Laura Cowen, Tony Whitmore, Alan Pope, and guest presenter Alan Bell are back oop North in Studio B (with noisy podcats but no dishwasher) for episode 9 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!
In this week’s show:-
- We talk about monkeying around with a MicroServer (we really must do a segment about them at some point), going to the Doctor Who Experience in London (we don’t reveal any spoilers), and going through 108 locks in one weekend on a canal boat.
- In the news:-
- Apple hand Nokia a brown envelope to settle things
- Mark Shuttleworth happens to mention Firefox could get replaced by Chrome in Ubuntu
- Apple claim to be “harassed” by Samsung
- Adobe move AIR off Linux and on to..um…Android
- Kudos to Michel Xhaard, recognised for his work supporting many webcams on Linux (We’re always topical!)
- We give updates on OggCamp11:-
- 13th – 14th August 2011 – OggCamp11 – The Maltings, Farnham, UK
- Our lovely sponsors are:
- The brilliant Bytemark, who are helping us pay for the venue
- Chris Procter on behalf of lug.org.uk
- and BitFolk are sponsoring our Saturday night party – more details to follow!
- We’ve confirmed another speaker in the scheduled track: Chris Gutteridge will talk about the Southampton Open Data project.
- The two other confirmed speakers confirmed so far in the schedule track are: Lorna “lornajane” Mitchell who will talk about careers in Open Source and Steve Lee who will talk about Accessibility in Open Source.
- We interview actor, director, DRM-free audio books advocate Barnaby Edwards about his new venture, TextBookStuff (which you can get via the Ubuntu One Music Store).
- We have a competition to win an audio book from TextBookStuff. Entries to [email protected] by Sunday 17th July:
- We have a Bit About Ubuntu:-
- ..and a bit that’s Not About Ubuntu:-
- And we had some Command Line Love:
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history | tail -n+1 | head -n | sed ‘s/^[0-9 ]\{7\}//’ >> ~/script.sh
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- Finally we have your feedback.
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