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

We made it! (Despite about 3 false starts on the recording…but you’d never know it…)

In this week’s show:

* We discuss the news

* The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B was announced on Monday!

* Canonical announced that ZFS will ship with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

* A revised draft of the “Snooper’s Charter” has been published

* We discuss the community news and events (but with no events):

* Community ports of Ubuntu Phone on Sony Xperia and OnePlus One handsets

* Linux users reporting they can’t join group Skype chats with Mac or Windows

* Canonical won three awards at Mobile World Congress 2016

* Ubuntu Scope Showdown closed yesterday with some awesome prizes up for grabs

* Canonical’s Lead Designer has called for developers to make apps using the Ubuntu UI Toolkit

* The Ubuntu Kernel Engineering team have written a reference guide for setting up ZFS on Ubuntu

* We discuss going to Embedded World trade fair and hacking dinosaurs…

DeeDee lives! #blackgangpi #IHackedADino pic.twitter.com/G4ZZ1B9YqV

— Laura Cowen (@lauracowen) February 20, 2016

* This weeks cover image is provided courtesy of Gareth Hilfacree under a CC-BY 2.0 license.

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our Google+ page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

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