S03E19 – If We Only Knew

Laura Cowen, Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore and Mark Johnson unite to bring you episode 19 of season 3 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

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In this week’s show:-

• We talk about what we’ve been doing including successfully running 10 miles for charity (but he still doesn’t like to talk about it), upgrading machines to Ubuntu 10.10 and some Tomboy packaging.
• We interview Dr Sue Black – from University of Westminster about Saving Bletchley Park and Gervase Markham about Mozilla Drumbeat.
• In the news:-
  • Minty!
  • Scary!
  • FUDdy!
  • Coffee!
  • Sheepy!
  • Paddy!
• We discuss the recent announcement that Ubuntu 11.04 will feature Unity as the default GNOME shell for new users
• Command Line Love

  Colour Man Pages from Greg Thompson
  1) install the "most" pager utility. sudo apt-get install most
  2) put export PAGER="most" in your ~/.bashrc
  3) Logout, Login
  4) man <your favourite command>
  Hey-presto colour man pages!
  

• We mention some Ubuntu related news in the Gerald/bit-about-Ubuntu/ecosphere:-
  • New Launchpad®™ link shortener
  • Khun opens his core
  • Matt Zimmerman muses Qt on Ubuntu
  • Low hanging Ubuntu fruit for salefree!
  • Games creep into the Software CenterCentre
  • Launchpad®™ – what’s in a name?
• Finally we have your feedback including this great Ubuntu logo rip-off photo from James Tait


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