This week we’ve been making podcasts and porting games to Scratch. We discuss Mint breaking Chromium, possible new features in Groovy Gorilla, GNOME defeating a patent troll, ZFS on Ubuntu, microk8s coming to Windows and macOS and Lenovo shipping Ubuntu… Read more ›

This week we’ve been making podcasts and porting games to Scratch. We discuss Mint breaking Chromium, possible new features in Groovy Gorilla, GNOME defeating a patent troll, ZFS on Ubuntu, microk8s coming to Windows and macOS and Lenovo shipping Ubuntu or more laptops and workstations. We also round up some of our favourite stories from the tech world.

It’s Season 13 Episode 11 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Joe Ressington are connected and speaking to your brain.


In this week’s show:

We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:

Joe has been making Late Night Linux, The New Show and 2.5 Admins podcasts.
Martin has been helping port Antsy Alien Attack! to Scratch.

We discuss the community news:

Mint breaks chromium in APT. See the Chromium in Ubuntu – deb to snap transition blog for more details.
OMG Ubuntu speculates on Groovy Gorilla features
Didier Roche has a series of blog posts about ZFS
microK8s is now available on Windows and MacOS
Lenovo Makes Entire Workstation Range Available with Ubuntu

We discuss the news:

GNOME gets big open-source patent win
Electronic Arts release CNC source code
8GB Raspberry Pi 4 launched

Image credit: Nimish ChauhanThat’s all for this week! You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube. We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon. If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our sub-Reddit.
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