Ubuntu Podcast

It's Episode Eight of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain. In this week's show: * We discuss our Ubuntu Podcast technical setup and, in particular, what's changed for the current season of shows. * We share some GUI Lurve which is the incredibly useful time read, which is a simple, command-line stop-watch. No one should be without it. * And we also chat about doing Parkrun, playing Pillars of Eternity, and watching Daredevil (not the Ben Affleck movie). 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 Seven of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain. In this week's show: * We look at what's been going on in the news: * Matthias Clasen has started a discussion on the GNOME release team mailing list seeking to revive the development of GNOME 3's apps... * Tech news sites including engadet and forwardgeek have published an apparently sourceless story that Microsoft will be bundling its Android apps with future releases of CyanogenMod... * Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Open Technologies will be absorbed into its parent company, Microsoft... * The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a report that Chris Roberts, a security researcher recently detained by the FBI for tweeting about compromising an aeroplane's internal communication systems, has been banned from flying with the airline... * A kickstarter campaign has been launched for Endless Computers, a desktop computer designed with and for users in developing countries... * Twitter has announced new policies and tools to help combat abuse on its microblogging service... * We also discuss some community news: * Locally integrated menus have been made non-default in Ubuntu Vivid which will be 15.04 this week... * Łukasz Zemczak announced the availability of the latest Over The Air (OTA) update to Ubuntu phones... * And we mention an event: * Ubuntu Online Summit - 5th to 7th May - online 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+