S14E01 – Navy Chefs Remit

11th March 2021 Samantha

This week we’ve become an Ubuntu Member and got a new job. We discuss Flutter as the future for Ubuntu app development, the new Ubuntu installer, Ubuntu MATE adopting Yaru, a new GTK Spotify client and Proton (not that one) for Firefox. We also round up some events and our favourite picks from the tech news.

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It’s Season 14 Episode 01 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:
- Mark has become an Ubuntu Member.
- Martin has got a new job at slim.ai.
We discuss the community news:
We mention some events:
- What’s next for CentOS users: 11th March 5pm UTC – Online
- FOSS Talk almost live: 12 June – Online
We discuss the news:
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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 [email protected] or Tweet us or Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

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S13E40 – Ravens

24th December 2020 Samantha

This week we have been fixing network and audio noise and playing Hotshot Racing. We look back and celebrate the good things that happened in 2020, bring you some GUI love and go over all your wonderful feedback.

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It’s Season 13 Episode 40 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:
- Alan has been fixing network and audio noise.
- Martin has been playing Hotshot Racing.
We discuss a segment.
- E01 – March 24th
  - The World Cup of Ubuntu Desktops has been won by Hardy Heron
- E03 – April 7th
  - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)
  - Ubuntu Testing Week
- E07 – May 5th
  - Mark Shuttleworth speaks
  - Ubuntu 20.10 will be “Groovy Gorilla”
- E11 – June 2nd
  - Lenovo Makes Entire Workstation Range Available with Ubuntu
  - 8GB Raspeberry Pi 4 launched
- E17 – July 15th
  - Flutter comes to desktop linux
- E21 – August 11th
  - The National Museum of Computing launches virtual tour
- E23 – August 25th
  - Jupiter Broadcasting is independent again
- E25 – September 8th
  - HP Z series on Ubuntu
- E29 – October 6th
  - The Failed OUYA Game Console Seeing Work For Mainline Linux Kernel Support
- E31 – October 20th
  - The Windows Calculator on Linux with Uno Platform
  - Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 now available!
- E33 – November 3rd
  - It’s a Raspberry Pi. It’s a keyboard.
- E35 – November 17th
  - Ubuntu MATE 20.4.1 is available for the GPD WIN Max
We share a GUI Lurve:
- MangoHUD – A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more.
- MangoHUD PPA

Normal use

mangohud /path/to/app

Steam launcher

Open Properties for a game in Steam and set this in “SET LAUNCH OPTIONS…”

mangohud %command%

And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!
- http://cedar-chiropractic.com/YadPlayerDemo.mkv
- http://cedar-chiropractic.com/YadPlayer.zip
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We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.
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S13E39 – Walking backwards

17th December 2020 Samantha

This week we’ve been playing Cyberpunk 2077 and applying for Ubuntu Membership. We round up the goings on in the Ubuntu community and also bring you our favourite news picks from the wider tech world.

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It’s Season 13 Episode 39 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:
- Martin has been playing Cyberpunk 2077.
- Mark has been writing an Ubuntu Membership application.
We discuss the community news:
We discuss the news:
Image credit: Frank Busch
We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.
You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

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S13E38 – Giving yellow flowers

10th December 2020 Samantha

This week we’ve been playing with OpenMW and Raspberry Pi 400. We discuss cloud gaming, bring you some GUI love and respond to all your feedback.

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It’s Season 13 Episode 38 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:
- Mark has been playing OpenMW
- Alan has been playing with Raspberry Pi 400.
We discuss cloud gaming.
We share a GUI Lurve:
- uLauncher – Application launcher for Linux
And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!
- https://opensourcetechtrn.blogspot.com/2020/11/bash-bourne-again-shell.html
- Tex Shinobi Keyboard
Image credit: Lina Trochez
We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.
You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Telegram group.

S13E37 – Haircut on Tuesdays

3rd December 2020 Samantha

This week we’ve been live streaming and answering questions on AskUbuntu. We round up the goings on in the Ubuntu community and discuss our favourite picks from the tech news.