• A discussion on possible backup solutions after one of the team does something silly and loses a lot of data.
• New Chunky Sarcastic News
  • Jono announces the new sponsorhip process for the next Ubuntu Developer Summit coming up in December.
  • Jaunty Jackalope is announced as the code name of the next release (9.04) after 8.10 - Intrepid Ibex.
  • New dark theme in Ubuntu 8.10.
  • Dirac reaches version 1.0, and VLC releases 0.9.2 which supports it.
  • Greg Korah-Hartman hits out at Canonical for not submitting more patches to upstream Linux kernel, in his keynote at the Linux Plumbers Conference.
  • IBM releases Lotus Symphony Beta for Ubuntu.
  • Crossover create a WINE based port of Chromium, the web browser Google Chrome is built upon.
• Time to announce the winner of the Bitfolk VPS competition from last time.
• A new competition to win a Canonical Store voucher.
• We have a heated discussion about 5-a-day.
• Feedback

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• We mull over the Happy Birthday GNU video from the FSF, presented by Stephen Fry.
• We discuss the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase
• Bulkier Sarcastic News
  • Mozilla releases Ubiquity
  • Dell shipping Vostros running Ubuntu
  • Debian offering a beta live version based on Lenny
  • Mitac and Commodore show off new UMPCs
  • Google releases a browser
  • Launchpad integrates google maps.
• Due to our previous episode coming out late we’re extending the Bitfolk VPS competition from last time.
• Finally we discuss the merits of running the development version of Ubuntu.

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• A interview with Billy Cina from Canonical about training and certification, and have details of how you can get a discount on Ubuntu training.
• Sarcastic News
• Trademark issues with Ubuntu
• An interview with Andy Stanford-Clark, Master Inventor from IBM
• We discuss Virtual Private servers and their purpose

• We announce the winner of the Canonical store voucher from the last episode and start a new competition to give away a virtual private server.

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• A great chat with Chris Jones about his project Terminator and his dreams of a robot future.
• Sarcastic News
• We discuss the new Ubuntu training courses and certification
• A great chat with Jeremy Allison from the SAMBA project.
• Some listener feedback.

• Competition:
• We announce the winner of the Viglen MPC-L and start a new competition to give away another Canonical Store voucher

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• Discussion:
• Pete Stean reviews the Advent 4211 (MSI Wind)
• A review of the Viglen MPC-L - which we’re also giving away. We also give details about how you can get the Viglen MPC-L for £80
• Sarcastic News
• A great interview with Andy Robinson and Etienne Cherdlu from OpenStreetMap
• Some listener feedback.

• Competition:
• We announce the winner of the Efficient PC ‘Wraith’
• We start a new competition where we give the Viglen MPC-L All you need to do is follow the instructions in the show to be in with a chance of winning this cracking tiny PC.

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In this episode:-

• Discussion:
  • Watching video content on Ubuntu
  • Podcast now available in transcribed form!
  • Sarcastic News
  • Selling Ubuntu without using ‘Freedom’ in the sales pitch
• Competition:
  • We announce the winner of the Canonical Store Voucher this month
  • We start a new competition where we give the Wraith PC from Efficient PC!

  Just answer the question set out in this weeks show, and you could be the proud owner of this PC!

  

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• Discussion:
• Efficient PC hardware review
• We review the Wraith PC from Efficient PC. Listen in to our next episode (number 10) for a chance to win this great computer!
• Ubuntu mobile edition confusion
• Lugradio Live discussion
• Drobo disk storage robot and Drobo Share
• Competition:
• The competition from Episode 8 is still open. It will end on the 12th July. (we have extended the competition due to the last episode being late).

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• The last of our interviews from the Ubuntu Developer Summit:
  • Matt Oquist talks about Software Freedom Day
  • KDE contributor Celeste Lyn Paul talks in depth about human-computer interaction (HCI) and enlightens us on the (KDE) human interface guidelines.
  • Utahs best export, Mike Basinger talks about his passion for the Ubuntu Forums, and his calming influence on the Ubuntu Community Council.
  • A very informative interview with Kurt von Finck about the Canonical Support operation, where to get the best deal on Ubuntu support and some stories from the trenches.
  • An interview with the “King of Bling”, Mirco “MacSlow” Müller talks about lowfat, GDM, face browser, cheese, memaker, clutter, avant window navigator, mpx in xorg.
• Competition
  • We set a new competition, which will end on the 12th July. (we have extended the competition due to this episode being late).

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• Discussion:
  • An interview with Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon about FOSS Camp and UDS.
  • An interview with the Wubi guy, Agostino Russo
  • Learning to program in Python
  • An interview with Cory Kontros from Ubuntu Studio
• Competition results!
  • The winner of the trivia competition is announced. We’ll send them a coupon for the Canonical Store to spend on whatever they want!
    We’ll have another competition in Episode 8.

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• Discussion:
• A chat about the recent Ubuntu Developer Summit.
• A lengthy interview with Mark Shuttleworth where we discuss a range of topics including:-
• The release and death of Gobuntu
• Dealing with reactions to Mark Shuttleworth’s blog
• Mozilla Thunderbird
• Python
• Deciding what applications are shipped with Ubuntu
• SSH/SSL vulnerability resolution
• Updated shipit CDs
• HBD
• The future of Linux
• The Ubuntu Community
• Killer features in 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)
• Ubuntu Mobile
• No news segment this week.
• Another Competition
• The second trivia competition is announced. Listen in to hear the question and how to enter. The winner will be announced in the next episode, and they’ll receive a coupon for the Canonical Store.

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• Discussion:
  • An interview with Pete Savage.
    • progbox.vid
  • A chat with Phil Newborough.
    • Random Ubuntu Advocacy
    • Crunchbang Linux
  • We rate our Hardy upgrade experiences.
  • Following up with our CLI vs GUI discussion with Laura Cowen.
• In the news:
  • gNewSense release version 2.
  • Adobe opening up the FLV specs.
  • The UK’s Unix User Group has convinced the High Court to carry out a judicial review of the British Standard Institute’s decision to vote in favour of Microsoft’s controversial Office Open XML (OOXML) specification.
  • 30th birthday of spam
  • Sun in process of certifying Ubuntu.
• Competition results!
  • The winner of the trivia competition is announced. We’ll send them a coupon for the Canonical Store to spend on whatever they want! We’ll have another competition in Episode 6.

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• Discussion:
  • Unix/Linux Malware & Security precautions.
  • Interview with Ian Ozsvald from Showmedo.
  • A short phone call from Mark Shuttleworth.
• In the news:
  • Red Hat Skips Consumer Linux Desktop
  • MySQL/Sun Add proprietary code to MySQL
• New Feature!
  • Trivia competition - we have coupons for the Canonical Store to give away!
    • Listen to the show, drop an email before the 3rd May 2008 to the competition@ubuntu-uk.org email address with your answer to the question we ask. We’ll ask Mark Shuttleworth to pick a winner at random from the correct entries and then email the coupon code over to the winner.

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• Discussion:
  • Command line versus GUI.
  • Mythbuntu.
  • Podcast production.
• In the news:
  • Microsoft OOXML ISO Clarification.
  • Adobe releases Air for Linux.
  • Launchpad supports OpenID.
  • UK Conservative & Labour Parties talk about Open Source.
  • Ubuntu survives Tipping point “Pwn to Own” contest.
  • Ubuntu Live.

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• Interviews:
  • Ubuntu Demo day organiser Dianne Reuby talks about what’s planned for the 26th April.
  • Dave Murphy -talks about Cumbria LUG, schwuk, Canonical, authoring and hardware.
• How low can you go - putting Ubuntu on small or low resource hardware.
• Pronouncing names associated with Linux.
• Would you go back? What would you do if there was no more Ubuntu.
• Feedback from the first show.

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• A brief into to the cast, some history of how the podcast was conceived.
• Discussion on Ubuntu’s Brainstorm site.
  • Introduction, discussion on why it’s there.
  • Talk about some of the top ideas
• FOSDEM 2008 - Interviews with:-
  • Andrew Waffa, developer from the Bongo project
    • Bongo is the FOSS lightweight webmail and calendar client, Andrew tells Dave and Tony about how this exciting project has been progressing.
  • Becky Hogge of the Open Rights Group
    • Becky talks about ORG and their new project, Sound Copyright
  • Jan Claeys from the Belgian Ubuntu LoCo Team
    • Jan tells us where the Belgian LoCo team started and what they do to promote Ubuntu.
• Pimp the Ubuntu Demo day

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