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

In this week’s show:

* We review some hardware: the Pebble watch and some early thoughts on two Ubuntu phones, the BQ E5 and the Meizu MX4.

* We chat about the Tab Suspender extension in Chrome, playing Borderlands 2 on Linux, and playing with the new Ubuntu phones.

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

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It’s Episode Seventeen of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, and Martin Wimpress are all together again and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

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

* The Linux port of the Unity 3D Editor is “coming along quite nicely”…

* Toyota have settled a case of Unintended Acceleration in the US and had their code reviewed…

* Some Ubuntu 15.10 flavours released Alpha 1…

* The Meizu MX4 Ubuntu phone went on sale Thursday, June 25…

* Linux Mint 17.2 “Rafaela Cinnamon Edition…

* Linux Mint 17.2 “Rafaela MATE Edition

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

* “After much public controversy, the Ubuntu Community Council and Kubuntu Council have met with Mark Shuttleworth and Jonathan Riddell to chart a path forward.”

* Korean Loco team have setup their own localised “Ask Ubuntu” site

* The Internet’s Jono Bacon suggests making Android apps run on Ubuntu phone…

* Oggcamp 2015 is happening!

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

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

In this week’s show:

* We review some Entroware hardware; the Proteus gaming laptop and the Aura NUC.

* We go over your feedback.

* We have a command line love from occasional guest presenter Anton Piatek: liquidprompt

* We chat about broken laptop updates (Chrome did a dodgy update that’s now fixed and, separately, don’t install both OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice and the Launcher integration plugin and install updates and…stuff…), broken laptop hardware (Mark got his soldering iron out), trying out retropie and stormfinch, and releasing Ubuntu MATE 1.10.

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

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It’s Episode Fifteen of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, and Martin Wimpress are all together again and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

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

* Apple announces Swift will be open source by the end of the year…

* Microsoft have finally made their Raspberry Pi 2 image available…

* If you’re in the EU, Norway, or Switzerland, you can now pre-order the BQ Aquaris E5 Ubuntu Edition phone from BQ’s website…

* Rumour that Microsoft is working with partners to bring cheaper devices to the market

* Guy accused of copyright infringement for reporting his mobile phone operator is inserting JavaScript into browser sessions…

* SourceForge explain their Past, Present and Future and how they are working to Maintain the Integrity of their Open Source backbone…. Looking for alternatives?

* LastPass security breach; change your master password.

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

* A review of the new Dell XPS 13 Ubuntu Edition laptop…

* Mark S proposes a way to avoid conflicts of interest on the Community Council in future…

* Try out Unity 8 in a container…

* Reddit discussion about using Ubuntu Phone as sole phone…

* Win a Meizu MX4 if you’re a developer with a track record…deadline 1st July…

* Flavour developers needed for milestone prep…

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

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It’s Episode Fourteen of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and guest presenter Joe Ressington is/are back and is/are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We interview Florian Rival about his project GDevelop and go over your feedback

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And we also chat about getting back on FaceBook to feel like you have friends again, playing with Sonic Pi and playing Don’t Starve Together, together.

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

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It’s Episode Thirteen of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and guest presenter Joe Ressington are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

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

* Mozilla abandons $25 phone, sets new goals

* Google makes it easy to see how creepy they are

* Lego creates infiniminer clone

* Distributed DataCentres to warm your home

* Popular Linux distro company announces phones

* Sourceforge seeks to cement reputation as ‘Terrible People’

* We discuss the recent Ubuntu Community Council / Kubuntu Community Council spat

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

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

In this week’s show:

* We discuss getting people to participate in your open source community…

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We share some Command Line Lurve, ntp, which we use every recording session:

* Make sure ntp is installed. This also starts the service automatically:

apt-get install ntp

* Stop the ntp service:

sudo service ntp stop

* Force a sync:

sudo ntpd -gqx

This will display the slew, something like and the clock is adjusted.

ntpd: time slew +0.000244s

* Start the ntp daemon again:

sudo service ntp start

* And we also chat about taking another 21 seconds off a PB (personal best time) at Parkrun, celebrating birthdays and wedding anniversaries, discovering the #systemau podcast, and paying for a software licence!

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

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It’s Episode Eleven 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 look at what’s been going on in the news:

* Canonical and GE’s FirstBuild collaborate on a smart refrigerator, ChillHub

* Meizu have announced the availability of the MX4 Ubuntu Edition in China

* 23 years remaining until 2038’s version of Y2K

* Security vulnerability in the virtual floppy drive code used by many computer virtualization platforms

* Firefox 38 arrives with tab-based preferences, responsive image support and content decryption module

* Official Syncthing Debian/Ubuntu repository released

* Interplanetary Society has launched a kickstarter to explore the universe with a spacecraft whose locomotion is light-powered

* Shutting down pirate sites is ineffective, European Commission finds

* MAME games emulator is going open-source

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We mention some community events:

* OpenTech – London, UK – Saturday 13th June

* PyCon UK – Coventry University Technology Centre, UK – Friday 18th – Monday 21st September

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

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

In this week’s show:

* We discuss Mark Shuttleworth’s Ubuntu Online Summit keynote…

* We share some Command Line Lurve which is the super useful listadmin, which does stuff. Listen to find out what…

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And we also chat about taking a whole 3 minutes (that’s right!) off a PB (personal best time) at Parkrun, playing Windows games on Linux, getting Cyanogen OS 12 on to a OnePlus One phone, going to the Egham Raspberry Jam, and making Ubuntu MATE a download for the Raspberry Pi 2.

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

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It’s Episode Nine 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 basically just take a long look at what’s been going on in the news:

* The High Court ruled that five of the UK’s biggest broadband providers begin blocking five websites offering Popcorn Time for download…

* Microsoft has released its free new Visual Studio Code editor, not only on Windows but also on Linux and OSX…

* After more than seven years in development, GNU Mailman 3 has been released…

* Anonymous messaging service Secret, at one stage thought to be valued at more than $100m (£66.5m), is shutting down…

* On April 30th Mozilla announced their intent to phase out non-secure HTTP in order to encourage web developers to be secure…

* Tomeu Vizoso has been working on the kernel to bring some ChromeOS features to upstream, including the ability of performing work while the machine is in a low power state such as suspend…

* Launchpad will host git repositories…

* Steam for Linux usage drops below 1%…

* Debian GNU/Hurd 2015 released!

* E-buyer in the UK have just started selling AMD-based HP laptops pre-loaded with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS…

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

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