It’s Episode Twenty-nine of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!

In this week’s show:

We look at what’s been going on in the news:

* Dell’s head of China told The Wall Street Journal that NeoKylin Linux is shipped on 42 percent of the PCs it sells into China.

* Let’s Encrypt are working towards general availability over the next couple of months and passed a major milestone by issuing its first certificate.

* Volkswagen shares have plunged more than 18% after US regulators found that some of its cars could manipulate official emissions tests

* IBM are releasing open source blockchain thingummy (and Imogen Heap’s music idea #longread

* Italy’s Ministry of Defense drop Microsoft Office in Favor of LibreOffice and adopt the Open Document Format (ODF).

* It was decided at this year’s DebConf to stop producing new CD ISOs/images for future Debian updates onward.

We also take a look at what’s been going on in the community:

* Big Bug Bonanza Ubuntu 16.04 LTS – call for participation

* Community Council call for nominations.

* Replacing the Startup Disk Creator – call for Python coders

* Ubuntu Developers discuss the future of Snappy Personal, Unity 8, Mir, Convergence

* UbuContest – send us your opinions on the entries

There are even events:

* DevRelCon – London, UK – 30th September

* Oggcamp returns! – Liverpool, UK – 31st October

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]

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It’s Episode Twenty-eight of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson is back with Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!

In this week’s show:

* We chat about backing up and reinstalling applications on different devices. We mention Aptik and Timeshift and Mackup.

* We go over your feedback, including…

* If you fancy resurrecting transcriptions of the podcast, take a look at the wiki.

* Get the latest Terminator (not the film); find out more.

* The Unload Tab.

* We have a command line love, from Nathanael Olander: Use screen -s ttyname to make using screen easier, :sessionname ttyname if you forget initially, screen -r tty if you have an attached tty that isn’t actually in use that you need to use. Though we mention byobu too…

* We chat about how to re-enable GPU acceleration in Chrome, learning Java again, moving /boot and / partitions to somewhere else, and Open Media Vault for Network Attached Storage (NAS).

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]

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It’s Episode Twenty-seven of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson is back with Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!

In this week’s show:

We look at what’s been going on in the news:

* There’s an experimental build of Unity Editor for Linux!

* Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, Cisco, Intel, Netflix, and Amazon have launched a new consortium, the Alliance for Open Media

* Mycroft, open source’s answer to Google Now and Amazon Echo, has reached its funding goal on Kickstarter.

* Mozilla is beginning to preview its iOS Firefox browser, with a roll out for testing in New Zealand.

* The Eagerly Awaited Raspberry Pi Display has gone on sale

* America’s broadband watchdog is suffering a backlash over plans to control software updates to Wi-Fi routers, smartphones, and even laptops.

* Oracle appears to be making redundancies in the ranks of its Java evangelists team.

We also take a look at what’s been going on in the community:

* Fork of the open-sourced Ubuntu One filesync code

* The Next Generation SDK

* Bringing Glucosio to Ubuntu Phone will help meet their goal of reaching as many people as possible with tools to help improve diabetes outcomes

* A free, libre and open-source webcomic…

There are even events:

* Oggcamp returns!

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]

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It’s Episode Twenty-six of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson is back with Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!

In this week’s show:

* We chat about Firefox and Chrome and whether Firefox’s new changes will turn it around.

* We go over your feedback, including a list of the apps we discussed in our Ubuntu Phone review a few episodes ago (you can find them all in the uApp Explorer):

* Telegram – encrypted instant messaging like WhatsApp

* Seshat – reading Kindle ebooks

* Notes – writing notes; syncs with Evernote

* uDropCabin – basic mobile client for Dropbox

* Also, here’s the list of links about Mint MATE:

* http://mintcast.org/2015/03/12/mintcast-220-martin-wimpress-and-ubuntu-mate/

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijybh8cyBsI

* http://thepipodcast.com/the-pi-podcast-1-ubuntu-mate/

* We have a command line love, hstr) from Chris.

* We chat about getting LibreOffice working on the Ubuntu Phone, watching frankly amazing TV, going on holiday and eating a lot of pierogi (but not bringing any back for us), and listening to the Third World Linux podcast.

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]

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It’s Episode Twenty-five of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson is back with Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!

In this week’s show:

We look at what’s been going on in the news:

* GitLab has announced it will be shipping Mattermost, a self-hosted chat application, alongside its flagship code hosting software.

* IBM is expanding support for Linux on mainframes with a few new initiatives announced today, including plans for an Ubuntu distribution.

* The Commodore Amiga 1000 is 30 years old

* Mozilla has announced that it will be changing the way Firefox addons are implemented

* It’s been noted by various technology news sites this week that a story about airport baggage handling posted late last year included a picture of the master keys used by TSA officials.

* Linux is 24 today.

We also take a look at what’s been going on in the community:

* GTK is difficult

* Unity overlay scrollbars are going.

* Feeling creative? Enter your work in the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase

There are even events:

* Oggcamp returns!

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]

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It’s Episode Twenty-four of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope are back with Stuart Langridge!

In this week’s show:

* We chat about why Laura doesn’t like webapps on the Ubuntu Phone and we get a more qualified view from app developer Stuart.

* We go over your feedback, including Ubuntu Phone notes from Pete Cliff.

* We have a command line love, Comcast from Jorge Castro.

* We chat about getting a Picade, playing with Jasper, and controlling a Nexus 6 with Pebble Time whilst listening to podcasts on the move.

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]

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It’s Episode Twenty-three of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope are joined by Stuart Langridge!

In this week’s show:

We look at what’s been going on in the news:

* GNU Mailman now hosted on gitlab (as opposed to launchpad or github)

* News about the India BQ launch…

* Another new version of Firefox…

* The ‘eraser button’ comes to the US…

* Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS released…

* EFF announced version 1.0 of Privacy Badger for Chrome and Firefox…

We also take a look at what’s been going on in the community:

* U1 finally open source!

* Untangling Snappy, Personal, Desktop Next, Ubuntu Touch, Phones and Convergence…

* KDE’s annual world summit, Akademy, happened…

* Snapcraft allows anybody to create plugins to support their favourite programming language, platform, packaging solution, etc…

* Chris Wayne has published Activity Tracker for Ubuntu Touch!

* The new Film Scope has been launched on the Ubuntu phone…

* Mir support lands in upstream Qt…

There are even events:

* Barcamp Southampton – 26th September – Southampton, UK

* Bad Voltage Live – 30th September – Germany

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]

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It’s Episode Twenty-two of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope are all together again!

In this week’s show:

* We go through the the results of what happened when Laura asked what you wanted testing on the Ubuntu Phone…

Right, what would you like me to try on the MX4 #UbuntuPhone? Apps? Use cases? Connectivity? Give me a list and I'll try this wk/wkend.

— Laura Cowen (@lauracowen) July 13, 2015

You can see what’s in the Ubuntu Store on this unofficial website if you’re curious.

Laura refused to touch anything that required fiddling with a terminal (it took long enough to test all this as it was!) but here’s the answer to how to sync your contacts without Google for now.

* We go over your feedback.

* We have a command line love, Facebook pathpicker sent in by Stuart Ward.

* We chat about going on holiday to Portugal, getting a talk accepted at DevRelCon 2015, playing with the Xposed Framework, and doing jury service.

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]

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It’s Episode Twenty-one of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope are all together again!

In this week’s show:

We look at what’s been going on in the news:

* Ripping CDs and movies for personal use is once again illegal in UK

* Filmmakers fighting “Happy Birthday” copyright find a 1927 version of the “Happy Birthday” lyrics, predating Warner/Chappell’s 1935 copyright by eight years.

* The Debian GNU/Linux Project has dropped support for the Sparc architecture, effective immediately.

* Ubuntu Phone review from Engadget: “years in the making, but still not consumer-ready”

* The Kubuntu project has published reference images of Plasma Mobile, a new mobile platform based on Ubuntu mobile and KDE technologies

* Is it time to remove Adobe Flash from your Linux computer?

We also take a look at what’s been going on in the community:

* London PodCrawl 2015 – 12th September, 12pm – London, UK

* Ubuntu 14.10 is now no longer supported – upgrade!

* The latest OTA Update for Ubuntu phones brings shell rotation (the display rotates with the phone) and fixes battery life…

* The Ubuntu Software Center is going to be removed from future versions of Ubuntu MATE, in favour of something better (not synaptic)…

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]

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It’s Episode Twenty of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, and Martin Wimpress are together with guest presenter Joe Ressington and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss Google Cardboard.

* We go over your feedback.

* We have a GUI love, LauncherFolders sent in by Rich. T.

* We chat about all the podcasts Joe presents on: Linux Luddites, mintCast, and JoeRess podcast. We also chat about Windows 8.1, Garmin 220 sports watch, and the MATE 1.10 release.

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]

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