Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore and Alan Pope drink hot mulled cordial and tea, eat mince pies and chocolate yule log with brandy butter, and bring you the final episode of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!
In this week’s show:-
- We talk about about what we’ve been doing including failing to give a talk because the laptop wouldn’t talk to the projector, failing to get some work done because the desktop wouldn’t boot, learning to write a Perl script in quite a short space of time, and releasing lots of code because it’s just that time of year.
- We look back at the predictions we made this time last year, congratulate ourselves on the few we got right, and then make some predictions about what will (probably not) have happened by this time next year.
- And we present this year’s UUPC Christmas play: A UUPC Christmas Carol! (Complete with lots of very dodgy accents.)
- In the news:-
- We mention some Ubuntu related news in the Gerald/bit-about-Ubuntu/ecosphere:-
- And in Not-about-Ubuntu:-
- Finally we have your feedback.
- Sound effects used in the show:-
- Sound effects used in A UUPC Christmas Carol:-
- Includes music from: Christmas’ Coming and Dancing Santa
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- Window Sound Effects 2.WAV by RutgerMuller
- ping ching ring sword-clang thing (long tail).wav by Timbre
- Vintage Telephone Hanging Up by crz1990
- analogue_phone_dial_002.flac by lorenzosu
- footsteps_bare_feet.aif by Corsica_S
- 00817 wake up 1.wav by Robinhood76
- drunks fighting.aif by tigersound
- crows.aiff by jimblodget
- m240.wav by Matt_G
- walkinginsnow.aif by Spandau
- CarAlarm.wav by Jlew
- police siren2.wav by mungous
- Footsteps on Tiles.wav by RutgerMuller
- Hoover Moving.wav by fogma
- Shoe Slide and Scuffle.aif by ftpalad
- Posh dinner party.wav by 7by7
- file0389 party horns.mp3 by smokeyvw
- mini christmas song.mp3 by milton
- tapping a glass 06.wav by klankbeeld
- steps-on-wooden-stairs02.ogg by Erdie
- buckling-spring.WAV by fastson
- Maaaagpie.wav by digifishmusic
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- u_chimes3.mp3 by BristolStories
- ChainsRattling.aif by klakmart
- Metal001.wav by HardPCM
- Hydrophone 1 Filtered.mp3 by digifishmusic
- Grandfather Clock – digifish.mp3 by digifishmusic
- footstep on wood foley.wav by martian
- dorm door opening.wav by pagancow
- door slam.wav by ttiimm54
- keyboardmouse.wav by ljudman
- cars drive slow wet snow.mp3 by Bidone
- toiletrolltube wind on window 10 – 3.2.11.flac by toiletrolltube
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I put it to you that 2011 *WAS* “The Year of the Linux Desktop”: The drama of Canonical’s release of Unity has been the direct and indirect cause of more commentary and shifts in the status quo of the Linux community than I can recall seeing in years. Even if desktop computing is increasingly a niche market, the attention on desktop environments will only help usability going forward, whether it be inprovements to Unity or to its competitors.
And I will make a prediction for 2012: In the wake of their recent fork of Gnome3, Linux Mint will move away from being based on Ubuntu to being based on Debian’s Testing branch (a move they have been prototyping with their Linux Mint Debian Edition), especially with the imminent move of Ubuntu away from X and on to Wayland.
[…] a big fan of Christmas. Not just because I take two weeks off work! I love preparing for the Christmas episode of the podcast (the version of A Christmas Carol in this year’s is getting rave reviews!), spending time at […]
My prediction for 2012 is that Canonical and Ubuntu will make a change that will cause an uproar in the community (like when they moved the buttons to the left, or changed Banshee Amazon refferal, or Unity vs. Gnome-shell discussions)