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This week we’ve been adding LED lights to a home studio, we announce the winner of the Entroware Apollo competition, serve up some GUI love and go over your feedback.

It’s Season Ten Episode Twenty-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:

* Martin has been adding lots of bright LED lights above his computer monitors.

* We announce the winner of the Entroware Apollo competition!

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We share a GUI Lurve:

* SC Controller – User-mode driver and GTK3 based GUI for Steam Controller

* 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.

Entroware Competition Winner!

Congratulations to Dave Hingley for creating The Ubuntu Guys comic which was scripted in 20 minutes.

All entries

In no particular order here are all the entries

Roger Light

Hollow out the middle of a file with AppHollow from Roger Light's entry to the @Entroware Apollo competition https://t.co/yroZBtBuEK

— Ubuntu Podcast (@ubuntupodcast) September 7, 2017

Neil McPhail

Sorry Neil, it’s 2017 and we still can’t edit tweets!

Ian McPhail created a unique audio composition for the @Entroware Apollo competition. Paean to beans https://t.co/AaIIJM84Jc

— Ubuntu Podcast (@ubuntupodcast) September 8, 2017

Andy Partington

Dynamically update your @digitalocean DNS with Andy Partington's entry to the @Entroware Apollo competition https://t.co/3YCGYGv2Ne

— Ubuntu Podcast (@ubuntupodcast) September 8, 2017

Joe Ressington

Listen to Joe Ressington's musical entry to the @Entroware Apollo competition https://t.co/QuQbOiflNJ

— Ubuntu Podcast (@ubuntupodcast) September 8, 2017

Paul Gault

Check the list once check the list twice and find our who is Naughty or Nice with Paul Gault's entry to the @Entroware Apollo competition. pic.twitter.com/oquL2frlcT

— Ubuntu Podcast (@ubuntupodcast) September 9, 2017

Robert Rijkhoff

This week we’ve been packing boxes, getting a new mail order cat and doing a rather poor job of celebrating our 300th episode. A ridiculously expensive product has failed (surprising no-one), we’re all going to have a really bad day in 2038, new Samsung phones are lacking the headline feature of previous models and the Essential phone isn’t.

It’s Season Ten Episode Twenty-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 up to recently:

* Mark has been packing boxes, but not these boxes.

* Alan has been playing with a new cat.

* We discuss the news:

* The world’s most expensive juice dispenser has been discontinued

* Urgent news for 2038

* Fans of giant non-exploding phones rejoice!

* Esstential phone is essentially irrepairable

* We discuss the community news:

* Ubuntu GNOME Shell in Artful day 9

* Linux Doubles Its Market Share Since 2015, Windows And Mac Adoption Slows Down

* We mention some events:

* Ubucon Paris: 8th to 10th of September 2017 – Parc de la Villette, Paris, France.

* Ubuntu Rally: 25th to 29th of September 2017 – New York City, USA.

* 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.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Chatter group on Telegram

This week we’ve been to OggCamp, played with Bash on Windows and received a GPD Pocket computer. In this episode we chat to the organiser of OggCamp 17, Jon Spriggs, serve up another virtual private love and go over your feedback.

It’s Season Ten Episode Twenty-Six of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Jon Spriggs are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been upto recently:

* Mark has been at OggCamp.

* Martin has got a GPD Pocket.

* Jon has been playing with Bash on Windows.

* We discuss OggCamp 17 with the events organiser Jon Spriggs.

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We share a Virtual Private Lurve:

* streisand – Streisand sets up a new server running L2TP/IPsec, OpenConnect, OpenSSH, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, sslh, Stunnel, a Tor bridge, and WireGuard. It also generates custom instructions for all of these services. At the end of the run you are given an HTML file with instructions that can be shared with friends, family members, and fellow activists.

* 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.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Chatter group on Telegram

This is the Late Night Ubuntu Linux Podcast mashup show recorded live at OggCamp 17. Featuring two thirds of the Ubuntu Podcast team and half of the Late Night Linux team.

It’s Season Ten Episode Twenty-Five of the Ubuntu Podcast featuring Late Night Linux! Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress, Joe Ressington and Andrew Jesse are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss some news and answer questions submitted by the OggCampers.

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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.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Chatter group on Telegram

This week we’ve been buying a house, discuss podcasting creative commons music, serve up some command line lurve and go over your feedback.

It’s Season Ten Episode Twenty-Four of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Dave Lee are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been upto recently:

* Mark has been buying a house.

* We discuss podcasting music, like what Dave does on The Bugcast.

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We share ntfy as our Command Line Lurve:

* ntfy done – Send a notification to your desktop, phone or other backend when a command finishes.

* 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.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Chatter group on Telegram

This week we’re joined by a love bug and add more pixels to our computer. RedHat abandon btrfs, Marcus Hutchins is arrested, Google did evil and the podcast patent is over turned! We also have a large dose of Ubuntu community news and some events.

It’s Season Ten Episode Twenty-Three of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Dave Lee are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been upto recently:

* Dave Lee from The Bugcast joins us because Martin dared to take a holiday.

* Alan has been “adding pixels“

* We discuss the news:

* RedHat Abandons Btrfs

* Marcus Hutchins arrested in USA

* Google has fired James Damore, author of the internal memo entitled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber”

* Podcast patent declared invalid

* We discuss the community news:

* Ubuntu Fit and Finish Sprint

* A quick look at the decline of Ubuntu Membership – The blog post referenced has since been removed by the author

* Ubuntu Community Hub Proposal

* We mention some events:

* OggCamp: 19th-20th August – that’s next week!

* Sponsored By Entroware – who have donated another laptop for the raffle!, Canterbury Christ Church University, the Ubuntu Community, and openSuse

* Podcrawl Sheffield: 16th September – Sheffield, England.

* This weeks cover image is taken from Wikimedia.

Entroware Apollo laptop contest reminder

* We kicked off a contest in Episode 22 to win an Entroware Apollo laptop, the very one Alan reviewed last week.

* The contest is open until 3rd September 2017, so plenty of time to get your entries in!

* Listen to Episode 22 for all the details.

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...

The week we’ve been making microbit robots, we review the Entroware Apollo and announce a competition where you can win it. Protect your bits with another virtual private lurve and we go over all your feedback.

It’s Season Ten Episode Twenty-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:

* Mark has been playing with Robot microbit buggies

* We review the Entroware Apollo and announce a competition where you can win it!

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We share a Virtual Private Lurve:

* OperaVPN – Unlimited Wifi Security and Content Unblocking

* 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.

Entroware Apollo Laptop Competition

Rules

We want you create something.

* Create something interesting in 20 lines of code. Share it via your favourite code hosting site.

* Write some prose, a poem, a short story or other written work in the length of 20 tweets. Post it on your blog or bold.io if you don’t have a blog.

* Compose some music or create an audio project that is 20 seconds long and post it to your favourite audio sharing site.

* Draw a picture or take a photograph using only 20 colours, lines or shapes and share it via an image sharing site.

* Produce a 20 second video and share it via YouTube, Vimeo or Twitch.

This is how you enter:

* Email your entry to [email protected].

* We’d like to share your creations on the show and via our social feeds, so please license them freely.

* Deadline for entries is September 3rd 2017.

* We will announce the winner on our 300th episode which will go out on September 7th 2017.

* We will ship the laptop to the countries that Entroware ship to, which is the UK, Ireland, Spain, Italy, France and Germany.

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.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Chatter group on Telegram

This week we’ve been making a distro and playing Rust. Google Glass is back, Mycroft are re-licensing and Adobe announce that Flash is finally dead. Nearly.

It’s Season Ten Episode Twenty-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:

* Martin has been burning the midnight oil preparing Ubuntu MATE 17.10 Alpha 2

* Alan has been playing with Rust

* We discuss the news:

* Google Glass 2: Electric Boogaloo

* Mycroft relicenses to Apache 2.0

* Adobe finally kills Flash

* We discuss the community news:

* Support for Ubuntu 16.10 Ends

* Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop Default Application Survey

* Seriously Folks, Electron Apps Aren’t That Bad…

* An Elvis impersonator has written a blog post about the Desktop July shakedown for Ubuntu 17.10

* We mention some events:

* Freenode live: 28th-29th October, Bristol Science Centre.

* OggCamp: 19th-20th August, Canterbury, UK. Sponsored by Entroware and the Ubuntu community!!

* Speakers: Ian Hutchinson from IF, Richard Brown from SUSE, Liz Lutgendorff from GDS, Daniel Knox from University of Kent Makerspace + You

* Call for OggCamp crew: Email [email protected].

* 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.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Chatter group on Telegram

We discuss tormenting Mycroft, review the Dell Precision 5520, give you some USB resetting command line lurve and go over your feedback.

It’s Season Ten Episode Twenty 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 Isle of Wight.

* Alan has been tormenting Mycroft.

* We review the Dell Precision 5520.

* Dell Precision 5520 Details

* We share a command line lurve:

* usbreset – usbreset.c

* 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.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Chatter group on Telegram

We discuss playing Tomb Raider, OEMs “making distros” is so hot right now, RED make a smartphone from the future, Skype gets an update and users hate it, Gangnam style loses its YouTube crown.

It’s Season Ten Episode Nineteen 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 Tomb Raider.

* We discuss the news:

* Tuxedo and System76 are making their own distros.

* RED announces Holographic Media Machine

* Skype backlash: ‘Worst update ever’

* Gangnam style has been robbed of its YouTube crown

* We discuss the community news:

* Simon Quigley fixed various CVEs in VLC

* Ubuntu is in the Windows Store

* Fedora 26 Released

* Ubiquity Proposal – Add “minimal” setup with kernel parameter

* We mention some events:

* OggCamp: 19th-20th August, Canterbury, UK. Sponsored by Entroware and the Ubuntu community!!

* 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.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Chatter group on Telegram