Podcast Season 2 Episode 19
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Title: Manky Monkey pt.2
In this episode: We’ve got more news than we know what to do with. ChromeOS maybe drops ext3. The ummutable Tor browser has reached version 4. Debian is still undecided and Ubuntu turns 10. We’ve got almost as many Finds as news stories, two neurons and an excellent Voice of the Masses.
What’s in the show:
- News:
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Google’s ChromeOS has dropped support for externel ext2/ext3/ext4 formatted devices. Google’s ChromeOS reinstates support for externel ext/ext4 formatted devices. Shhhh! Tor Browser 4.0 has been released,and it can hide your data in secured streams running your machine and large cloud server providers. Some Debian people are now proposing that nothing at all depends on systemd, and threatening to fork Debian is they don’t get their own way. It’s been 10 years since the first version of Ubuntu, Warty Warthog. Microsoft now loves Linux. says CEO Satya Nadella. And you can help us crowdsource a recording of issue 1.
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- Finds of the Fortnight:
- #linuxvoice on Freenode:
Matt Lee talking about GNU at Nottingham LUG next Thursday. tmux us better than screen. Test out websites on virtual smartphones and tablets with mobiletest.me.
- Andrew:
- Ben:
- Google’s hi-tech virtual reality Cardboard is actually pretty good.
- Installing Arch isn’t painless if you’ve no ethernet.
- Terminator is a fantastic terminal emulator.
- Mike:
- Mark Shuttleworth’s original email to the potential Ubuntu team.
- Graham:
- Aura is a great package manager for Arch for both official and AUR packages.
- The Span conference next week in London looks excellent.
- And the G-Pack looks like the ultimate living room SteamOS games PC, if it can reach its loftyKickstarter target within the next week.
- #linuxvoice on Freenode:
- Vocalise Your Neurons:
- Voice of the Masses: Is there too much forking in FOSS?
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Thanks to Tom and Nathaniel! If you’d like yours read out with a genuine John Lennon accent, email them to mike@linuxvoice.com.
Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.
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Duration: 1:07:06
Theme Music by Brad Sucks.
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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.
Not fair to lay Graham’s KDE plasma update at Arch’s feet. I believe Graham was installing plasma 5.0 which is a developer pre-release from the AUR. Plasma 5.1 is due to come out any day in the testing repo. Maybe it will arrive in Extra late next month. 5.0 is more alpha than beta even and not something even an adventurous Arch user would try on their main OS.
I didn’t mean it to sound like it was Arch to blame. I knew what I was getting into when I started forcefully removing the old packages, and I did say it would be far better to wait for the Plasma 5.1 update (although I do think the Arch wiki on KDE 5 issues is a little lacking). I was trying to make a more general ‘Adventures in Linux’ comment (which is a good thing – this is what I like about Arch).
Not bagging on you, Graham. In fact, I wasn’t listening carefully b/c I missed the caveats you just pointed out. My reaction was more to the Schadenfreude of some of the others: “Oh! You’re having trouble with Arch, did you say?” It’s amazing the resistance you get from relaese-upgrade fans when you say anything good about Arch. It reminds me of when I was a vegetarian. Of course, there’s certainly some missionary zeal among Arch users (but the same could be said about Linux users in general.)
Re: Home directories.
I always have a separate partition for the users’ home directories, but again I always use different usernames for each user, across different multibooting distros. e.g. /home/john, /home/mint etc. This has always worked well for me and allows access to files in the different user directories whilst avoiding conflicts with config files.
Right. I do the same. It works well, and I have no issues. I will often replace the files in one of the other home folders with softlinks so I can boot into whichever distro I want, and the data’s in the same place. E.g. I will have /home/john/Downloads (Documents, Photos, Videos, etc.), but then I will have /home/mint/(link to /home/john/Downloads etc.) Also I have /home/john/.mozilla and /home/mint/(link to /home/john/.mozilla) so that all the bookmarks, settings, etc. in Firefox are the same. I do this b/c Firefox sync doesn’t seem to work well for me. I’ve had no issues doing this, but it might be a problem if the ver. of Firefox in different distros is signif. different.
And whatever you do, when installing a new distro, use a different username and DO NOT reformat your /home partition during install.
Regarding Ubuntu’s 10th anniversary …
Here’s the funny-but-fake MRS’s letter that you mentioned during this episode:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110301044609/http://netsplit.com/2011/01/11/leaving-canonical
And here’s the real deal, together with an in-depth account of how it all got started:
http://netsplit.com/happy-10th-birthday-ubuntu
That’s from the eyes of Scott James Remnant, now working at the big G, BTW.
Yeah, the mail is fake. It’s an honest mistake though, because the not-quite-accurate-version of the Shuttleworth mail was a running joke back in 2011 when the 419-letters were abundand. The joke goes back to this entry: http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2011011200435NWUB
Mike should correct this in the next podcast. No harm done though, it’s an honest mistake. But the bad spelling should have given a hint. Great podcast by the way. Almost as good as Bad Voltage.
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