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We discuss what is going on over at System76 with Emma Marshall, help protect your bits with some Virtual Private Love and go over your feedback.

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

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been upto recently:

* Martin was interviewed on Destination Linux and also went fossil hunting on the Jurassic Coast.

* Alan has been blogging using Nikola.

* We discuss What’s going on at System76.

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We share a Virtual Private Lurve:

* Private Internet Access

* 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 spend some time discussing one rather important topic in the news and that’s the announcement of Ubuntu’s re-focus from mobile and convergence to the cloud and Internet of Things.

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

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been upto recently:

* Emma has been bedazzling furniture.

* Mark has been completing the game Sunless Sea.

* We discuss the news:

* Growing Ubuntu for cloud and IoT, rather than phone and convergence.

* The first meeting between the Ubuntu GNOME team, the Ubuntu Desktop team and interested community members took place.

* Lots of questions were asked, many deferred for future discussion.

* The meeting minutes are available including the complete IRC log.

* We discuss the community news:

* Making Gnome Shell feel like Unity.

* My Ubuntu 16.04 GNOME Setup.

* uApp Explorer: Next Steps.

* Return home to GNOME.

* 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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We discuss soldering the zerostem, review the new Dell XPS 13, share some command line love and go over your feedback.

This show was recorded prior to Mark Shuttleworth’s announcement about Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, rather than Phone and convergence. We’ll be discussing that news in a future episode of the Ubuntu Podcast.

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

In this week’s show:

* We discuss Alan soldering the, quite brilliant, zerostem.

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We review the latest Dell XPS 13 (9360).

* Alan wrote up some notes on his blog

* You can also attempt to win one by entering the Bad Voltage 2017 Dell Sputnik fruit competition.

* We share a Command Line Lurve:

* phoronix-test-suite – The Phoronix Test Suite is a comprehensive testing and benchmarking platform.

* 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 Microsoft shutting down CodePlex, banks being denied access to iPhone NFC chips, Google Open Source, the UK Home Secretary not understanding encryption, Android overtaking Windows and Mastodon the new decentralised social network you can’t join.

This show was recorded prior to Mark Shuttleworth’s announcement about Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, rather than Phone and convergence. We’ll be discussing this news in a future episode of the Ubuntu Podcast.

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

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been upto recently:

* Martin has been taking selfies and Paul Gleeson has made them into a Telegram Sticker pack.

* Stuart has been testing websites using Microsoft Edge via BrowserStack.com.

* We discuss the news:

* Microsoft are shutting down CodePlex

* Banking group denied access to iPhones’ NFC chips for alt.Apple.Pay

* Google Open Source

* The UK Home secretary still doesn’t understand encryption

* Android overtakes Windows for first time

* Uncovering a new sustained global cyber espionage campaign

* Mastodon is a federated, open source Twitter clone

* We discuss the community news:

* We had a Snapcraft Docs Day

* Firefox Is Getting a Redesign and now works with Netflix

* Chromium Rolls Out Enhanced GTK3 Theme Support

* Winners of the Ubuntu 17.04 Free Culture Showcase – Nathan’s Journal

* Mesa 17.0.2 for 16.04 & 16.10

* Snaps are now available for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS desktop and server

* Telegram Voice Calls Are Coming to Desktop Linux App

* We mention some events:

* GUADEC 2017: 29th July to 2nd August 2017 – Manchester, United Kindom.

We discuss the best open source operating system on the planet, the mighty Ubuntu MATE! One of us went to a Devin Townsend Project gig, Maps.me is our GUI love and we discuss ways to upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 to 16.04.

It’s Season Ten Episode 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 upto recently:

* Mark went to see Devin Townsend Project and forgot his ear-plugs.

* We interview Martin Wimpress, the charismatic (and devilishly handsome) lead developer of Ubuntu MATE about how it has taken the world by storm and remains the best open source operating system implementation available today, leaving all others in the dust. Well, maybe not all the others but definitely better than openSUSE. Isn’t everything though?

* Yes, Martin writes the show notes ;-)

* We share a GUI Lurve:

* Maps.Me – An open source maps an navigation app using OpenStreetMap data.

* 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 website owners filing bugs with Mozilla, GitLab acquiring Gitter, Moodle remote code execution, Windows 10 adverts, KDE Slimbook, 32-bit PowerPC EOL in Ubuntu, a new Vala release and the merger of Sonar GNU/Linux and Vinux.

It’s Season Ten Episode 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 upto recently:

* Alan has been writing a game in LÖVE, a Free 2D Game Engine.

* Martin has been working on Ubuntu MATE and getting is ready for 17.04 final beta.

* We discuss the news:

* Website operator complains when Firefox warns of insecure login page

* Gitter has been acquired by GitLab

* Moodle remote code execution bug

* Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads

* Usborne coding books for a new generation

* We discuss the community news:

* GNOME’s Vala 0.36 Released

* Firefox Goes PulseAudio Only, Leaves ALSA Users With No Sound

* A follow-up on 32-bit powerpc architecture

* Sonar & Vinux merges

* KDE Slimbook Unboxing

* The KDE Slimbook

* We mention some events:

* FOSS Talk Live 2017: 24th of June 2017 – The Harrison, Kings Cross, London.

* A free evening of live Free and open source podcasts.

* 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

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

The same line up as last week are here again for another episode.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been up to recently, Mark has been gardening and Martin has been spending BitCoin.

* Added a second Samsung 27″ WQHD monitor.

* Upgraded to a Focusrite Scarlett Solo audio interface.

* New Creative T30 Wireless speakers.

* We review the Entroware Aether laptop.

* Reviewed specification: i5 CPU, 8GB RAM, 1920×1080 display, 128GB SSD. £694.95.

* If you want to enable playback of DRM protected DVDs on Ubuntu then run the following in a terminal:

* sudo apt install libdvd-pkg and follow the prompts.

* We share a Command Line Lurve:

* watch nvidia-smi – monitor your GPU temp/fan/voltage/memory usage

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

* 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

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

The three amigos are back for Season 10.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been upto recently:

* Alan and Martin were manning the Ubuntu booth at Mobile World Congress 2017.

* Canonical wins Orange Award for Converged Computing at MWC 17

* Mobile World Congress 2017, Day One Recap

* Mobile World Congress 2017, Day Two Recap

* Mobile World Congress 2017, Day Three Recap

* Mobile World Congress 2017, Day Four Recap

* Dustin Kirkland: Ubuntu at Mobile World Congress 2017

* Our friends, Marius and Max, from ubuntufun.de have recorded video interviews with from the Ubuntu stand at MWC and a podcast featuring interviews with Pauline Buth, Mark Shuttleworth, Alan Pope and Martin Wimpress.

* We discuss the news:

* The Story of Firefox OS

* AMD are considering opening their Platform Security Processor

* WikiLeaks Releases Trove of Alleged C.I.A. Hacking Documents

* We discuss the community news:

* build.snapcraft.io soft launched

* Run your own lxd demo server

* Securing our sites with HTTPS

* Moving on from the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter

* Crowdtesting with the Ubuntu community: the case of IPFS

* Green Recorder 2.0 and VidCutter 3.0 are released.

* We mention some events:

* OggCamp 17: 19th to 20th of August 2017 – Canterbury, UK.

* OggCamp is a Free Culture Unconference.

* FOSS Talk Live 2017: 24th of June 2017 – The Harrison, Kings Cross, London.

* A free evening of live Free and open source podcasts.

* This weeks cover image is taken from

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

In your face, we’re back for season 10!

In this pre-season teaser:

* We discuss what we’ve been up to since the end of last year.:

* Having curry together somewhere near Oxford.

* Upgrading a Steambox with a low-profile nvidia GEFORCE GTX 1050 TI 4GT graphics card.

* Buying and playing games to “test drive” the nvidia GEFORCE GTX 1050 TI 4GT.

* Getting an LG G Watch to experiment with Asteroid OS.

* Decorating the house.

* Fixing an unreliable car.

* Hacking another car with Carista OBD2 to make it smarter.

* Making a better fuel gauge with an OBD2 adpater.

* Echo, echo, echo…

* Voice activated Philips Hue lights.

* We explain some changes to the show format for Season 10.

* This weeks cover image is taken from Wikimedia.

That’s all for the season teaser. Episode 1 will be out on March 9th! 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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It’s Season Nine Episode Forty-Four of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Laura Cowen are connected and speaking to your brain.

The same line up as last week are here again for another episode, but this is the last Ubuntu Podcast for Laura ever! :-(

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been upto recently:

* Playing with a Thinkpad 755c and two Raspberry Pi 3 projects.

* Nextcloud using Ubuntu Core and Raspbbery Pi 3

* Retropie with two 8Bitdo NES30 Pro wireless controllers all tucked in a SNES 3D Printed case and CRT scannline sharders to complete the retro look.

* We discuss our 2016 predictions and create new ones for the coming year.

Presenter predictions for 2017

Alan

* Multiple devices from various tier-1 vendors will ship with Ubuntu Snappy by default.

* github will significantly downsize their ~600 workforce to a much smaller number, and may also do something controversial to raise funds.

* Microsoft will provide a Linux build of another significant application, possibly Exchange or SharePoint

* Donald Trump won’t last a year as president

Mark

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

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

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

Current top 20: Mint, Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE, elementary, Manjaro, Fedora, Zorin, CentOS, deepin, Arch, Antergos, PCLinuxOS, Mageia, Ubuntu MATE, Solus, LXLE, Lite, ReactOS, Slackware

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.

* 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.

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

Laura

* Someone, probably RedHat, will buy Docker.

* People will whinge some more about the term ‘serverless computing’ instead of embracing it as great computing experience because IT’S WHAT CLOUD COMPUTING PRETENDED IT WOULD BE (and there’s a daft term).

* I will finish my PhD. I will finish my PhD. I will finish my PhD….

Listener predictions for 2017

* Jon Spriggs says:

* Kubuntu moves into the top 5 of distrowatch or is disbanded.

* An independent review of systemd identifies an NSA backdoor

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