This week we’ve been filling in forms and doing kitchen renovations. We discuss popularity contest being removed from Ubuntu, 19.10 going EOL, KDEs cross-platform storefront and Linux adopting inclusive language. We also round up our picks from the wider tech news and share an event; remember those!

It’s Season 13 Episode 17 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 filling in Form E.

* Mark has been doing kitchen renovations(!)

* We discuss community news:

* The “popularity contest” package will be removed from future versions of ubuntu

* Ubuntu 19.10 – Eoan Ermine goes EOL

* KDE Applications App Stores and Downloads

* Linux Adopts Inclusive Language

* We mention some events:

* Linux Application Summit: 12 to 14 of November 2020 – Online!

* We discuss the news:

* The UK government has ordered that Huawei kit be removed from the UK’s 5G network

* Nokia is not dead

* Flutter comes to desktop linux

* Image credit: Les Triconautes

* We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.

* You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

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