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Alan Pope, Dave Walker, Tony Whitmore and Ciemon Dunville present the eighth episode of the Ubuntu UK Podcast.

In this episode:-

• The last of our interviews from the Ubuntu Developer Summit:
  • Matt Oquist talks about Software Freedom Day
  • KDE contributor Celeste Lyn Paul talks in depth about human-computer interaction (HCI) and enlightens us on the (KDE) human interface guidelines.
  • Utahs best export, Mike Basinger talks about his passion for the Ubuntu Forums, and his calming influence on the Ubuntu Community Council.
  • A very informative interview with Kurt von Finck about the Canonical Support operation, where to get the best deal on Ubuntu support and some stories from the trenches.
  • An interview with the "King of Bling", Mirco "MacSlow" Müller talks about lowfat, GDM, face browser, cheese, memaker, clutter, avant window navigator, mpx in xorg.
• Competition
  • We set a new competition, which will end on the 12th July. (we have extended the competition due to this episode being late).

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.. 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 :)

Whilst browsing the Ubuntu Brainstorm site I stumbled upon this one.

Given Rhythmbox comes pre-filled with some radio stations and online stores, having it populated with Ubuntu based podcasts seems like a great addition.

Now, where could we find an Ubuntu based podcast I wonder...

Edit: Added this page to the wiki:- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Podcasts to track potential podcasts for inclusion.

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.