S13E13 – Killing an albatross

This week we’ve become Sudoku masters and made Ubuntu MATE images for the Raspberry Pi. We discuss Pine64 announcing the PineTab, plus launching a new OS for PinePhone, the Ubuntu Appliance Portfolio announcement, what Ubuntu Certified device are, more GNOME… Read more ›

This week we’ve become Sudoku masters and made Ubuntu MATE images for the Raspberry Pi. We discuss Pine64 announcing the PineTab, plus launching a new OS for PinePhone, the Ubuntu Appliance Portfolio announcement, what Ubuntu Certified device are, more GNOME performance improvements, and 20.04.1 being delayed. We also round up our picks from the tech news.

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

In this week’s show:

We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:

Martin has been making images of Ubuntu MATE 20.04 LTS for the Raspberry Pi.
Stuart has been watching Cracking the Cryptic.

We discuss the community news:

Pine64 announces the PineTab
Pine64 also launches new PinePhone community edition with PostmarketOS
Canonical has launched the Ubuntu Appliance Portfolio
People and processes behind “Ubuntu certified” devices
New Patches Aim To Improve Smoothness & Latency Of NVIDIA On GNOME
Ubuntu LTS point releases are delayed

We mention some events:

GNOME Community Challenge
“Our goal is to encourage individuals or teams to submit stimulating ideas that will connect the next generation of coders to the FOSS community and keep them involved for years to come.”
Win over $20,000
Submit your idea by 1st July

We discuss the news:

Norway’s contact tracing app has been suspended
GitHub names default branches “main” instead of “master”
Google adds URL hiding to Chrome

Image credit: Nareeta Martin
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