S09E19 – Perfectly Preserved Brain

It’s Episode Nineteen of Season Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, Laura Cowen, and Martin Wimpress are here again.

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We’re here – all of us!

In this week’s show:

• We discuss the news
  • AMDGPU-PRO Driver for Linux® Released
  • Mozilla has announced the first round of funding awarded to its “Mission Partners” as part of the Mozilla Open Source Support Scheme
  • Software Heritage, an initiative seeking to collect, preserve and share publicly available software, launched last week.
  • Lenovo ThinkPad System Management Mode arbitrary code execution 0day exploit
  • Photo reveals even Zuckerberg tapes his webcam and microphone for privacy
• We discuss the community news:
  • Shaping up universal snaps
  • uNav offline maps
  • Flatpak landed in the Ubuntu 16.10 archive
  • Epson (and other) printer drivers are fixed in 16.04
  • Release of Snapcraft 2.12
  • Classic, apt-based Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server on the rpi2!
  • Host your own SNAP store!
  • Dan Chapman, Dekko, developer has shared some screenshots of new, converged Dekko for the desktop

  • We mention some events:

• EuroPython 2016 – 17-24 July – Bilbao, Spain
• FOSS Talk Live – 6 August – London, UK
• Wuthering Bytes 2016 – 2-11 September – Hebden Bridge, W. Yorks, UK

• UbuCon Europe – 18-20 November – Unperfekthaus, Essen, Germany

• We discuss watching Star Trek on Netflix and going to Sweden and Denmark.

• This weeks cover image comes from Wikimedia.

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