Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are Pope-less but, nevertheless, are back in Studio A for the eighteenth episode of Season Five of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!
In this week’s show:-
- We interview Wolfram Sang about Linux kernel development.
- We discuss the new ‘skunkworks’ projects that Mark Shuttleworth blogged about and lots of people commented on.
- We also talk about the history of the lie-detector, writing a zero-player game in JavaScript (really), and watching Prof. Alice Roberts from Time Team give a talk on megafauna.
- In the news this week:-
- And events-wise we have…
- FLOSSIE training day for women – 29th-31st October – Bletchley Park
- RedHat Developer Day – 1st November – London – listen to the show for a discount code.
- Victoria Pritchard and Robin Catling dust off another audio recording of an episode of ‘Tomorrow’s Technology Today’ from the Herbert Maxwell Fosdyke Curmudgeon Memorial Sound Archive.
- We mention some Ubuntu related news in the bit-about-Ubuntu:-
- Quantal Quetzal (12.10) released…
- Pretty web interface for Juju…
- Ubuntu 13.04 will be called Raring Ringtail…
- Ubuntu TV team needs you…
- Get Ubuntu instead of Windows 8…
- Ubuntu Tweak lives…
- Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10 released…
And in Not-about-Ubuntu:
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Is MS Windows 8 a good opportunity for Ubuntu (or any other willing distro) to try and capitalise on? With Win 8 looking so different to its predecessors could it be a chance to ‘market’ to the masses? Something along the lines of, “if you have to change, make it a good change …. (insert distro name here)”.