Alan Pope @popey@ubuntu.social
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Snap Advocate at Canonical working on Ubuntu, podcaster, father, husband, cat lover & a geek through and through. This instance is a spare time thing.
Joined Feb 2019
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#xubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" (and of course, the other flavors), is now available! With #xfce 4.14, #zfs on root, and the new Xfce Screensaver, it's an awesome release!
Release notes: https://wiki.xubuntu.org/releases/19.10/release-notes
Announcement:
https://xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-19-10-released/
Next up: 20.04 "Focal Fossa"!
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Snaptastic is a graphical snap manager utility, available in the elementary AppCenter, offering software that might not be available through standard elementary OS repository channels. We tested.
Another quick live stream coming up in 5 mins from me. More #ubuntu 19.10 testing, and some behind the scenes information.
The #Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) Release Candidate images are out. It's only 4 days until release. Join me on YouTube in 5 minutes where we're going to give them a test drive.
T-5 days until #Ubuntu 19.10 is released. So today I'm doing some more testing of the various flavour images. I'll be live streaming in about 30 mins. Join me over on YouTube for a bit if you can. 👋
https://youtu.be/KqN7oH977H0
Less than a week until #Ubuntu 19.10 is released. Join me over on the YouTubes again for a little more noodling around on the new release. Bring a drink and some chat. See you at half past 🇬🇧 / 30 after 🇺🇸
https://youtu.be/EAnSDaSiwnw
Doing a spot of testing of the upcoming #ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine). Join me for some testing and informal chatter. Bring questions, tea and biscuits (UK kind). We might learn something together! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X6cgUii59U
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Excellent blog post, let's work together to get our software out to as broad of an audience as possible!
https://blogs.gnome.org/hellsworth/2019/10/01/why-snap-should-be-in-your-upstream-project/
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On this day in 1989, Jordan Mechner released Prince of Persia on the Apple II. 30 years on, a dozen games, graphic novels and films keep the Princess's hopes alive. Play the open source port, 'SDLPop' on #Linux today.
http://bit.ly/2GFXhKw
Recently discovered the Car Throttle channel on YouTube. If you like the old challenges on Top Gear years ago, you'll like these guys. They're jolly good fun. https://www.youtube.com/user/CarThrottle/videos
This 10 minute video about the Citicar is worth a watch. The presenter seems to be having such a great time in an awful car. His laughter while driving is quite infectious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilIozuRmTQs
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Ubuntu MATE 19.10 Beta is released and is a significant improvement 📈 over 18.04 and 19.04. This release focuses 🔬 on addressing paper 🧻 cut ️🔪 issues. Come and read 👀 the release notes to find 🕵️♂️ out more and get the downloads 📀 https://buff.ly/2nHYsjD #ubuntu
Performance of the Purism Librem 5 phone seems to be way better than in previous videos. Impressive improvements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvnt78mK-Ac
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Next week sees the largest gathering of women technologists at the Grace Hopper Celebration in Orlando. We are delighted to be attending and sponsoring - come and say hi at booth #261. #GHC19 http://bit.ly/2lTuSaF
Hey Python people! A friend has a daughter coming up to 14. She is excelling at Maths & ICT. School suggested she do some Python at home. Best books for her mum to get for birthday? Currently looking at these.. https://amzn.to/2naWAzV https://amzn.to/2n9hBe9
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Ubuntu MATE 19.10 Beta is released and is a significant improvement 📈 over 18.04 and 19.04. This release focuses 🔬 on addressing paper 🧻 cut ️🔪 issues. Come and read 👀 the release notes to find 🕵️♂️ out more and get the downloads 📀 #ubuntu https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-mate-19-10-eoan-ermine-release/
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Got a busy weekend ahead? No, thought not. How about testing the #Ubuntu 19.10 Beta which just appeared on the Interwebs. Final release is next month. Find out more via this detailed wall of text!
http://bit.ly/2nL4mAB
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Want to stream your gameplay on #Linux? Use the OBS snap which makes hardware accelerated video encoding easy. This short blog post will get you started quickly!
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Linux Spotlight EP16 - Alan Pope https://youtu.be/8ltUbX8W7OU
Son (just 13) came home to tell me they're learning Python at school this year. What a change from a few years ago where ICT classes would involve Microsoft Office and not much more. Progress!
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Snap Advocate at Canonical working on Ubuntu, podcaster, father, husband, cat lover & a geek through and through. This instance is a spare time thing.
Joined Feb 2019
