It’s Episode Nine 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 here again, although one of us is in Prague!

In this week’s show:

* We discuss the news

* Ubuntu 16.04 and all the flavours are released…

* Ubuntu Snap confinement has been circumvented…

* Microsoft is suing the US government over ‘unconstitutional’ cloud data searches…

* VPS provider 123-reg “Does a Laura” and nukes customer servers…

* BBC micro:bit goes Open Source…

* Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition on sale NOW!

* We discuss the community news:

* The Ubuntu 16.10 codename is Yakkety Yak…

* Mozilla has announced Firefox will support ‘snap’ package format…

* New release of Ubuntu SDK IDE and DevKit…

* Ubuntu Studio has a new project leader…

* Ubuntu Budgie “remix” 16.04 is released…

* KDE Neon User Edition Tech Preview…

* UbuntuBSD has a new website…

* And some events:

* Raspberry Jam at Blackgang Chine – Sunday 5th June, 10:30-13:30 – Isle of Wight, UK

* UbuCon Europe – 18-20 November – Unperfekthaus, Essen, Germany

* FOSS Talk Live – Saturday 6 August 2016 – Kings Cross, London, UK

* We discuss playing Kerbal Space Program.

* This weeks cover image comes from Wikipedia

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.