Linux Matters

It’s Episode Sixteen of Season Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

We’re here again!

In this week’s show:

• We discuss having the motivation to adopt Ubuntu Devices whole-heartedly.

• We also discuss going on holiday, the on-going saga of fixing Mark’s laptop, and naming the new Entroware laptop.

• We share a Command Line Lurve – pv, which was sent in by The Hatterman. It monitors the progress of data through a pipe and great when used in conjunction with dd to provide a progress bar. For example:

  pv -pa ubuntu_16.04.iso | sudo dd of=/dev/sdb

  -p, --progress show progress bar
  -a, --average-rate show data transfer average rate counter

• And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!

  • For the disappearing cursor fix, create the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-cursoron.conf, and put in it the following content:
  #--makes mouse cursor re-appear Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "intel" Option "AccelMethod" "uxa" Option "SWCursor" "on" EndSection #--

  Be careful using UXA acceleration on modern Intel IGPs. It has been superceeded by SNA for some years now and may signifcantly degrade graphics performance.

  • Why Ubuntu caused a furore by including ZFS while Debian did not
  • my first podcast on my bq
• This weeks cover image is taken from the http://ayay.co.uk/.

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.

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