Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are back for the nineteenth episode of Season Six of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!
In this week’s show:-
- We take a look at what’s been happening in the news:
- Microsoft backpedal on XBox One DRM following customer backlash
- Richard Stallman has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame
- Google Plus Hangouts now features remote desktop support
- Amazon have brought their Autorip service to the UK
- Some graphics stack news about Mir (also here, here, here, and here)
- A security researcher at Carnegie Mellon university has reported twelve hundred crashes in Debian Wheezy binaries
- Hardware.info have been testing a pair of Samsung SSDs to destruction
- Inventor of the mouse, Douglas Engelbart, died on Tuesday night
- And some Android games news just for Tony
- We catch up with what’s happening in the Ubuntu community:
- Change to ubuntu’s default search engine proposed
- Competition: $10,000 for the most innovative charm
- Mark Shuttleworth has blogged about the Carrier Advisory Group
- Achieving differentiation on Ubuntu Touch devices without fragmenting the platform
- First independent Mir benchmarks published by Phoronix
- And in Not About Ubuntu:
- And we mention some events:
- Open Source Junction – Open source in the public sector – 18th-19th July – OSS Watch, Oxford, UK
- OpenStreetMap Mapping Picnic – 20th July – Tower Hamlets Cemetary Park, London, UK
- Campus Party – 2nd-7th September – The O2, London, UK
- Open Street Map conference – 6th-8th September – Aston University Business School Conference Centre, Aston Street, Birmingham, UK
- OggCamp13 – 19th-20th October – Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
We’ll be back in one week with an interview with Barney Brown from Intercontinental Music Lab. In the meantime, send us your feedback!
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