Casting Pods & Manga, Disco Dingo, Windows 95, All Linux Show w/ Marcel Gagne!

Disco Dingo

Casting Pods & Manga

Introduction

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Today’s Wine

Okay, so I poured myself a glass of wine for today’s show and realized, to my amusement, that it was the same wine I was drinking last month. Oh well, it’s a great wine, so here goes. Let me re-introduce you to Toro Bravo, a 2017 Tempranillo Merlot from Spain. Toro Bravo is an inexpensive wine that has got a lot of people talking. This wine is a deep ruby red with strong flavours of black cherry, dark coffee, and maybe a little bitter chocolate (like those 85% cocoa Lindt chocolate bars). It’s full of attitude but still nicely balanced and it’s got a nice long finish. Super cheap but really good. Enjoy!

News. Rumors. Conspiracy Theories

The big news is that Ubuntu Disco Dingo is finally out! The best headline comes, of course, from The Register.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/18/ubuntu_1904_disco_dingo/

One surprise treat for NVIDIA card users is an out-of-the-box driver.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/04/15/ubuntu-19-04-delivers-a-welcome-surprise-for-nvidia-gpu-owners/#10d787743c93

Choosing an open source Instant Messenger client

https://opensource.com/article/19/3/open-messenger-client

Windows 95 for Linux gets a big update!

https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95/releases

Today’s Featured Topic

Casting Pods . . .

So far, there are very few episodes of “Open Source Journeys” but I have already had my share of problems. I already knew it was going to be hard work, so I turned to an online tool, which I paid for, called Zencastr. Specifically, I chose to pay for the post production feature, which didn’t work out so well.

Luckily, I had Audacity on my computer. Audacity is a free program to record, edit, modify, and otherwise create audio masterpieces. Here’s a screenshot.

You can get Audacity from any distribution, but you can also visit the site here:

https://www.audacityteam.org/

Distribution Focus

Today’s featured distribution is an old distribution. Well, a new release of an old distribution, namely Ubuntu, as we welcome the Disco Dingo, aka Ubuntu 19.04. Better yet, the release is today, April 18, 2019!

Of course, I had to upgrade my notebook prior to the show, because I like to leave things to the last minute and cause myself untold grief.

This led me to an interesting problem which I discovered when I ran “do-release-upgrade -d” (why -d?)

Anyhow, it didn’t work because I didn’t have enough space.

dpkg-query -Wf ‘${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\n’ | sort -n

Doing this, I was able to discover my biggest packages, and remove those I did not need.

178794  firefox

187374  franz

195448  code

199458  google-chrome-stable

208670  wine-stable-i386

223065  wine-stable-amd64

235695  signal-desktop

240528  zoom

266426  duckietv

297036  linux-firmware

535142  crossover

1401591 windows95

Now, with lots of space, I was able to finish my upgrade to Ubuntu 19.04, aka “Disco Dingo”.

So, what’s cool about

Other Stuff

Let’s talk about stuff and things. Maybe.

Did you know that there’s an Ubuntu Manga series? Yes! It’s called Ubunchu!

You can download the entire series right here: http://divajutta.com/doctormo/ubunchu/c.html

Until next time . . . A votre santé! Bon appétit!

— Marcel Gagné