S02E10 – Day of Reckoning

Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker and the nodding producer Laura Cowen are back once more with an almost Ubuntu-free, interview-heavy 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 upgrading Ubuntu LTS servers, delivering prizes, playing with am Acer Aspire Revo, dvd::rip, jolicloud, Mythbuntu, and other ‘stuff’.
• We interview the very knowledgeable Karanbir Singh from the CentOS project, and learn a lot along the way.
• The News:-
  • Goodbye Dapper Drake desktop edition
  • Hello GPL code from Microsoft
  • Debian looks at Time Based freezes
  • Pygame releases 1.9.0
  • CentOS has a leadership crisis
  • Red Hat spends $100M on advancing Linux
  • Miro releases 2.5
  • Microsoft store details leaked
• We announce some upcoming events:-
  • August 9th – #ubuntu-uk IRC channel, Ubuntu UK LoCo Team meeting
  • September 19th – All around the world, Software Freedom Day
  • September 19th – IBM Facility on Northside Parkway, Atlanta, GA, USA, Atlanta Linux Fest
  • September 25th – 27th – Greater Columbus Convention Center in downtown Columbus, Ohio, USA, Ohio Linux Fest
  • October 2nd to 4th – All around the world, Ubuntu Global Jam
  • October 24th – Newhampton arts centre, Wolverhampton, UK, LUGRadio Live 2009
  • February 6th to 7th February 2010 – University Libre Brussels, Belgium, FOSDEM
• Command Line Fu Love Lurrrrrve!
  • Checking net connections and throttling other peoples computers:-

  $ sudo mii-tool

• We have the second part of a our great interview with Dustin Kirkland. In this part we delve into Byobu and ecryptfs
• We start a new competition to win a £20 Canonical store voucher. We’ve turned the competition on it’s head for this episode. This time around we’re giving you the answer, and asking you to come up with creative questions. Email them to competition@ubuntu-uk.org
• We delve into the Ubuntu Ecosphere Gerald Harold Phyllis Dustophere Margret!
  • Evaluating the risk of non-standard apps
  • Debian considering what to do with problematic packages like Blender
  • Alan Lord gets a Windows-Tax refund from Amazon
  • Debian show off a new News service
  • Jono announces free books for approved LoCo Teams
• And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents since our last show

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