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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