Podcast Season 2 Episode 10
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Title: Millionaires Shortbread
In this episode: Reddit Linux users have voted for Arch in their Distribution Survey. The Chinese government has banned Windows 8. DRM is coming to Firefox and Jono Bacon is leaving Ubuntu. There’s more OpenStack news from Canonical and Witcher 2 in poor Linux game conversion shocker. We’ve also got lots of great discoveries, some lovely neurons and an awesome Voice of the Masses.
What’s in the show:
- News:
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Arch has topped the /r/Linux Distribution Survey. The Chinese government has banned Windows 8. Mozilla is under renewed pressure to add DRM to Firefox – is this is a good thing? Jono Bacon is no longer the Ubuntu Community Manager, after accepting a position at XPRIZE. A wonderful Windows game, Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings, has been released for Linux via Steam. It is, however, not a native port and runs terribly on Linux. Meanwhile, a native Linux port of XCOM: Enemy Unknown has been announced. And Mark Shuttleworth, at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, delivered the most awesome demo ever.
- Finds of the Fortnight:
- Mike:
- Forget Apple’s Siri or Google Now, ask Betty from the Linux command line.
- Ben:
- The new Firefox on Ubuntu 14.04 is rather nice.
- Astronauts don’t use pillows.
- Nick:
- Small purple CAT5 cables from fruitycables.co.uk are indispensable.
- Graham:
- The Windows 8.1 UI is terrible.
- But the home streaming feature in the latest Steam and SteamOS releases are great for playing Windows games on low power Linux machines.
- Mike:
- Vocalise Your Neurons:
- Voice of the Masses: What killer app is Linux missing?
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Many thanks to Ricardo from Brazil, and Ian, for sharing their neurons in this episode. If you’d like your brains to be part of our next episode email mike@linuxvoice.com.
Presenters: Ben Everard, Graham Morrison, Mike Saunders and Nick Veitch.
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Duration: 1:04:46
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.
This was a rubbish podcast. Not enough Andrew for my liking.
I’ve never tried getting Arch up and running but there seem to be a lot of distributions popping up that make getting up and running on an Arch base very easy (Manjaro is my personal favorite). Perhaps as a challenge (or whatever it’s called now) you guys could try an Arch based distro and report your observations.
Great show as always!
Love your podcast. Living here in Los Angeles – I have an hour plus communte so your podcast is just the right length. Good points regarding Linux replacements or non-replacements to Windows programs.
As for DRM – What can I say? I hate DRM, but I understand Mozilla’s decision. If they took a stand against DRM – would they be fighting Windmills?
Thanks and look forward to your next podcast.
Another enjoyable podcast. I find that DRM is a real annoyance. I have a small collection of films on UV that I used to play on my Android phone, until I rooted it and installed Cyanogenmod and now I can’t download or play films at all. I believe that artists should be paid for their work but I am annoyed that because I have done what I want on my phone that the powers that be have classified me as a potential criminal.
Being a sub-zero longterm Arch user myself I’ve definitely noticed, over the past year or so, more and more Arch users (or supposed Arch users ;P) on places like r/linux. There seems to be more support for Arch users now too, one of the benefits is being able to easily try new software (like the new KDE 5 framework) on you main machine, since all the latest whatever else is already installed and working. It very rarely actually breaks, the last time I actually did break my system was the systemd debacle Graham mentioned.
I would recommend people try it (probably using Manjaro, since installing from the base is annoying unless rehearsed). The Wiki is one of the best out there, and the community is… If a little elitist, generally helpful. Anyway, glad to see increased uptake of it!
Really enjoyed this podcast – I look forward to a scribus magazne one day, but I must confess that when I used it for a poster, I did find it quite fiddly – I guess it’s very powerful if you know what you’re doing, but not if you came from microsoft publisher…
Nick – did you know autodesk maya runs on linux? My sister’s other half showed me round his work in a CGI company in London – I think they ran some form of fedora or red hat with a gnome 2 desktop, and they had a server room with monitors plastered in terminals.
What was the Facebook alternative that was mentioned a couple times in the podcast? Sounded something like “pompayo”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump.io
The client I covered in LV4 FOSSpicks is Dianara: http://jancoding.wordpress.com/dianara/