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

The three amigos are back with our new amiga!

In this week’s show:

* We discuss going to a Randall Munroe book signing of What If? and Thing Explainer and getting extra signed copies for you to try and win in a c-o-m-p-e-t-i-t-i-o-n!

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* direnv – An environment switcher for the shell

* We also discuss fixing bugs in Ubuntu and visiting Barcelona.

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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.

Thing Explainer Competition!

* Prize: Signed copies of “What If?” and “Thing Explainer” by Randall Munroe (creator of XKCD)

* Question: Listen to the podcast for instructions

* You can use the upgoer5 editor to help.

* Send your entries to competition AT ubuntupodcast DOT org. We’ll pick our favourite and announce the winner on the show.

* Here are some examples to help get you in the groove:

Mark

I write words that are read by a computer. Students who want to learn about something ask their computer for part of a book. Their computer talks to another computer over phone lines, and that computer uses the words I’ve written to send them the book part they want. Sometimes students want new types of book parts that they can use to share their learning with other students. I have to work out the right words for the computer to let them do this, and write them. When I can, I share my words with other people so that their computers can send better book parts to their students.

Alan

I talk to people about computer things to help make the stuff they make and the stuff we make better. Also I sometimes write things that the computer gets but I am not great at that. We give away a lot of the things we make which is not like the way some other people share their work. It makes me happy inside that we do this.

Martin

I help write a group of books that a computer reads and stores. These books make the computer work much better. When a computer has stored the books I help make you can do things with your computer, like write to people and send what you wrote to the other peoples computers. Or you can ask your computer to talk to other computers to learn things, look at moving pictures, listen to music or buy shopping.

The group of books I help write are free for anyone to give to their computer. You are also free to change these books and share those changes with anyone. This way everyone can help make the books even better so your computer can do more for you.

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

We are four once more!

In this week’s show:

* We discuss the news:

* Yahoo built specialised software to spy on users for the NSA

* Verizon reportedly looking for a $1 billion discount on Yahoo

* Facebook is launching Marketplace to take on eBay and Craigslist

* Amazon has banned reviews posted in exchange for free products

* BitTorrent, Inc has abandoned efforts on its BitTorrent Now streaming service

* A software developer has had their software removed from the App Store and their iTunes account closed

* A man from Cardiff has appeared in court charged with terrorism offences

* Google Chrome 55 will feature an updated Javascript engine that uses 50% less memory

* The Large Hadron Collider is running out of disk space

* We discuss the community news:

* Migrating from an i386 install to amd64 without reinstalling

* A document by Mir display server developers discussing what Mir version 1 will look like

* archlinux “adapted for WSL” first developer preview

* Skype for Linux Alpha Can Now Make Linux to Linux Video Calls

* A Poll that asks; Will You Upgrade to Ubuntu 16.10 Next Week?

* A Parody within a Parody

* The winners of the Ubuntu 16.10 Free Culture Showcase

* Snap interview with Krita

* Dell XPS 13 laptops with Intel Kaby Lake processors now available

* Plasma 5.8 LTS now in KDE neon

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It’s Episode Thirty-Two of Season-Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are here again.

The three amigos are back, but we are missing our amiga!

In this week’s show:

* We discuss System76 with Ryan Sipes, the System76 community manager.

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* yadm – Yet Another Dotfile Manager

* Ubuntu PPA for yadm

* We also discuss trying to make Ubuntu Touch apps and making a snap of emoj.

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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 on IRC in #ubuntu-podcast on Freenode

It’s Episode Thirty-One of Season-Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Alan Pope and Martin Wimpress are here again.

Three of us are here, but we’re a women down

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

Most of us are here, but one of us is busy!

In this week’s show:

* We discuss the Raspberry Pi hitting 10 Million sales and the impact the it has had.

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* set -o vi – Which makes bash use vi keybindings.

* We also discuss solving an “Internet Mystery” #blamewindows

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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 on IRC in #ubuntu-podcast on Freenode

It’s Episode Twenty-Nine of Season-Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Alan Pope and Martin Wimpress (just about) are here again.

Most of us are here, but one of us is busy and another was cut off part way through!

In this week’s show:

* We discuss the news:

* Adobe announcing a new beta version of Flash player for Linux

* Dennis Hamilton, vice president of Apache OpenOffice, discussing the project’s retirement

* The American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International calling on President Obama to pardon Edward Snowden

* Raspberry Pi Foundation selling it’s 10 Millionth computer

* Pixar releasin Universal Scene Description under an Open Source license

* The Dolphin emulator now being able to boot all officially released Gamecube titles

* We discuss the community news:

* Game developer MaxEd has blogged about his experience with Ubuntu Touch development

* Ubuntu SDK IDE 4.1.0 has been released

* Canonical’s Will Cooke has announced improvements to Unity 7’s Low Graphics Mode

* You Can Now Register for the First European Ubuntu Conference, UbuCon Europe

* elementary OS 0.4 Loki Released

* The Linux AIO project has published a single ISO image with all the Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS flavors

* We mention some events:

* Nextcloud Conference 2016 – September 16 – 22 2016 – Berlin, Germany

* Retro Gaming & Vintage Computer Day – Monday 24 October 2016 at 11:00 – Great Yarmouth, UK

* Egham Raspberry Jam – Sunday 16th October 2016 (2-5pm) – Staines-upon-Thames, UK

* mini-DebConf Cambridge – 10 – 13 November 2016 – Cambridge, UK

* We also discuss running GNOME Shell, migrating servers to Bytemark and that you can also get a quality VPS from BitFolk.

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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,

It’s Episode Twenty-Eight of Season-Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, Laura Cowen, and Martin Wimpress (just about) are here again.

We’re all here, most of us for the whole show, but this is a much shorter show than usual. #blame-martin

In this week’s show:

* We discuss (but you’ll never hear it) why distros grow in popularity and what kills them off?

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We also discuss trying to install Ubuntu Touch on a Nexus 7 2013 and flashing a FlymeOS Meizu Pro5 with Ubuntu.

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* A collection of bash tips

* 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 on IRC in #ubuntu-podcast on Freenode

It’s Episode Twenty-Seven 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:

* The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee have decided once again that Fedora will use Wayland by default in the next release

* Microsoft have open sourced their PowerShell command line intepreter and released it for Linux and Mac OS

* Example that Alan talked about

* Firefox 49 for Linux will let you watch Netflix and Amazon without plugins

* Google has confirmed their intention to penalise websites displaying those really annoying full-screen pop-over adverts

* Intel Joule board, targeted at Internet-of-Things and robotics, powered by Ubuntu Core

* Google is killing Chrome apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux

* Linux is 25 years old

* Conveniently for Red Hat, a Judge has granted Happy Birthday lawyers $4.6M, citing “unusually positive results”

* We discuss the community news:

* Canonical has become a Patron of KDE e.V.

* Canonical Robert Ancell has announced snapd-glib

* GNOME Weather (also available on Unity and MATE) has stopped working

* There is a new application to set up and configure Razer keyboards on Linux

* Turtl is an open source alternative to Evernote or other note-keeping apps

* Rae Shambrook from Canonical’s design team has published a report on user testing for Online status display

* Pasi Lallinaho from the Xubuntu team has published a WordPress theme for Ubuntu community websites

* Ubuntu 16.10 Wallpaper Contest is now open for entries

* …and so is the Ubuntu 16.10 Free Culture Showcase!

* Yakkety Yak Be...

It’s Episode Twenty-six 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 how we each discovered the Web, in honour of it being 25 years since the first website went online.

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We also discuss switching to the Ubuntu Phone full-time, creating an Ubuntu Podcast Roku Channel, and fixing things with Sugru.

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* systemd-analyze blame which shows you what’s eating time during startup.

* systemd-analyze plot > foo.html which generates a chart.

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

* Michael Tunnel from TuxDigital made a video explaining the new ‘apt’.

* This weeks cover image is taken from Pixabay.

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 Twenty-five 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:

* Google have begun developing a new operating system, dubbed “Fuchsia”

* Chrome will de-emphasize Flash in favor of HTML5

* Intel has demoed its Alloy “Merged Reality” headset

* Microsoft has accidentally leaked “golden keys” that unlock every Windows device

* Ryan Sipes, one of the founders of Mycroft, is leaving the company

* Google is moving “Hangouts on air” from Google+ to Youtube Live

* Seagate have announced they will be producing a 60TB SSD for datacentres

* We discuss the community news:

* A converged Terminal app design is coming

* Running X apps on Ubuntu devices

* Mir interface landed in snapd!

* A six-part series about Ubuntu-on-Windows

* Linux kernels prior to 4.7 are susceptible to TCP session hijacking

* Community vote to get ZTE to make an Ubuntu Phone

* We mention some events:

* LinuxCon North America – 22 – 24 August 2016 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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

* Barcamp Manchester – 24-25 September – CityLabs, Manchester, UK

* Teletext and Digitiser Festival – 1 October – Cambridge, UK

* CLSx Europe – 16 October – London, UK

* We also discuss using the command line and playing Pokémon GO, and flashing ‘new’ firmware on a Palm T|X to make it connect to a WAP-secured wifi network.

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This weeks cover image is taken from Wikimedia.

That’s all for this week!