This week we’ve been fixing floors and playing with the new portal HTML element. We round up the Ubuntu community news including the release of 18.04.3 with a new hardware enablement stack, better desktop integration for Livepatch and improvements in accessing the latest Nvidia drivers. We also have our favourite picks from the general tech news.

It’s Season 12 Episode 19 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Stuart Langridge are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

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

* Mark has been fixing his floor.

* Stuart as been playing with the new portal HTML element.

* We discuss the community news:

* Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS is released

* Desktop integration for Livepatch

* KDE has removed a feature from .desktop files which posed a security risk

* Improvements to Additional Driver options on the way

* Ubuntu 19.10 will have an experimental “ZFS on root” option

* We mention some events:

* The Linux Application Summit is coming to Barcelona in November: 12th to 15th November – Barcelona, Spain.

* Open EdTech Global Festival 2019: 21 to 22 of November 2019 – Barcelona, Spain.

* We discuss the news:

* Man gets “NULL” license plate with unexpected consequences

* Rust developers Facepunch announced the future of the game on Linux

* Facial recognition in use around King’s Cross Station

* kill -9 Linux Journal

* Image taken from Starglider published in 1986 for the Amiga by Rainbird.

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