Slashdot Mirror
Audio Download: Linux Kernel to be on Radio
cyber_rigger writes: "The Linux Kernel is to have a (spoken) reading on Radio Free Linux and some other regular radio station throughout the world.
http://radioqualia.va.com.au/freeradiolinux/
I guess this makes Linux offically 'free as in speech.'
'The Linux kernel contains 4,141,432 lines of code. Reading
the entire kernel will take an estimated 14253.43 hours, or
593.89 days. Free Radio Linux begins transmission on
February 3, 2002, the fourth anniversary of the term "Open
Source."'" If only the mysterious numbers stations would open their source as well.
I listened in for a bit and it was very confusing. The punctuation marks especially have very confusing names and not enough pause between them. =( came out as: equals..... signpar-en-the-sis ... very confusing. And why "traditional hyphen"?
It also mispronounced "Linus Torvalds". How hard would it have been to sample Linus' name properly?
Of course, these are all things that can be improved as time goes on and I do hope they will actually do so.
Any technology which is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
Why the linux kernel???
Why not start reading from the Project Gutenberg files instead, something that would support 'open' and 'free' concepts, but at the same time be useful and improving...
I haven't tuned in as of yet (just woke up at work and cannot find the power supply for my speakers), but it seems to me that they would be reading the algorithym, not the code.
Reading the code symbol for symbol would seem to me to be slightly, well, geeky. But not in that good way.
On a side note, has anyone thought about calling Guiness ( the records guys, not the beer guys) for a note in The Book? This has to be the longest online reading ever.
On second thought, call the beer guys too. It might be harder to understand, but it would be a hellava lot more fun. And I can always get the written transcripts later:)
I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.