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It’s Episode Eight 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 our Ubuntu Podcast technical setup and, in particular, what’s changed for the current season of shows.

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We share some GUI Lurve which is the incredibly useful time read, which is a simple, command-line stop-watch. No one should be without it.

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And we also chat about doing Parkrun, playing Pillars of Eternity, and watching Daredevil (not the Ben Affleck movie).

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

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

* Matthias Clasen has started a discussion on the GNOME release team mailing list seeking to revive the development of GNOME 3’s apps…

* Tech news sites including engadet and forwardgeek have published an apparently sourceless story that Microsoft will be bundling its Android apps with future releases of CyanogenMod…

* Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Open Technologies will be absorbed into its parent company, Microsoft…

* The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a report that Chris Roberts, a security researcher recently detained by the FBI for tweeting about compromising an aeroplane’s internal communication systems, has been banned from flying with the airline…

* A kickstarter campaign has been launched for Endless Computers, a desktop computer designed with and for users in developing countries…

* Twitter has announced new policies and tools to help combat abuse on its microblogging service…

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We also discuss some community news:

* Locally integrated menus have been made non-default in Ubuntu Vivid which will be 15.04 this week…

* Łukasz Zemczak announced the availability of the latest Over The Air (OTA) update to Ubuntu phones…

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And we mention an event:

* Ubuntu Online Summit – 5th to 7th May – online

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

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It’s Episode Six of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Martin Wimpress & Laura Cowen (but this time, no Mark Johnson) are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss travelling around the USA, setting up Ubuntu MATE on Raspberry Pi 2, birthdays and buying Linux devices.

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We share some Command Line Love with curl!

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And we also read loads of your feedback.

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

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It’s Episode Five of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress, and (still) no Laura Cowen are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

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

* Decentralised development For The Win!

* Decentralised Ad-Injectors less so

* US Gov Injects Stupidity

* Microsoft reverses Stupidity

* Crowdfunder of the week

* Codebug

* We also discuss some gadget news:

* Now you can lose your entire PC down the back of the sofa…

* Convergence! Google style.

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

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It’s Episode Four of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress, and again no Laura Cowen are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss Ubuntu MATE, the desktop paradigm back from the dead!

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We share some GUI Lurve which is the Telegram app, mostly used for phones but with a desktop client, and even a command-line client.

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And we also chat about not playing GTA 5, and setting up NFC tags with profiles on CyanogenMod.

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

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It’s Episode Three of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress, and no Laura Cowen are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

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

* Sci-Fi and Fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett has died at the age of 66

* Google has announced that they will be shutting down Google Code, their open source software hosting platform

* Cisco has announced that, in order to circumvent government interception tactics, it will ship networking orders to dead-drop addresses

* A blogger has posted details about possible violations of the GPL by BQ, manufacturers of the first Ubuntu phone

* Alexander Hanff, CEO of Think Privacy Inc, has posted a review of the privacy on Ubuntu for phones

* Privacy-focused search provider DuckDuckGo has announced its annual donations to Free and Open Source Software projects, based on nominations from the community

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We also discuss some gadget news:

* The BBC has announced a plan to give a free programmable hardware device to every Year 7 school child in the UK, 1 million devices in total

* Google have also announced the new model of their high-end Chromebook, the Pixel

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And we mention an event:

* 7th Egham Raspberry Jam on the 26th of April

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

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We’re back with the second episode of Season Eight!

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

Please update your podcast download clients with our new feed URLs:-

http://feeds.ubuntupodcast.org/mp3

http://feeds.ubuntupodcast.org/ogg

In this week’s show:

* We discuss first opinions of the brand new Ubuntu Phone

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We share some Command Line Lurve which is a command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net

speedtest-cli

You can find it on Github

Example:

alan@deep-thought:$ speedtest-cli

Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...

Retrieving speedtest.net server list...

Testing from Virgin Media (1.2.3.4)...

Selecting best server based on latency...

Hosted by UK Broadband/PCCW (Ealing) [41.10 km]: 17.462 ms

Testing download speed.................Download: 93.11 Mbit/s

Testing upload speed........................Upload: 5.89 Mbit/s

* And we explain a bit about what’s changed for this new season. Let us know what you think at our new email address: [email protected]

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We’re back with the first episode of Season Eight!

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

Please update your podcast download clients with our new feed URLs:-

http://feeds.ubuntupodcast.org/mp3

http://feeds.ubuntupodcast.org/ogg

In this week’s show:

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

* Valve/HTC announce their new VR headset

* FCC Net Neutrality ruling

* SFC to bring GPL compliance lawsuit againt VMware

* Linux Kernel gets a “code of conflict”

* Wikipedia hurls sueball at NSA and DOJ over dragnet surveillance

* We also discuss some community news:

* Ubuntu MATE is now an official flavour of Ubuntu

* Watch the Ubuntu convergence demo video

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