S02E13 – The Tribe of Gum

Laura Cowen, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore and Ciemon Dunville are back once more from ‘Studio B’ sadly without Dave Walker, but with a crowning 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 installing Easy Peasy 1.5, using ecryptfs to encrypt data, giving a talk about podcasting at Hampshire Linux User Group, making screencasts to fix a bug, setup a Multiboot PXE server, a little packaging, another talk for Hampshire Linux User Group, this time on InfoSlicer and keeping bees.
• We interview Neil Wallace about OpenMolar, developing projects alone, and promoting niche FLOSS software
• In a fitter, leaner, more svelte News segment:-
  • Microsoft Confirm Their Best Buy FUD – Nobody susprised
  • Amazon End Easy FLOSS Contributions – Developers disappointed
  • Apple Release libdispatch – Mac Users Blissfully Unaware
  • Motorola Announces Android Phone – Robot Bandwagon Creaking
• We curtailed the listfest that was the upcoming events segment, reducing it down to “what’s coming up ‘Real Soon Now™”:-
  • September 19th – All around the world, Software Freedom Day
  • September 19th – Dublin, OSSBarCamp
  • September 26th – 28th – The Workstation, Sheffield, UK – CMS Made Simple GeekMoot
  • September 28th – London, Launchpad Community Meet Up
• We interrupt the President to tell you all about OggCamp, what’s shaping up to be the best, and indeed only Post-Lugradio-Unconference-in-Wolverhampton!
• We discuss the ways people can get involved in documentation for Ubuntu (and other projects). Including creating official Ubuntu documentation within the Documentation Team, Community Maintained Documentation, writing docs for the forums and writing documentation blogs
• We get our first Just a Moment submission from you, the listener! (specifically Patrick Archibald). We’d love to hear your ‘Just A Moment’ on our voicemail! Details below. We used a buzzer effect in this segment from guitarguy1985 called buzzer.wav
• Ciemon gets a well deserved break from Command Linux Luurve, with a submission from Alan Bell

Pop the following text in a text file called showman.sh in your home directory

#!/bin/bash
if [ -z $DISPLAY ]
   then
   #not in X so starting man in the foreground
   man $1
else
   #X is running so we can pop up the man page in a pretty window
   gnome-help man:$1  2>/dev/null &
fi

make it executable with

chmod +x showman.sh

and edit your .bashrc file and at the end add

alias man="~/showman.sh"

• The Ecosphere
• Subtle domain move for U1
• Scott requests help testing boot-crack (note, this is now in the main Karmic repo)
• Ubuntu’s 2009 Report Card
• And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents and voicemail since our last show, including a great video response to our mention of Open Shot Video

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