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It’s Episode 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

* A tablet when you want it, a PC when you need it.

* Oracle wants Google to give them the money. All the money!

* VoCore, a coin-sized Linux computer with WiFi…

* The Studio Ghibli version of Toonz is Open Source…

* Red Hat becomes first $2b open-source company…

* Microsoft creates a teenage Nazi, then kills her…

* nVidia provides tentative Mir and Wayland support…

* Steam Controller CAD release…

* Azerbaijan cancels Daylight Saving Time…

* We discuss the community news:

* We now have a copy of the Ubuntu Community wiki…

* Check out uCaresystems – system updater, cleaner, and optimiser

* How to handle KDE not respecting YOUR distros requirements?

* Edubuntu’s future, 16.04 and beyond…

* UbuntuBSD: Ubuntu with the rock-solid stability and performance of the FreeBSD kernel…

* Ubuntu Budgie “remix”: Ubuntu spin of with Budgie desktop

* And some events:

* Maker Faire Vienna – 16-17 April 2016 – Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria

* Egham Raspberry Jam – Sunday 24 April 2016 – Staines-upon-Thames, United Kingdom

* LinuxFest Northwest – 23-24 April 2016 – Bellingham, WA, USA

* FOSS Talk Live – Saturday 6 August 2016 – Kings Cross, London, United Kingdom

* We discuss playing with Snappy on the Raspberry Pi 3, and presenting on the Ambient Kettle project at a developer event in London (a shorter version of a previous talk).

* This weeks cover image is from Kyla Duhamel

That’s all for this week!

It’s Episode Four 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 still here!

In this week’s show:

* Laura interviews Catherine Jones, New Media Engineer at the Science Museum in London, about building interactive displays.

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We discuss bringing an O2 Joggler back to life, and fixing bugs ready for the next beta of Ubuntu MATE.

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We share a Command Line Lurve – ps_mem:

A utility to accurately report the in core memory usage for a program. Available from the ps_mem GitHub.

* Download

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pixelb/ps_mem/master/ps_mem.py

chmod +x ps_mem.py

* Get a memory usage report, with child processes aggregated under the parent:

sudo ./ps_mem.py

* When you need to split the child processes use -s (for example, seeing what multiple Java applications use when running under a common servelet container such as Jetty or Tomcat):

sudo ./ps_mem.py -s

* The [-p PID,...] option allows filtering the results. To restrict output to the current $USER:

sudo ps_mem -p $(pgrep -d, -u $USER)

* And we go over your feedback – thanks for sending it – please send more!

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 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

* Microsoft is a Jekyll and Hyde figure within the Open Source world:

* Released SQL Server for Linux

* Acquired Xamarin

* Release of Sonic – a Debian-based distro for network switches

* Apparent attempt to lock down the Windows app and game ecosystem through the Universal Windows Platform

* Continuing to extract patent royalties from Android and Linux companies

* Dell has launched it’s 5th generation Project Sputnik laptops running Ubuntu

* One million free TLS certificates have now been issued by Let’s Encrypt, three months since launch

* Ubuntu 16.04 is dropping AMD fglrx drivers

* Fedora Workstation working group decided they’re still not quite ready for Wayland

* Linaro have announced the rollout of an ARM-based developer cloud

* We discuss the community news and events:

* Help make GNOME Software, or just ‘Software’ beautiful

* Stéphane Graber says LXC, LXD and LXCFS 2.0 final releases are getting closer

* The Ubuntu Documentation write the longest email ever

* Ubuntu Touch is being ported to Sony Xperia T2 Ultra Android phones

* OggCamp 2016 announcement

* FOSS Talk Live – Saturday 6th August – London

* DjangoCon Europe – 30th March to 3rd April – Budapest, Hungary

* We discuss playing with Snappy on the Raspberry Pi, and watching long, old films for many hours at the Prince Charles Cinema.

* This weeks cover image is from Charles D P Miller.

It’s Episode Two 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 still here! We managed to press the right buttons to start and stop the recording again for another week.

In this week’s show:

* Martin interiews Ting-Ray Chang, User Experience Researcher at Canonical, about usability testing Ubuntu.

If you are interested in participating with User Experience Studies at Canonical then you are invited to send Ting-Ray Chang an email.

* We discuss playing Human Resource Machine and testing out the Raspberry Pi 3.

* We share a Command Line Lurve:

fatrace

Good for seeing what’s doing what to your disk; e.g. I wanted to see what was writing to disk while I was running ncdu:

sudo fatrace -p $(pidof ncdu) -t -f W

The above shows timestamp and types of action.

* And we go over your feedback – thanks for sending it – please send more!

* This weeks cover image is from http://www.dannychoo.com/

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 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 made it! (Despite about 3 false starts on the recording…but you’d never know it…)

In this week’s show:

* We discuss the news

* The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B was announced on Monday!

* Canonical announced that ZFS will ship with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

* A revised draft of the “Snooper’s Charter” has been published

* We discuss the community news and events (but with no events):

* Community ports of Ubuntu Phone on Sony Xperia and OnePlus One handsets

* Linux users reporting they can’t join group Skype chats with Mac or Windows

* Canonical won three awards at Mobile World Congress 2016

* Ubuntu Scope Showdown closed yesterday with some awesome prizes up for grabs

* Canonical’s Lead Designer has called for developers to make apps using the Ubuntu UI Toolkit

* The Ubuntu Kernel Engineering team have written a reference guide for setting up ZFS on Ubuntu

* We discuss going to Embedded World trade fair and hacking dinosaurs…

DeeDee lives! #blackgangpi #IHackedADino pic.twitter.com/G4ZZ1B9YqV

— Laura Cowen (@lauracowen) February 20, 2016

* This weeks cover image is provided courtesy of Gareth Hilfacree under a CC-BY 2.0 license.

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 Zero 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 back! And we’re going to be back every week starting Thursday 3rd March 2016!!

In this week’s show we give a quick run-down of all the news that happened while we were away…

* Debian founder Ian Murdock died at just 42 years old.

* A music track was copied to /dev/null 100 times a second to make a point.

* The Playstation 4 was hacked to run Linux.

* FirefoxOS on the phone was killed off.

* Alphabet, Google’s parent company, became the world’s most valuable company.

* Jolla closed the book on the tablet

* VTech decided to teach kids early-on that security is a nice-to-have.

* Everyone started encrypting with Let’s Encrypt

* Google, HP & Oracle joined RISC-V, to create an open source alternative to ARM & MIPS

* The Australian government recommended switching off 2-factor authentication while on holiday

* Ubuntu App Explorer started a wishlist of apps

* Firefox 43 was released but GTK3 was disabled

* Michael Larabel from www.phoronix.com felt “let down” by Linux and Open Source

* Intel unveiled five new Compute Sticks

* Amazon search will be disabled In Ubuntu 16.04

* After 3 years, OpenShot 2.0 finally hit beta

* Mozilla is killing its persona.org authentication system

* OpenDesktop.org was acquired by Blue Systems

* OpenSSH was struck by a new security vulnerability

* Coreboot was ported to the Librem 13 Laptop, without Purism

* Ubuntu Scope Showdown 2016 started

* Linux Foundation stopped letting individual member...

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

In this week’s show…

* We installed a whole bunch of different Linux distros, went Go-Karting for Christmas, spoke at some conferences, did the San Francisco parkrun, and worked on the Ubuntu Pi Flavour Maker.

* We look back at our 2015 predictions and make some new ones for 2016.

* Worlds Biggest Data Breaches Visualisation

* We have a command line love for removing all metadata tag information from an image:

exiftool -all= -overwrite_original foo.png

* We go over your feedback.

Our 2016 Predictions

Laura

* 3D printing will become more accessible and mainstream.

* IoT – infrastructure, scaling, security – back to 70s computing.

* IoT – privacy issues will become more prominent in the development of IoT products.

Alan

* There will be 10 commercial Ubuntu Touch devices by the end of 2016.

* A large motor vehicle manufacturer will switch to using Ubuntu Snappy for their in-car system.

* Edward Snowden will leave Russia.

* Julian Assange will leave the Ecuadorian Embassy.

Mark

* 1 of the top 5 Linux distributions, according to Distrowatch.com, will have a desktop release with Wayland or Mir as the default display server. It won’t be well recieved due to missing features and/or poor driver support. Mint, Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora were the top 5 distros at the end of 2015.

* The release of Ubuntu’s first converged device will be accompanied by significant mainstream marketing and media coverage, i.e. not just “tech news sites”.

* A big game publisher with it’s own digital distribution platform (i.e. not Steam, someone like Blizzard with Battle.Net or EA with Origin) will release a Linux version of its client software.

Martin

* Vulkan will be finalised and released. Linux drivers will be released for Intel IGPs (open source), NVIDIA (via proprietary drivers) and AMD (via proprietary drivers). SteamOS will include Vulkan support and, on equivalent hardware, will out perform Windows 10. Android will announce support for Vulkan but iOS will not.

* Virtual Reality will continue to lack adoption. There will be no official VR headset products released for PlayStation 4, XBox One or Steam.

* There will be at least 10 consumer products, not intended for makers and not manufactured by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, launched for sale in 2016 that use a Raspberry Pi (any model) at it’s heart.

That’s all for this week. And that’s it for Season Eight. We’ll be going for curry in 2016 to decide whether we’ll be back for a new season. Please send your comments and suggestions to:

* [email protected]

* Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-podcast on Freenode

* Follow us on Twitter

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

In this week’s show…

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

* Let’s Encrypt has entered public beta… (And if you’re interested, there’s an open source tool to monitor the expiration of certificates.)

* Mozilla will stop developing and selling Firefox OS smartphones…

* ownCloud have established a community project with Western Digital to bring self hosted cloud Storage to home users…

* The Linux HomeFront project have a Linux and Open Source ‘Man of The Year 2015’ poll…

* Jim Killock, Executive Director of the Open Rights Group, has launched an Indiegogo crowd funding campaign against mass surveillance in the UK…

* Mozilla Firefox 43.0 brings the long-anticipated integration of GTK+ 3…

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

* Ubuntu Online Search in Unity Dash switched off by default in 16.04…

* Ubuntu Touch LibreOffice DocViewer has been finally released on Ubuntu Store…

* Pebble watch support for Ubuntu Touch is coming…

* Ubuntu Touch to Get FM Support for Aquaris E4.5 and E5 HD…

There are even events:

* 10th Egham Raspberry Jam – Gamification – Sunday 17 January 2016, 14:00 to 17:00 (GMT) – Gartner, Surrey

* SCaLE 14x – January 21-24, 2016 – Pasadena Convention Center, California (including UbuCon Summit – 21st to 22nd)

* FOSDEM 2016 – 30 Jan 2016 to 31 Jan 2016 – Brussels, Belgium

* LinuxConf AU 2016 – Geelong, Victoria, Australia in 2016, between 1st-5th February 2016 at Deakin University’s Waterfront Campus.

* DevConf.cz 2016 – February 5th – 7th 2016 – Brno, Czech Republic

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

* [email protected]

* Join us on IRC in #ubu...

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

In this week’s show we are joined by guest presenter Nick B from #systemau podcast.

* We chat about gardening, automating Ubuntu Touch testing, accidently dding over an external USB backup disk and being inspired by a talk Stuart Langridge gave a OggCamp 2015 and creating a general purpose tool for encoding and publishing podcast content and assets.

* We have some interviews from OggCamp with Entroware and ragworm.

* We have some links to video, podcasts and blogs that summarise what went on at OggCamp 2015.

* What I learned at OggCamp 2015 – A summary from a first time OggCamper

* The Tech Shed Podcast Episode 04, The Oggcamp Hangover Special

Dan Lynch – Oggcamp 2015 Introduction

A short video of photos from OggCamp 2015

The OggCamp 2015 Podcasters panel

* We go over your feedback.

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

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* Discuss us on Reddit

It’s Episode Thirty Nine of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Nick B and Martin Wimpress and are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show we are joined by guest presenter Nick B from #systemau podcast.

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

* Security researcher Joe Nord has discovered Dell has inadvertently shipped laptops to customers contaning a self-signed root certificate installed and its private key.

* The UK Internet Service Provider’s Association (ISPA) met with the Home Office outlining concerns with the Draft Invesigatory Powers Bill

* Mozilla has released “Firefox OS 2.5 Developer Preview”, including an Android App that allows you to try out FirefoxOS without flashing your device.

* Mozilla is seeking a new home for Thunderbird as it focuses on Firefox.

* The Rasperry Pi Foundation announced the Pi Zero, a smaller, cheaper Rasperry Pi.

* Sean Beaupre discovered and documented a vulnerability that affects all Snapdragon 805 devices, such as the Motorola Droid Turbo/MAXX, Motorola Nexus 6, and Samsung Galaxy Note 4.

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

* Didier Roche proposes more languages to be baked into the live CD by default

* New community council elected

There are even events:

* 10th Egham Raspberry Jam – Gamification – Sunday 17 January 2016, 14:00 to 17:00 (GMT) – Gartner, Surrey

* SCaLE 14x – January 21-24, 2016 – Pasadena Convention Center, California (including UbuCon Summit – 21st to 22nd)

* FOSDEM 2016 – 30 Jan 2016 to 31 Jan 2016 – Brussels, Belgium

* LinuxConf AU 2016 – Geelong, Victoria, Australia in 2016, between 1st-5th February 2016 at Deakin University’s Waterfront Campus.

* DevConf.cz 2016 – February 5th – 7th 2016 – Brno, Czech Republic

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

* [email protected]

* Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-podcast on Freenode

* Follow us on Twitter