Laura Cowen, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore and Guest Presenter Mark Johnson return with episode 18 of season 3 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!
In this week’s show:-
- We talk about about what we’ve been doing including preparing to run 10 miles for charity (but he doesn’t like to talk about it), upgrading a work machine to Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS (yes!), playing with a GuruPlug Server, chasing rubbish bugs and going to see Doctor Who Live.
- We interview Tim Dobson about Young Rewired State
- In the news:-
- We mention some upcoming events:-
- UKUUG FLOSS Unconference – 16th October – Birmingham & Midland Institute
- Ubuntu App Developer Week – September 27th – October 1st (formerly known as Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week)
- Barcamp Southampton – November 27, 2010 – The Shooting Star, Southampton
- We review some of the new features in the newly released Ubuntu 10.10.
- Command Line Love
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- We mention some Ubuntu related news in the Gerald/bit-about-Ubuntu/ecosphere:-
- Finally we have your feedback
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I’m enjoying the redesign of The Fridge (am I really the only person who reads that site??) but am wondering when the ghastly Planet Ubuntu is due for a facelift; it looks worryingly like something I would have knocked up in FrontPage 10 years ago!
Good podcast again.
I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my Dell Latitude 2100 netbook and everything worked out of the box, and it’s running perfectly. I am using the desktop version because I can auto hide the menu bars to get max vertical screen space, because on this netbook it’s a little short (Dell has fixed this on their next version). Ubuntu font looks great and have it as default in OpenOffice. Ubuntu One is improved and I find very useful. The Ubuntu One indicator should be installed by default though. The option to install the codecs at install made life so much easier. Well done to all.
I would like to see more work done at a faster pace on the Software Centre to make it the centre for all software, and to make software available both paid and free. Software availabiltiy and installation (I know there is plenty of free software) is one of the keys to greater Linux adoption on the desktop for the non-techy populus.
Laura might want to look at UberStudent.org for her post graduate work. It is built on top of Debian and Ubuntu. Lots of pre-installed and pre-configured tools for higher level student research, like Zotero and Mendeley. I upgraded to Maverick under it and it ran just fine before and after. It’s running on my old AMD 2500 desktop and on my ACER AspireOne D250 netbook (without Unity, not enough graphics power).
The feature where Ubuntu just starts installing as you’re answering questions. That was around years ago on Caldera (before they turned evil) and I haven’t seen it since. I’m glad someone else has started doing that again.
Though my favorite part of that installer is still missing. While it was installing packages it let you play pacman:
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