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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