Ubuntu Podcast

It's Episode Forty-two of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain. In this week's show... * We installed a whole bunch of different Linux distros, went Go-Karting for Christmas, spoke at some conferences, did the San Francisco parkrun, and worked on the Ubuntu Pi Flavour Maker. * We look back at our 2015 predictions and make some new ones for 2016. * Worlds Biggest Data Breaches Visualisation * We have a command line love for removing all metadata tag information from an image: exiftool -all= -overwrite_original foo.png * We go over your feedback. Our 2016 Predictions Laura * 3D printing will become more accessible and mainstream. * IoT - infrastructure, scaling, security - back to 70s computing. * IoT - privacy issues will become more prominent in the development of IoT products. Alan * There will be 10 commercial Ubuntu Touch devices by the end of 2016. * A large motor vehichle manufacturer will switch to using Ubuntu Snappy for their in-car system. * Edward Snowden will leave Russia. * Julian Assange will leave the Ecuadorian Embassy. Mark * 1 of the top 5 Linux distributions, according to Distrowatch.com, will have a desktop release with Wayland or Mir as the default display server. It won't be well recieved due to missing features and/or poor driver support. Mint, Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora were the top 5 distros at the end of 2015. * The release of Ubuntu's first converged device will be accompanied by significant mainstream marketing and media coverage, i.e. not just "tech news sites". * A big game publisher with it's own digital distribution platform (i.e. not Steam, someone like Blizzard with Battle.Net or EA with Origin) will release a Linux version of its client software. Martin * Vulkan will be finalised and released. Linux drivers will be released for Intel IGPs (open source), NVIDIA (via proprietary drivers) and AMD (via proprietary drivers). SteamOS will include Vulkan support and, on equivalent hardware, will out perform Windows 10. Android will announce support for Vulkan but iOS will not. * Virtual Reality will continue to lack adoption. There will be no official VR headset products released for PlayStation 4, XBox One or Steam. * There will be at least 10 consumer products, not intended for makers and not manufactured by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, launched for sale in 2016 that use a Raspberry Pi (any model) at it's heart. That's all for this week. And that's it for Season Eight. We'll be going for curry in 2016 to decide whether we'll be back for a new season. Please send your comments and suggestions to: * show@ubuntupodcast.org * Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-podcast on Freenode * Follow us on Twitter * Follow us on Facebook * Follow us on Google+ * Discuss us on Reddit

It's Episode Forty-one of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen and Martin Wimpress and are connected and speaking to your brain. In this week's show... We look at what's been going on in the news: * Let’s Encrypt has entered public beta... (And if you're interested, there's an open source tool to monitor the expiration of certificates.) * Mozilla will stop developing and selling Firefox OS smartphones... * ownCloud have established a community project with Western Digital to bring self hosted cloud Storage to home users... * The Linux HomeFront project have a Linux and Open Source 'Man of The Year 2015' poll... * Jim Killock, Executive Director of the Open Rights Group, has launched an Indiegogo crowd funding campaign against mass surveillance in the UK... * Mozilla Firefox 43.0 brings the long-anticipated integration of GTK+ 3... We also take a look at what's been going on in the Ubuntu community: * Ubuntu Online Search in Unity Dash switched off by default in 16.04... * Ubuntu Touch LibreOffice DocViewer has been finally released on Ubuntu Store... * Pebble watch support for Ubuntu Touch is coming... * Ubuntu Touch to Get FM Support for Aquaris E4.5 and E5 HD... There are even events: * 10th Egham Raspberry Jam - Gamification - Sunday 17 January 2016, 14:00 to 17:00 (GMT) - Gartner, Surrey * SCaLE 14x - January 21-24, 2016 - Pasadena Convention Center, California (including UbuCon Summit - 21st to 22nd) * FOSDEM 2016 - 30 Jan 2016 to 31 Jan 2016 - Brussels, Belgium * LinuxConf AU 2016 - Geelong, Victoria, Australia in 2016, between 1st-5th February 2016 at Deakin University’s Waterfront Campus. * DevConf.cz 2016 - February 5th - 7th 2016 - Brno, Czech Republic That's all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: * show@ubuntupodcast.org * Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-podcast on Freenode * Follow us on Twitter * Follow us on Facebook

It's Episode Forty of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Nick B and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain. In this week's show we are joined by guest presenter Nick B from #systemau podcast. * We chat about gardening, automating Ubuntu Touch testing, accidently dding over an external USB backup disk and being inspired by a talk Stuart Langridge gave a OggCamp 2015 and creating a general purpose tool for encoding and publishing podcast content and assets. * We have some interviews from OggCamp with Enroware and ragworm. * We have some links to video, podcasts and blogs that summarise what went on at OggCamp 2015. * What I learned at OggCamp 2015 - A summary from a first time OggCamper * The Tech Shed Podcast Episode 04, The Oggcamp Hangover Special Dan Lynch - Oggcamp 2015 Introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRg9eeRbtCM A short video of photos from OggCamp 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHs2zNclC3g The OggCamp 2015 Podcasters panel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDCHw3GOsZc&t=3m20s * We go over your feedback. That's all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: * show@ubuntupodcast.org * Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-podcast on Freenode * Follow us on Twitter * Follow us on Facebook * Follow us on Google+ * Discuss us on Reddit

It's Episode Thirty Nine of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Nick B and Martin Wimpress and are connected and speaking to your brain. In this week's show we are joined by guest presenter Nick B from #systemau podcast. We look at what's been going on in the news: * Security researcher Joe Nord has discovered Dell has inadvertently shipped laptops to customers contaning a self-signed root certificate installed and its private key. * The UK Internet Service Provider’s Association (ISPA) met with the Home Office outlining concerns with the Draft Invesigatory Powers Bill * Mozilla has released "Firefox OS 2.5 Developer Preview", including an Android App that allows you to try out FirefoxOS without flashing your device. * Mozilla is seeking a new home for Thunderbird as it focuses on Firefox. * The Rasperry Pi Foundation announced the Pi Zero, a smaller, cheaper Rasperry Pi. * Sean Beaupre discovered and documented a vulnerability that affects all Snapdragon 805 devices, such as the Motorola Droid Turbo/MAXX, Motorola Nexus 6, and Samsung Galaxy Note 4. We also take a look at what's been going on in the Ubuntu community: * Didier Roche proposes more languages to be baked into the live CD by default * New community council elected There are even events: * 10th Egham Raspberry Jam - Gamification - Sunday 17 January 2016, 14:00 to 17:00 (GMT) - Gartner, Surrey * SCaLE 14x - January 21-24, 2016 - Pasadena Convention Center, California (including UbuCon Summit - 21st to 22nd) * FOSDEM 2016 - 30 Jan 2016 to 31 Jan 2016 - Brussels, Belgium * LinuxConf AU 2016 - Geelong, Victoria, Australia in 2016, between 1st-5th February 2016 at Deakin University’s Waterfront Campus. * DevConf.cz 2016 - February 5th - 7th 2016 - Brno, Czech Republic That's all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: * show@ubuntupodcast.org * Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-podcast on Freenode * Follow us on Twitter * Follow us on Facebook * Follow us on Google+ * Discuss us on

It's Episode Thirty-eight of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope recording as normal over the internets which are suffering slightly from the storms outside... In this week's show: * We talk about Laura's recent experience 3D printing Christmas tree-shaped Christmas tree decorations: https://twitter.com/lauracowen/status/662228778886778880 https://twitter.com/lauracowen/status/662227778985664512 https://twitter.com/lauracowen/status/663814250972905473 * We chat about buying yet another new phone, playing Bandit, and watching Mr Robot. * We go over your feedback. That's all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: * show@ubuntupodcast.org * Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-podcast on Freenode * Follow us on Twitter * Follow us on Facebook * Follow us on Google+ * Discuss us on Reddit

It's Episode Thirty-seven of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope recording as normal over the internets which are suffering slightly from the storms outside... In this week's show: We look at what's been going on in the news: * Valve launches a massive sale of SteamOS (Linux) titles to coincide with the launch of Steam Machines... * The first Linux ransomware program, Linux.Encoder.1, has been cracked * Nvidia has launched the Jetson TX1 module... * Raspberry Pi Foundation and Code Club have merged... * ISPs have told the Commons select committee that £175m budgeted by the UK government will not cover ‘massive costs’ of collecting everyone’s data.... Find out more on the Open Rights Group's campaign page where you can email your MP. * The first release candidate for QEMU v2.5 is out... * Edward Snowden explains how to reclaim your privacy... We also take a look at what's been going on in the community: * Ubuntu members should be notified soon about voting in the Community Council elections... There are even events: * Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day - 20th November (every year!) * Google Code-in - starts 7th December * Pi Wars – the Raspberry Pi robotics challenge competition - Saturday 5 December, 10:00 to 18:30 (GMT) - University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory * 10th Egham Raspberry Jam - Gamification - Sunday 17 January 2016, 14:00 to 17:00 (GMT) - Gartner, Surrey * SCaLE 14x - January 21-24, 2016 - Pasadena Convention Center, California (including UbuCon Summit - 21st to 22nd) * FOSDEM 2016 - 30 Jan 2016 to 31 Jan 2016 - Brussels, Belgium That's all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: show@ubuntupodcast.org Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-podcast on Freenode Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Google+ Discuss us on Reddit

It's Episode Thirty-four of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope! In this week's show: * We review Mark's new Steam controller * How Mark got the controller working on Ubuntu 14.04 * Mark's full review in blog post form * We go over your feedback, which included some podcasts from listeners: * TechSNAP, BSDNow, The FauxShow, Tech Talk Today, The Linux Action Show, and Linux Unplugged from the Jupiter Broadcasting network * Welcome to Night Vale * Under the Influence with Terry O’Reilly * Laugh Out Loud * Vinyl Café Stories with Stuart McLean * Quirks and Quarks * Spark * White Coat, Black Art * Free as in Freedom * Linux Link Podcast) * Security Now * Another list of podcasts from The Linux Link * Yet another list from Hacker Public Radio * Here's the video of the hardware added to the neo900 (16:45) * We have a command line love, from Roger Light: !$ on the command line means "the final item from the previous command line" which is something that comes up lots and lots. I use it every day. Easy example: mkdir bob cd !$ * We chat about Choose Your Own Adventure Making with Twine, dinosaur hacking on the Isle of Wight, cooking poppadoms in the microwave, and Egham Raspberry Jam. That's all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: show@ubuntupodcast.org Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-podcast on Freenode Follow us on Twitter Discuss us on Reddit Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google+

It's Episode Thirty-three of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope! In this week's show: We look at what's been going on in the news: * In recent days the have been reports that people's systems are not merely downloading the Windows 10 installer but actually starting it up... * Someone uploaded a malicious app to the Ubuntu Click store, that got past the automated testing... * Chrome 46 will dump the “OK Google” extension because nobody actually uses it, although it will remain in ChromeOS/Chromebooks... * Ubuntu Mobile OTA-7 released... * Facebook will start sending notifications to people that it believes have had their accounts hacked by governments... * The Free Software Foundation have announced the first version of criteria for evaluating services that host free software source code repositories for distribution and collaborative development... * CIA Director’s personal email allegedly hacked We also take a look at what's been going on in the community: * 11 years ago Ubuntu 4.10 was released * Ubuntu 15.10 has been released along with Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu * Mozilla has announced their plan to drop NPAPI support for everything but Flash at the end of 2016... * A small book has been created to help others learn the BQ Aquaris E4.5... * Find-a-Task is the Ubuntu community's job board for volunteers... * Richard Collins, product manager from Canonical, has blogged about the 'path to convergence' * Mark Shuttleworth has announced that the next release of Ubuntu will be named xenial xerus There are even events: * Oggcamp returns! - Liverpool, UK - 31st October - Get your talks prepared!!! *

It's Episode Thirty of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope! In this week's show: * We chat about OggCamp 2015 with Les Pounder. * We go over your feedback. * We have a command line love, from Alan: sed -n '1p;$p' * We chat about developing cross-platform games in HTML5, the continuing saga of Mark's laptop, building a kernel the Ubuntu Way, and getting a cheap Jolla phone. That's all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: show@ubuntupodcast.org Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-podcast on Freenode Follow us on Twitter Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google+

It's Episode Twenty-nine of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope! In this week's show: We look at what's been going on in the news: * Dell’s head of China told The Wall Street Journal that NeoKylin Linux is shipped on 42 percent of the PCs it sells into China. * Let's Encrypt are working towards general availability over the next couple of months and passed a major milestone by issuing its first certificate. * Volkswagen shares have plunged more than 18% after US regulators found that some of its cars could manipulate official emissions tests * IBM are releasing open source blockchain thingummy (and Imogen Heap's music idea #longread * Italy's Ministry of Defense drop Microsoft Office in Favor of LibreOffice and adopt the Open Document Format (ODF). * It was decided at this year's DebConf to stop producing new CD ISOs/images for future Debian updates onward. We also take a look at what's been going on in the community: * Big Bug Bonanza Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - call for participation * Community Council call for nominations. * Replacing the Startup Disk Creator - call for Python coders * Ubuntu Developers discuss the future of Snappy Personal, Unity 8, Mir, Convergence * UbuContest - send us your opinions on the entries There are even events: * DevRelCon - London, UK - 30th September * Oggcamp returns! - Liverpool, UK - 31st October That's all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: show@ubuntupodcast.org Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-podcast on Freenode Follow us on Twitter Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google+

It's Episode Twenty-eight of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson is back with Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope! In this week's show: * We chat about backing up and reinstalling applications on different devices. We mention Aptik and Timeshift and Mackup. * We go over your feedback, including... * If you fancy resurrecting transcriptions of the podcast, take a look at the wiki. * Get the latest Terminator (not the film); find out more. * The Unload Tab. * We have a command line love, from Nathanael Olander: Use screen -s ttyname to make using screen easier, :sessionname ttyname if you forget initially, screen -r tty if you have an attached tty that isn't actually in use that you need to use. Though we mention byobu too... * We chat about how to re-enable GPU acceleration in Chrome, learning Java again, moving /boot and / partitions to somewhere else, and Open Media Vault for Network Attached Storage (NAS). That's all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: show@ubuntupodcast.org Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-podcast on Freenode Follow us on Twitter Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google+

It's Episode Twenty-one of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope are all together again! In this week's show: We look at what's been going on in the news: * Ripping CDs and movies for personal use is once again illegal in UK * Filmmakers fighting “Happy Birthday” copyright find a 1927 version of the "Happy Birthday" lyrics, predating Warner/Chappell's 1935 copyright by eight years. * The Debian GNU/Linux Project has dropped support for the Sparc architecture, effective immediately. * Ubuntu Phone review from Engadget: "years in the making, but still not consumer-ready" * The Kubuntu project has published reference images of Plasma Mobile, a new mobile platform based on Ubuntu mobile and KDE technologies * Is it time to remove Adobe Flash from your Linux computer? We also take a look at what's been going on in the community: * London PodCrawl 2015 - 12th September, 12pm - London, UK * Ubuntu 14.10 is now no longer supported - upgrade! * The latest OTA Update for Ubuntu phones brings shell rotation (the display rotates with the phone) and fixes battery life... * The Ubuntu Software Center is going to be removed from future versions of Ubuntu MATE, in favour of something better (not synaptic)... That's all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: show@ubuntupodcast.org Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-podcast on Freenode Follow us on Twitter Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google+

It's Episode Twenty of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, and Martin Wimpress are together with guest presenter Joe Ressington and speaking to your brain. In this week's show: * We discuss Google Cardboard. * We go over your feedback. * We have a GUI love, LauncherFolders sent in by Rich. T. * We chat about all the podcasts Joe presents on: Linux Luddites, mintCast, and JoeRess podcast. We also chat about Windows 8.1, Garmin 220 sports watch, and the MATE 1.10 release. That's all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: show@ubuntupodcast.org Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-podcast on Freenode Follow us on Twitter Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google+

It's Episode Nineteen of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, and Martin Wimpress are together with guest presenter Joe Ressington and speaking to your brain. In this week's show: * We look at what's been going on in the news: * BBC Micro Bit computer's final design revealed... * Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data... * WhatsApp faces UK ban within weeks... * Oracle VirtualBox 5.0 now available... * Microsoft becomes first 2015 Gold contributor to openBSD Foundation * 95% of Google privacy requests are from citizens - not criminals, politicians and public figures * Valve has contributed a patch to Linux kernel 4.2 which fixes the LEDs on Wireless Xbox controllers * We also take a look at what's been going on in the community: * Pi Wars - 5th December - Cambridge Computer Laboratory (William Gates Building) * Ubucontest - 16th July to 18th September 2015 * Intel Compute stick is soon to be available with Ubuntu preinstalled That's all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: show@ubuntupodcast.org Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-podcast on Freenode Follow us on Twitter Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google+

It's Episode Sixteen of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, and Martin Wimpress are all together again and speaking to your brain. In this week's show: * We review some Entroware hardware; the Proteus gaming laptop and the Aura NUC. * We go over your feedback. * We have a command line love from occasional guest presenter Anton Piatek: liquidprompt * We chat about broken laptop updates (Chrome did a dodgy update that's now fixed and, separately, don't install both OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice and the Launcher integration plugin and install updates and...stuff...), broken laptop hardware (Mark got his soldering iron out), trying out retropie and stormfinch, and releasing Ubuntu MATE 1.10. That's all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: show@ubuntupodcast.org Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-podcast on Freenode Follow us on Twitter Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google+