Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker and not enough Laura Cowen are back once more with a time-defying episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.
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In this week’s show:-
- What we’ve been doing including hacking on podcoder, patching and packaging, mirroring the new Crunchbang release, giving a talk at the Open Source Schools Unconference 09 and returning a lost laptop.
- We report back on the stolen laptop we mentioned in the last episode and talk about encrypting and securing our laptops including using the open source laptop tracking software Prey Project.
- The News:-
- Microsoft makes a promise
- BBC makes a glow
- Ubuntu makes a point (release)
- Mark Shuttleworth makes a prediction
- Microsoft makes a preview
- Paper makes a cut
- Wildfire makes a GPL & CC release
- Google makes an OS
- Listeners make us happy
- We announce some upcoming events:-
- September 19th – All around the world, Software Freedom Day
- September 19th – IBM Facility on Northside Parkway, Atlanta, GA, USA, Atlanta Linux Fest
- October 2nd to 4th – All around the world, Ubuntu Global Jam
- October 24th – Newhampton arts centre, Wolverhampton, UK, LUGRadio Live 2009
- February 6th to 7th February 2010 – University Libre Brussels, Belgium, FOSDEM
- Command Line
FuLove!
watch -t -n1 "date +%T|figlet"
- The proposed changes to the Ubuntu Code Of Conduct
- The Ubuntu Community Council is looking for new members, as is the Technical Board
- Felipe Alfaro blogged about using LVM to do non-destructive Linux upgrades
- The guys at Tuxradar have benchmarked Ubuntu, Windows Vista and Windows 7
- Ken Wimmer from the Ubuntu Artwork team puts a call out for more high quality backgrounds for Karmic
- Victor Churchill from Hampshire Linux User Group reports on how he managed to fill his Gmail account
- Jo Shields reports the outlook is hazy for Banshee in Karmic by default
- Plans are afoot for a Kubuntu Netbook Remix
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