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Josh is on vacation this week, down in Destin, probably having way too much fun. Show Notes
- Alpha 3 released, Alpha 4 comes out August 14th
- Mark Shuttleworth talk at OSCON got huge coverage: basically, Mark throws down the gauntlet: Make Desktop Linux Better than Apple
- In 2 years, can the Linux desktop go from stable, robust, and not so pretty...to just blowing by Apple?
- Journalists and bloggers are asking: Is it possible? Apple controls the whole stack, Linux/Ubuntu can't
- Journalists and bloggers are asking: Is it possible without someone taking charge?
- Will be interesting to see what the ArtWork Team can come up with.
- 8.04 was supposed to have some cool new themes, but it got pushed.
- Ultamatix, successor to Automatix released - it basically installs applications and commonly-used audio and video codecs.
- Some of the applications might not be free or might having licensing issues
- Or sometimes no one has gotten around to putting them into the repositories yet.
- AX was very controversial. When it started out, made it easier for new Ubuntu users. But it would tended to cause people lots of pain eventually during upgrades.
- Matt Zimmerman, Ubuntu CTO, said "I cannot recommend the use of this program, and systems where it has been used cannot be supported with a clean and official upgrade path."
- Matthew Garrett, who was on the Ubuntu Technical Board at the time, took a look at AX: "In its current form Automatix is actively dangerous to systems - ranging from damage to small items of user configuration, through removing user-installed packages without adequate prompting or warning and up to the (small but existing) potential to leave a system in an unbootable state."
- They were asked to work with Ubuntu developers, but not much progress was made.
- Eventually Automatix got sold off and there was no release for 8.04
- Ultamatix - Not done by the AX people
- Ultamatix creator says he tried to fix the problems that Automatix had -
- Its been pointed out that Ultimatix uses apt force-yes options:
- from man pages of force-yes: "This is a dangerous option that will cause apt to continue without prompting if it is doing something potentially harmful. It should not be used except in very special situations. Using force-yes can potentially destroy your system!"
- It seems like when people are reviewing it, they are not looking under the hood. Specifically, a certain linux.com article which was a rave review of Ultamatix.
- Linux pre-installed on 2.8% of machines sold in the UK since Vista has been released.
- Might not seem like a big deal, but its big news since it jumped from .1%
- Full Circle Magazine #15 is out.
- Pretty cool magazine, kinda like Linux Format
- Only available online in PDF format
- First issue came out June 2007
- The Ins and Outs of Directories.
- How-To : Separate Home Partition, Create Your Own Server Part 7, Using GIMP Part 4 and GRUB 101.
- MOTU Interview - Mathias Gug from Server Team
- Also gets translated into several languages
- Launchpad 2.0 Out - Its where a lot of Ubuntu-related projects are hosted.
- What is LP?
- Hosting service for open source projects
- share code
- file bugs
- translations
- New 2.0 release include:
- APIs to access LP data without going through the web interface
- code reviews
- mailing lists
- integration with bugzilla and trac, which are pretty common and widely used apps for filing bugs
- Hosting service for open source projects
- Some other big name projects like MySQL and Zope
- Source code for it has been closed so far, at OSCON, Mark Shuttleworth said code would be released in the next 12 months.
- Good thing of having only one Launchpad is being able to file bugs properly. Say someone files a bug in Ubuntu that is really in MySQL, its easy to assign the bug over to MySQL.
- Once open sourced, you'll see lots of different Launchpads pop up and the collaborative nature will become tougher.
- What is LP?
- Ardour screencasts - Ubuntu UK team is in the process of doing a 13-part series on mixing a podcast with Ardour:
- So far discussed:
- setting up environment
- arranging tracks
- adding music, cool effects like fading in and out
- compression
- filters
- So far discussed:
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Great job Nick, sorry I had to bail on you this week, I will be back though. I bought you a shot glass in FL. Maybe you’ll have to use it on the show? 
LAWL.
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