Podcast Season 3 Episode 3
Podcast RSS feeds: Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and Opus.
Title: The Plague
In this episode: There are two new major Linux-related pieces of hardware, Raspberry Pi 2 and the Ubuntu Phone. CrunchBang may yet live, and GnuPG is now well funded. We’ve got some great discoveries, we discuss how Free Software should be funded and there’s even a Neuron to vocalise.
What’s in the show:
- News:
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CrunchBang Linux is no more, but it lives on as CrunchBang++. The future of GnuPG is now secure, thanks to over 220698 Euros in community donations. There’s a new Raspberry Pi, and it’s much faster than the old one. And Canonical has launched the long awaited Ubuntu Phone with the Bq Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition, and there are rumours of a more powerful Meizu MX4 edition to come.
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- Finds of the Fortnight:
- From our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- <james_olympus> This isn’t really a find because it’s been on the Raspberry Pi blog, but thought I’d mention it: http://www.raspberrypi.org/emulation-on-raspberry-pi-2/
- <Nanu_Phoenix> You asked me to remind you about the Marmite Easter eggs…
- <james_olympus> The Playstation emulator is ‘PCSX Rearmed‘, I’ve been revisiting the old Playstation games… oh dear, that makes me sound old.
- <Nanu_Phoenix> There’s openRA too at openra.net – an open source command and conquer game.
- <Nanu_Phoenix> I discovered lstopo yesterday which can generate an .svg map of your PC’s hardware from the command line.
- Mike:
- KDE’s file manager, Dolphin, can embed a terminal into the window by pressing F4 (thanks to Dave Allen)
- Graham:
- Text to speech in Pocket works really well.
- Ben:
- Crypto-currencies such as bitcoin can teach you how stock exchanges work.
- Andrew:
- Prisoners in San Quentin are being taught digital skills with Ubuntu.
- From our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
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Huge thanks to Ricardo for his thoughts. If you’d like yours read out next time, email them to mike@linuxvoice.com.
Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.
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Duration: 1:03:36
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.
An even better text to speech engine is IVONA.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ivona.tts.voicebeta.eng.gbr.amy
It is ca. 200 MB big however it’s really worth it.
Ah and you can use it of course for your Pocket articles.
Your suggestion for a funding platform sounds a lot like flattr. It surprises me that this hasn’t taken off more than it had because it’s a great concept.
If you’d have done this cast a little later, you’d have had big firmware news *cough* NSA *cough* hard drives
True. I can’t wait for Ben’s action-packed firmware section in episode 4!
really enjoyed funding terrorism by stealing your podcast + I like the audiobook version keep it . thanks for well explained bitcoin article
In XFCE’s Thunar file manager, one can equally assign a function key to open a terminal in the current directory.
The key assignment procedure is described here:
http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/faq#how_do_i_assign_different_keyboard_shortcuts
On Mint Mate I use the “caja-open-terminal” package to add a context menu option to open the current file manager location in the terminal.
As for those anti-piracy videos, this was my comic take on them: http://www.peppertop.com/greys/comic/theyre-not-rebels-theyre-pirates/
(Download the Inkscape source file for an Easter Egg that continues the strip)
Yeah I came here to mention that you sound like you’ve re-invented Flattr (https://flattr.com/).
Also on the “why doesn’t the Linux Foundation do more?” question. Bradley Kuhn at the Software Freedom Conservancy has spoken about this as the difference (in US tax law) between a charity and a trade association, Though both are referred to as “non-profits”, only a charity has to show a public benefit. Trade associations only have to show benefit to their member organisations.
(SF Conservancy might also be the closest existing organisation to your “umbrella donations fund” suggestion for the work they do in taking away bureaucracy for free software projects. Though not that close. It’s a good idea and a missing piece of the puzzle. Linux Voice Foundation FTW 🙂 )