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LKML Summary Podcast
Jon Masters writes "I've started recording a daily summary podcast of Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) traffic. It's in MP3 format (for the benefit of car stereos, including my empeg, and iPhone/iPod users) with an Ogg Vorbis format version to follow next week, and text versions of the script I read from will be available too for those who want to help with translation — or just prefer not listening to audio. It's an experiment at this stage and may not continue to be daily in the longer term unless I can build a team of willing volunteers to help find items worth including from the day's traffic, write the daily script, record it, and so forth. But it's proving to be a useful exercise in forcing myself to be up to date with LKML. I've had around 5,000 downloads in a first several days, and a lot of positive feedback, so I think this is filling a void and may prove to be useful. If you'd like to help get involved drop me a line at kernel-podcast@jonmasters.org, or tweet @kernelpodcast."
your server is about to melt ;)
the Post Intelligencer and the Boston Globe
Just pipe the script into Cepstral and be done!
http://cepstral.com/
It has many voices and sounds very good IMHO.
I really enjoyed that site. Especially the flame wars. Now I have to go out and start my own flamewars to get my fix.
I can't imagine anything more sleep inducing than a podcast of a kernel mailing list. You better include a warning not to listen while driving or operating machinery.
They're suing for patent infringement.
It's in MP3 format ... with an Ogg Vorbis format version to follow next week
It takes a week to transcode the mp3 to ogg?
I know a good way. Use the KSayIt! application to speak the threads out. It's quite enthralling actually.. Nothing like a robotic voice reading email messages:
"from colon less than ultorvaldus at sign ulkaymul dot com greater than to colon ah cox at sign cox nos pam dot com subject colon you areeee mad you should have radeee your comshee book"
Put it in a Second life-like environment, where the avatars of the speakers say what they did in the mailing list, start wars with flamethrowers, put smiling faces every third comment and and roll on the floor laughting.
isnt a daily podcast of LKML a bit much? i would error on the conservative side and recommend a podcast that covered only the more significant updates, really who wants to hear every little update to every little device kernel driver/module & nitpicked flaw, get to the big juicy stuff that makes Linux history and grabs hardware vendors and (users whom waiting for months and years to get in-kernel support) attention. once a week or once or twice a month is plenty, not to be raining on anyone's parade but after the "new" wears off you dont want to get burnt out on making podcasts of every trivial update to the kenrel. good idea though i will listen when the slashdot effect wears off (let your servers cool down)...
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
...and I thought that the Shipping Forecast was boring...
Once I was a four stone apology. Now I am two separate gorillas.
to Hugo, Patrick, Peter, Roger, Rob, Rob, the rest of the empeg crew, and the empeg user community (especially Mark Lord, Mr hdparm himself) for creating and tweaking the best in-car music player ever.
My empeg is 7 years old now and there's still nothing on the market that comes close to replacing it. I figure it's been driven 150000 miles and played close to 2Tbits of music at this point.
When I saw the headline, my first thought was that LKML is yet another markup language (YAML). I was slightly irritated that I didn't see it coming.
Best regards.
Ogg Vorbis, lol.
Absolutely nobody cares about Ogg Vorbis.
do not listen to these podcasts while driving. You will fall asleep. You will kill someone.
How we know is more important than what we know.
"filling a void" error: variable or field declared void
do not listen to these podcasts [of the LKML] [...] You will kill someone.
Someone should tell that to Hans Reiser.
I've been waiting to ask, what ever happened to http://kerneltrap.org/ ?
No activity since September.
First: bravo. You have a wonderful voice and this will certainly open the door for a future in broadcasting. (Though you should invest in a spit-guard or whatever its' called so that your lip-smacking isn't as audible.)
Second: that's too much data at too high a frequency for me ... how about a weekly podcast summing the week's activity (highlights only) in five minutes for an average activity week and ten minutes for a busy one? ("Busy" being relative not to traffic but rather notable insight.) Yes, this will require more editorial work (sorry, and no, I'm not volunteering).
This would be similar to Linux Journal's diff -u, a 3/4-page article within their UpFront section, summing the kernel development news of the past month.
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