Podcast Season 2 Episode 7
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Title: The face is a penguin
In this episode: Heartbleed has disrupted online security. Edward Snowden used Linux. A new Civilization game is coming to Linux. Canonical has cancelled Ubuntu One and there’s a new Raspberry Pi. We’ve also got a rather good finds section, some neurons and a polemic Voice of the Masses.
What’s in the show:
- News:
The internet wept this week after the emergence of a bug called Heartbleed in OpenSSL, that can expose lots of secret keys used to make secure connections across the internet. XKCD did a great job explaining the exploit in simple terms. Edward Snowden used the Tails Live Linux distribution whilst communicating with journalists. Google has changed its email terms of service. Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is going to be released on Linux. Canonical has cancelled its Ubuntu One cloud storage service just weeks before Condoleezza Rice joins Dropbox – coincidence? And Raspberry Pi has a new product – the Compute Module.
- Finds of the Fortnight:
- Ben:
- Discover wonderful chip tunes music through chiptune.com.
- Pipelight lets you run Silverlight plugins on Linux (with props to Mark Johnson)
- Pinta “a simple drawing program for simple diagrams for simple people like me.”
- Mike:
- How many Lego Men are there?
- There’s a YouTube channel featuring SurveillantCameraMan (language warning)
- Graham:
- Set a timer for 30 seconds.
- Change the colour temperature of your display according to the time of day with F.lux.
- Andrew:
- The Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines.
- Microsoft has made an instructional video to show you how to shutdown your PC.
- There’s a pub crawl for podcasters in Glasgow called ‘Podcrawl‘.
- Andrew Conway has written a comet hunting tutorial for Linux Voice issue 3.
- Ben:
- Vocalise Your Neurons:
- Voice of the Masses: Should Gnome Foundation just focus on Gnome?
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Thanks Jon! Here’s ‘PHP: The Right Way‘. If you’d like your brains to be part of our next episode email mike@linuxvoice.com.
Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.
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Duration: 1:14:02
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.
Regarding ‘there’s not been a Civ game for years’…
Welllllll there was Civ V. Admittedly that was released 4 years ago now, but it got the ‘Brave New World’ expansion just last year which finally gave me a Civ game I love more than Civ II.
More to the point, there’ve been rumours of Civ V (and X Com, another Firaxis game) getting Linux ports. Fairly solid rumours from multiple sources. I’d imagine that Beyond Earth is using the same engine as Civ V, or a close derivative, so it’s all looking quite lovely.
Civ V works great in Wine but it’d be amazing to be able to play it natively.
And for people who like grand historical strategy there’s always EUIV, which had Linux support at release. EUIV is to Civ as Civ is to tiddly-winks. http://store.steampowered.com/app/236850/
Paradox deserve our support, their Linux releases are perfect.
Loving the podcast 🙂 Ubuntu One getting shut down certainly seems VEY suspicious considering the fact that they are all about syncing between phone, tablet and computer! Haha would certainly fit the tin-foil hat theme of the last few weeks…
I was struck by the use of “free” software in the discussion of Gnome. It would appear however that “free” is really a misnomer as people working on the various “free” projects, like you and me, need an income. Can these projects can come fully to fruition working totally with volunteers?
In this dilemma, I think it’s a dilemma, lies the problem with the 300 or so linux distros and their associated programs. Working for “free” there is less incentive to bring a project to completion. Linux distros and programs while some are quite elegant and refined often emerge as incomplete projects needing further work but unable to afford to pay for it. (i.e. Gimp).
Perhaps this “freedom” explains Linux’s inability to increase market penetration and it’s limited usefullness to those with limited computer skills. After all this was supposed to be the year Linux distros made big inroads….psst, it has’t happened.
Redshift is a opensource version of f.lux as i found it when on my linux revamped old dell inspron laptop
There is even an KDE Plasmoid for Redshift. I would also recommend you to use Reshift as f.lux is not open source.
Ah, thanks for pointing me at Redshift, and you’re absolutely right about choosing an open source option. I’ll try and remember to mention this in the next podcast.
When I saw you mention ‘a new Raspberry Pi’ I’d thought you where talking about the Banana Pi. Maybe Ben can do a review next month.
Umm, Civilisation in Space….
Is this just not a rehash of Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Alpha_Centauri