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It’s Episode Twenty-four 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 interview elementary OS developers Daniel Foré, Cody Garver and Corentin Noël about the upcoming Loki release and a little bit about Snaps.

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We also discuss playing the Ukulele and playing with a new Entroware Athena laptop.

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We share a Command Line Lurve, himawaripy (via Joey at OMG Ubuntu), which takes photos of the world from a satellite.

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

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We discuss building MATE Desktop from source using reference packages for Debian and Slackware.

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This weeks cover image is taken from Public Domain Pictures.

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-three ½ of Season Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress and Joe Ressington are live and speaking to your brain.

We’re here again, but this time live from FOSS Talk!

In this week’s show:

* We give out platefuls of biscuits.

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We discuss the community news:

* Ubuntu 15.10 Hits End of Life

* Ubuntu 16.04.1 is out

* We discuss what gadget or technology can’t we live without and why?

* And then we discuss what gadget or technology we thought we couldn’t live without but found that we could.

* We also “enforce some fun” on the FOSS Talk audience and get their gadgets or technology they can’t live without.

* We each pick our best command line lurves E-V-E-R!

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This weeks cover image was taken by Clemency Cooper.

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-three 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:

* Former OwnCloud Inc. employee Carla Schroder has published the other side of the OwnCloud/Nextcloud fork story

* €1.2 million funding for Open Source projects in Germany

* UK tops the UN’s e-government survey but the service is having political problems

* Google has added YouTube to their HTTPS Transparency report

* Researchers at Princeton have shown that Web APIs allowing sites to access your battery status provide a new vector for uniquely identifying a device and you can see a demo here

* We discuss the community news:

* A consolidated YAML network configuration across Ubuntu announced

* Distrowatch comprehensively reviews the Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu Edition

* Distro contributors and developers have written up their experiences of attending the recent Snappy Sprint in Heidelberg

* Fedora contributor – Neal Gompa

* KDE Developer – Harald Sitter

* Debian Maintainer – Luke Faraone

* Another week, another Skype update for Linux

* Ubuntu Touch OTA-12 includes Biometric Authentication for Meizu PRO 5

* We mention some events:

* FOSS Talk Live – 6 August – London, UK

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

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

* We discuss doing a bit of parkrun tourism and working to the sound of a dehumidifier.

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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

It’s Episode Twenty-Two 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

* Microsoft has won a major privacy victory against the US gov for data held overseas

* Microsoft ordered to fix ‘excessively intrusive, insecure’ Windows 10

* The source code of the Apollo 11 guidance system that took the US to the moon in 1969 has been uploaded to GitHub

* US telecoms giant Verizon is acquiring Yahoo! for $4.8bn

* The EU-funded FOSSA project will audit the security of KeePass and Apache HTTP Server

* Japanese technology company Softbank has made an offer to buy ARM

* We discuss the community news:

* Improved Unity Desktop performance in low graphics mode coming

* Ubuntu forums were hacked

* Ubuntu Fairphone 2 port is coming along nicely

* Unity Desktop can run on Windows 10 – kinda

* Mozilla Thunderbird 45 has finally made it to the main Ubuntu Linux repositories

* Skype announced a brand new Linux client, which is now in alpha

* Alternative to Skype, Ring, is free software for universal communication which respects freedoms and privacy of its users

* Chinese consortium buys Opera browser for $600m

* Watch Netflix in Vivaldi web browser

* We mention some events:

* Fedora Flock – 2-5 August – Krakow, Poland

* FOSS Talk Live – 6 August – London, UK

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

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

* We discuss going to Snappy Sprint in Germany and visiting nuclear power stations and the like around the South East of the UK.

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This week’s cover image is of Margaret Hamilton.

It’s Episode Twenty-one 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, just about! Two of us are snapping in Heidelberg.

In this week’s show:

* We interview Snapcraft developers Sergio Schvezov and Kyle Fazzari about snap and Snapcraft, why they (snap and Snapcraft, not the developers) exist, the problem they solve, and some upcoming features..

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We also discuss testing superglue preservation tips (we’ll report back on the success or otherwise in a future episode), and playing Pokémon GO around campus and RimWorld on Steam on Linux.

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We share a Command Line Lurve, Cheat, which provides you with a cheatsheet (brief, handy help) for a command.

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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 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.

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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.

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