Podcast Season 5 Episode 2
Title: Boybands
In this episode: KDE 4.10 has been released and includes lots of Qt Quick enhancements. Ubuntu Phones are going to be available in October. Samsung laptops are breaking after a Linux installation and the 'Model A' Raspberry Pi is available now. Hear our discoveries, your own opinions in our Open Ballot and our brand new old section, Challenge Us!
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What's in the show:
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KDE 4.10 has been released and includes lots of Qt Quick upgrades. Ubuntu Phones are going to be shipping in October, according to Mark Shuttleworth and the Wall Street Journal. Samsung laptops are reportedly bricking under Linux. Rapberry Pi's 'Model A' has gone on sale in Europe for £19. Google donates 15,000 Raspberry Pis to schools in the UK. Fedora 19 is to swap MySQL for MariaDB. And let the party commence, because LibreOffice 4 has been released! Chrome and Firefox are on talking terms, thanks to WebRTC and Microsoft is probably not going to release a Linux version of Office in 2014.
- Discovery of the week:
- Ben:
- Mobile app compatibility is going to become a complicated mess.
- 64GB microSD cards are worth more than twice their weight in gold.
- The bandwidth of FedEx transporting microSD cards potentially amounts to 177 petabits per second, 1000 times more than the current capacity of the internet.
- You can build an entire cannon out of duct tape.
- Gaffa tape, duct tape and duck tape are all different things.
- Efrain:
- The inflight entertainment system on Boing's 787 'Dreamliner' is running Android.
- Graham:
- You can host a webpage from Google Docs, complete with Javascript.
- There's a Playstation 2 emulator for Linux called PCSX2
- Ben:
- The return of Challenge Us!
- Open Ballot: Moment of the Millenium
- Our scripts are updating Facebook again.
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Hear the exciting return of our Challenge Us section!
Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Efrain Hernandez-Mendoza and Graham Morrison
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Your comments
Ubuntu GNU/Android?
Zeadar (not verified) - February 11, 2013 @ 1:14pm
So, this means we got a new GNU system that's not linux? (Yeah I know it technically is.) or am I just trolling? I'm struggling to decide, really. :)
MariaDB
MrsB (not verified) - February 11, 2013 @ 5:13pm
Mageia has used mariadb since Mageia 2, which was released May 2012. Fedora was not the first.
Yay, distro rotation!
(not verified) (not verified) - February 11, 2013 @ 7:14pm
But how about Effy tries Arch, haha?
Black discs were Playstation (CD), PS2 were blue (DVD)
Anonymous PenguinOMG (not verified) - February 12, 2013 @ 1:21am
Wine is NOW Emulation
Ben Says:Yep, Mageia got
TuxRadar - February 12, 2013 @ 10:16am
Ben Says:
Yep, Mageia got MariaDB first. I'm going to stop commenting on what distros get what first. There's too many to keep track of!
How about WINE-BTL (pronounced Bottle)? Wine Is Not an Emulator, But There's a Link up. Wine still won't emulate, but can link up with qemu to provide x86 emulation. (see wiki.winehq.org/ARM)
Wine
MrsB (not verified) - February 12, 2013 @ 11:17am
Very much a fan of wine-btl's :D
Challenge
Burgess Meredith (not verified) - February 12, 2013 @ 5:49pm
Nice challenge to kick off the new (old) feature. Can't wait to see how Andrew fares with Arch. Glad it's not me, although I'd love to run an Arch system set up by someone else with the knowledge and time.
OO comments
nonymous nashvillian (not verified) - February 12, 2013 @ 7:47pm
For some reason, translating all those Libre/OpenOffice comments reminded me of this video at youtube /watch?v=LMkJuDVJdTw
Google Translate FTW!
Re: Challenge
TuxRadar - February 13, 2013 @ 2:16pm
Ben Says:
Burgess -- You could consider trying Manjaro (manjaro.org) which is an easy to setup version of Arch. Of course, we won't be letting Andrew use it.
Arch spinoffs craze
Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér (not verified) - February 15, 2013 @ 11:50am
There was a storm of Arch-based distributions recently. Chakra is a bit older, but distributions like Manjaro, Bridge Linux, Nosonja and Cinnarch are pretty recent. Seems people perceived a need to make it easier to get up & running. A lot of Arch users around these days, though.
BTW, challenge
Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér (not verified) - February 15, 2013 @ 11:54am
Oh, and I challenge you all to work from BSD for a fortnight. PC-BSD, for instance, or if you are feeling bolder, OpenBSD or FreeBSD.
I find them fairly easy to work with, but my needs are very text-oriented - systems like audio are somewhat different.
re: challenge
matt (not verified) - February 16, 2013 @ 1:46am
Instead running one of the BSD's, get an install of GNU/Hurd to work. Woul
Challenge
Chris in TX (not verified) - February 18, 2013 @ 6:02am
I was happy to hear the challenge is back. If it is not a duplicate of a previous challenge, how about using only KDE? Surely you guys will lose less productivity switching to KDE than you would initially lose by switching to Arch?
re: my own comment
matt (not verified) - February 19, 2013 @ 4:44am
My last comment is unfinished...meant to say that you should try out the Hurd because it woul...d be interesting to see if anyone at tux radar could get it to work properly and try it out properly. I think the Hurd is an interesting project; it's just too bad that so few people work on it.
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