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S09E27 – Bit O’ Posh - Ubuntu Podcast
It’s Episode Twenty-Seven 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:
- The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee have decided once again that Fedora will use Wayland by default in the next release
- Microsoft have open sourced their PowerShell command line intepreter and released it for Linux and Mac OS
- Example that Alan talked about
- Firefox 49 for Linux will let you watch Netflix and Amazon without plugins
- Google has confirmed their intention to penalise websites displaying those really annoying full-screen pop-over adverts
- Intel Joule board, targeted at Internet-of-Things and robotics, powered by Ubuntu Core
- Google is killing Chrome apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux
- Linux is 25 years old
- Conveniently for Red Hat, a Judge has granted Happy Birthday lawyers $4.6M, citing “unusually positive results”
- We discuss the community news:
- Canonical has become a Patron of KDE e.V.
- Canonical Robert Ancell has announced snapd-glib
- GNOME Weather (also available on Unity and MATE) has stopped working
- There is a new application to set up and configure Razer keyboards on Linux
- Turtl is an open source alternative to Evernote or other note-keeping apps
- Rae Shambrook from Canonical’s design team has published a report on user testing for Online status display
- Pasi Lallinaho from the Xubuntu team has published a WordPress theme for Ubuntu community websites
- Ubuntu 16.10 Wallpaper Contest is now open for entries
- …and so is the Ubuntu 16.10 Free Culture Showcase!
- Yakkety Yak Beta 1 Released for participating flavours
- We mention some events:
- Barcamp Manchester – 24-25 September – CityLabs, Manchester, UK
- Teletext and Digitiser Festival – 1 October – Cambridge, UK
- CLSx Europe – 16 October – London, UK
- Egham Raspberry Jam – 16 October – Staines-upon-Thames, UK
- mini-DebConf Cambridge – 10-13 November – Cambridge, UK
- UbuCon Europe – 18-20 November – Unperfekthaus, Essen, Germany
- We also discuss using Charles and going on holiday in the rain with no electricity.
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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.
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