uber is so uber

* New Linux laptop – the Google pixelbook

* We discuss the community news:

* No more i386 images for Ubuntu Desktop

* Community Hub Launched

* Let’s Talk about the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Roadmap

* New Community Council elected

* We mention some events:

* 16th Egahm Raspberry Jam: Sunday, 15 October 2017 from 14:00 to 17:00, Gartner UK HQ, Staines-upon-Thames, United Kingdom.

* This weeks cover image is taken from Wikimedia.

Let’s Talk about the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Roadmap

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 been F1 simulator racing, learning Golang and moving house. We discuss how far do you need to go if you want to credibly advocate for a technology and go over you your feedback.

It’s Season Ten Episode Thirty 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 upto recently:

* Martin has been racing Formula 1 simulators.

* Alan has been playing with Go.

* Mark has moving, decorating, playing with an endoscope.

* We discuss how far do you need to go if you want to credibly advocate for a technology?

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* dconf reset -f / – Reset your settings for GNOME (and Unity and MATE) to factory defaults.

* 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 is Le Crossover Ubuntu Mashup Podcast thingy recorded live at UbuCon Europe in Paris, France.

It’s Season Ten Episode Twenty-Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Martin Wimpress, Marius Quabeck, Max Kristen, Rudy and Tiago Carrondo are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We explain what UbuCon Europe is.

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We discuss the news:

* All the Ubuntu flavours released 17.10 beta 1 images.

* Snide remarks were made about Ubuntu MATE.

* The snapd roadmap.

* We discuss testing snaps of various browsers, including the mighty Brave.

* Marius gives us his first impressions of the GPD Pocket.

* Martin laments that he may have a defective GPD Pocket.

* Linux browser market share is at 3.37%, Martin suggests there is only one reason why.

* The Purism Librem 5 “phone” has been announced.

* 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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