Laura Cowen, Alan Pope, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore present the sixteenth episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.
In this episode we have:-
- A discussion about the conflict between Ubuntu and Kubuntu
- A catch up after our backup segment in episode fifteen.
- We talk about remote support solutions
- All New Chunky Sarcastic News
- Oliver Grawert announces new Ubuntu Mobile images.
- Soren Hansen releases a new version of his VM Builder tool.
- Major bug in the Linux Kernel shipped with 8.10 causes some Intel network cards to break.
- Intel shows off booting Linux in under 5 seconds.
- WikiPedia moves to Ubuntu on 400 servers.
- Sun releases VirtualBox version 2.
- Jono announces the winners of the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase competition.
- MSI announces disappointing return rate for Linux based netbooks.
- We announce the winner of the competition.
- A new competition to win a Canonical Store voucher.
- We receive lots of great feedback, including plenty (both positive and negative) about our previous Backup and 5-a-day segments.
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Well done guys. Looking forward to listening to this
If you regularly provide remote support, you could maybe try DimDim.
the free version works great.
DimDim works almost like Webex or Microsoft Live meeting.
http://www.dimdim.com/
yOOO bOOOn tOOO! It’s annoys me to hear people say ahbantoo.
@Jadd
I refer you to episode 2 of the podcast where we discuss pronunciation.
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Hey guys … I’d just like to comment a bit on the ubuntu/kubuntu conflict: I just heared about this on your podcast and I don’t want to get into what happened … but I would like to mention that I was using kubuntu for some time until I got fed with the fact that all the best features seemed to go into ubuntu first while kubuntu felt like it was lagging behind … also in terms of stability kubuntu seemed to be more buggy and troublesome especially at the release.
Another remote support possibility is https://www.copilot.com/ – again based on vnc with a server to help with your connection so no IP addresses or firewall nonsense is required.
Though just checked and it only supports windows and mac. Ho hum, /me off to check out gitso.
A couple of things – The online back up I used was xdrive – unfortunely its methods of back up are a java webapp and Adobe Air (which I have a problems using anyway.)
because my computer is on its last legs I have been looking at somewhere to buy another one from. I am actually thinking about using efficient PC to buy myself a one.
Hi Laura
You mentioned an application called py-backup or pie-backup that is in Synaptic. I had a search for it in 8.10 but was unable to locate it. Has it been removed or am I just looking for the wrong thing.
Love the voice!
Sam