mintCast 201 – Riding the Ubuntu LTS
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News:
- Mint 17 Qiana Cinnamon and Mate RCs available for download (Cinnamon) (Mate) (What’s new)
- Mozilla caves to DRM demands, breaks Cory Doctorow’s heart (theguardian.com)
- Oracle wins copyright ruling against Google over Android (eff.org) (reuters.com)
- Apple, Google call a truce in patent battle (mercurynews.com)
- U.S. military UAVs (Drones) migrate to Linux (linuxgizmos.com)
- Ubuntu for Android is dead (muktware.com)
- How Munich switched 15,000 PCs from Windows to Linux (linuxvoice.com)
Main Topic: Riding the Ubuntu LTS
- Clem’s announcement (http://blog.linuxmint.com)
- Ubuntu 12.04.4 vs. 13.10 vs. 14.04 LTS Desktop Benchmarks (http://www.phoronix.com)
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS vs. 14.04 LTS Cloud Benchmarks (http://www.phoronix.com/)
- Ubuntu 14.04 review: Missing the boat on big changes (http://arstechnica.com)
Website:
- Mint 17 Cinnamon RC download
Tip:
- How to make and use spreadsheets in a terminal using sc
Pre-Show Music:
- “Solitude” by Celtic Chill (Jamendo.com)
- “Celticado – Celtic Men” by Adam R Sweet (Jamendo.com)
Podcast Announcements:
- Texas LinuxFest (June 14-15, 2014) in Austin, TX
- Southeast Linuxfest (June 20-22, 2014) in Charlotte, NC
- Ohio LinuxFest (October 24-25, 2014) in Columbus, OH — Call for Papers
More Information:
Hosts: Rob, Scott, Joe
Live Stream every other Monday 7:00 p.m. or Sunday 2:00 p.m.(Central): mintcast.org/livestream
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Credits:
Podcast Entry and exit music provided by Mark Blasco (podcastthemes.com). The podcast bumpers were provided by Oscar.
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Kudos guys on a great show. mintCast is my favorite GNU/Linux podcast.
Great show! And thanks for the kind words about Linux Voice. The whole idea behind features like the Munich piece, and being able to release CC-BY-SA, was a huge part of why we wanted to start our own magazine.