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Linux Radio

Posted by samzenpus on from the free-traffic-report dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This might very well be the nerdiest site we'll ever encounter... Linux Radio is an online radio station broadcasting the Linux kernel! Each time someone visit the site, a random source file is selected and read loudly by a virtual speaker materialized through the open source speech synthesizer eSpeak. Will it prove useful to anyone is probably a difficult question to answer, but the excitement provided is worth experiencing at least once. However, this concept proves once more the advantages of open source over proprietary software making such achievements impossible : whoever in his right mind would want to listen to binary files loudly?"

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  1. Holy cow !!! by unity100 · · Score: 4, Funny

    For some fscking reason, this thing actually sounds appealing and coherent to me. Not to mention relaxing and understandable.

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    1. Re:Holy cow !!! by ZosX · · Score: 3, Funny

      I honestly don't quite see how farting could possibly give the illusion of distance.

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  2. Can we get a sultry female voice instead? by haruchai · · Score: 4, Funny

      I mean, c'mon, does Stephen Hawking really have time to read all this? And, this has to be the most tedious method of mirroring the kernel sources that I've ever "heard"

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  3. Hell... by damn_registrars · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's still better than at least 90% of what counts as "music" today.

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  4. Re:i don't understand by maeka · · Score: 3, Funny

    whoever in his right mind would want to listen to binary files loudly?

    I like my Autechre just fine, TYVM.

  5. I understand by Johann+Public · · Score: 3, Funny

    wanting to prove that it's possible to install and run Linux on (nearly) any computer imaginable, but something tells me you're going to need a little more work in the patching, drivers, and other modifications department to get it running on H. sapiens wetware computers...just saying

  6. nothing but includes for the first three minutes. by wagadog · · Score: 5, Funny

    lol it's like the begats in the bible.

  7. Re:Wow there are a lot of asterisks! by Bender0x7D1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    You missed the obvious...

    Oh my God... It's full of stars.

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  8. Re:Useful? Not too difficult a question actually by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    Access it? I'm pretty sure they wrote most of it.

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  9. Listening to binary files... by Arancaytar · · Score: 3, Funny

    whoever in his right mind would listen to binary files

    You mean like an MP3?