Podcast Season 3 Episode 15

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Title: Consignia

In this episode: The Alliance for Open Media promises to cure all video streaming ills. Unity games development comes to Linux. Lilo is laid to rest and the Raspberry Pi has an official touchscreen. We’ve got some spectacular finds, some neurons and a pictorial Voice of the Masses.

What’s in the show:

• News:

  • We can sleep easier tonight; the Alliance for Open Media has formed to fight the dark forces of online video delivery. The Linux Loader – Lilo – is bereft of life. There’s an experimental build of the Unity games development platform for Linux. An official touchscreen for the Raspberry Pi has been launched. And KDE’s Plasma 5.4 desktop has also been released.

• Finds of the Fortnight:
  • From our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
    • <mcphail> Impressive abuse of ELF standard to produce tiny executables: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
    • <andybalaam> Rabbit Escape for Android.
    • <LagerMonster> I nominate vimdiff as a find. It opens two files in vsplit showing differences between the two while editing – very helpful.
    • <einonm> One find is that the FCC are trying to force DRM on anything with radio technology – https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Save_WiFi. And the other one is the awesomely titled ‘The Classical Code Reading Group of Stockholm’ http://www.meetup.com/The-Classical-Code-Reading-Group-of-Stockholm/
    • <Stilvoid> My find is streetlife.com – locality-based social networking. It’s already turned up some useful things for me right on my doorstep (recommendations of gardeners, a customer for my friend’s spanish tuition business, that sort of thing).
    • <Stilvoid> And I heard amiwm got an update recently, for the first time in yeeeaaaaars: https://www.lysator.liu.se/~marcus/amiwm.html
  • Mike:
    • Vim-clutch, a physical pedal for switching vim modes (Thanks Darius!)
    • You can name GNU Screen TTY sessions with screen -S name (Thanks Nathaniel!)
  • Graham:
    • The streaming feature in SteamOS is good enough to stream Elite: Dangerous to your Linux PC.
    • It is possible to run the latest FlymeOS on the Ubuntu edition of the Meizu MX4 (here’s the Ubuntu restore image).
  • Ben:
    • A graphical OS for 8 bit Ataris.
    • Google’s new logo can be rendered into a 290 byte SVG.
    • Google’s Hangouts work well in Firefox.
    • STRML.net interactively composes its CSS to the screen.
  • Andrew:
    • Storming Bamburgh Castle.
• Vocalise Your Neurons:
Huge thanks to both Andreas and Ryan. Get in touch with Mike (mike@linuxvoice.com) if you’d like your neurons vocalised next episode.
• Voice of the Masses: Does Linux need a new mascot?

Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.

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Duration: 1:04:36

Theme Music by Brad Sucks.