This week we’ve been talking to the BBC about Thinkpads and Ubuntu goes Pro. We round up the news from the Ubuntu community and discuss our picks from the wider tech news.

It’s Season 12 Episode 35 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope 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 talking to the BBC about Thinkpads.

* We discuss the community news:

* Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Web Services

* Introducing elementary OS 5.1 Hera

* Linux Mint 19.3 “Tricia” Beta

* Lubuntu Focal Fossa 20.04 LTS Wallpaper Contest

* GTK CSD support in KDE

* Lots of bugs in 32-bit x86 Linux entry code

* Fake version of dateutil discovered on PyPI

* We mention some events:

* FOSDEM 2020: 1 to 2 of February 2020 – Brussels, Belgium.

* We discuss the news:

* Mozilla Launches Free Firefox VPN Beta Test

* Genius sues Google

* Firewatch developer’s next game “on hold” after Valve acquisition

* Image taken from Feud published in 1987 for the ZX Spectrum by Bulldog Software.

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