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We just wanted to wish everybody a Happy New Year and say that we did take this week off to spend time with Family but we will be kicking off 2018 on Monday January 8th with Episode 52. We have some exciting guests lined up for 2018 along with Linux & Gaming news so don’t miss and episode! Thank you to each and every one of you who watch on Youtube or Listen through the audio podcast. Feel free to send us your feedback at comments@destinationlinux.org You can also send us suggestions on who you would like to see on Destination Linux Thank you to all of you and Happy New Year!

Welcome to Episode 51 of Destination Linux for 12-25-17 Merry Christmas! News Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due to Bios Corruption Ubuntu 17.10 Corrupts the BIOS of Some Lenovo Laptops, Respin ISOs Coming Soon Ubuntu.com says “The download of Ubuntu 17.10 is currently discouraged due to an issue on certain Lenovo laptops. Once fixed this download will be enabled again.” Official bug on Launchpad ROSA Desktop Fresh R10 Linux Mint 18.3 “Sylvia” KDE released! Linux Mint 18.3 “Sylvia” Xfce released! MX-17 released KDE Applications 17.12 Lands with Dolphin Enhancements, HiDPI Support for Okular Kdenlive 17-12-0 release! KDE Goals for 2018 and Beyond AMD Vulkan Goes Open-Source New Thunderbird Releases and New Thunderbird Staff Canonical Makes It Easier to Install Spotify for Linux on Ubuntu, Other Distros Linux Steam Integration 0.7.2 Released Popular Linux Software Updates Top 5 Linux Music Players Is there room for another Browser CrossOver 17 Lets You Run Microsoft Office 2016 Gaming News What have I been playing this week? Tyranny – Story driven RPG where your choices mean all the difference in a world conquered by evil. Gorgeous graphics, in-depth RPG storyline where you’re engaged in conversations that actually matter and your responses matter. Loot is plentiful and combat is handled brilliantly with  strategic battles that include a pause option to allow you to properly plan your parties attack and ability use. It’s not a casual game it’s a true RPG and requires a lot of planning and tuning of your characters abilities and powers. Steam Winter Sale Is Live Steam Ends Bitcoin Support Steam now has a form of platform-specific wishlisting, to help developers see demand Ataribox Joystick Revealed Indiegogo Funding And Info Signup Page The Linux-powered Ataribox pre-order launch has been ‘officially paused’ Incredible looking story-based action platformer ‘Iconoclasts’ to release next year, for Linux too In the Valley of Gods announced from Firewatch developer Campo Santo, confirmed to Linux Patreon Scrapping Fee Change Admin Patreon Liberapay Destination Linux Apparel Where Can You Find Us This Week Rocco and Ryan will be playing Rocket League live this week on DasGeek Channel Big Daddy Linux Live! Will be on Saturday night on the BigDaddyLinux Channel or www.bigdaddylinux.com Twitter @dasgeekchannel @bigdaddylinux A big thank you to each and every one of you for supporting us and Thank you For Watching Destination Linux Have a great week and remember the Journey ITSELF is just as important as the Destination

Welcome to Episode 50 of Destination Linux for 12-18-17 In today’s episode, we have a special guest who will be joining us to talk and discuss the news. Stuart Langridge Podcaster Developer Github Launchpad Author And also has his own Wikipedia page (impressive) Twitter @sil Mastodon Google + Youtube Channel Kryogenix Well known for Podcasts Former – LugRadio Present – Bad Voltage where you cover pretty much any topic You have done man Live shows in multiple places at SCaLE 13x, OpenNMS 2015, SCaLE 14x, and SCaLE 15x Bad Voltage Community Working with Jono Bacon and Jeremy Garcia (“and formerly Bryan Lunduke in series 1”) 2017 Picks   Our personal pick for top distro(s) of 2017   Ryan : MX, Xubuntu, Archmerge   Our personal pick for beloved DE(s) of 2017   Ryan : Xfce, i3   Our favorite moments on the show   Ryan: Gifting the gnome to Rocco, getting told to RTFM read the manual by Phillip Manjaro   Your Favorite Software Finds of 2017   Ryan Etcher (only USB iso maker that always consistently works) – Ryan Vectr: vector art program (banners, simple graphics, etc.) Gnome Twitch Lutris (Game Management software) Brackets (HTML Web design tool) Stacer – thanks to Michael is a great system profiler Simplenote – my favorite app I use constantly for keeping notes, ideas, tips, video ideas etc. Cross platform super easy to use and one of the programs that replaced one of the dependencies I had prior on OneNote. Phoronix Test Suite   Great Linux Games of 2017   Ryan Rocket League Ballistic Overkill Sundered Rocco Rocket League Shadow of Mordor Gaming On Linux top game pick was F1 2017 News Net Neutrality Law Peppermint 8 Respin Released GeckoLinux An OpenSuse Spin Gecko Linux Testing a switch to default Breeze-Dark Plasma theme in Bionic daily isos and default settings You can reach them on the Kubuntu IRC channel or Telegram group, on the user mailing list, or post feedback on the (unofficial) Kubuntu web forums Thank you to Michael Tunnell from TuxDigital.com for kindly suggesting this change. Admin Destination Linux Apparel Where Can You Find Us This Week Rocco and Ryan will be playing Rocket League live this week on DasGeek Channel Big Daddy Linux Live! Will be on Saturday night on the BigDaddyLinux Channel www.bigdaddylinux.com Twitter @dasgeekchannel @bigdaddylinux A big thank you to each and every one of you for supporting us and Thank you For Watching Destination Linux Have a great week and remember the Journey ITSELF is just as important as the Destination

Welcome to Episode 49 of Destination Linux for 12-11-17 Special Guest: Rob Collins Everyone in the Linux community and the developers and organizers did an amazing job. I think we can all agree this has been an amazing year for Linux. Here we pick some of our top picks but that doesn’t mean there weren’t dozens of others we could name. Top Contributors 2017 To Linux Linux Now Powers 100% of the World’s Top 500 Supercomputers Our personal pick for top distro(s) of 2017 Our personal pick for beloved DE(s) of 2017 Your Favorite Software Finds of 2017 Some of our favorite Linux sites Impactful changes to Linux News Linux Mint Sylvia Which Linux Distribution Boots The Fastest? An 11-Way Linux Comparison itsfoss Top 20 Gnome Extensions Admin Destination Linux Apparel Where Can You Find Us This Week Big Daddy Linux Live! Will be on Saturday night on the BigDaddyLinux Channel Twitter @bigdaddylinux A big thank you to each and every one of you for supporting us and Thank you For Watching Destination Linux Have a great week and remember the Journey ITSELF is just as important as the Destination

Welcome to Episode 48 of Destination Linux for 12-04-17 Special Guest: Liam Dawe of Gaming on Linux GamingOnLinux has no paywalls, no timed articles and those who support you via Paypal or Patreon won’t even have to see ads. Additionally, your site provides its entire source code in true open source fashion. Why was it important for you to make your platform open and how has this shaped GamingOnLinux? Now for some gaming news! Let’s talk about Really big gaming news……Eurotruck Simulator just released! (Joke) An article from 2013 that was from www.linuxgamingnews.org What I’ve been playing: Nexuiz The big update to Planet Nomads that adds flight and alien monuments is now out The ‘ARK: Aberration Expansion’ is due out in December Looks like the open-world FPS ‘The Signal From Tölva’ is now on Linux The rather flashy shoot ’em up ‘PAWARUMI’ is now on Linux Steam The Linux-powered Ataribox Joystick has been revealed, looks delightfully retro and rather stylish Remember the Ataribox? The Linux-powered retro console that will turn to crowdfunding sometime soon just had the reveal of their Joystick. Steam continues to get bigger, with another record-breaking concurrent user count at 17.6 million Meet the Templars, a faction of Psionic zealots in XCOM 2: War of the Chosen for macOS and Linux Wine 3.0 RC1 should be out in early December, final release likely in January Oxygen Not Included From Klei Entertainment Atom RPG Civilization VI Expansion Announcing Civilization VI: Rise and Fall Admin Destination Linux Apparel Where Can You Find Us This Week Rocco and Ryan will be playing Rocket League live this week on DasGeek Channel Big Daddy Linux Live! Will be on Saturday night on the BigDaddyLinux Channel Twitter @dasgeekchannel @bigdaddylinux A big thank you to each and every one of you for supporting us and Thank you For Watching Destination Linux Have a great week and remember the Journey ITSELF is just as important as the Destination

Welcome to Episode 47 of Destination Linux for 11-27-17 I’m Rocco (and I’m Ryan) and this is Destination Linux Today on the show we have a special guest Dolphin Oracle One of the guys behind MX Linux MX Linux is regularly featured in the top 30 distros on Distrowatch and beloved by many Youtube content creators and users alike. Dolphin has been on the show before and if you have not seen that episode you can view it here. Admin Destination Linux Apparel Where Can You Find Us This Week Rocco and Ryan will be playing Rocket League live this week on DasGeek Channel Big Daddy Linux Live! Will be on Saturday night on the BigDaddyLinux Channel Twitter @dasgeekchannel @bigdaddylinux A big thank you to each and every one of you for supporting us and Thank you For Watching Destination Linux Have a great week and remember the Journey ITSELF is just as important as the Destination  

Welcome to Episode 46 of Destination Linux for 11-20-17 Today on the show we have a special guest Alan Pope (Popey) Recent quote Not Lying!! Google+ Twitter @popey TriggerPope Mastodon Youtube Launchpad Github Ubuntu Member Ubuntu LoCo Member Ubuntu Membership Board Some information on Alan’s Bio Alan has been a Community Manager at Canonical primarily working on Ubuntu for devices but is pretty much anywhere and everywhere that Ubuntu is. He first encountered Linux in the mid-1990s, and ran Red Hat then Debian on the desktop and server until Ubuntu Warty came out. Alan has been using Ubuntu since 4.10 – the Warty Warthog and never looked back. Previously Alan spent 13 years working as a system admin on some evil German proprietary software, but did what he could for Ubuntu and Linux in his spare time. Alan became an Ubuntu member in 2006 and has in the past been the contact person for the UK LoCo team, a member of the LoCo Council and a member of the EMEA Membership board and the Community Council. He quite dislikes forums. Alan likes cats. Setup and ran the Screencast Team which aimed to create a set of tutorial videos for new Ubuntu users. As part of that he managed the Ubuntu Screencasts Site. Since then Alan has now handed this over to another Ubuntu member. Often runs development releases of Ubuntu early in the cycle to provide testing, bug reporting and triage help. Helping to organise OGGCamp – a barcamp style unconference. The Ubuntu Podcast Started the Ubuntu Podcast and continue to co-present, mirror, co-produce and co-manage the show along with a few other members of the UK LoCo Team Mark Johnson & Martin Wimpress UBP has around 3,000 core subscribers with each episode downloaded about 10,000 times. You also recently hit 1.4 million downloads which is quite an achievement for a niche podcast. Guest Host on other podcasts like Bad Voltage Blog about Ubuntu ROFL Learn not to be like this News Ubuntu 18.04 Daily Builds are now available The schedule of the release of Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver with given dates are as follows: 4th January 2018 – Alpha 1 (Not Public Release – opt-in) 1st February 2018 – Alpha 2 (Not Public Release – opt-in) 8th March 2018 – Beta 1 (Not Public Release – opt-in) 5th April 2018 – Final Beta 19th April 2018 – Release Candidate 26th April 2018 – Final Release Ubuntu Devs Want to Know How You Feel About Guest Sessions in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS New system sounds in 18.04? HT to Phoronix Ubuntu Is Looking for a New Theme Suru will be the default icon theme in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Papirus Icon Theme 2017.11.02 Released   This Week in Solus – Install #48 Brisk Menu 0.5.0 Released   Redcore Linux 1710 on DistroWatch Redcore Linux version release. Gaming What I’ve been playing: ‘ This War of Mine’ 28k Overwhelmingly Positivie Review on Steam Play as a group of civilians trying to just survive a war ridden besieged city Try to get food, shelter, supplies, and keep your group from getting sick. Do all of this while trying to maintain some morality. Truly experience the horrors of war. On sale through Nov 28th for 3.99 vs. 19.99. Though I feel this game is actually worth $19.99 Beastmancer, a monster taming tactical RPG is now on Linux Steam Official Site   Trüberbrook, a beautiful adventure game with Linux support, is on Kickstarter Official Site Kickstarter Admin Destination Linux Apparel Where Can You Find Us This Week Rocco and Ryan will be playing Rocket League live this week on DasGeek Channel Big Daddy Linux Live! Saturday night on the BigDaddyLinux Channel Twitter @dasgeekchannel @bigdaddylinux A big thank you to each and every one of you for supporting us and Thank you For Watching Destination Linux Have a great week and remember the Journey ITSELF is just as important as the Destination

Welcome to Episode 45 of Destination Linux for 11-13-17 Today on the show we have a special guest from the Xfce development team Sean Davis Web Developer by day Xubuntu Technical Lead all the time Xfce core contributor An Ubuntu Member A contributor to several of the core applications included with Xubuntu including Catfish File Search Light Locker Settings LightDM GTK+ Greeter MenuLibre (Menu Editor) 2012 Mugshot (User Configuration) Parole Media Player xfce4-power-manager And someone I will have to personally apologize to Twitter Github Launchpad BitBucket Youtube Sean Davis Welcome to the show Admin Destination Linux Apparel Where Can You Find Us This Week Rocco and Ryan will be playing Rocket League live this week on DasGeek Channel Big Daddy Linux Live! On Saturday night on the BigDaddyLinux Channel Twitter @dasgeekchannel @bigdaddylinux A big thank you to each and every one of you for supporting us and Thank you For Watching Destination Linux Have a great week and remember the Journey ITSELF is just as important as the Destination    

Welcome to Episode 44 of Destination Linux for 11-06-17 We have some changes we’ve implemented this week: Our producer Zebe is here with us for the first week. He will helping to manage our Patrons who have the opportunity to join the show live while we’re recording. He may jump in from time to time to add commentary or help ask questions from the Patron group in Zoom. Today on the show we have a special guest Dustin from Ubuntu Budgie. Dustin has been a guest in the past but for our new listeners….. Dustin Krysak @Bashfulrobot Github Ubuntu Budgie Download Ubuntu Budgie 17.10 More info on the applets New LibreOffice and Chromium snaps are available for testing https://plus.google.com/+OlivierTilloy/posts/irsoC1hp7q7 https://plus.google.com/+OlivierTilloy/posts/Mh3Pdgw8KhL Canonical Has Joined the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board You Can Now Install KDE Plasma 5.11.2 Desktop and Latte Dock on Kubuntu 17.10 Revamped Skype Desktop App Released AMD Launches Ryzen Mobile Combining Zen And Vega To Take On Intel In Powerhouse Laptops YouTube is fighting the ‘adpocalypse’ with a less trigger-happy flagging system Firefox to Get a Better Password Manager Firefox Implements Another Privacy-Preserving Feature Taken From the Tor Browser Kaspersky: We uploaded US documents but quickly deleted them Another article 3D printer runs Linux on BeagleBone, focuses on ease of use South Korea: World’s first giant manned robot takes its first steps 5 Most Beautiful Linux Desktop Environments Gaming What Have I Been Playing: Sally Face A very unusual but so far amazing psychological horror game made by Steve Gabry. FORMULA ONE returns to Linux with F1 2017 F1 2017 is officially coming to Linux, releasing November 2nd from Feral Interactive SuperTuxKart Update Adds New Tracks, Characters You Can Now Play SuperTuxKart on Android! City Game Studio, a sandbox management game will release next year, made on Linux Adventure game ‘AER Memories of Old’ has released with same-day Linux support 5 of the Best Gaming Mice For Linux Admin Destination Linux Apparel Where Can You Find Us This Week Rocco and Ryan will be playing Rocket League live this week on DasGeek Channel Big Dady Linux Live on Saturday night on the BigDaddyLinux Channel Twitter @dasgeekchannel @bigdaddylinux A big thank you to each and every one of you for supporting us and Thank you For Watching Destination Linux Have a great week and remember the Journey ITSELF is just as important as the Destination

Welcome to Destination Linux for 10-30-17 This week we will be covering…………. Ubuntu 18.04 LXqt Xubuntu Antix Linux Mint and the latest gaming news But first, we have a viewer email “I bought a second hand hdd from a sale the local school had. It’s a 2tb western digital blue I installed it, got it mounted and used it for about an hour before it became inaccessible. Reformatting at this point left me w a chunk of inaccessible data. Now either hdparm or disks put its status as frozen. From my understanding this can be fixed by power cycling the hdd without power cycling the computer? I’m wondering if this will be a continuous problem on this drive? Would the easiest solution be to put it in an external case?” Eric Noah J. Chelliah from the “Ask Noah Show” Twitter A business owner of Altispeed a company that provides network infrastructure, backend, client-side front-end, and tech support. Former host of the insanely popular “Linux Action Show” Jupiter Broadcasting Bio Page And now with your own show. You are the host of the “Ask Noah Show” News Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is Called ‘Bionic Beaver’ Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Will Likely Ship With Linux 4.15 30th November: Feature Definition Freeze 4th January: Alpha 1 release 1st February: Alpha 2 release 1st March: Feature Freeze 8th March: First beta release 5th April: Final beta release 19th April: Final Freeze 26th April: Stable Ubuntu 18.04 LTS release LXQt 0.12 released With Better HiDPI Support, More Robust Release LXQt 0.12.0 Xubuntu 17.10 released! antiX-17 released Linux Mint Throws Its Weight Behind Flatpak Linux Mint Will Discontinue Its KDE Edition Official Announcement Coffee – A News and Weather App for Linux Gaming What Have I Been Playing: TF2 w/ Rocco Jungle Inferno Update & CS Go w/ Dustin Krysak (Ubuntu Budgie) If you thought we were bad at Rocket League – you ain’t seen nothing yet. Hand of Fate 2 Release on November 7th The next three major Steam sale dates have been leaked Close-combat FPS ‘Return to Planet X’ is now on Linux, it’s actually not bad at all Euro Truck Simulator 2 Coming To GNU/Linux Soon! Bundle Stars is becoming Fanatical Admin Destination Linux Apparel Where Can You Find Us This Week Rocco and Ryan will be playing Rocket League live this week on DasGeek Channel Friday Night Live on the BigDaddyLinux Channel Twitter @dasgeekchannel @bigdaddylinux A big thank you to each and every one of you for supporting us and Thank you For Watching Destination Linux Have a great week and remember the Journey ITSELF is just as important as the Destination