S04E04 – Back in the Village

13.04.11 | 9 Comments

Laura Cowen, Tony Whitmore, Alan Pope, and Mark Johnson are all together again to bring you episode 4 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

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In this week’s show:-
  • http://twitter.com/stgraber Stéphane Graber

    Thanks ;)

  • http://twitter.com/tomdwright Tom Wright

    Note that the bug from ‘Not About Ubuntu’ also impacted Ubuntu Natty (although is now fixed).

  • Benny

    Who the hell pick these articles for discussion these topics are boring, most ubuntu user wants to here the latest news actives for music player , games, graphics , Office – Libre , and general tweaking to there desktop .

    we don’t want to here boring subject like – “The spies can hack open source software” | “Google bids 900 meeeeeeellion dollars for patents” | Linus isn’t impressed | middleware bore..

    You basically stereotyped yourself as a boring University lecture..

    i’ll give oggcamp a miss this year.

    RIP : Shipit :-( im going to reinstall Win7…

  • http://twitter.com/CarlosEMF Carlos Ferreira

    Hi guys, thank you all for the effort. Loving the podcast. I’d like to comment on two things.

    The first was Laura C’s timely reminder (on episode 2 or 3 of this season) that personal computer really took off when people were able to have more than one window open – which implied that Unity, by almost “hiding” the multiple windows, could perhaps be seen as a regression. There is an imporant point there; however, as a PhD researcher, I am finding that actually, by hiding most of the clutter, Unity helps me focus on my work – although that might tell you more about me than about the strengths of the different desktop interfaces.

    The second is about the use of free software in Academia. Frankly, besides R for statistical analysis, I’m yet to find anyone openly advocating free software, and I get puzzled looks from other end-users whenever they happen to take a peek at my screen. I have also struggled to get IT support – and they are all nice guys, it’s not personal – to install the stuff I wanted in my workstation: OpenOffice, Zotero, FreeMind, nothing fancy. I took the opportunity to sort of interview the guy who finally did it, and he was very clear: they can’t/won’t help me if something goes wrong; they have Microsoft certification and are more or less prepared to deal with anything Microsoft software throws at them, so won’t risk advocating free software because most people will think it’s just the cheap alternative to Microsoft and will engage in massive bitching as soon as there is any glitch. In other words, the degree of system lock-in goes well below economic considerations of cost.

  • DEX

    Interview Chris Gutteridge – cant you read time tables, pointless project and waste of resource.

  • https://launchpad.net/~jmoleary Joshua O’Leary

    Just like to say that I really enjoy listening to your podcasts, they are usually very interesting and entertaining, and help me to keep up with the latest news in the Ubuntu and Linux world. Also, what software do you use to broadcast and record your podcasts? I often do audio editing and would find it useful to know what audio software you as a team would recommend.

  • http://twitter.com/dm319 Duncan Murray

    Just listening to your podcast – am enjoying it so far! But I did wonder if you guys were talking a bit fast – is that normal for you, or are you using some sort of compression software?!


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