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

The same line up as last week are here again for another episode, but this is the last Ubuntu Podcast for Laura ever! :-(

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been upto recently:

* Playing with a Thinkpad 755c and two Raspberry Pi 3 projects.

* Nextcloud using Ubuntu Core and Raspbbery Pi 3

* Retropie with two 8Bitdo NES30 Pro wireless controllers all tucked in a SNES 3D Printed case and CRT scannline sharders to complete the retro look.

* We discuss our 2016 predictions and create new ones for the coming year.

Presenter predictions for 2017

Alan

* Multiple devices from various tier-1 vendors will ship with Ubuntu Snappy by default.

* github will significantly downsize their ~600 workforce to a much smaller number, and may also do something controversial to raise funds.

* Microsoft will provide a Linux build of another significant application, possibly Exchange or SharePoint

* Donald Trump won’t last a year as president

Mark

* There will be no new Ubuntu phone on sale in 2017

* The UK government will lose a court case related to the Investigatory Powers Act

* This time next year, one of the top 5 distros on Distrowatch will be a distro that isn’t currently in the top 20.

Current top 20: Mint, Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE, elementary, Manjaro, Fedora, Zorin, CentOS, deepin, Arch, Antergos, PCLinuxOS, Mageia, Ubuntu MATE, Solus, LXLE, Lite, ReactOS, Slackware

Martin

* Ubuntu 17.10 will be able to run Mir using the proprietary nvidia drivers and Steam will work reliably via XMir. It will also be possible to run Mir in Virtualbox.

* A high profile individual (or individuals) will fall victim to one of the many privacy threats introduced as a result of the Investigatory Powers Bill. Intimate details of their online life will be exposed to the world, compiled from one of more databases storing Internet Connection Records. The disclosure will possibly have serious consequences for the individuals concerned, such as losing their job or being professionally discredited.

* The hype surrounding VR will build during 2017 but Virtual Reality will continue to lack adoption. Sales figures will be well below market projections.

Laura

* Someone, probably RedHat, will buy Docker.

* People will whinge some more about the term ‘serverless computing’ instead of embracing it as great computing experience because IT’S WHAT CLOUD COMPUTING PRETENDED IT WOULD BE (and there’s a daft term).

* I will finish my PhD. I will finish my PhD. I will finish my PhD….

Listener predictions for 2017

* Jon Spriggs says:

* Kubuntu moves into the top 5 of distrowatch or is disbanded.

* An independent review of systemd identifies an NSA backdoor

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