S08E29 – Car 54, Where Are You?

It’s Episode Twenty-nine of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope! In this week’s show: We look at what’s been going on in the news: Dell’s head of China told The… Read more ›

It’s Episode Twenty-nine of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!

In this week’s show:

We look at what’s been going on in the news:

Dell’s head of China told The Wall Street Journal that NeoKylin Linux is shipped on 42 percent of the PCs it sells into China.
Let’s Encrypt are working towards general availability over the next couple of months and passed a major milestone by issuing its first certificate.
Volkswagen shares have plunged more than 18% after US regulators found that some of its cars could manipulate official emissions tests
IBM are releasing open source blockchain thingummy (and Imogen Heap’s music idea #longread
Italy’s Ministry of Defense drop Microsoft Office in Favor of LibreOffice and adopt the Open Document Format (ODF).
It was decided at this year’s DebConf to stop producing new CD ISOs/images for future Debian updates onward.

We also take a look at what’s been going on in the community:

Big Bug Bonanza Ubuntu 16.04 LTS – call for participation
Community Council call for nominations.
Replacing the Startup Disk Creator – call for Python coders
Ubuntu Developers discuss the future of Snappy Personal, Unity 8, Mir, Convergence
UbuContest – send us your opinions on the entries

There are even events:

DevRelCon – London, UK – 30th September
Oggcamp returns! – Liverpool, UK – 31st October

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]

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