TuxJam

Sadly the snow around the Glasgow area made travelling difficult so with Andrew MIA, Dave and Kevie pick up the slack and press on with the second of the Christmas themed TuxJam episodes.

With this being the season of giving and good will, we get a user submitted review of Pop!_OS by Yannick.

After a bit of a disaster during an earlier recording of TuxJam, which resulted in the death of Kevie’s previous computer chair, he was forced to purchase a new gaming chair. After 7 weeks, Kevie shares his thoughts on the Intey Gaming Chair.

As 2018 draws to a close we look back over the items we have reviewed in the last 12 months of the year and discuss what we still use; splitting this up into three categories: distros, desktop apps and phone apps.

Despite Andrew’s absence from the live show, he still managed to make his presence known with some audio that he recorded and kindly sent in via email (one section was cheekly added in using Audacity, but we have to admit that we hadn’t actually spoke to him directly).

Along with a mix of Christmas themed CCmusic Tracks:

• Neon Niteclub – In the Bleak Midwinter
• The Doubleclicks – Christmas Ain’t About Me
• Micaroni and Vulcano – If Every Day Were Christmas
• Stella Art Wars – Best Christmas Yet
• Stock n Roll Music – Auld Langs Syne

If you would like to contact any of us then our various accounts are:

Andrew:

• Mastadon
• Twitter

Dave:

• Diaspora
• Mastadon
• Twitter

Kevie:

• Diaspora
• Mastadon
• Twitter

email to the show directly on tuxjam@otherside.network

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The season is upon us where you need to buy gifts. If you have to buy a gift for a geek than the trio of TuxJam geeks are here to help. If you are a geek yourself then you might want to share this with your confused nearest and dearest to guard against further socks, ties and cufflinks (aside from geeky themed ones of course) filling your stocking.

Stocking Fillers (under £10)

• Balloon Boat Racer
• Stellarium mobile
• Motherboard chopping board (extra wide stocking required!)
• Henry Screen Cleaner

Low price (£10-25)

• NES Cartridge Coasters
• NES Raspberry Pi Case
• Hydraulic robot arm kit
• Pac-Man Ghost Light

Middle of the road (£25-100)

• Stormtrooper Cheeseboard
• Soldercraft Pyrography Multifunction Kit
• NES mini
• Pi Arcade retro console bundle
• LinkWitz Marathon2 Sports Bluetooth Headphones
• Adonit Dash 3 – Fine Point Precision Stylus
• PhoneSoap 3 UV Cell Phone Sanitizer and Dual Universal Cell Phone Charger
• Samson SAQ2U USB and XLR Microphone Recording Pack

High end (over £100)

• Solstice Clock
• Flavourly Beer Club
• Picade
• Samson Q2U Dynamic USB Microphone Podcasting Pack and Accessory Bundle with Boom Arm + Headphones + Pop Filter + Fibertique Cloth
• Recapped BBC model B or similar era original 8-bit computer –  many available on ebay (second hand of course!)

You Really love them (something silly that is way more than a present should ever cost)

• Portable Gaming Console
• Coffee Table Nintendo Controller
• Coffee Table Arcade Machine
• Modern analogue synth
• R-KAID-R Handmade Portable Gaming Console

Christmas CCmusic tracks:

• Songwriterz – Forever Christmas
• Beardmusicstock – Christmas Rock
• Autumn Driscoll – Have You Seen My Lamb
• Lawrence Beaman – The Christmas Song
• Tara Newton-Wordsworth – O Come All Ye Faithful

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Your creative, common, free and open hosts of Tuxjam, Kevie, Dave (aka thelovebug) and Andrew (aka mcnalu) return for another tour of software and tunes. We start, as always, with a glance down the latest releases on  distrowatch.

In an attempt to inject brevity into the show we tried only review two items this month:

• Ubuntu based KDE distro KDE Neon
• ebook reader for Android Booky McBookface

But we managed instead to talk longer about fewer things with Dave doing an excellent Columbo impersonation with several “one more thing”s about KDE Neon.

The following CCmusic tracks were not harmed in the making of this episode:

• Mike Falzone and the Peppermint Trick – Leave a Little for the Fallout
• Avi Rosenfeld – Gotta Feel Alright
• The Spin Wires – Girls Like You
• Pat Broderick – After the Rain

We close the show with a brief roundup of feedback. Any that you may have is always welcome, email us direct should you have any advice, tips, questions or simply want to say hi.

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A short episode with details of the new feeds:

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Andrew, Dave and Kevie return after a bit of a delay having fought off a number of viruses kindly donated to them by their children. We hope you enjoy our 68th offering of free and open source software and creative commons software.

 

After the usual distrowatch roundup with our quick impressions of recent linux distribution releases, we take a deeper look at the highly polished linux distribution from China, Deepin linux 15.7.

And an apology follows, because in TuxJam 60 (Thrusty spaceships) the show notes claimed we reviewed the game Alite, a re-creation of the classic game Elite on Android, but we did not. This was politely pointed out to us by its developer Philipp Bouillon. Sorry Phillip! We hope we have now righted that wrong by reviewing it in this episode.

Also reviewed is the interesting but quirky FOSS Browser on Android.

Finally, in the feedback section we briefly discuss the review of TuxJam by the LinuxLinks website and how we compare, in their opinion, to other Linux podcasts. We round of the show recalling our fond memories of this year’s Podcrawl Glasgow and also Oggcamp 2018 which was held in Sheffield.

CC Music tracks:

• Secret by Vinyl Blast
• Free by Chris Barba Band
• Back to Virginia by Barefoot McCoy
• Whiskey Woman by Arrow & Olive

Your feedback is always welcome, email us direct should you have any advice, tips, questions or simply want to say hi.

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Andrew, Dave and Kevie take a break from the hot summer sun and return with episode 67. The guys set aside their differences on pronunciation and review BunsenLabs, a Linux distro that has risen from the ashes of the discontinued CrunchBang distro.

As the days turn brighter and the nights get longer, in order to make those outside chores a bit more pleasant the focus turns to filling up your chosen listening devices with your favourite podcast. They then turn their attention to podcatchers with a look at Antennapod on Android and Gpodder for those who still like to use a PC.

With the heat of summer and the nagging to get out of the house, we also discuss Podcrawl Glasgow, which is due to kick off at 6pm on Saturday 28th July in the State Bar, Holland St, Glasgow. We hope that as many as possible will make the journey to Glasgow to join up with the TuxJam crew.

Projects included in this episode are:

• BunsenLabs (distro)
• Antennapod (Android)
• Gpodder (desktop)

Also, let us not forget the usual mix of CC tracks :

• Summer Pop Upbeat by Trending Music
• Let Me Sing For You by Mikhail Rezanov
• We’ll Be Fine by Julie and Gent
• Summertime by Tullio
• Aube by Remy Bourgeuis

Your feedback is always welcome, email us direct should you have any advice, tips, questions or simply want to say hi.

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After their usual swing through distrowatch, your hosts Kevie, Dave (aka thelovebug) and Andrew (aka mcnalu) pair up to review three offerings from the wonderful world of free and open source software:

NextCloud Notes (note taking app for NextCloud)

Heads (Live distro, focused on privacy, based on Devuan)

SimpleNote (Cloud based note taking app for Android)

Along with the usual mix of Creative Commons music:

• Cloud of Pleasure – Perfect as a Sky
• Avi Rosenfeld – Gotta Feel Alright
• Freeground – Run Jam
• Saint Anyway – Burning Down the House
• Songwriterz – You Can Lean On Me

No keyboards were harmed during the making of this podcast though one did have too much beer and had to spend a few days sobering up.

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In this episode your intrepid explorers, Dave, Kevie and Andrew take a stroll through distrowatch and then venture deep into  the forest of free and open source software to discover three treasures:

• EndlessOS (distro)
• Signal (Android)
• OBS (screen recording and streaming software)

Creative commons tunes played in this episode:

• To Hope – Hard Day
• The Woods – The Road
• Pat Broderick – Climbin The Rocks
• Ken Roberts – Every Day
• Rotor GR – Blues Rock

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Kevie, Dave (aka thelovebug) and Andrew (aka mcnalu) take a wander through the wonders of recent releases reported on distrowatch before reviewing a trio of free and open source marvels. For older hardware and those in places where the internet is not so great, there is the Emmabuntüs linux distro. Then if you have some free time to fill, you might want to try out the space sim game Pioneer. It’s inspired by the classic Elite 2: Frontier game. But if you have no free time at all and are prone to forgetting important tasks (ed: such as writing show notes) then why not let your phone govern your life with the Open Tasks app.

Projects:

• Emmabuntüs
• Pioneer
• OpenTasks

Music:

• Fader Hill – Better Day
• Run – Against The World
• Heifervescent – The Man That Time Forgot
• Aquartos – The Road to Nowhere
• Kalerie – Town of Birds

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Kevie, Dave (aka thelovebug) and Andrew (aka mcnalu) begin their New Year detox and fitness regime by talking about beer and pipes before going through their regular distrowatch work-out which includes a brief furrowing of brows over the Spectre and Meltdown security vulnerabilities.

Next our intrepid trio review:

• PureOS – A free software respecting GNU/Linux distro (vaguely related to detox via its name)
• Speedmeter – A simple app that tells you information about your movements (featuring a mini-rant by Andrew about Sith Lords tampering which machines at his gym)

 

 

 

Creative commons music played in this episode:

• Barefoot McCoy – American Lady
• Faderhill – Better Days
• I.D.F.X – Lai-Di-Lai
• Solar Cycle – Never Let Me Down

Other links mentioned:

• TechRepublic: 10 new VM escape vulnerabilities discovered in VirtualBox
• IT Security Alerts – Telegram Channel

Feedback is very welcome. Either comment below or email tuxjam@otherside.network.

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