Ubuntu Podcast: Recent Episodes

Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress

Upbeat and family-friendly show including news, discussion, interviews and reviews from the Ubuntu, Linux and Open Source world.

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In this episode:

  • Mark explores the online exam center at ETH Zurich.
  • Alan replaces a shell script with a node script, to keep track of his snaps
  • Martin finally gets on board with terminal multiplexers, after discovering herdr

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In this episode:

  • Martin is on a break, and will be back next time
  • Mark attends MoodleMoot DACH 2026 in Zürich, and hacks together support for the Fediverse in Moodle.
  • Alan buys a Mangmi Air X as a game development test-bed.

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In this episode:

  • Alan reports back from the Ubuntu Summit,
    • Alan’s SnapScope lightning talk
    • Martin’s Jivetalking lightning talk
    • Canonical introduces Workshop
    • The full playlist of videos
  • Martin updates Jivetalking
  • Mark combats the cordyceps in The Last of Us Part I

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In this episode:

  • Mark creates DOSsier, a system for retro PC gaming.
  • Martin replaces his editor (again), this time with Fresh
  • Alan creates a new app for event attendance.

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In this episode:

  • Martin transforms Neovim into an unyielding modeless VSCode-style IDE with CUA keybindings.
    • Some of this was achieved with novim-mode and snacks.nvim.
  • Mark has been playing Solasta: Crown of the Magister.
  • Alan wants you all to install flatpak with a snap. Gather round children, it’s story time.

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In this episode:

  • Alan eschews one gaming fad for a more bespoke, artisanal gaming experience using R4 cards, and ZXDS.
  • Martin no longer considers Grammarly his friend, new friend is Harper
  • Mark continues his Kobo journey with ventures in NickelMenu and KOReader.

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In this episode:

  • Mark throws his cook books in the bin and buys a Kobo Libra Colour.
  • Alan tidies up Mojinav and puts the source on github.
  • Martin builds his own Framework desktop.

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In this episode:

  • Martin goes over why and how he’s stepping down from Ubuntu MATE after 12 years, and the project is seeking new maintainers 🧉
  • Mark discovers new life, and new civilisations in Star Trek: Voyager - Across the unknown 🖖
  • Alan outsources busywork to Minnie Love, his OpenClaw personal AI assistant, with help from OpenClaw for dummies, and two gists 🤖

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In this episode:

  • Alan optimistically crafts an alternative to the official Snapcraft store website - snapupdates.popey.com.
  • Martin swaps Cider for Sidra.
  • Mark dives deep into the data bucket and comes up richer! This time next year, Rodney.

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In this episode:

  • Mark works out how to run commands at the right point in the boot process, with NetworkManager-dispatcher
  • Alan has been confining things with Lincubate.
  • Martin has been VNCing here, there and everywhere with wayvnc and noVNC.

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In this episode:

  • Martin has created tailor: Ready-to-wear project templates for GitHub repositories 👔
  • Mark’s ageing Microserver N36L has finally met its end, and the new beginning is off to a rocky start.
  • Alan has been building snaps on an IBM mainframe thanks to LinuxOne.

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In this episode:

  • Mark explains synesthesia and the experience of how it manifests in a Linux user,
  • Alan spring cleans his GitHub,
  • Martin gets busy with lazygit.

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In this episode:

  • Alan builds a new website whose link and name is mysteriously unknown at this time.
  • Martin removes VS Code in favour of Zed Editor.
  • Mark gets started with Meshtastic ~~supher-highway~~ country lanes.

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In this episode:

  • Martin creates a automated audio engineer.
    • Jivetalking - Professional podcast audio preprocessing - broadcast-quality results with zero audio engineering knowledge required 🕺
  • Mark create a very specialised Roku remote using External Control Protocol (ECP)
  • Alan created SnapScope (source code)to scan Snap for CVEs and accidentally became a security blogger.

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In this episode we round up our listener feedback and discuss:

  • HyperMegaTech! Super Pocket
  • Kazeta
  • Recipe-Scribe
  • FossFLOW
  • Terminal Velocity - The A to Z of Modern Unix
  • Toniebox Reverse Engineering
  • Tonuino
  • Yarg-lang

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In this episode:

  • Mark has been playing Timesplitters Rewind, a remake of the classic Timesplitters.
  • Alan enters a coding competition and creates the marvellous MojiNav 📍🗺️ (Source)
  • Martin ups his network diagnostics game with trippy and gping.
    • trippy: a network diagnostic tool that combines the functionality of traceroute and ping
    • gping: ping, but with a graph.

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In this episode:

  • Alan sends Zane Lowe to a retirement home and grabs the Aux on Spotify with Auxolotl.
  • Martin sharpens his cultlery and hard forks ffmpeg-go as ffmpeg-statigo.
    • “Real FFmpeg bindings for Go. Not a wrapper. Not a CLI tool. The actual libraries 📚”
  • Mark carves up his monitors with Tiling Assistant.

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In this episode:

  • Martin has been learning Go and created:
    • Jivedrop - Drop the mix, ship the show-metadata, cover art, and all 🪩
    • Jivefire - Spin your podcast .wav into a groovy MP4 visualiser. Cava-inspired real-time audio frequencies 🔥
  • Mark, true to form, has been playing Hades II, a fast-paced rogue-like that runs beautifully on the SteamDeck.
  • Alan revisits Grummage, an interactive terminal frontend to Grype, the vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems
    • This new release focuses on UI and usability improvements ✨

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In this episode:

  • Mark is now buying his audiobooks from Libro.fm, and supporting Coles Books.
  • Martin has merged Ubuntu and Nix in Nøughty Linux
    • Nøughty Linux GitHub Project
  • Alan has been live streaming.

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In this episode:

  • Alan dusts off his newsletter.
  • Martin encrypts his new work Framework laptop without LVM, but with --cipher=aes-xts-plain64 --hash=sha256 --iter-time=1000 --key-size=256 --pbkdf-memory=1048576 --sector-size=4096, and without ZFS, but with btrfs and compress=lzo discard=async noatime rw space_cache=v2 ssd.
  • Mark gets help with his Moodle noodling from MDLCode.

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In this episode:

  • Alan slipped down the nix rabbit-hole.
  • Martin created Glyph Party, for adding panache to your terminal applications.
  • Mark has lost all his free time to the latest Rimworld DLC, Odyssey.

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In this episode:

  • Martin has been using a fancy and colourful alternative to apt called nala.
  • Mark has been debugging his car charger.
  • Alan swapped from Plex to Jellyfin.

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In this episode:

  • Alan has been manifesting Snaps.
  • Martin has snapped and switched from MacOS to Linux with a Framework.
  • Mark used Immich to find family favourite snaps.

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In this episode:

  • Mark has been retro gaming with an Evercade.
  • Martin replaced the official Dropbox client with Maestral.
  • Alan created an MCP server for Grype.

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In this episode:

  • Martin has been running Linux on an iPad using a-Shell, a-Shell mini, and iSH. He also used copyparty.
  • Alan went to a hackathon and used Tessl. If you want to try their closed beta, join their discord and tell them popey sent you.
  • Mark installed GrapheneOS on a Pixel 8a.

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In this episode:

  • Alan prepares for the inevitable by mirroring GitHub to Forgejo.
  • Martin sidesteps complexity with Just.
  • Mark gives his first thoughts on the VW ID.3.

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In this episode:

  • Martin has a fancy GitHub profile.
    • Shields.io - Concise, consistent, and legible badges
    • github-readme-stats - Dynamically generated GitHub stats.
    • readme-scribe - Automatically generates & updates markdown content, like your README.md
      • Latest blog posts, podcasts, live streams, YouTube videos from RSS
      • Latest release, starred repos.
      • Thank and mention sponsors.
      • Uses git-auto-commit-action to automatically commit and push changed files and push-files-to-another-repository to push the rendered README.md to my wimpysworld GitHub org.
    • snk - GitHub user contributions graph as animated snake game
      • Uses ghaction-github-pages to update a branch everynight
  • Alan is busy maintaing lots of Snaps.
  • Mark retired Advanced Volume Control for GNOME.

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In this episode:

  • Martin uses xdg-override to answer the question, How do you change browser in Slack anyway?
  • Mark upgrades the SSD in his Framework laptop in the most elaborate way, e-v-e-r!
  • Alan masters gh to build reports and automate GitHub operations.

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In this episode:

  • Alan has continued his Nerdy Day Trips journey into cloud-native software development.
  • Mark fulfills his years-long dream of buying a new Laptop.
  • Martin has junked GMail for Fastmail.

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In this episode:

  • Martin has replaced his coreutils, findutils, diffutils and sudo with Rust reimplementations.
  • Alan has continued working on Nerdy Day Trips.
  • Mark made a timelapse with Velocity lapse and Youcut. See it on Makertube.

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In this episode:

  • Martin has been brutally reclaiming GitHub runner disk space using Nothing but Nix
    • This technique can be applied to other purposes. Get the technical details from Martin’s blog: The Nix Space Heist: Reclaiming 130GB in GitHub Actions
  • Alan has resurrected a very nerdy website.
    • Go to Nerdy Day Trips² and submit your favourite fascinating places to visit around the world - science museums, observatories, maker spaces, research facilities, and other spots that’ll scratch a curiosity itch.
  • Mark has been pushing the limits of his Steam Deck playing Avowed.

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In this episode:

  • Alan builds a content pipeline with ALL THE MODELS!
  • Mark switches Bookshelf Buddy
  • Martin completes his Fedi-migration from Fosstodon to GoToSocial.

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In this episode:

  • Mark has been prototyping Bookshelf Buddy devices with Raspberry Pi. See the demo here.
  • Alan has been using bots, to build bots, that pretend not to be bots.
  • Martin fell down a rabbit hole filled with keyswitches and keycaps.

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In this episode:

  • Martin switches from traditional mice ️🖱️ to trackball ️🖲️ and gets a bit carried away with customising them 🪩
    • L-Trac Trackball 🇬🇧
    • L-Trac Trackball 🇺🇸
    • Kensingston SlimBlade™ Pro Trackball
    • input-remapper: An easy to use tool to change the behaviour of your input devices.
  • Alan refines his contribution workflow to Savannah and brings it bang up to date.
  • Mark self-hosts an ONLYOFFICE integrated with Nextcloud.

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In this episode:

  • Alan gives a talk about Luddites at Monki Gras 2025
  • Mark continues developing and names “Bookshelf Buddy”, a self-hosted replacement for the Yoto or Tonie audiobook players.
  • Martin keeps an eye on his resources with Resources

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In this episode:

  • Mark has started developing a self-hosted replacement for the Yoto or Tonie audiobook players.
  • Alan has taken a look at Docs, but didn’t use it.
  • Martin has upgraded his home networking with Deco and YuanLey devices.

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In this episode:

  • Martin has created smiti18n (pronounced smitten) - A very complete internationalization library for Lua with LÖVE support 🌕💕
  • Mark has been hard at work Moodling himself silly on the run up to the Moodle 5.0 release
  • Alan has been wrangling with Django and has worries about contributing large patches to SavannahHQ

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In this episode:

  • Mark built a server rack using parts from LinxcomUK (ebay) and Kenable.
  • Alan wrote a measure-syft for benchmarking syft performance.
  • Martin created the LÖVE Game Development & Automated Build System.

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In this episode:

  • Alan switches from self hosted markdown to self hosted mark down served from a docker container running CodiMD.
  • Mark puts on his robe and wizard’s hat, and ventures into the Caves of Qud.
  • Martin switches his console to KMSCON.

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In this episode:

  • Martin runs GitHub Actions on his development workstations using act.
  • Alan likes to help people and has upped his people-helping skills by making little tools to solve their problems.
    • keyshield - A simple utility to protect your game inputs from GNOME keyboard shortcuts.
    • archive-vbulletin-thread - A Python script to archive threads from vBulletin-based forums.
  • Mark has been flexing his grey matter with challenging mathematical/computer programming problems at Project Euler.

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In this episode:

  • Mark has been a STEM Ambassador, talking to school children about his career.
  • Alan is co-organising BarCamp Surrey, a free event at Godalming College on Saturday 2nd August 2025.
  • Martin has switched from powerline-go to starship, and shared his starship config.

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In this episode:

  • Alan migrates accounts from the silly bird website to BlueSky for Syft, Grype, and Anchore, and has fun with Starter Packs
  • Mark migrates his personal Linux ISO hosting from Plex to Jellyfin.
  • Martin migrates his life to the Fediverse, contributing to Owncast along the way.

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In this episode:

  • Martin uses LittleLink and LittleLink Extended to create a “link in bio” page.
    • Deployments to https://wimpysworld.link/ are automated using ssh-deploy.
  • Mark is using GNOME on Wayland remotely.
  • Alan’s coding journey expands his horizons to the Savannah.

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In this episode:

  • Alan has written Grummage for inspecting the output of Grype.
  • Martin is hosting his own personal Fediverse instance with GoToSocial, and has written a backup tool.
  • Mark is listening to Critical Role with Audiobookshelf.

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In this episode:

  • Alan uses vhs to make a short video
  • Mark uses MARP to build a presentation in MarkDown for a lightning talk at OggCamp
  • Martin uses pueue to manage all his mainframe jobs

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In this episode:

  • Martin has been keeping setting up simple monitoring and observability on a new server with ntfy.sh and gatus
  • Alan has been creating animated gifs of terminal sessions with t-rec.
  • Mark picked up a Keybow MINI from the swaps table at OggCamp.

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In this episode:

  • Martin has been keeping his secrets safe with gocryptfs.
    • CLI setup:
      • gocryptfs -init ~/Syncthing/Secrets: Create encrypted storage
      • gocryptfs ~/Syncthing/Secrets ~/Vault: Mount the decrypted secrets under ~/Vault
      • fusermount -u ~/Vault: Unmount the decrypted secrets
    • GUI Tools:
      • vaults (Linux, GTK4)
      • SiriKali (cross-platform, Qt)
  • Mark wrote, built and released powerline-go-moodle.
  • Alan joined the club and bought an LG Dualup monitor.

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In this episode:

  • Alan, Martin, and Mark read your feedback about streaming audio and video, those funny square monitors, funny keyboards and more.
  • Some links and products mentioned in the show:
    • funkwhale
    • Synergy
    • Elis’ monitors we “forced” them to buy
    • Indoor cameras
    • tvheadendinterruptionchecke
    • homeserver-power-saver
    • dockcheck

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In this episode:

  • Martin has been overclocking and underclocking GPUs with the pretty tools:
    • gpuviewer
    • GreenWithEnvy
      • Which needs a Coolbits bit mask of 28 to enable power and fan control.
    • Linux AMDGPU Configuration Tool or LACT
      • Requires the amdgpu.ppfeaturemask kernel parameter with this value 0xfffd7fff to enable power and fan control.
  • Alan, who is still not a developer, has been writing more Python to discover new music via the Spotify APIs.
  • Mark created a new Audiobook server using audiobookshelf

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In this episode:

  • Mark brings us a clutch of Subsonic apps for Android:
    • Tempo
    • GoSonic
    • Ultrasonic
    • Symphonium
  • Martin names a whole new category of “Top-like” tools for monitoring GPUS:
    • nvtop
    • intel_gpu_top
    • nvitop
    • amdgpu_top
  • Alan, who is not a developer, has been writing UncleClive in Python to send Mastodon posts to a Spectrum emulator and back.

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In this episode:

  • Alan snapped Syft and Grype with classic confinement
  • Martin patched a font from the past to add quality-of-life glyphs and braile characters, to make it marginally better to look at.
  • Mark went in search of a self-hosted streaming music solution, and found SubSonic with mobile clients.

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In this episode:

  • Martin themes his Linux desktop and the Internet using Catppuccin.
  • Alan has been streaming to Twitch, YouTube and Owncast with stream-sprout.
  • Mark plays audio from his Android phone to his Linux desktop speakers.
    • And Martin does the same with an iPad and uses playerctl and bluetoothctl to control the iPad remotely.

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In this episode:

  • Martin is migrating notes to Joplin and heynote, and getting 2 LG DualUp monitors.
  • Alan attempts to contribute package updates to Void and Apline linux.
  • Mark discovers what happens when you plug a phone’s USB port into TV.

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In this episode:

  • Alan explains how and why he uses Listmonk to create, host and send out a personal email newsletter.
  • Mark gets ~~guilt-tripped~~ nerd-sniped into updating the Flutter-based Quickgui project.
  • Martin digs into his pile-o-bits to craft a new home-lab server that is quieter, cooler, harder, faster, better, stronger, and mostly empty. Martin mentioned an episode of Ask The Hosts.

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In this episode:

  • Martin uses homepage to create a static highly customizable application dashboard. Martin also mentioned the New Tab Override extension for Firefox.
  • Mark has been composing bass parts for an album using Tux Guitar.
  • Alan has been visualising source code in 4K with Gource.

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In this episode:

  • Martin announces what’s new in quickemu.
  • Mark explains how quickgui came to be.
  • Alan starts testing with quicktest.

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In this episode:

  • Alan uses records his voice with Piper Recording Studio using the LJ format for use with Piper Train to create a new generation of the old Mycroft AI apope voice.
  • Martin has eschewed Google Search to use Kagi instead.
  • Mark has been judging a coding contest where students used Scratch to create games, including the use of backpack.

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In this episode:

  • Martin has been working on Quickemu, his project to quickly create and run optimised Linux, Windows and macOS virtual machines.
  • Alan has a new job at Anchore, and tells us about their open-source vulnerability, SBOM, license scanners, Grype, Syft, and Grant
  • Mark explains how he is using ntfy to send push notifications to his phone when servers do interesting things.

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In this episode:

  • Martin has been perfecting the Pantheon desktop environment.
  • Alan has been writing Go, and enjoying it.
  • Mark has been playing Against the Storm, a town-builder with rogue-like elements.

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This week we’ve been playing Fall Guys. We discuss the Pinebook Pro and Pine Phone (we have hardware), bring you some command line love and respond to your wonderful feedback. It’s Season 13 Episode 24 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan… Read more ›

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This week we’ve using new wireless headphones and test driving a Tesla. We discuss Mark Shuttleworth responding to feedback about Snapcraft, Jupiter Broadcasting regaining independence, Ayatana Indicators becoming cross-distro, Yaru Colors and we round up our picks from the tech… Read more ›

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This week we’ve been trying to fix ice-makers and creating a new Discord server. We discuss appealing to communities, bring you another command line love and go over all your wonderful feedback. It’s Season 13 Episode 22 of the Ubuntu… Read more ›

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This week we’ve been exploring our computing past and getting sweets not computers from Amazon. We discuss new point releases of Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04 and 20.04, an Ubuntu restrospective infographic and KDE Neon 20.04. We also round up some events… Read more ›

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This week we’ve been building Monster Joysticks and playing Red Alert. We discuss the proliforation of Ubuntu Remixes, bring you some GUI love and go over all your wonderful feedback. It’s Season 13 Episode 20 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan… Read more ›

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This week we’ve been going retro; making an Ubuntu Retro Remix and playing ET:Legacy. We discuss the new release of digiKam, Intel GPU driver tweaks, Ubuntu Web Remix, Thunderbird 78 and Mir 2.0! We also round up our picks from… Read more ›