Podcast Season 4 Episode 10
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Title: The Final Countdown
In this episode: Flatpak vs. Snaps. OwnCloud vs. Nextcloud. Oculus vs. Valve. UK vs. Europe. And some stuff about Linux.
What’s in the show:
- News:
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There are two new containerised package formats competing for your drive space – Flatpak and Canonical’s Snaps. OwnCloud has been forked into Nextcloud, while LibreOffice Online is going to be available for purchase for the first time for OwnCloud Enterprise under the name Collabora Online for ownCloud Enterprise. UK schools must implement statutory surveillance of every child’s Internet use, in schools and at home. There’s a new open source virtual reality platform – OSVR. Version 6 of the Tor Browser Bundle has been released.
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- Finds of the Fortnight:
- From our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- Ben:
- Andrew:
- Sir David Attenborough is awesome.
- Graham:
- Mike:
- Sony is having to pay for removing Linux from older Playstation 3 consoles.
- Vocalise your Neurons:
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If you want Mike to read out your neurons next time, email your thoughts to mike@linuxvoice.com.
- Voice of the Masses:
Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.
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Duration: 56:40
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.
Linuxvoice issue 29 on sale today, and this digital subscriber again hasn’t got his copy! Why are we treated like 2nd class subscribers?
Hi Graham. Can you clarify what the timeline is for the release of the magazine at the news-stands, UK postal delivery and the digital subscription.
Hi,
There’s been a bit of a change in all of this recently. The time between us getting the magazine to the printers, and the magazine ending up at the newsagents has come down. This reduces the time between the mag going to the post office for subscribers and the mag going on sale to the general public. We’ve also changed the way we produce the digital issue and that’s having some problems. Hopefully all this should settle down in the next issue or so.
Thanks for the update Ben. To be honest the main reason I subscribe is to keep the brilliant podcast going 🙂 The magazine is just the icing. I really appreciate all the work the team does. Thanks for the update (Great things are worth waiting for)
Stay away from politics guys. Don’t come here for that.
Looking forward to the next issue and podcast (The Brexit distro review ) !! Only joking 🙂 Yeh no politics here !!
Free software is all about politics.
Britain leaves the EU – the continent is isolated! 🙂
These guys can talk about whatever they feel like talking about – that’s why I like this podcast. I’d hate it if they felt they had to censor themselves from specific subjects.
Are you so insecure in your political beliefs that you have to demand that others never raise contrary ones? It’s really shameful that you would come along and try and dictate what people talk about, just to suit your bizarre whims. It says a lot about what your political beliefs probably are.
I also really like the clean and de-duplicated package management approach of Linux and you would think they would expand on that with stuff like security notices or easy automatic removal of dependency trees in the graphical package managers. Seems like a very bad idea to kowtow to incompetent users and developers willing to sacrifice one-time compilation effort for permanent resource drains or hidden security issues, like Microsoft has done with UWP. Moreover I hope that this doesn’t turn into another one of those systemd situations, where everyone drops support for regular package management and users are left hoping someone will develop an integrated de-snapification tool.
Don’t mention the vote!
FOSS is partly, if not principally about empowering the masses, letting the individual take control. I think I have found a discovery for your great and regularish pod-cast section:
http://tools.dcentproject.eu/
The D-CENT project is a FOSS based project creating open, secure and privacy-aware tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment. The web site has several examples of citizen empowering projects based in Barcelona, Reykjavik and Madrid. In the current political mess in the UK and concerns about where the rest of the EU and the USA are headed; this is the perfect time to flag up an alternative way of people coming together to work on problems that our politicians seem totally unable to solve as they bicker among themselves!
Andrew – it always amazes me how some people can keep their sharp minds well into their 80s and 90s. The only people I’ve seen be able to do that are people who continue to work in some capacity full-time well past when they should have retired.
I’m okay with the political discussion on the podcast – it’s relevant, especially the bit about the UK’s current software freedoms being dependant on the EU, because we’re either cowed or too apathetic to do something ourselves. That said, the thought of the current government being given free reign over MY digital lifestyle gives me cold sweats. And let’s not get started on TTIP…
The clue is in the name – Linux Voice: Free Software, Free Speech! 🙂
Without politics, “open source software” is just “software”. 🙂
Just listened to an interesting perspective on leadership and the coterie that become leaders from amongst the privileged and privately schooled who essentially become the default selections amongst a group who all share that background.
Phillip Addams on radio national ABC australia check the podcast, it’s worthy of discussion. Of course I actually love the Shaun Micallef program which F*CKN NAILs it!
Best regards. looking forward to the next issue, and may God bless you all (because it appears like all your leaders are stepping down, except AHEM a certain woman who shall remain and should remain nameless. Arghh! We just went through an election and it looks as if we’ll be doing that again within 6 months. That’s my call – Michael F*CK’N NAILS IT!!)
cheers
Thank you for the great Podcast episode and the QOwnNotes mention. 😉
I linked to it at: http://www.qownnotes.org/Blog/QOwnNotes-featured-on-the-Linux-Voice-podcast
Great podcast as always guys! I have an old RaspPI at home and this has given me some new ideas on how to use it for something worthwhile.
Cheers!