It’s all about the community this week as expert Jono Bacon joins us but before that, Plasma Mobile is looking good, flight simulator dev politics, booting servers more quickly, and Mycroft will get a second attempt to answer the question “What are beans?”
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Testing Plasma Mobile on x86 and mobile devices
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Communitising the community
We are joined by Community expert, author, and podcaster Jono Bacon to talk about FOSS communities, their good and bad sides, and how to deal with problematic members within them. We mentioned his consulting business and his podcast Bad Voltage.
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I think Caja is the best file manager. Light yet still highly functional.
Please don’t drop Ogg support. It’s not just about Vorbis being more efficient. Vorbis also is a good metadata container, and supports things like ReplayGain. MP3 is a mess, supporting ID3v1, ID3v2, and APE tags. But more importantly, Ogg Vorbis is a part of Linux culture. Yes, MP3 is not patent-encumbered anymore, but it has never represented freedom. Ogg still does.
I don’t understand how encoding to two formats is a big hassle, it can be done effortlessly with an alias or a simple script.
In regards to providing Late Night Linux in mp3 format only, i much prefer Vorbis because it has superior sound. I think it is the ideal lossy codec and has always been my first choice when space or bandwidth are limited.
For cloud music services such as Spotify and Google, i chose Spotify because they use Vorbis. I know ogg files takes a longer to encode than mp3, but it is worth the extra time and effort. jonathon