This week we have been syncing Google Photos to a local server. We discuss the Ubuntu 19.10 beta release including the flavours, updates on 32-bit package commitments in Ubuntu, porting MATE to Wayland, and round up some community events.

It’s Season 12 Episode 25 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:

* Alan has been using gphotos-sync.

* We discuss the community news:

* Ubuntu 19.10 beta released

* Lubuntu 19.10 beta

* Kubuntu 19.10 beta

* Ubuntu Budgie 19.10 beta

* Ubuntu MATE 19.10 beta

* 32-bit package commitments announced

* Porting MATE Apps to Wayland

* We mention some events:

* UbuCon Europe 2019: 10th to 13th of October 2019 – Sintra, Portugal.

* OggCamp: 19 to 20 of October 2019 – Manchester, UK.

* Talk about Clear Linux Saturday 2nd November at 3:30pm, The Harcourt Hotel, Dublin. Hosted by the Dublin Linux Community.

* Linux Application Summit: 11 to 15 of November 2019 – Barcelona, Spain.

* We discuss the news:

* Richard Stallman has resigned as president and board member of the Free Software Foundation.

* GNOME Foundation defending against patent lawsuit

* Image taken from Wings published in 1990 for the Amiga by Cinemaware.

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