Podcast Season 3 Episode 5

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Title: A Party Political Broadcast

In this episode: Microsoft’s adding ODF support to Office. The BBC is giving away bits of silicon to schools. Android apps will soon run on Linux and LibreOffice will run from the cloud. We’ve got some awesome Finds, a couple of Neurons and a life-affirming Voice of the Masses.

What’s in the show:

• News:

  • Microsoft is going to support the Open Document Format when it updates Office 365, thanks to pressure from the UK government. The BBC is to give away 1,000,000 seemingly Arduino-compatible controller boards, called Micro Bits, to children across the UK. The GNU Manifesto is 30 years old. LibreOffice Online has been announced and will be functional by the end of the year. Google has just released ARC – the app runtime for Chrome (beta), bringing Android app compatibility to Linux.

• Finds of the Fortnight:
  • From our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
    • <TwistedLucidity> The Linuxbierwanderung of 2015 will be held in Wiltz, Luxembourg, from Sunday 16th to Sunday 23rd of August.
    • <pwaring> My find is that the Raspberry Pi 2 supports hardware virtualisation, although enabling it isn’t as simple as switching a flag in the BIOS: Enabling virtualisation extensions and running a VM with KVM and Qemu.
  • Andrew:
    • The list of public holidays on gov.uk includes a helpful ICS download link for use with your own calendar (thanks Huw!)
  • Mike:
    • Post bounties to get features on Bountysource.com (thanks Tim!)
    • Microsoft Windows updates ruin a game of basketball (thanks Orange Dolphin!)
  • Graham:
    • Get KDE notifications and use your phone as a touchpad and lots of other things with KDE Connect.
  • Ben:
    • Track UK trains in realtime with Raildar (thanks Les Waters!)
    • The Chrome OS shortcut for the delete key is Alt and backspace.
• Vocalise Your Neurons:
Huge thanks to both Stuart and Carl for their thoughts. If you’d like yours read out next time, email them to mike@linuxvoice.com.
• Voice of the Masses: What one FOSS app couldn’t you live without?

Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.

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Duration: 47:38

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