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S09E31 – Bull In A China Shop - Ubuntu Podcast


It’s Episode Thirty-One of Season-Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Alan Pope and Martin Wimpress are here again.

Three of us are here, but we’re a women down

In this week’s show:

  • We discuss the news:
    • Yahoo has confirmed ‘state-sponsored’ hackers stole personal data from 500m accounts
    • Some new Lenovo devices aren’t able to install Linux
    • BBC iPlayer will require an account from ‘early 2017’
    • Music from the first ever synthesizer has been restored and released on Soundcloud
    • Opera has released version 40 of its desktop browser, featuring a built-in free VPN
    • Mozilla announces that Firefox OS is truly, finally, properly dead
    • China’s Tiangong-1 space station to make an uncontrolled return from the heavens in 2017
  • We discuss the community news:
    • Nextcloud, Western Digital and Canonical have announced the Nextcloud box
    • Rocketchat is now available as a snap, making it installable on the new Nextcloud box
    • GNOME 3.22 is released
    • MATE Desktop 1.16 is released
    • LXQt 0.11 is released
    • Mozilla Firefox 49.0 is released
    • Snapcraft GUI 3.0 Released for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) and Ubuntu 16.10
  • We mention some events:
    • Using snaps to deliver enterprise and consumer software with Nextcloud – October 5th 2016 – Online
    • Raspberry Jam at the Google Digital Garage – October 8th 2016 – Glasgow, Scotland
    • Retro Gaming & Vintage Computer Day – October 24th 2016 – Flutterbies Tearoom & Coffee shop in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
    • Ubuntu Online Summit – November 15th – 16th 2016
  • We also discuss getting a new job.

  • This weeks cover image is taken from Flickr.

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to show@ubuntupodcast.org or Tweet us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our Google+ page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

  • Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-podcast on Freenode


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