http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-02-02-006-26-PR-DP-KN
Free Radio Linux Launches Audio Distribution of Linux Kernel
The time is GMT 23:00, 02.02.02.
In one hour's time it will be February 3, and the fourth
anniversary of the day the Open Source Initiative
http://www.opensource.org/"; coined the term 'open source' as a
label for freely published source code
http://www.opensource.org/docs/history.html.
To mark this occasion, r a d i o q u a l i a are launching the
first net.radio distribution of the world's most popular open
source software - the operating system, Linux.
Free Radio Linux is an online and on-air radio station. The sound
transmission is a computerised reading of the entire source code
used to create the Linux Kernel, the basis of all distributions of
Linux.
Each line of code is read by an automated computer voice - a
speech.bot utility built by r a d i o q u a l i a. The
speech.bot's output is encoded into an audio stream, using the
open source codec, Ogg Vorbis http://www.vorbis.com, and sent out
live on the Internet. FM, AM and Shortwave radio stations from
around the world will also relay the audio stream on various
occasions.
The Linux kernel contains 4,141,432 millions lines of code.
Reading the entire kernel will take an estimated 14253.43 hours,
or 593.89 days. Listeners can track the progress of Free Radio
Linux by listening to the audio stream, or checking the text-based
progress field in the ./listen section of the website
http://www.radioqualia.net/freeradiolinux
What do you think? Should I save this historic reading for my jukebox?
--
Bob Miller K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
