LWN: Comments on "The LKML Summary Podcast"

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jcm — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:28:45 +0000

The podcast has now topped 100,000 downloads.

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jcm — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:27:34 +0000

There is now also http://www.kernelpodcast.org/ for transcripts, feedback, and further information.

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jcm — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:44:44 +0000

Good point. Ok. I have also been enumerating numbers "two-point-six-point-three-zero" rather than "two-six-thirty", but might change that around.

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Lovechild — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:04:04 +0000

I, of one, really like this, however it would be nice if you didn't do things like using gregkh instead of using his full name, it sounds very odd and feels like a flow breaker.

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nevets — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:22:32 +0000

I have to listen to one of these pod casts. Jon is notorious for speaking very fast. But so am I. We have been asked to go head to head to see who speaks faster * I've been told that I do *

But then again, Jon has laid off the caffeine, so perhaps his speech did slow down a bit.

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jcm — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:24:17 +0000

We'll see. I'll do a few weeks and then review the numbers and interest levels - if I can put together a team to help produce it as a collaborative work then it becomes much less difficult. If not, it'll go weekly or "every few days", or something like that.

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sjayaraman — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:51:56 +0000

I like this idea very much.. Thanks Jon. I'm non-native english speaker, but I didn't have any problem listening to it. Could be very useful, but would need lot of effort for sustaining it.

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chantecode — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:50:43 +0000

Patrick, neither am I a native english speaker. (We have the same native tongue).

But I notice that Jon doesn't speak that fast and I thank him for that.
It's way more understandable than lots of other audio information sources
in english.

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dawsonwu — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:03:11 +0000

A great idea. Just downloaded, and will listen to it while toiling in the field.

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jcm — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:26:37 +0000

Yesterday, there were 3487 downloads :)

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kerick — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:48:18 +0000

I think this is a great idea. Personally, the less time I have to take to read the weekly summary, the more time I have to read the meat of articles.

Better to read ...

jcm — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:11:09 +0000

Actually, yeah, I do write it and then read it...I thought about uploading the script. It's all time I guess - when I have time there'll be an ogg stream too, and the scripts. Maybe next week :)

Better to read ...

Felix_the_Mac — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:08:55 +0000

I don't actually listen to anything :-),
so a written version would be much more useful for me;
and since you must already have a script I hope that it will be possible.

Hope this catches on!

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jcm — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:06:32 +0000

Thanks for the support. I've already had 500 downloads today, and it's growing. Hopefully this means there's some interest, which will keep it happening. I wanted a good reason to keep up to date with LKML ;)

I would love to hear from people as I play with the format: what tree summaries would you like at the top of the podcast (current Linus/mm/next...) and what announcements would you like included?

I'm aware that non-native English speakers might have difficulties - this isn't designed to replace LWN or other news sources, merely to digest the LKML into a commute/travel/iPhone-at-bus-stop quick 3-5 minute catchup. And if there's interest for other non-English speakers, we can hopefully get someone to translate in the course of time.

P.S. The podcast URL will remain consistent, but I've already asked a couple of larger projects for help with mirroring/hosting of the mp3s.

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mattdm — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:58:02 +0000

Fortunately, there's already http://lwn.net/Kernel/.

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johill — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:49:51 +0000

But on the other hand it trains your listening comprehension :)

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sjj — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:40:11 +0000

Awesome, this will get on my commute podcast list.

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patrick_g — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:39:52 +0000

For a non native english speaker like me it's much easier to read a document than to listen a podcast.

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rvfh — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:23:42 +0000

Nice! Reminds me of something long gone...