Series 3 Episode 9 – This fortnight we chat about the release of Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu MATE improvements and pet peaves, Wayne is going to try out Arch, Mark runs the Ubuntu Release Day today at Gleesons Bar, Kilkishen, we discuss Handbrake, another under the hood and back to an Irish saying in this fortnights episode, have a listen…
00:24 Wayne introduces Series 3 Episode 9 from a slightly murky, slightly chilly Bristol while Mark greets us in his bright orange Ubuntu T-Shirt from a gloriously sunny but chilly Kilkishen
00:57 Wayne asks the question of Mark if there is anything happening in the Linux World. Well, Mark responds by saying that while bits and pieces have been going on his main driver is getting prepared for the release party in Gleeson’s Pub in Kilkishen on the 28th April. Mark’s expecting everyone to drop everything and come along to have some fun! He also mentions that the Dublin Linux User Group is having a meet up today in the Long Stone Pub in Dublin and he’s sure there’ll be some celebration there. Mark mentions the Dublin Linux User Groups Telegram channel and a nostalgic look at Kubuntu 6.06 made by one of the Dublin Linux User Group members.

03:46 Wayne tells us he picked up the full boxed set of Star Trek the Next Generation on E-Bay. He’s been busy ripping the entire thing using Handbrake. The guys have a discussion on the values of Handbrake which leads onto a discussion about the values of Western Digital Hard Disk Drives.
10:12 Wayne tells us he’s a little bit strange! He wants to install Arch! Mark tells us that from his perspective Ubuntu is the most important Linux distribution out there because of the fact that Ubuntu provides a usable desktop with sane presets that everyday users can pick up and use straight away.
14:34 Mark brings it back to the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS release with a rather rambly chat about Ubuntu’s own release material, Nextcloud’s big win-over of the German government and the promo videos that have been created by various creators for the release of Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Ubuntu MATE. Mark goes on to tell us that he installed Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi and is going to install Sonic Pi on his Raspberry Pi 3 Model B. Wayne tells us that he has installed Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 on a VM and likes it but does have his pet peeves around icon spacing that he may submit a bug for. He also wants to get rid of the word “menu” from the brisk menu but doesn’t know how while he also tells us that he installs synapse as a must, since the brisk menu only searches applications and not files.
30:57 Wayne tells us about a tip he has for automatically centering windows in Ubuntu-MATE and it is this:
First you need to install the dconf-editor from the terminal

    <strong><span class="mono">sudo apt install dconf-editor</span></strong>
    click on <strong><span class="mono">Applications - System Tools - dconf-editor</span></strong>
    Click on the magnifying glass up top

    and type <strong><span class="mono">center-new-windows</span></strong>
    Switch this option to <strong><span class="mono">ON</span></strong>
    32:20 Wayne came across a really cool project, the <a href="https://mydevices.com/cayenne/features/">Cayenne project</a>. He watched a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm4VbLasx7M">video on youtube</a> and while he hasn't done much with it yet both Wayne and Mark sound very interested in the idea.
    35:18 Mark tells us about a project on Indiegogo, the <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/turris-mox-modular-open-source-router-security-computers#/">Turris MOX</a>, a modular and Open Source router.
    38:25 Under the Hood, and Mark tells us about a handy command line tool that helped him to <a href="https://imagemagick.org/script/convert.php">convert</a> pngs he had made with <a href="https://inkscape.org/en/">Inkscape</a> to jpgs, and that is, remarkably, <strong><span class="mono">convert [imagename].png [imagename].jpg</span></strong>
    41:20 Wayne has a little thing that he came across during the week, and that is you can jump between tty sessions by pressing the alt left and alt right.
    43:16 Irish saying of the podcast: Tá brón orm as a leithscéal, or sorry for being sorry!
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