It’s Episode Zero of Season Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.
We’re back! And we’re going to be back every week starting Thursday 3rd March 2016!!
In this week’s show we give a quick run-down of all the news that happened while we were away…
Debian founder Ian Murdock died at just 42 years old.
A music track was copied to /dev/null 100 times a second to make a point.
The Playstation 4 was hacked to run Linux.
FirefoxOS on the phone was killed off.
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, became the world’s most valuable company.
Jolla closed the book on the tablet
VTech decided to teach kids early-on that security is a nice-to-have.
Everyone started encrypting with Let’s Encrypt
Google, HP & Oracle joined RISC-V, to create an open source alternative to ARM & MIPS
The Australian government recommended switching off 2-factor authentication while on holiday
Ubuntu App Explorer started a wishlist of apps
Firefox 43 was released but GTK3 was disabled
Michael Larabel from www.phoronix.com felt “let down” by Linux and Open Source
Intel unveiled five new Compute Sticks
Amazon search will be disabled In Ubuntu 16.04
After 3 years, OpenShot 2.0 finally hit beta
Mozilla is killing its persona.org authentication system
OpenDesktop.org was acquired by Blue Systems
OpenSSH was struck by a new security vulnerability
Coreboot was ported to the Librem 13 Laptop, without Purism
Ubuntu Scope Showdown 2016 started
Linux Foundation stopped letting individual members elect directors
A massive ARM v6/v7 rework landed in Linux 4.5
A new browser, called Brave, promised to defend users’ privacy by removing adverts and replacing them with other adverts
The Xiaomi Linux laptop was announced to run… Windows 10
Oracle deprecated the Java Web-browser plugin
Linux games on Steam hit 1,900 titles
Linux games on Steam fell to 1,899 as Batman: Arkham Knight got cancelled for Linux
Privileged westerners called for ending 32-bit Ubuntu Desktop ISOs
Jono Bacon was wrong again
Ubuntu launched the ‘#Reinvent’ marketing campaign
Running rm -rf / on any UEFI Linux distribution can brick your system
Ubuntu developers released Snapcraft 2.1
NetworkManager 1.2 Offers Tracking Protection
Mozilla Pushed Firefox 45 into Beta
Linux Mint Devs Showcased the First Two X-Apps
ownCloud Mail App is coming for 9.0
Iron.io created microcontainers based on Alpine Linux
Docker Founders liked that last idea and hired an Alpine Linux Developer
Ubuntu 15.04 support ended
Canonical launched 2-in-1 Ubuntu tablet
MaruOS gave you an independent Debian desktop from your smartphone
Canonical will demo OnePlus & Sony devices running Ubuntu
Google announced Android N will run on OpenJDK
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