Josh and I started The Linux Podcast shortly after starting Ubuntu Podcast, but we would never find the time to do them. If you have ever watched the Ubuntu Podcast, we have complained plenty about video editing and all that.

While I know Linux and FOSS supporters will hate this, but I think I’ll stick with Flash for now. I’m going to skip the recording with the camera, transferring, editing, uploading, etc, etc. I’m just going to record directly to YouTube and slap it on thelinuxpodcast.com. Frankly, the less work that I have to do to put it out, the more likely I will put shows.

If you can’t see the embedded flash, visit thelinuxpodcast.com.

In this Ubuntu Podcast quickie: Karmic Alpha 5 is out, how to participate in Ubuntu Global Jam, Pennsylvania LoCo at CPOSC, Ubuntu in Zimbabwe parliament, Greek Team helps build educational repo, 5th issue of Greek Team magazine Ubuntistas, Ubuntu Technical Board elections, Tahoe-LAFS in Karmic, new screencasts, Ubuntu Mexico podcast, Ubuntu User magazine issue #2.

In Ubuntu Podcast #32: changing default irc channels in irc clients, Canonical Desktop Services, Xubuntu discussing what to do with new GDM, musician switched over to Ubuntu Studio from Macs, Microsoft mentions Canonical and Red Hat in its 10K SEC filings, first Launchpad community meetup, 100 Hundred papercuts round 3 and round 4, Debian is going to a fixed freeze schedule, SpreadUbuntu keeps moving along, Landscape System Management Tool Adds Dedicated Server, UbuCon @ Atlanta Linux Fest 2009.

In Ubuntu Podcast Quickie #10, we cover lots of LoCo activity, Ubuntu UK Podcast screencasts, Karmic Alpha 3, On-Disk Quick Ship Free Disc Service for Xubuntu, server community happenings, and much more.

In Ubuntu Podcast #31, we hash over: 8.04.3 released, 6.06 LTS Dapper desktop support, Art of Community Chapter 1 released, French release party, Powernap for servers, test drive Ubuntu on a Mac, maybe bug #1 will be closed soon, and Community Council elections

In Ubuntu Podcast Quickie #9: 8.04.03 coming 16 July, Ubuntu 6.06 desktop support ending, Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase deadline approaching, updates on Spread Ubuntu, UbuCon Central America, 100 Paper Cuts Round 2.

Have to admit, really like OGV in the browser.

Join us for Ubuntu Podcast live streaming #31: Thursday 16 July 8:30pm EST/17 July 00:30 UTC @ http://ubuntupodcast.net/live-stream/.

With Firefox 3.5 out, I decided to give the much discussed video codecs a try. Ubuntu Podcast #30 is a bit over 50 minutes long, at 640×360. The original video file is over 500 MB. Using ffmpeg2theora, the OGV is around 180 MB. Not bad.

The fallbacks seems to work ok. IE visitors see the embedded flash player, Safari users can watch the video with Quicktime.

Playback on a 1.6 ghz machine with 1.5 GB RAM seems a bit choppy at times, but not completely horrible.

Let me know what you guys think.

After about taking a month off, the Ubuntu Podcast is returning. We decided to kick it off with a quickie. Some things I talk about this episode: One Hundred Paper Cuts, Ubuntu Global Jam, Empathy to replace Pidgin, no more Mibbit on Freenode, new Hall of Famer: Adi Roiban, and Ubuntu Satanic license issue.

Sometime next week, we will put out a montage of SouthEast LinuxFest and a short interview with Dan Chen discussing PulseAudio.