Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker and Producer Laura Cowen are back once more with a fun-packed episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.
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In this week’s show:-

• What we’ve been doing this week including messing about with VirtualBox disks, Byobu, shoe boxes and secret things.
• In our ‘Upcoming’ segment we discuss some features which may or may not hit in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
• apt-sync
• USB Creator for Windows
• GRUB 2
• Empathy
• We interview Jim Killock, Executive Director at The Open Rights Group
• Ciemon introduces his new Command Line Fu segment. This week

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• The News
• Microsoft are Supressing
• Sun are Gaming
• Songbirds are Flying
• Microsoft are Bribing
• Zombies are Rising
• Sticks are Expanding
• Amazon are Complying
• Linux is Supporting
• Koalas are Testing
• Microsoft are Pricing
• ZMP are Driving
• Archos sont de fabrication
• We announce some upcoming events:-
• June 27th 12:00 – 18:00 – Laura Czajkowki’s, Dublin, Ubuntu IE Summer Jam
• June 28th to July 4th – Conservatoire in Birmingham, UK, EuroPython 2009
• July 4th – ULU, Malet Street, London, UK – UK Unix User Group Open Tech 2009
• July 20th – Nottingham, UK, Open Source Schools Unconference
• September 19th – All around the world, Software Freedom Day
• September 19th – IBM Facility on Northside Parkway, Atlanta, GA, USA, Atlanta Linux Fest
• October 2nd to 4th – All around the world, Ubuntu Global Jam
• October 24th – Newhampton arts centre, Wolverhampton, UK, LUGRadio Live 2009
• We announce the winner of episode six’s competition to win another Viglen MPC-L
• We delve into the Ubuntu Ecosphere Gerald
  • Satan expelled from the Cafe
  • Ubuntu gets a Windows theme
  • Ubuntu Technical Board says ‘no cause for concern’ over Mono
  • Legacy Palm (Pilot) support yanked from Ubuntu CD
  • Sign on to the Ubuntu Forums with OpenID
  • Slideshow project for Ubuntu installer
  • Time running out for papercuts
  • Linus’s Top 5 Linux Kernel features in 2.6.20
  • Matthew Garrett has fun with the Palm root image
  • Ubuntu Sucks
  • Rory Cellan-Jones visits Andy Stanford-Clark and the Twittering House
• And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents since our last show

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Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker and Producer Laura Cowen are unfathomably back again with a sun-kissed, cake-less, Alan-packed episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In this week’s show:-

• What we’ve been doing this week including getting a tan, fun with PPAs and less fun with broken ‘net connections
• We interview Alan Lord and Alan Bell from The Open Learning Centre and Naked Computers about Expos, their Libertus packaged solutions, MiserWare and their opinions on Mono in Ubuntu.
• The News
  • FSF are recruiting
  • Chromium is releasing
  • Google are licensing
  • Censornet are moving
  • Jolicloud are de-cloaking
  • Fedora are downsizing
  • Sussex University are surveying
• We announce some upcoming events:-
  • June 12th to the 14th – Owen Sound, Canada, Writing Open Source
  • June 13th – Nokia, Farnborough, UK, Surrey and Hampshire Linux User Groups are holding a joint meeting
  • June 13th – Clemson, South Carolina, South East Linux Fest
  • June 19th to 20th – Vanderbilt Hall, New York City, The first ever Open Video Conference will take place with speakers including DVD Jon and hackers from Firefox, VLC, Miro and more.
  • June 28th to July 4th – Conservatoire in Birmingham, UK, EuroPython 2009
  • July 4th – ULU, Malet Street, London, UK – UK Unix User Group Open Tech 2009
  • July 20th – Nottingham, UK, Open Source Schools Unconference
  • September 19th – All around the world, Software Freedom Day
  • October 24th – Newhampton arts centre, Wolverhampton, UK, LUGRadio Live 2009
• We announce the winner of episode five’s competition to win entrance and accomodation at this year’s EuroPython
• We set a new competition to win another Viglen MPC-L! Email competition@ubuntu-uk.org with your answer before Sunday 21st June 2009
• We delve into the Ubuntu Ecosphere
  • Scott James-Remnant posts about a 10s boot time target
  • LiVES 0.9.9.9.9.9.9.9.9 is released
  • Ubuntu Community Council meeting including discussion of the Ubuntu One product name
  • Adblock Plus suggests a fairer way to unblock ads
  • Breathe icon theme released
  • Okular respecting the DRM flag a bug?
  • Ubuntu Server training too expensive?
• And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents since our last show

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Laura Cowen, Ciemon Dunville, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker (and a bit of Alan Pope) present the latest mammoth episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In this week’s show:-

• What we’ve been doing this week including ADSL woes, Drupal upgrades and having your head in the clouds.
• We discuss whether we should exclusively use Free (as in speech) web services and formats, and whether it’s more important to be inclusive than to use solely Free services.
• The News
  • Adopt a line of Miro code
  • Ex-Microsoft coder says Linux will win
  • Android applications running on Ubuntu
  • Dell stick with 8.04 LTS for their latest netbook
  • Landscape v1.3 can manage Amazon EC2 cloud machines
  • Wikimedia move Wikipedia to a Creative Commons licence
• We announce some upcoming events:-
  • June 12th to the 14th – Owen Sound, Canada, Writing Open Source
  • June 13th – Clemson, South Carolina, South East Linux Fest
  • June 19th & 20th – New York, New York, Open Video Conference
  • June 28th to July 4th – Birmingham, UK, EuroPython 2009
  • July 20th – Nottingham, UK, Open Source Schools Unconference
  • September 19th – All around the world, Software Freedom Day
  • October 24th – Newhampton arts centre, Wolverhampton, UK, LUGRadio Live 2009
• We have an interview with the lovely Daniel Holbach about his work with the Ubuntu community and get his advice on packaging applications
• We announce the winners of episode four’s competition to get Ubuntu One invites
• We start a fantastic new competition to win entry to three days of Europython 2009 including two nights of accommodation. Email competition@ubuntu-uk.org with your answer before Sunday 7th June 2009
• We delve into the Ubuntu Ecosphere (or “Gerald”, as we called it this episode)
  • Oxford Archeology talk about their experiences with Canonical support
  • The future of Edubuntu
  • Developing the security advisory UI for WINE applications
  • The new Ubuntu User Magazine
• And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents since our last show

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Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker and Producer Laura Cowen are back once more with a brand-new, tea-fuelled, fun-packed episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In this week’s show:-

• What we’ve been doing this week including patching Debian and eating in the dark
• We discuss some of our (most and least) favorite Firefox extensions and those of our listeners, including flashblock, Adblock Plus, FireGPG, Firebug, DownloadHelper, User Agent Switcher, StumbleUpon, TwitterFox, LiveClick, Foxmarks, It’s All Text, FireShot, Google Gears and Iterasi
• The News
• Battle of the Firefox Extensions!
• Guardian Journos Switch to OpenOffice for Mac
• Burn all SHA-1s!
• Naked Computing (SFW)
• Battle of the GLIBCs!
• Silent updates result in more secure systems?
• We announce some upcoming events:-
• June 12th to the 14th – Owen Sound, Canada, Writing Open Source
• June 13th – Clemson, South Carolina, South East Linux Fest
• September 19th – All around the world, Software Freedom Day
• October 24th – Newhampton arts centre, Wolverhampton, UK, LUGRadio Live 2009
• We have an interview with Matt Griffin – Ubuntu One Project Lead, and Stuart Langridge – ex-LUGRadian, now Canonical Developer about the beta of Ubuntu One.
• We announce the winner of episode three’s competition to win an exclusive Ubuntu Developer Summit T-shirt
• We start a new competition to win an invitation to Ubuntu One. Email competition@ubuntu-uk.org with your suggestion before Sunday 24th May 2009
• We delve into the Ubuntu Ecosphere
  • Tomboy vs Gnote Smackdown
  • vlc and x264 now in universe
  • Counting Ubuntu Users
  • Canonical gets a new Design Lead
• And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents since our last show

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Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker and long suffering Producer Laura Cowen are back with a brand new episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In this week’s show:-

• We completely mess up the introductions. So good luck figuring out who did what since the last episode!
• We briefly talk about Ubuntu derivatives and talk about some potential new ones
• A discussion about what’s good and bad about the latest release of Ubuntu – Jaunty (9.04)
• The News
• In light of bug 332945 we discuss the interaction between Ubuntu developers and users
• We announce some upcoming events:-
• April 27th – May 1st – Ubuntu Open Week in the #ubuntu-classroom channel on the Freenode IRC network.
• June 13th – Clemson, South Carolina, South East Linux Fest
• We announce the winner of episode one’s competition to win some Ubuntu goodies – but this time, we left it in during the edit unlike in episode 2. Oops
• We have a new competition to win an exclusive Ubuntu T-shirt from the most recent Ubuntu Developer Summit. Email competition@ubuntu-uk.org with your answer before Sunday 10th May 2009
• We delve into the Ubuntu Ecosphere
  • Firmware in Ubuntu with questionable licences
  • Joseph Shields recommends replacing Rhythmbox with Banshee
  • Solaris Manzur recommends replacing XSane with gnome-scan
  • Rubén Romero y Cordero anounces updates to the Spread Ubuntu initiative
  • Chris Rowson rants about the state of ATI video drivers
  • Full Circle Magazine issue 24 is out
  • Chromium now available in a PPA
  • Matt Zimmerman talks about his experience migrating to ext4
  • Stephen J Vaughn-Nichols ponders on the slowest machines able to run Linux – we mention Hugo’s Random Benchmark
• And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents since our last show

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Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore and Producer Laura Cowen present episode two of season two of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In this episode we have:-

• A short discussion about some obsessive-compulsive behaviours the team (and our listeners) seem to have
• An interview with Robbie Ferguson from Category5 Technology TV about his show, and how he helps the Ubuntu community
• A new segment – ‘Ubuntu Ecosphere’ where we highlight what’s going on in the Ubuntu world. This includes blog posts, mailing list entries, forum posts and so on. If there’s a discussion somewhere you think we should highlight, let us know, contact details below
• New Ubuntu Tweak Release
• Ubunchu – Ubuntu Manga now in English
• LoCo Support Tool
• Ubuntu Install Guide for Karmic (9.10)
• Free tools only discussion
• Jorge finds Jackalopes Fast!
• Rhythmbox Dying?
• The News
• We remind you of some upcoming events and a new one:-
  • April 23rd – Worldwide, Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope releases. Join #ubuntu-release-party on the day to celebrate online.
  • April 23rd – London, Southern England Jaunty Release Party
  • April 24th – Manchester, North-West England Jaunty Release Party
  • 25th April 2009 – Welsh Ubuntu Jaunty Release Party – Starbucks, Cardiff CF10 2BJ until 7pm – after 7pm The Central Bar Cardiff CF10 3BW
  • June 13th – Clemson, South Carolina, South East Linux Fest
• An interview with the motivational Emma Jane Hogbin, Drupal and documentation expert
• We announce the winner of last week’s competition to win some Ubuntu goodies.
• And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents since our last show

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Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker and Producer Laura Cowen in a new episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In this the first episode of the second season we return with a slightly changed format. We’re trying to reduce our workload by recording more ‘live’ and doing less editing and post processing. We’re hoping this won’t reduce the quality that you’ve come to know and love in our little podcast.

In addition we’ve opened channels of communication by taking comments via twitter and identi.ca whilst we record the show. We think this will improve the immediacy of the show and help people to get involved. Of course we welcome your feedback on these changes. Apologies in advance for grouping together all twitter and identica feedback as “twitter”. The relavent parties have been fired.
In this weeks show:-

• A catch up with what the presenters have been doing whilst the podcast has been taking a break
• Ciemon has been phoning himself with Asterisk (with the help of a free book) and rejecting mice with Crunchbang Linux
• Dave has been stretching his leadership muscle with the Ubuntu UK LoCo Team
• Alan has booted himself over a network with PXE and the Net install image and has played with Blender as a video editor
• Tony has been playing with Easy Peasy on his new Acer Aspire One, and recently helped judge the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase
• Tony and Laura interview Scott James-Remnant from Canonical about some of his projects
• A discussion about what’s coming up in Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04)
• The News
• We announce some upcoming events:-
  • April 23rd – Worldwide, Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope releases. Join #ubuntu-release-party on the day to celebrate online.
  • April 23rd – London, Southern England Jaunty Release Party
  • April 24th – Manchester, North-West England Jaunty Release Party
  • June 13th – Clemson, South Carolina, South East Linux Fest
• A new competition to win some Ubuntu goodies including an exclusive ‘Ubuntu Guru’ T-shirt, a copy of the great Ubuntu Kung-Fu book by Keir Thomas, stickers, an Ubuntu hat, bamboo lanyards, Google notebooks and anything else we can find! Email competition@ubuntu-uk.org with your answer before Monday 13th April.
• And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents since our last show.
• Unfortunately we didn’t get time to play a track Syed Ali sent us composed of samples sent to him by Richard Stallman.
• Aidan Delaney wrote to tell us about some projects his students at Brighton Uni are working on.
  • https://launchpad.net/cctray-gtk – GTK# interface for the CruiseControl.NET cctray tool.
  • https://launchpad.net/gimp-hdr – A HDR image generation and manipulation plugin for the GIMP.
  • https://launchpad.net/bzr-wdiff – A plug-in to provide Bazaar with a wdiff command, works in the same way as the bazaar diff command except prints an output similar to GNU wdiff

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Dave Murphy, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore and Dave Walker present the twentieth and final episode in season one of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In this exceptionally late episode recorded at the Ubuntu Developer Summit at the beginning of December, we have interviews with:-

• Matt Zimmerman, CTO for Canonical
• Matthew Paul Thomas, usability guru and Canonical Design Team member
• Robert Collins, Bazaar developer and phenomenal multi-tasker
• Graham Binns, Launchpad developer, guitarist and photographer
• Stuart Langridge, Online Services Developer for Canonical, web genius and ex-LUGRadio podcaster

• No news or competition this week, but we have the result of the competition to win a copy of the book Ubuntu Kung-Fu

• We’ll be back soon with season two. If you have any ideas for content we might consider in season two, or suggestions on how we can improve the show, contact us to let us know. See you all soon!

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Laura Cowen, Alan Pope and Tony Whitmore present the nineteenth Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In this episode:-

• Yet more upgrade woes from Tony
• The news
• Adobe release Flash for 64-bit platform
• Handbrake now available with a Linux GUI
• Pinax hold a competition to promote their platform
• Ubuntu Jaunty Alpha available
• SCO still suck
• Crunchbang relaunches with a new website
• Human powered protien folding app Fold It
• Fedora 10 released
• Mozilla announces end-of-life of Firefox 2.x
• Jono Bacon announces the new Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase
• We talk about the upcoming events UDS and FOSDEM
• We discuss the Ubuntu Developer Summit and some blueprints which will hopefully be discussed at the summit
• Encryption by default: encrypted-home-directory, encrypted-swap-by-default
• Power: power-capping
• Boot Speed: jaunty-boot-performance, jaunty-boot-performance-kernel, boot-profiling, boot-io-efficiency
• Finally we have lots of your feedback
• Plenty about what people do post-install. Alan mentions his blog post where he outlines what he does
• Friend of the show Andy Stanford-Clark sends us photos of his low power setup including a Viglen MPC-L and what it replaces.



• Following the recording of this episode we were interviewed by Leo Laporte and Amber Macarthur for Net@Night

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Laura Cowen, Alan Pope, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore present the eighteenth Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In a rather belated episode we have:-

• We discuss our experience of upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 – the Intrepid Ibex.
• We review Ubuntu Kung Fu, a book by Keir Thomas, and we give away a copy in our competition – which due to the late arrival of this podcast will be extended until 3rd December.
• The news.
• We discuss what we do to our systems after installing Ubuntu, and briefly discuss Automatix and Ultimatix.
• Finally we have your feedback.

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