S08E33 – Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues - Ubuntu Podcast




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Summary: It's Episode Thirty-three of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With <a href="https://twitter.com/marxjohnson" title="Mark on Twitter">Mark Johnson</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/lauracowen" title="Laura on Twitter">Laura Cowen</a>, <a href="https://flexion.org/" title="Martin Wimpress' website">Martin Wimpress</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/popey" title="popey on Twitter">Alan Pope</a>! In this week's show: We look at what's been going on in the news: * <a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/windows-10-upgrade-installing-automatically-on-some-windows-7-8-systems/">In recent days the have been reports that people's systems are not merely downloading the Windows 10 installer but actually starting it up...</a> * <a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/first-malicious-app-published-in-store-for-ubuntu-touch-494595.shtml">Someone uploaded a malicious app to the Ubuntu Click store, that got past the automated testing...</a> * <a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/chrome-dumping-ok-google-eavesdropping-extension-because-nobody-actually-uses-it/">Chrome 46 will dump the “OK Google” extension because nobody actually uses it, although it will remain in ChromeOS/Chromebooks...</a> * <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/ReleaseNotes/OTA-7">Ubuntu Mobile OTA-7 released...</a> * <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/facebook-to-warn-users-if-their-account-is-hacked-by-a-government-a6700256.html">Facebook will start sending notifications to people that it believes have had their accounts hacked by governments...</a> * <a href="https://www.fsf.org/news/gnu-ethical-repo-criteria">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...</a> * <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/cia-directors-personal-email-allegedly-hacked-1445290540">CIA Director’s personal email allegedly hacked</a> We also take a look at what's been going on in the community: * <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2004-October/000003.html">11 years ago Ubuntu 4.10 was released</a> * <a href="http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2015/10/22/ubuntu-15-10-wily-werewolf-released/">Ubuntu 15.10 has been released</a> along with <a href="http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-15-10/">Kubuntu</a>, <a href="http://lubuntu.net/blog/lubuntu-1510-wily-werewolf-released">Lubuntu</a>, <a href="https://ubuntugnome.org/ubuntu-gnome-15-10-is-released/">Ubuntu GNOME</a>, <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuKylin">Ubuntu Kylin</a>, <a href="http://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-mate-wily-final-release/">Ubuntu MATE</a>, <a href="https://ubuntustudio.org/2015/10/wily-werewolf-released/">Ubuntu Studio</a>, and <a href="http://xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-15-10-release/">Xubuntu</a> * <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2015-October/004738.html">Mozilla has announced their plan to drop NPAPI support for everything but Flash at the end of 2016...</a> * <a href="https://www.gitbook.com/book/gurucubano/bq-aquaris-e-4-5-ubuntu-phone/details">A small book has been created to help others learn the BQ Aquaris E4.5...</a> * <a href="http://cheesehead-techblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/point-new-participants-to-find-task.html">Find-a-Task is the Ubuntu community's job board for volunteers...</a> * <a href="http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/20/ubuntus-path-to-convergence/">Richard Collins, product manager from Canonical, has blogged about the 'path to convergence'</a> * <a href="http://markshuttleworth.com/archives/1479">Mark Shuttleworth has announced that the next release of Ubuntu will be named xenial xerus</a> There are even events: * <a href="http://oggcamp.org/">Oggcamp returns!</a> - Liverpool, UK - 31st October - Get your talks prepared!!! * <a href="https://www.entroware."></a>