S06E37 – The Dark Ubuntu




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Summary: Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are back in Studio A for the thirty-seventh episode of Season Six of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! In this week’s show:- We also take a look at what’s been happening in the news: Bill Lowe, the IBM manager who was behind the first ever PC has died aged 72. Owncloud has announced version 6 including Owncloud Documents, with real time google docs-style collaboration. Cisco is releasing a BSD-licensed implementation of the h.264 video codec and a reaction from Monty. Debian has changed the default desktop for Jessie (the next release) to XFCE. AOL has threatened legal action against Pro Populi, a company who produce an app called People+ which uses data from AOL-owned CrunchBase. NSA & GCHQ sniffing *inside* Google network (SSL no good to you now!) The Verve and The Washington Post have published hands-on reviews of Valve’s linux-based Steam console We catch up with what’s been happening in the Ubuntu community: Terence Simpson has posted an open letter to the Ubuntu-IRC mailing list regarding conduct on the community’s IRC channels The Ubuntu GNOME project is seeking additional maintainers, without which it won’t be able to provide long-term support for its 14.04 release (already found them!) Bacon and Langridge of LugRadio fame have started a new podast, Bad Voltage, with Brian Lunduke (ex-Linux Action Show) and Jeremy Garcia (founder of LinuxQuestions.org). Ubuntu’s cloud offering is going to include the CloudFoundry platform-as-a-service running on top of OpenStack There’s an indiegogo project to build a Raspberry Pi compile cluster, allowing Ubuntu to be built for the ‘Pi. Fedora is 10! And we mention an event: FLOSS UK – Spring 2014 – 18th – 20th March 2014 – Brighton, UK We’ll be back next week, when we’ll interview Alan Bell about his Raspberry Pi cluster Indigogo campaign. Please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-uk-podcast on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow our twitter feed http://twitter.com/uupc Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google Plus Leave us some segment ideas on the Etherpad