It’s Episode Twenty-seven 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:

* There’s an experimental build of Unity Editor for Linux!

* Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, Cisco, Intel, Netflix, and Amazon have launched a new consortium, the Alliance for Open Media

* Mycroft, open source’s answer to Google Now and Amazon Echo, has reached its funding goal on Kickstarter.

* Mozilla is beginning to preview its iOS Firefox browser, with a roll out for testing in New Zealand.

* The Eagerly Awaited Raspberry Pi Display has gone on sale

* America’s broadband watchdog is suffering a backlash over plans to control software updates to Wi-Fi routers, smartphones, and even laptops.

* Oracle appears to be making redundancies in the ranks of its Java evangelists team.

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

* Fork of the open-sourced Ubuntu One filesync code

* The Next Generation SDK

* Bringing Glucosio to Ubuntu Phone will help meet their goal of reaching as many people as possible with tools to help improve diabetes outcomes

* A free, libre and open-source webcomic…

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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