It’s Episode Twenty-five of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson is back with Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!

In this week’s show:

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

* GitLab has announced it will be shipping Mattermost, a self-hosted chat application, alongside its flagship code hosting software.

* IBM is expanding support for Linux on mainframes with a few new initiatives announced today, including plans for an Ubuntu distribution.

* The Commodore Amiga 1000 is 30 years old

* Mozilla has announced that it will be changing the way Firefox addons are implemented

* It’s been noted by various technology news sites this week that a story about airport baggage handling posted late last year included a picture of the master keys used by TSA officials.

* Linux is 24 today.

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

* GTK is difficult

* Unity overlay scrollbars are going.

* Feeling creative? Enter your work in the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase

There are even events:

* Oggcamp returns!

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

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