S08E21 – United Passions - Ubuntu Podcast




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Summary: It's Episode Twenty-one of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! <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> are all together again! In this week's show: We look at what's been going on in the news: * <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/ripping-cds-and-movies-for-personal-use-is-once-again-illegal-in-uk/">Ripping CDs and movies for personal use is once again illegal in UK</a> * <a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/07/filmmakers-fighting-happy-birthday-copyright-find-their-smoking-gun/">Filmmakers fighting “Happy Birthday” copyright find a 1927 version of the "Happy Birthday" lyrics, predating Warner/Chappell's 1935 copyright by eight years.</a> * <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/27/debian_kills_sparc_support/">The Debian GNU/Linux Project has dropped support for the Sparc architecture, effective immediately.</a> * <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/24/ubuntu-phone-review/">Ubuntu Phone review from Engadget: "years in the making, but still not consumer-ready"</a> * <a href="http://kubuntu.plasma-mobile.org/">The Kubuntu project has published reference images of Plasma Mobile, a new mobile platform based on Ubuntu mobile and KDE technologies</a> * <a href="http://www.datamation.com/open-source/linux-without-flash-user-tips.html">Is it time to remove Adobe Flash from your Linux computer?</a> We also take a look at what's been going on in the community: * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/613806258756722/">London PodCrawl 2015</a> - 12th September, 12pm - London, UK * <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2015-July/000198.html">Ubuntu 14.10 is now no longer supported - upgrade!</a> * <a href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/06/unity-8-shell-rotation-finally-coming-to-ubuntu-phone">The latest OTA Update for Ubuntu phones brings shell rotation (the display rotates with the phone) and fixes battery life...</a> * <a href="https://plus.google.com/+MartinWimpress/posts/DvF3BP3r8vm">The Ubuntu Software Center is going to be removed from future versions of Ubuntu MATE, in favour of something better (not synaptic)...</a> That's all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: show@ubuntupodcast.org Join us on IRC in <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-podcast" title="#ubuntu-podcast on IRC">#ubuntu-podcast</a> on <a href="http://freenode.net/" title="Freenode network">Freenode</a> Follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/ubuntupodcast" title="Ubuntu Podcast on Twitter">Twitter</a> Find our <a href="http://www.facebook.com/UbuntuUKPodcast" title="Ubuntu Podcast on Facebook">Facebook Fan Page</a> Follow us on <a href="https://plus.google.com/107381207738558467919/posts" title="UUPC on Google+">Google+</a>