Ubuntu UK Podcast: S03E06 – Bughouse Bellhops – MP3 HIGH

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.

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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:-
  • US Library of Congress archive Twitter
  • Sharp announce Ubuntu based Mobile Internet Device
  • McAffee render thousands of Windows PCs somewhat less functional

• 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 London, Banbury, London, San Francisco, New York, Adelaide and so many more.
  • 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.
  • No Command line love this week as Ciemon has to have a rest after all his bug work!

• The Ecosphere Bit 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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