S02E03 – Partners In Crime

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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