LUGRadio Live This Summer

[vmlinuz] writes "Also picked up on The Register, The Inquirer and Linux Today - with the LUGRadio show getting more and more listeners and attracting guests such as Miguel de Icaza, Mark Shuttleworth, Alan Cox, Seth Nickell and more, the growing fanbase will be able to congregate at LUGRadio Live this summer. The day long event includes speakers such as Ian Bell (co-creator of Elite), Simon Willison, Bill Thompson, Christan Schaller and more. In addition to the speakers, an all day bar, multi-player gaming, mini expo and paintball are in the cards. LUGradio Live takes place on Sat 25th June 2005 in Wolverhampton, UK."

Re:The Rise of the Eurofags

[poolmeister]

Yeah Cap, good read.

Podcasts and the like..

[treff89]

.. are a great and effective way to spread Linux etc. by combatting the short attention span of the youth of today.

Re:About "podcasting"...

[PremiumCarrion]

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to eat some red meat

Seems like you just came out of the closet. If you need any tips on Smoking Beef I suggest you chat to the guys over at LemonParty.

Re:Podcasts and the like..

[Tore S B]

...the short attention span of the youth of today.

I take great offence to that remark. As a member of the "youth of today" I can assure you that... ooh, shiny

Is it just me?

[polysylabic psudonym]

News for Nerds.

It seems to me that more often than news, slashdot's thing is adverts for nerds.

Not saying it's a bad thing, there's a big grey area between news and adverts in this sort of thing, and hey, I'm here every day reading the stuff.

I'm saying this mainly because I'd never heard of LUG radio before. Now I'm interested.

Damn it "News for Nerds, Ads that bloody well work".

PS Sorry if this comes off as a bit trollish. Its just there's a fine line between news and well targetted advertising.

Re:Is it just me?

[bersl2]

Its just there's a fine line between news and well targetted advertising.

On the contrary, there is a very large and very blurred line between news and advertising.

It is well-known what the readership of Slashdot is primarily. Since this event seems to be something that some readers may wish to attend, it is very much news, but it also happens to be advertising. Your mistake is in making the two mutually exclusive.

You might make the argument that this is unacceptably more ad than news, but this is a much

Re:Is it just me?

[mrevell]

Point taken but, believe me, it's nigh-on impossible getting a story posted on Slashdot :) That's why people like Slashdot, though: it has editorial standards it sticks to.

Re:Is it just me?

[billysara]

And besides, they'll repost the story in a few hours and you'll get slashdotted all over again... ;-)

Yes

[Anonymous Coward]

Profanities all day long and live! :-D

Sounds like a great event.

Re:Let them improve

[mrevell]

I think you're being a little pessimistic regarding people's view of Linux fans. I believe LugRadio presents a view of FOSS that is rarely seen: i.e. normal people enjoying something they passionately believe in. It's blind zealotry that gives Linux a bad name, not having a laugh.

Re:Let them improve

[Anonymous Coward]

I enjoy LUGRadio but with the great of respect those guys can hardly claim not to be "blind zealots". I've lost count of the number of times they've recommended Ubuntu with no reasoning; and that Distro Wars is just lame. It might be an interesting segment if the opinions were given by people who could actually say something insightful on the subject but it comes off as rather pathetic zealotry. I might agree with them, but they're not
the unbiased consumers they or you seem to think they are.

On this subjec

Re:Let them improve

[Perky_Goth]

look, it's funny as hell. if you take it too seriously, it's your fault.
having said that, i did email them about the Didio thing, and they weren't specificly saying that people shouldn't complain, but that people should not make personal atacks on them anyway, not that she didn't deserve it.
it wasn't even against slashdot, they just worded it wrong. it was even my first episode, so i'm not just a fanboy.
honestly, i don't think they give a fuck about being unbiased, it's just a hobby and don't think that som

Get Yer Torrents

[nother_nix_hacker]

http://lugradio.bishopburton.ac.uk/lugradio-s2e15- 090505-high.ogg.torrent [bishopburton.ac.uk]

Re:Get Yer Torrents

[hedge_death_shootout]

WTF?
Alternatively, unless I'm missing something, you might as well go to the lugradio site for torrents for all the episodes, right up to and including s2e15. not just the random one for season 2 episode 9, given in the link above.

Re:Get Yer Torrents

[hedge_death_shootout]

Go get some better glasses.

Believe it or not, anonymous fannybaws, I actually bothered to open it in Azureus, and the contained file (as opposed to the name of the torrent) was the MP3 for s2e9.
Somebody cocked up, then fixed it.

Re:Get Yer Torrents

[byolinux]

er.. that link looks like it's for s2e15, recorded on the 9th of May 2005.

Bill Thompson?

[BillsPetMonkey]

What this [bbc.co.uk] Bill Thompson?

The one that told Linux users to "get real" ?

Re:Bill Thompson?

[mrevell]

Hey, who wants a complete love-in? Conflict is the basis of great drama, etc etc :-D

Re:Bill Thompson?

[sparkes]

you now have a chance to answer back in public, I'm sure Bill knows people will have read his bbc posts and have hundreds of nits to pick but the fact he is attending means he his willing to talk about these points.

Re:Bill Thompson?

[zootm]

What this Bill Thompson?

Yep. Problem?

Re:Bill Thompson?

[BillsPetMonkey]

Fair enough. I don't doubt that - Linuxheads are Linux's greatest enemy.

However lets not forget that there are snakes in the grass - some people just get Linux. Others don't, but now they're happy to claim that they did all along ...

Kubuntu and KDE

[JRiddell]

Although it's not yet listed, I'll be talking about Kubuntu [kubuntu.org] and KDE.

Re:Kubuntu and KDE

[sparkes]

Oohh, I hope you wear something under the kilt for paintball or we could be painting your balls ;-)

Re:Kubuntu and KDE

[sparkes]

Interesting banter between one of the original hosts of lugradio and one of the speakers at the event lugradio live could be scored off-topic.

Another example of how giving modpoints to twats who obviously have not read the story or understand the comments has turned slashdot into a kiddies playground.

sparkes - karma to burn

Linux Distro War

[zaguar]

and paintball are in the cards Ah, the possibilities. Linux fanatics versus Linux fanatics - who will win? My money is definately not on Team Gentoo. They will strip down thier guns and fire minature paint balls "to optimize efficiency". /flamebait

Re:Linux Distro War

[billysara]

I suspect in the three days it takes the "optimisation" to occur they'll be rail-gunned to death by someone running debian i386 on a P90... ;-)

Re:Linux Distro War

[lokisan969]

geehz! you'll never get it! we, already, have the source for the new lazer-guided highspeed-paintball (cvs-version of course!). it is compiling right now and will be ready at day-X.

Come as you are

[sparkes]

I might fall out of bed and roll into the city centre to say hi ;-)

It's pretty impressive that this thing has come together at all considering it has no corporate sponsorship and is being done for the fun of the event.

Imagine that no corporate interest just a bunch of hackers having fun. It's pre-takeover blues /. again.

Re:Come as you are

[rjw57]

Now I know the mighty sparkes is coming it is worth making the effort to come!

Re:The Molineux! Urgh!

[sparkes]

Oh, bad luck Herbster, see you next year ;-)

If your post confused people this one (from a Wolves fan) certainly will.

Re:The Molineux! Urgh!

[Herbster]

Hey... it ain't over quite yet son ;)

Re:The Molineux! Urgh!

[sparkes]

ahh, you buggers. Now I have to change my ringtone from the Great Escape!

Re:Linux Link Tech Show

[mrevell]

Can someone mod this troll down? We aren't paid for the show, we do it because we enjoy it and because the FOSS communities need a variety of media to be healthy. The Linux Link Tech Show is certainly worth a listen, though.

Re:Linux Link Tech Show

[danns23]

As pointed out, wrong show. LUGRadio is fantastic. I know they don't get paid for this, but I am sure it costs them some money.

There are a lot of great Linux and FOSS radio/podcast shows out there. So if LUGRadio is not your bag, try LQRadio, The Linux Box Show, LinuxLog, TLLTS, or keep on searching. Don't forget DDP Hack Radio and Hackermedia! More are popping up every month. Each one is created with a little love inside.

Re:Linux Link Tech Show

[gg3po]

Are you the same "Dan" that I hear on TLLTS? Keep up the good work. I actually like The Linux Link Tech Show even more than Lug Radio, since you guys don't all talk at the same time.

why isn't it downloadable

[Barryke]

Maybe its just me, but the whole podcast thing is juts so 'blowfish alike'

Isn't it just 'downloading music to your usb/mp3-stick'?

Never knew that it could be made so complicated :S
Why don't they just hand over the mp3 over at the site??? (besides the rss thingy)

Re:why isn't it downloadable

[Anonymous Coward]

They do. "Podcasting" isn't actually anything to do with iPods or any other sort of portable music player; it's just an audio file tied to an RSS feed. But you can download it normally as well.

FYI

[isny]

It's pronounced "Lug rah-dee-o". Brilliant show. Oh, and it's not profanity, it's "language".

nice change of pace

[maryjanecapri]

i've been using Linux for about 10 years now. when i first started using it it was still an underground underdog scrapping to get a little attention. well 10 years later it has all the attention it needs but much of it the likes of cnet.com.com.com.com.com. so the majority of attention it gets these days is geared towared the business sect. so it's quite nice to hear people chatting up linux on multiple levels AND hear a bit of the old attitude creeping back into it. i'm sorry but watered-down, business-suit linux is nothing more than microsoft without the unpredictable software. i say more of this. i say Linux TV. i say let's bring back the days when linux.com was a real strong dream and a place where linux users could go and get help. don't get me wrong - i love the fact that big businesses are supporting linux. but that big money doesn't mean linux has to shed it's underdog attitude where you couldn't see a linux ad without the words "world domination" somewhere in the ad. i think the linux community should approach G4 TV and tell them they need to start a Linux TV show. hell, i'm an actor, maybe i'll pitch them the idea.

LUG lugs

[fm6]

I downloaded the LUGRadio show where they interviewed Miguel de Icaza. I was less than impressed by the insight of the LUG guys. They seemed to think that any project which might rely on Mono or .NET could just as easily be done in Python!

Re:No info

[mrBen]

Elite was the quintessential game for 8-bit computers in the 80s. It was a 3d space-trading game that wasted away many a youth.

Re:LUGRADIO is awful: Here's why...

[mrBen]

eh what? They never suggested that the whole of KDE should be written in Python or C#.

I'll also think you'll find that all 4 presenters have contributed a significant amount into the Linux community before LUGRadio ever existed.

Re:LUGRADIO is awful: Here's why...

[mrBen]

OK - for the record there was:

1. A suggestion that KDE had become overbloated and that maybe a lighter version was needed. The suggestion of a rewrite was shot down in flames on the show, and no mention was made of the language in which to do said rewrite.

2. The suggestion about using Python in the core of a DE was a sarcastic remark in a conversation about GNOME looking to support development in high-level languages.

Jono Bacon has been around in Linux-related media for ages; most Linux magazines have ha

good stuff...

[sucati]

I gave this a listen and found it to be quite good, although I think they think some of their humor (actually humour) is funnier than it really is. Anyhow, anyone know of any other good technology related podcasts?