Linux Matters

It’s Episode Twenty-five 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 the news:
  • Google have begun developing a new operating system, dubbed “Fuchsia”
  • Chrome will de-emphasize Flash in favor of HTML5
  • Intel has demoed its Alloy “Merged Reality” headset
  • Microsoft has accidentally leaked “golden keys” that unlock every Windows device
  • Ryan Sipes, one of the founders of Mycroft, is leaving the company
  • Google is moving “Hangouts on air” from Google+ to Youtube Live
  • Seagate have announced they will be producing a 60TB SSD for datacentres
• We discuss the community news:
  • A converged Terminal app design is coming
  • Running X apps on Ubuntu devices
  • Mir interface landed in snapd!
  • A six-part series about Ubuntu-on-Windows
  • Linux kernels prior to 4.7 are susceptible to TCP session hijacking
  • Community vote to get ZTE to make an Ubuntu Phone
• We mention some events:
  • LinuxCon North America – 22 – 24 August 2016 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Wuthering Bytes 2016 – 2-11 September – Hebden Bridge, W. Yorks, UK
  • Barcamp Manchester – 24-25 September – CityLabs, Manchester, UK
  • Teletext and Digitiser Festival – 1 October – Cambridge, UK
  • CLSx Europe – 16 October – London, UK
• We also discuss using the command line and playing Pokémon GO, and flashing ‘new’ firmware on a Palm T|X to make it connect to a WAP-secured wifi network.

• This weeks cover image is taken from Wikimedia.

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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