Linux Lads

Disclaimer

• Please note that this podcast may contain swearing or mature references.

• film making and photography on Linux (Blender, kdenlive, Shotcut, darktable, digiKam. Blender as a video editor)

• Deepin has a new release and it looks good as ever. It purports to use less RAM than Ubuntu.

• not letting Google own the whole of your digital life

• Jeremy Corbyn would like a publicly funded Facebook alternative. Would the Irish government please step up? We need public digital infrastructure and it needs to be done right.

• Adobe Air, the technology of choice of governments everywhere

• Google Makes it Easier to Run Linux Apps on Chromebooks. Chrome OS is based on Gentoo, who knew?

• Are Google and Apple walled gardens slowly starting to crumble?

• Don’t confuse Kodi and piracy.

• How to explain what is Linux and free as in freedom to people outside our bubble? Is open source a better description?

• Linux is choice.

• Thunderbird is getting updated and the guy’s name is Ryan Sipes

• Get your ThinkPad firmware update on Linux

• Lubuntu are going Wayland. That’s a good thing. Ubuntu are careful.

• The trouble with Gnome and Dropbox

• Favourite desktop environments - Mate, Cinnamon, XFCE, LXQT, KDE.

• VisiData a command line spreadsheet that can handle massive amounts of data made by Saul Pwanson.

• WebDAV and FileZilla, easy ways to do remote files.

• We are on Telegram
• And on Twitter
• We even have a Matrix server
• And despite rumors to the contrary, we do exist in real life

• The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.