Laura Cowen, Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope and Tony Whitmore battle to bring you episode six of season three of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team.
In this week’s show:-
- What we’ve been doing including bug work on Ubuntu and getting frustrated with it, setting up an Ubuntu mirror at home, breaking and fixing jogglers, getting a less noisy Drobo, cleaning out a laptop to make it less noisy, performing usability testing, writing an essay and preparing for OggCamp
- We review the Acer Aspire Revo 3600 and pitch it against the Aleutia T1
- In the News this week:-
- We discuss the relationship between Debian and Ubuntu from a bug management perspective and mention the upstream report.
- We announce some upcoming events:-
- Ubuntu Release Parties
- Including one in
- , Banbury, London, San Francisco, New York, Adelaide and so many
- April 17th – OSSBarCamp, IBM Pembroke St. Offices, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
- June 11th, 12th & 13th – South East Linux Fest
- 3rd July 2010 – Barcamp Blackpool – a free unconference at the Pleasure Beach Casino.
- July 19th – 24th – Europython, Birmingham, UK. europython.eu
- 1st – 2nd May, Liverpool, UK – OggCamp 10 sponsored by Linux Format (Media Partner), The Open Learning Centre, The Linux Emporium, Viglen, Bitfolk and OpsView, Recruit12, Linux Fund, and our new sponsor Ebuyer.com.
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- No Command line love this week as Ciemon has to have a rest after all his bug work!
- Ubuntu Release Parties
- The
EcosphereBit about Ubuntu has discussion of..- Ubuntu Single Sign on Now Open Source
- Canonical Design Team, raise awareness of future plans
- Jono suggests a new “Power User” community
- Phil Newborough (Crunchbang project lead) explains why he switched from Ubuntu to Debian as a base
- PeppermintOS announces Lubuntu/Mint based “Cloud” distro
- Avatar rendered on 35000 core Ubuntu machines
- Ubuntu Women World Play Day Competition
- And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents and voicemail since our last show
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