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Whilst standing in the back room at the ballet school that my daughter Sophie goes to, I had an interesting conversation. I was wearing my Ubuntu Hardy Heron T-shirt which I got from the Canonical Online Store.

One of the other parents (a mum) said to me "That's a nice T-shirt, where did you get it? Is it a Paul Smith?". This made me chuckle a little. I had to reply "No, it's not, it's 'just a promotional T-shirt to do with a product I use'". She was surprised. So was I.

There's something to be said for geek-wear that doesn't scream "I AM A GEEK T-SHIRT".

Don't forget that every month on the Ubuntu UK Podcast we are giving away discount codes for the Canonical store as competition prizes!

Update My family all just descended on my house for a Barbeque. My brother just said "Hey, nice t-shirt" :)

.. in the #ubuntu-release-party irc channel on freenode.

1. "Are we there yet?"
2. "When is Hardy out?"
3. "How many hours until it's out?"
4. "What's the _exact_ time of the release?"
5. "Has anything changed between the RC and release?"
6. "Where is the best place to find out exactly when it's released!?"
7. "Give me the link!"
8. "Canonical is in the Isle of Man, what timezone are they on!?"
9. "Is the release time in GMT, UTC or BST!?"
10. "The countdown thing says it's out, but I can't find it!"
11. "(url) of mirror - they have it!"
12. "Will KDE4 be in the release?"
13. "But in my timezone, it will be Friday 25th!"
14. "Why isn't Mark Shuttleworth here?"
15. "Is the version on the mirror, the real version?"
16. "Can I upgrade to Intrepid Ibex now?"
17. "C'mon guys, I've been waiting here all day to start the download!"
18. "How long until Zany Zebra?"
19. "Ubuntu sucks!"

Did I miss any?

Update: Seems I did:-

12:42:59 < Amaranth> Last minute update guys: We've delayed the release 6 weeks
12:43:11 < Amaranth> Please come back in 6 weeks for Ubuntu 8.06 LTS

For those that don't know, there is a new release of Ubuntu out on the 24th April. The #ubuntu-release-party is a virtual place to hang out and chat in the lead up to that event.

This has been all over the blogs and news.

Some samples..

MacBook Air Hacked In Two Minutes, Vista finally falls when Adobe Flash is installed, Ubuntu Beats OSX and Vista in Pwn 2 Own Hackathon

On the third day of the PWN to OWN Contest where three laptops (one Vista, one OSX, one Ubuntu) were exposed to allow experts attempt to 'break' or '0wn' them.

"So at the end of the last day of the contest, only the Sony VAIO laptop running Ubuntu was left standing. "

Nice to see :)

I'm happy to report that we managed to get together and release a second Ubuntu UK Podcast.

You can use these links in your podcast downloading client of choice. Personally I use hpodder on Ubuntu, but it should work in any decent podcatcher - even Apple iTunes.

High quality feeds

Low quality feeds



Alternatively you can listen online directly via a flash applet (yes, flash is evil) via the site.

Feedback via email to podcast {at} ubuntu-uk {dot} org.

Some members of the Ubuntu UK Local Community team got together and made a podcast.

You can subscribe using your podcast download client of choice using these URLs:-

High quality feeds

Low quality feeds

Alternatively you can listen online directly via a flash applet (yeah yeah, I know) via the site.

We hope you like it. Please be gentle, it's our first attempt.

Feedback via email to podcast {at} ubuntu-uk {dot} org.