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

We’re back! And we’re going to be back every week starting Thursday 3rd March 2016!!

In this week’s show we give a quick run-down of all the news that happened while we were away…

* Debian founder Ian Murdock died at just 42 years old.

* A music track was copied to /dev/null 100 times a second to make a point.

* The Playstation 4 was hacked to run Linux.

* FirefoxOS on the phone was killed off.

* Alphabet, Google’s parent company, became the world’s most valuable company.

* Jolla closed the book on the tablet

* VTech decided to teach kids early-on that security is a nice-to-have.

* Everyone started encrypting with Let’s Encrypt

* Google, HP & Oracle joined RISC-V, to create an open source alternative to ARM & MIPS

* The Australian government recommended switching off 2-factor authentication while on holiday

* Ubuntu App Explorer started a wishlist of apps

* Firefox 43 was released but GTK3 was disabled

* Michael Larabel from www.phoronix.com felt “let down” by Linux and Open Source

* Intel unveiled five new Compute Sticks

* Amazon search will be disabled In Ubuntu 16.04

* After 3 years, OpenShot 2.0 finally hit beta

* Mozilla is killing its persona.org authentication system

* OpenDesktop.org was acquired by Blue Systems

* OpenSSH was struck by a new security vulnerability

* Coreboot was ported to the Librem 13 Laptop, without Purism

* Ubuntu Scope Showdown 2016 started

* Linux Foundation stopped letting individual member...