Podcast Season 1 Episode 2
Title: OggCampers
In this episode: To celebrate OggCamp this weekend, we’ve enlisted the help of Les Pounder, Neil Bothwick and Dan ‘Linux Outlaws’ Lynch for a special recording from Liverpool, England. We talk about the French police force using Ubuntu, HP’s new Chromebook, Nvidia driver shenanigans and the ZTE Open (aka Firefox OS phone). Plus: we’ve all got discoveries to share, challenges to fail at, and your opinions to listen to in the !Open Ballot.
What’s in the show:
- News:
It’s OggCamp this weekend in Liverpool! If you’re in the UK, you should go. The French Gendarmerie has deployed 37,000 Ubuntu-based Linux desktops, and plans to deploy 72,000 by next summer, saving the force 40% in total cost of ownership. Ubuntu won’t include Mir in version 13.10, due next week. HP enters the Chromebook market with its low-priced Chromebook 11. And Nvidia has cut working Linux driver features because they didn’t work with Windows.
- Things we found out in a week:
- Dan:
- HootSuite may not be open source, but it’s great at managing your social networks.
- Ben:
- Thanks to his work on his new ‘Programming Python on the Raspberry Pi’ book, which he’s writing along with Alex Bradbury, it’s actually very easy to wire up a passive infrared motion sensor to the Pi’s GPIO pins.
- Mike:
- Delving into the stats on LinuxLifestyle.com, we had 10 page views from someone purported to be using Windows 98, one from someone using RiscOS and one from someone using an Amiga.
- The ‘sl’ command reveals a giant ASCII train full of fail.
- Les:
- Neil:
- Connect to, and control, many SSH sessions at once with ClusterSSH.
- Dan:
- Ad-hoc review section:
- The Part Where People Ask Us To Do Things:
- Voice of the Masses: Have the Snowden revelations changed your computing habits?
Les Pounder takes an in-depth look at ZTE’s Open Firefox phone.
-
Real results from your challenge for us to try various different distributions. And we accept a new challenge for the next episode.
Presenters: Neil Bothwick, Ben Everard, Dan Lynch, Les Pounder and Mike Saunders.
Download as high-quality Ogg Vorbis (50MB)
Download as low-quality MP3 (71MB)
Download the smaller yet even more awesome Opus file (23MB)
Duration: 1:07:00
Subscribe to the Linux Lifestyle Podcast. Choose between Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and Opus.
Theme Music by Brad Sucks.
Many thanks to DoeES Liverpool for hosting us!
Related Posts
About The Author
Ben Everard
Ben Everard is the co-author of Learning Python with the Raspberry Pi and hacks hardware projects held together with a big dollop of Linux and Free Software glue. He's @ben_everard on Twitter.
John Lewis from G+ at http://johnlewis.ie has been doing some interesting stuff with Chromebooks and getting normal Linux to run on them using coreboot firmware. Worth a look.
You can also use ChrUbuntu or Crouton to get full Linux on your Chromebook.
ChrUbuntu is a dual-boot.
My preference though is Crouton, which lets you install full Linux *inside* ChromeOS, as it were. This means that you can switch between ChromeOS and full Linux *on the fly*, with a 3-finger keystroke. I run this on my Samsung ARM Chromebook and it works really well.
Beware with the ARM Chromebooks though, there are still some major apps that have only Intel-based binaries available; Aptana is one. Most of the other biggies – LibreOffice, Gimp etc – all have ARM packages though.
The opus feed is a link to the mp3 one.
ZTE Open and Firefox OS; ZTE doesn't appear to support upgrades to this OS, I'm still stuck on version 1.0.1 whilst the Geeksphone users are on 1.2. Also there's no support for VPN so I wouldn't trust ANY other Wi-fi but my own. If no OS upgrades are forth coming then I'll just go back to a dumb phone.
Another great podcast guys, great to hear from Dan Lynch (the best half of Linux Outlaws IMHO). I really enjoyed the discussions around Ben's work to escape from the proprietary/snooping cloud service providers.
I thought that Mike Saunders had relocated to Germany. Is he back in the UK for these podcasts? or are you working some techno-magic to pull off a remote podcast like Dan and Fab?
Thanks, California Penguin! I'm jumping between Vienna and England a lot at the moment, but we were all in the same room in Liverpool. Ben and I aren't audio masters, though, hence the not-so-brilliant audio quality. But glad it's still listenable!
I realize that Graham is the real audio expert, but you and Ben did a fine job with the audio IMHO.
It's great to hear you (Mike S.) in the podcasts again. Any plans to attempt remote podcasts for when you are in Austria or any one of the dynamic team of Graham/Jon/Andrew/Mike are remote?
[Effy too if he doesn't have restrictions imposed by Future (Hola Effy, que lastima lo que paso. Venga a disfrutar en LinuxLifestyle si se puede)]
Hopefully we can meet in person again, but if not, we'd like to explore some open source approaches to audio conferencing. If anyone has any recommendations, please let us know!
I know little of podcast tech but my impression is Dan and Fab are remote when they record Linux Outlaws, which has very good audio quality IMHO. Hopefully they could offer some suggestions.
I believe that SixGun Productions does additional multimedia beyond the Linux Outlaws podcasts, so you may not need all the same infrastructure.
If donations would help offset expenses, don't hesitate to ask us loyal TR refugees.
I agree regarding donations. I subscribed to Linux Format not so much for the mag but for the podcast. Now that I probably won't be resubbing, I can support this podcast!
Who uses bazaar? GNU Emacs!
Really enjoying the new podcast, folks. Great work! Especially loving the *new* sections :p
Just a quick correction to Les's discovery: BitBucket actually allows unlimited private repositories; the limit is (I think) that you can only have 5 users per repository. Also, if you're a student, a lecturer, or otherwise have an academic email address for some nefarious reason, you can get an unlimited account gratis. I think *community* projects can get a free licence too, but I'm not sure of the details.
Just discovered it myself recently, and they gave me a free licence, so I thought I'd share.
Thanks for the correction, always good to learn something new.
Great podcast. Really interesting to hear Dan on the Tuxr… Linuxlifestyle podcast. And with the addition of Neil I got the surreal experience of hearing John Lennon discussing Linux with Lemmy Kilmister.
I’ve been using Sabayon myself for about 2 months so I was really interested to hear Ben’s thoughts. I personally like it a lot. Not nearly as scary for a non expert as I thought it would be and just a nice responsive KDE. And it makes me feel cool to see “Gentoo” on my boot screen.
So glad you guys are keeping things going. Thanks.
Holy weird punctuation. Someone needs to do a bug report.
Yes, that was strange. Maybe it's to do with curly quotes? I'll find out what's causing it…
Loved the episode, guys. Looks like you’re going to be my new go-to Linux podcast.
We may be oversensitive about the name of GIMP – it's used in the Education department of my local prison and the inmates never bat an eyelid or make a joke of it. As you can imagine, they aren't prone to political correctness.
Love the podcasts guys. However, is your download server a 386 or your ISP using a 14.4 modem? I downloaded ep 2 and it took fffffoooorrrrreeeevvvveeerrrrr to download. Any chance of getting more server grunt soon? (I have 100Mbps/sec Telstra here in Sydney, so "maybe" i'm spoiled????) :0)
BTW Thanks for the very reasonable "capcha"; it's far easier to read the string of numbers than the usual cramped alphanumeric sequences one gets on many websites these days.
I found this hilarious! Really, LXF is hiring (what with the recent exodus of so much of the talent)!??!?! LOL indeed!!!!
Linux Format is hiring
From a recent web "pull" of the old Tux Radar website:
October 16, 2013 @ 12:32pm
Join the Linux Format team and get paid to fiddle with Linux, Open Source software and generally prod zeros and ones all day. Ooh, let's not forget there's coffee, lots and lots of free coffee. We're looking to hire a Technical Expert to help write in-depth features, tutorials, reviews and keep TuxRadar crammed with interesting news, updates and interviews.
If you think you're up to the challenge find out more and apply through the Future Publishing YourFutureJob site now!
Read More >>
The mag might turn to crap with all of the guys leaving. But with Effy staying behind it will always be nice looking crap. For his sake I hope all goes well at LXF.
Great podcast, and thanks for taking the time to make them!
Here is a challenge, instead of saying "I've never used a chromebook" and "it's not what we would generally call linux", how about installing Chromium OS and find out if it actually is what we would generally call "linux"?
http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/
Hi
Great to hear the podcasts retain the old Tux%&^&$ feel, hopefully Graham will get on board in the future.
Thinking about challenges, what about setting up the ultimate home server, with the usual apps, fileserver, backups and adding a media centre, cctv/alarm server, weather centre, home automation etc. Now that would be really cool.
Keep her lit!
Is anyone else noticing bad audio quality (cutting out, etc) on the OGG feed? Wondering if the audio is bad or it's just my player. Trying to download manually now so I can see for myself.
Seems to just be my player.
Hi Chaps
I have always enjoyed the TuxRadar podcast on my Roberts Internet radio
To find thing son there you can do a search of all available podcasts for "linux"
That gives 7 results inc TuxRadar but no Linuxlifestyle as yet so I will have to investigate how to put that right and report back.
Anyway just two more issues 🙂
The first one is for goodness sake put the podcast or a link to it on the homepage
I've had to search the whole place to find it under October archives and even then its in the middle of a page almost hidden
The second one well if I click the podcast using firefox the firefox browser closes itself down completely
However if I use Chrome then the podcast plays fine don't know why yet but suspect flash is a possible reason
Ubuntu 12.04 by the way
However thanks a lot for carrying on with the podcasting
john
Hi all
Ok re the Roberts internet radio
Their podcast listings are held by Frontier Silicon website
so I can add a personal station there http://www.linuxvoice.com/episodes/s01e02.mp3
which plays the podcast just fine however to get everyone on the Internet access you need Frontier Silicon to include your podcast for general access in their listings
Also a similar structure to the TuxRadar one so after getting to Linuxlifestyle station the listener can select the episode they want
Over to you Lol!
here's a link to their site
http://www.wifiradio-frontier.com/setupapp/fs/asp/BrowseStations/StartPage.asp
John
Hello Rob!
Not so long time listener (since Tuxradar Season 5), but first time sending a "hello". I'd like to report that I've seem a Firefox OS banner ad here in Rio de Janeiro, on the back of a news stand (I will see if I can take a picture with my crap old Nokia phone). I also saw an ad on Grooveshark from the same carrier. Clicking on that banner takes you to their online store, where the phone seems to be sold out (not sure if not yet available to purchase online, or if really out of stock). It is the LG model.
So I guess carries around here may try to push the Firefox OS for those who wants to have a smartphone, but can't expend too much. I don't think those phones will sell here, since most people are more interested in buying iPhones and Galaxies – just because of the brand.
Take care!