Podcast Season 3 Episode 9
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Title: Voikons Neuralized
In this episode: Scandal at SourceForge. Confusion at Kubuntu. Fanfare for Fedora but Misery for Mandriva. Plus fabulous finds, neurotic neurons and missives from the masses.
What’s in the show:
- News:
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SourceForge has blocked the lead developer from accessing the GIMP for Windows account, injecting adware into the binary download. SourceForge has responded to criticism by saying it was helping to keep an abandoned project ‘current’. The Ubuntu Community Council has said it no longer respects the authority of long-time Kubuntu maintainer Jonathan Riddell. Jonathan himself has said he’s never claimed to be the Kubuntu leader. Fedora 22 has been released! OnlyOffice, a web-based wordprocessor, has been open sourced. Mandriva has gone into liquidation. And there’s a new vulnerability – this one’s called VENOM and it affect the floppy disk controller in KVM.
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- Finds of the Fortnight:
- From our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- <TwistedLucidit> (and <Hamsterjam>) https://www.wallabag.org/ is a F/OSS “Pocket” type alternative. Looks really neat if you have a use for that kind of thing.
- <james_ol1mpus> “ld -r -o sprite.o -z noexecstack –format=binary sprite.png ; objcopy –prefix-symbols=my_app –rename-section .data=.rodata,alloc,load,readonly,data,contents sprite.o
- Graham:
- Getting old unsupported software running, such as KPilot, can be challenging.
- Mike:
- Be careful if you want to donate to The GIMP. These wire transfer instructions are out-of-date.
- Ben:
- The augmented reality game for Android, Ingress.
- It’s almost impossible to get tickets to the Rugby World Cup.
- Andrew:
- Pembroke Castle is the castle to end all castles.
- From our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- Vocalise Your Neurons:
- Voice of the Masses: What will Linux look like in 10 years?
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Thanks Dizzy Lizzy! If you’d like yours read out next time, email them to mike@linuxvoice.com.
Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.
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Duration: 58:11
Theme Music by Brad Sucks.
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About The Author
Graham Morrison
A free software advocate and writer since the late 1990s, Graham is a lapsed KDE contributor and author of the Meeq MIDI step sequencer. @degville on Twitter.
I thought it was just the installer they had put adverts into? Just as bad in principle, but mildly less annoying in practice.
Wallabag has a few more great features… e.g. it allows you to export articles you collected according to their tags in epubformat so you could even read them on your ebook-reader.
I got my RWC tickets from their first ballot. Worked quite well, though I got only 2 out of 4 applications. Then, I was able to buy a ticket on one of their “second wave” tickets, for people partially that succeeded on the ballot.
I hope you were able to get your tickets.
Take care!
“The best go-to KDE Linux distribution” thanks for your support chicos
I really hope that none of you become green players in the game ingress! and make sure to join you local fractions G+ group, because it is quite a social game too.
Thanks so much for the ‘wallabag’ find. This seems to be an awesome peace of software!
Notes re the podcast:
Arch supports delta updates – you just need to find a mirror which supplies them! There’s a setting in pacman.conf which let’s you adjust the threshold for using deltas, if you want to have a play around. I use them on all of my Arch machines… although I’ve never actually checked that they are working, but the average (daily) update download size is around 30MB.
I’ve got an old Palm Pilot – a Viix – which I’ve connected to my Linux machines before. I think that I used pilot-link, which worked fine, but it doesn’t come with a nice GUI… a benefit, perhaps?
I also have a cryptic note about “Linux and old hardware support”. I have no idea what that was about… but it is really cool. Hopefully Linux will still support ancient machines in the future!