This week we meet a sloth and buy components for the Hades Canyon NUC. The Windows File Manager gets open sourced, Iran are going to block Telegram, PostmarketOS explore creating an open source baseband, Microsoft make a custom Linux distro called Azure Sphere and we round the community news.

It’s Season 11 Episode 07 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:

* Mark met a sloth.

* Martin has been buying Samsung 960 Pro SSDs and HyperX Impact DDR4-3200 RAM for the Hades Canyon NUC.

* We discuss the news:

* Windows File Manager gets Open Sourced

* Iran lives on Telegram

* PostmarketOS Developers explore creating an open-source baseband for MediaTek SoCs

* Microsoft will distribute its own version of Linux

* We discuss the community news:

* Re-evaluating Ubuntu’s Milestones

* Didier Roche blogs about snapping the communititheme

* Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter returns!

* Debian 10 “Buster” scheduled for release Mid-2019

* Ubuntu Studio Plans a Reboot for 18.10 release

* We mention some events:

* UbuCon Europe: 27 to 29 of April 2018 – Xixón, Asturies, Spain

* Image credit: Jerry Kiesewetter

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