S12E13 – Prince of Persia

This week we’ve been giving talks and spending 8 and a half years becoming a Doctor of Philosophy. We discuss 32-bit Intel packages in Ubuntu, the Eoan Ermine wallpaper competition, Mir still not being dead, the new Snap Store, some jobs you might want to apply for, UbuCon Europe, Oggcamp, the new Raspberry Pi 4 and round up some headlines from the tech world.

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It’s Season 12 Episode 13 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Laura Cowen are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

• We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:
  • Mark has been giving some talks.
  • Dr. Laura has been working on her Ph.D.
• We discuss the community news:
  • Ubuntu not to drop 32-bit packages, after all
  • Wallpaper competition – Eoan Ermine 19.10
  • Mir 1.3.0 Released
  • Ubuntu Has Started Work On A New Desktop Snap Store
  • Launchpad team are hiring
  • Ubuntu Desktop team are hiring, also Iain Lane posted this on the GNOME blog
• We mention some events:
  • UbuCon Europe 2019: 10th to 13th of October 2019 – Sintra, Portugal.
  • Oggcamp 19: 19th to 20th of October 2019 – The Manchester Conference Centre, Pendulum Hotel, Manchester UK.
• We discuss the news:
  • Shiny new Raspberry Pi
  • Linux is now more popular than Windows on Azure
  • The Microsoft ebook A-P-O-C-A-L-Y-P-S-E is upon us!
  • FreeDOS is 25
• Image taken from Prince of Persia published in 1989 for PC by Brøderbund Software, Inc.

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