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Speech Synthesizing the Linux Kernel for Arts Sake

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the anything-is-art-if-your-can-justify-it dept.

ungulation writes "A joint project of SFMOMA, The Goethe-Institut, ZKM Karlsruhe, and the Walker Art Center, a group called CrossFade broadcast the entire linux kernel 2.4.18. From the CrossFade website: "In Free Radio Linux, the entire source code of the Linux kernel will be webcast over the Internet. A speech synthesizer will convert into talk radio the 4,141,432 lines of code, which will take about 600 days to read." According to the Free Radio Linux website the stream is only available in ogg-vorbis format."

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  1. Re: Speech Synthesizing the Linux Kernel for Arts by Dunark · · Score: 4, Informative

    Am I the only person that thinks this is a massively stupid waste of time?

  2. Damn... by phyberop · · Score: 5, Funny

    The only problem is that they will keep interrupting the stream each time a new kernel is released.

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  3. Say Goodbye to WMA by ageitgey · · Score: 5, Funny

    According to the Free Radio Linux website the stream is only available in ogg-vorbis format.

    Microsoft understands and now finally the open source community does too! It's not about having a better codec (ogg vs. wma), but making the hot content that people want avaliable. Well, I think it's obvious to everyone that with ogg's virtual monopoly on voice synth spoken linux kernel broadcasts, wma's days are numbered.

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  4. Re: Speech Synthesizing the Linux Kernel for Arts by Fesh · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Geez, folks... It's performance art. If everything had to be practical, this'd be one hell of a dull world. I mean, what practical use does a performance of The Nutcracker Suite (for instance) have?

    As geeky as we geeks are, artists are at a whole other level of weird. Accept it and stick to what you're good at, huh?

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  5. Seriously! by cybermace5 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I use Linux, and have used it for years. I enjoy its flexibilty and the ease I can "open the hood" and see how things are working.

    But something like this.... Does this make people think "Wow, Linux is Free Speech and Good" or "Wow, Linux users are a bunch of loonies with a religious bent and more concerned with ideals rather than developing a serious OS my business can depend on."

    I don't see how this is useful or good in any way. 600 days? I just say, "Why?"

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  6. If you play it backwards.... by Fesh · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...does a creepy disembodied voice chant "Microsoft developers are weenies"?

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  7. In other news... by archeopterix · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft paid the 100 most popular Hollywood actors to read aloud the contents of Windows XP installation CD image. "That will clearly demonstrate the superiority of closed source software" says the new Microsoft CEO, Mickey Mouse.

  8. Awesome! by cporter · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is awesome! Now, does anyone have a speech-to-text program that accepts ogg streams as input?

  9. Been done... by Rhubarb+Crumble · · Score: 4, Interesting
    This has been done, but with DeCSS rather than the linux kernel...anyone remember the "descramble song"?

    "This function is void, it takes two args/The first is sec a pointer to 2048 unsigned bytes/That are the encrypted disk sector and will be decrypted"

  10. For more information: by haggar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Check this infomative link

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  11. Re:Hmm... could be raunchy by rogueuk · · Score: 4, Funny

    have you looked at some of those comments? it's hilarious:

    ./Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl:650: If you don't see why, please stay the fuck away from my code.
    ./arch/mips/kernel/irixelf.c:759:#if 0 /* XXX No fucking way dude... */
    ./arch/mips/kernel/irixioctl.c:2: * irixioctl.c: A fucking mess...
    ./arch/parisc/kernel/signal.c:229: printk("fuckup in sys_rt_sigreturn, sending SIGSEGV\n");
    ./arch/parisc/kernel/signal.c:372: /* ARGH! Fucking brain damage. You don't want to know. */
    ./include/asm-mips/mmu_context.h:18:/* Fuck. The f-word is here so you can grep for it :-) */