Podcast Season 2 Episode 5
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Title: Stunt Car Racer
In this episode: There’s lots of news in this episode, including Broadcom releasing the full source of its VideoCore IV GPU, a free ‘Introduction to Linux’ course from the Linux Foundation, CRYENGINE’s imminent Linux release and the formation of a Linux Voice Steam Group. We’ve got some great discoveries, three neurons to vocalise and an awesome Voice of the Masses.
What’s in the show:
- News:
Broadcom has released the full source of the OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0 driver stack for its VideoCore IV GPU, as used in the Raspberry Pi. Consequently, the Raspberry Pi Foundation wants to give $10,000 to the first person to get Quake III running via ported versions of libGLESv1_CM.so and libEGL.so. The Linux Foundation is to offer its ‘Introduction to Linux’ course, previously worth $2,400, for free. A bug in the GnuTLS library left hundreds of Linux tools potentially vulnerable to a variety of security exploits. The CRYENGINE is going to be released for Linux. And this week, we enjoyed our first Linux Voice gaming session. Join our Linux Voice Steam group here, and let us know what you’d like to play. Finally, it was International Women’s Day on March 8th.
- Finds of the Fortnight:
- Ben:
- You can play SNES MarioKart in your browser and play with someone else online.
- One of the most amazing books ever written, Learning Python with the Raspberry Pi, goes on sale today.
- Ada Lovelace wrote about the potential for a generative music system in her original notes.
- Nick:
- There aren’t enough good Markdown tools, though two good online markdown editors for technical authors are Dillinger and Markable.
- Andrew:
- There’s another Linux podcast that’s rather good, and it’s called Linux Luddites.
- Graham:
- There’s an all new version of the veritable Alsa Modular Synth, now with support for the LV2 plugin format.
- Create a multi-boot USB stick by simply dropping ISOs into a folder with easy2boot.
- Ben:
- People’s Voice:
- Voice of the Masses: Best distro for older users?
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Thanks for all your ace neurons, Huw, Tim and Anonymous. If you’d like your brains to be part of our next episode email mike@linuxvoice.com.
Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Nick Veitch.
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Duration: 1:06:32
Theme Music by Brad Sucks.
Many thanks to Nick Veitch for hosting the recording, even if he did burn the cookies.
Will be listening to this while driving tomorrow, in the Lampeter area I think. Nick here’s an excellent cookie recipe http://www.caerbont.f2s.com/cookies.htm
and don’t burn them again…..
thanks guys!
Was the Paul that always used to win the video-game-based arguments Paul Hudson? I’d almost forgotten he exists! Is he still interested enough in Linux to make a guest appearance?
Heh, just listening to TuxRadar S1E1: Mike – “So that’s audio software from Graham. Not much of a surprise there.”
Well it’s good to have a sense of continuity.
Here’s to Nick! Always enjoy it when he’s part of the podcast.
The old TR crew sounded a little out of rhythm this show IMHO, understandable, could well be exhausted from launching the new company.
Nick did a deft job of catching the lapses and keeping it entertaining. Kudos!
Good stuff. If only I knew how to program so that I could bag that 10k bounty for Quake.
I don’t know if you guys are doing challenges anymore, but if you are, I’ve got an idea: using gNewSense as your main distro. Can you go to RMS-levels of Freedom and still do everything you commonly do on your computer?
An excellent philosophical debate about why courses for free systems are so expensive…I don’t get it either, and a year in medical school costs same order of magnitude (at least until 2 years ago) as a short introductory course in Linux. If however you truly believe in this ideology, time to put your money where your mouth is. My challenge would be 1) create a syllabus 2) collect course material (simple links to resources on the web and Youtube initially, and later specific course lectures that experts create) 3) and collect a large library of MCQs for On-line Multiple choice examination with a very high passmark. And offer Linux-Voice Certification courses for Free or very low cost. How about the course for the price of an annual LV subscription say, that throws in a year’s digital supply of LV mags for free. I (and many of the readers here) would happily contribute for free.
Enjoyed this one – and I actually wanted to listen to Graham’s chat on audio-geek.
My finding of the week is Nick Veitch’s review of Wordsworth 3.1SE:
http://amr.abime.net/issue_223_pages – click on page 107
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Haha, nice find. His opinion on the speed of the Mo-Miga MO drive on page 110 is also amusing. As is the fact that we used to actually pay £140 for a 1GB disk, and over £2k for a drive to play them in.
I’m going to be spending quite some time reading old issues of Amiga format now by the looks of it…
Another informative, enjoyable podcast. But if I can be persnickety for a moment…the desktop environment MATE is pronounced “MAH-tay”. It’s named after the South American caffeinated beverage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat%C3%A9
@Nick This project is OSX-Centric but might contain a way forward for co-editing Markdown.
http://criticmarkup.com/
Here’s some more markdown editors… http://showdown.im was the first one that I found – ages ago. There’s also a similar one at http://backpager.amasan.co.uk.
I run a private Ghost (http://ghost.io) server that I use to take notes and that has a really good markdown editor too.
What I really want is a desktop markdown editor that has Vim keybindings. Basically gvim with a live markdown preview. Now that would be cool!
A great pod cast, just start listening today. I plan on going back to review past EP. I have signed up for the free Linux course. I can’t wait for it to start. Keep up the good work.
Another good podcast. Thank you.
BUT, wait, there’s more…..
As you sail serenely into your thirties and make jokes about “old people” remember that to 18-year olds, you too are starting to turn grey around the edges. To them, you are begining to look Old.
Remember also that the 60, 70 and 80 year-olds you joke about are among those who laid the foundations and built the systems you so happily play with today. One day you will be there, too.
And one more thing — in another life, you had a challenge to get through a whole podcast without using the word “awesome”. You failed then. Can you try again, please.
C’mon – you know you can do it!
Cheers (and despite my gripes, I still think your podcasts are very entertaining)
Floyd