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

We’re here again!

In this week’s show:

* We discuss the potential demise of 32-bit Ubuntu images.

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We also discuss working from home because of car troubles and becoming an Ubuntu Member.

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We share a Command Line Lurve, gotty, which enables you to share your terminal as a web application.

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

* appimage:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mg5_gxNXTo&t=5m38s

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVVP77jC8Fc

* 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 on IRC in #ubuntu-podcast on Freenode

It’s Episode Nineteen of Season Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, Laura Cowen, and Martin Wimpress are here again.

We’re here – all of us!

In this week’s show:

* We discuss the news

* AMDGPU-PRO Driver for Linux® Released

* Mozilla has announced the first round of funding awarded to its “Mission Partners” as part of the Mozilla Open Source Support Scheme

* Software Heritage, an initiative seeking to collect, preserve and share publicly available software, launched last week.

* Lenovo ThinkPad System Management Mode arbitrary code execution 0day exploit

* Photo reveals even Zuckerberg tapes his webcam and microphone for privacy

* We discuss the community news:

* Shaping up universal snaps

* uNav offline maps

* Flatpak landed in the Ubuntu 16.10 archive

* Epson (and other) printer drivers are fixed in 16.04

* Release of Snapcraft 2.12

* Classic, apt-based Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server on the rpi2!

* Host your own SNAP store!

* Dan Chapman, Dekko, developer has shared some screenshots of new, converged Dekko for the desktop

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We mention some events:

* EuroPython 2016 – 17-24 July – Bilbao, Spain

* FOSS Talk Live – 6 August – London, UK

* Wuthering Bytes 2016 – 2-11 September – Hebden Bridge, W. Yorks, UK

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UbuCon Europe – 18-20 November – Unperfekthaus, Essen, Germany

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We discuss watching Star Trek on Netflix and going to Sweden and Denmark.

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This weeks cover image comes 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

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

We’re here again!

In this week’s show:

* We discuss the snap packaging format.

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We also discuss going to Download Festival and discovering Open Store.

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We share a Command Line Lurve Clonezilla, which is an amazing way to copy bits from one harddisk to another.

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

* Andy Smith at the brilliant Bitfolk upgraded our VPS data transfer allowance without us even asking! Go buy your VPS from them!

* Entroware have released another beast of a Laptop, worth looking into

* David Wolski told us how to monitor progress using dd itself. Here are the three examples he gave in the show:

sudo dd if=raspbian.img of=/dev/sdb bs=512 status=progress

conv=noerror,sync

pv bigfile.iso | md5sum

* Asa similarly emailed. Here are those examples too:

killall -USR1 dd

watch -n 5 "killall -USR1 dd"

* 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 on IRC in #ubuntu-podcast on Freenode

It’s Episode Seventeen of Season Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Mycroft are here and speaking to your brain.

We’re here – all of us!

In this week’s show:

* We discuss the news

* Mycroft have announced version 0.7

* Allison Lortie writes why Gtk 4.0 is not Gtk 4 and Gtk 5.0 is not Gtk 5 and that’s OK

* Fedora 24 released!

* elementary 0.4 Loki was released

* Canonical announced that Snaps can now be installed on a variety of distributions

* Ethereum, an open blockchain platform, has sufferred an attack

* We discuss the community news:

* Snapd 2.0.8

* Zoltan Balogh has put out a call for testing the next version of the Ubuntu SDK

* Svetlana Belkin from the Ubuntu Community Council announced a ‘call for nominations’ to the Ubuntu Membership Board

* Jonathan Riddell has announced the availability of ISO images to test KDE Neon 5.7 from the git stable branch

* Daniel Holbach announced the third snappy playpen (which was/is today – but people can join in anytime)

* Canonical Design Team: QtDay 2016: Developing Ubuntu convergent apps with Qt

* The Changelog Podcast #207: Ubuntu Everywhere with Dustin Kirkland

* We discuss building a Maplin USB robot arm and controlling it from Ubuntu and making a little Arduino circuit.

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This weeks cover image comes 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 on IRC in

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

We’re here again!

In this week’s show:

* We discuss having the motivation to adopt Ubuntu Devices whole-heartedly.

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We also discuss going on holiday, the on-going saga of fixing Mark’s laptop, and naming the new Entroware laptop.

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We share a Command Line Lurve – pv, which was sent in by The Hatterman. It monitors the progress of data through a pipe and great when used in conjunction with dd to provide a progress bar. For example:

pv -pa ubuntu_16.04.iso | sudo dd of=/dev/sdb

-p, --progress show progress bar

-a, --average-rate show data transfer average rate counter

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

* For the disappearing cursor fix, create the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-cursoron.conf, and put in it the following content:

#--makes mouse cursor re-appear

Section "Device"

Identifier "Device0"

Driver "intel"

Option "AccelMethod" "uxa"

Option "SWCursor" "on"

EndSection

#--

Be careful using UXA acceleration on modern Intel IGPs. It has been superceeded by SNA for some years now and may signifcantly degrade graphics performance.

* Why Ubuntu caused a furore by including ZFS while Debian did not

* my first podcast on my bq

* This weeks cover image is taken from the http://ayay.co.uk/.

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 on IRC in #ubuntu-podcast on Freenode

It’s Episode Fifteen of Season Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson is back with Alan Pope, Laura Cowen and Martin Wimpress and we’re all speaking to your brain.

We’re here again, all of us!

In this week’s show:

* We discuss the news

* Following his departure from OwnCloud, Inc. Frank Karlitschek has announced the formation of NextCloud

* IndieGoGo has announced a partnership with Arrow Electronics

* F1 2015 available on Steam for Linux & SteamOS

* Microsoft has stuck a patent deal with chinese manufacturer Xiaomi

* In a case remenisent of NPM’s “breaking the internet”, more online package services have caused problems for downstream projects

* Microsoft have revealed some information about how The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) (LXSS) works. TL;DR It’s complicated.

* Mark Zuckerberg has had his password breached for his Twitter and Pinterest accounts

* We discuss the community news:

* Snapcraft 2.9 and snapd 2.0.5 released.

* A systemd developer has requested that tmux and similar projects add code to support systemd’s new way of handling detached processes.

* Instagram kill the Instagram scope for Ubuntu Phone.

* UbunTuTu – adb for Human Beings

* With wireless convergence on the PRO 5, Ubuntu Phone levels up

* QNAP selects snaps and Ubuntu to bring IOT apps to its NAS

* Confidence, Instinct, and Knowing When to Fight Back: An Interview with Canonical CEO Jane Silber

* And some events:

* Red Hat Summit – 28 June-1 July – San Francisco, CA, US

* Texas Linux Fest – 8-9 July – Austin, TX, US

* LinuxCon Japan – 13-15 July – Tokyo, Japan

* FOSS Talk Live – 6 August – London, UK

* UbuCon Europe – 18-20 November – Essen, Germany

* We discuss adding wireless network to marvin and hacking dinosaurs on the Isle of Wight.

It’s Episode Fourteen of Season Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Laura Cowen and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

We’re here again but a man down!

In this week’s show:

* We interview Barton George of the Dell Sputnik laptop project.

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We also discuss using HipChat.

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We share a Command Line Lurve – waybackpack. A Python way to access old websites archived on the WayBack Machine on Archive.org.

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

* Pyra Handheld

* Contribute to Ubuntu by testing SRUs

* This weeks cover image is taken from http://ayay.co.uk/.

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 on IRC in #ubuntu-podcast on Freenode

It’s Episode Thirteen of Season Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Laura Cowen and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

We’re here again, but one of us is not!

In this week’s show:

* We discuss the news.

* Linux is the largest software development project on the planet

* Google to block Flash on Chrome, only 10 websites exempt

* Qualcomm flaw puts millions of Android devices at risk

* After years of hard work, ZFS for Linux finally lands in Debian GNU/Linux repos

* Yubico has replaced all open-source components with proprietary closed-source code in Yubikey 4s

* Firefox lets users try new features with ‘Test Pilot’

* Amazon targets YouTube with new online video posting service

* We discuss the community news:

* Ubuntu France LoCo rocked out at the music Festival Papillons de Nuit

* Byobu Hollywood Melodrama and Ubuntu featured on NBCNews!

* Aaron Honeycutt talks about his experience using Ubuntu Touch on his Nexus 7 2013 WiFi Edition.

* Ubuntu Touch OTA-12 will be more about fixes than features For more info, see Launchpad.

* And some events:

* SouthEast LinuxFest (SELF) – 10-12 June – Charlotte, NC, US

* Red Hat Summit – 28 June – 1 July – San Francisco, CA, US

* Texas Linux Fest – 8-9 July – Austin, TX, US

* LinuxCon Japan – 13-15 July – Tokyo, Japan

* We discuss using Android Pay in the UK to buy some crisps.

* This weeks cover image was made by us.

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

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

We’re here again!

In this week’s show:

* We discuss the new bq M10 Ubuntu tablet and the reviews it’s had so far:

* http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/05/bq-m10-ubuntu-tablet-review-crazy-slow

* https://linuxluddites.com/shows/episode-77/

* http://www.zdnet.com/product/bq-aquaris-m10-ubuntu-edition/

* https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/05/the-ubuntu-tablet-a-review-of-the-aquaris-m10-ubuntu-edition/

* http://www.techrepublic.com/article/magic-happens-with-the-ubuntu-tablet/

* http://www.trustedreviews.com/bq-aquaris-m10-ubuntu-edition-review

* http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ubuntu-tablet-aquaris-m10-review.html

* We also discuss going to Stratford-Upon-Avon and playing Star Horizon and GRID Autosport.

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We share a Command Line Lurve (from dutchie on IRC) – bruteforce-luks. Given a LUKS-encrypted volume, such as you might get if you tick the encrypt entire disk option in the Ubuntu installer, it can attempt to recover the password.

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

* The excellent qemu -snapshot feature

* Decko, email client on bq tablet

* Document Viewer, PDF reader on bq tablet

* Beru, PDF reader on bq tablet

* This weeks cover image is taken from the 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 on IRC in

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

We’re here again!

In this week’s show:

* We discuss the news

* YouTuber Jim Sterling has revealed a workaround for YouTube’s Content ID system…

* The City of Vicenza is choosing Zorin OS…

* Apple Music subscription service has been found to delete user’s local music library during its setup…

* Frank Karlitschek, the founder of Owncloud, has resigned as CTO of OwnCloud, Inc…

* China unveils weaponized robot security guard…

* KDE’s project Neon begins publishing daily Wayland images…

* We discuss the community news:

* Ubuntu Tweak is now officially terminated…

* Ubuntu Core now available for Samsung ARTIK 5 and 10…

* Unity 8 won’t be the default desktop session for Ubuntu 16.10

* Ubuntu orange update

* uNav 0.59 “Beauty and the Beast” is OUT!

* In-app purchases available in the Ubuntu Store…

* Ubuntu software in 16.04 can now install Snaps and 3rd party .debs…

* And some events:

* Raspberry Jam at Blackgang Chine – Sunday 5th June, 10:30-13:30 – Isle of Wight, UK

* OSCON – 16-19 May – Austin, TX, US

* Malaysia Open Source Conference – 25-28 May – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

* SouthEast LinuxFest (SELF) – 10-12 June – Charlotte, NC, US

* We discuss going virtual motor racing and asking the internet for help and succeeding.

* This weeks cover image comes from Neil Crosby

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 show@ubuntupodcast.