Linux Kernel Podcast

So I’ll freely admit, I’m obsessed with Podcasts. I love listening to news – the New York Times Front Page, Wall St. Journal Today, NPR News, APM’s Marketplace, On Point, etc. I particularly like those Podcasts that provide a quick summary of what’s going on, since we don’t all have time to be subject experts on everything in life.

I recently pondered whether it would be useful to have a similar podcast for the Linux Kernel Mailing List. I was actually pretty surprised at the lack of existing podcasts (other than the excellent one from TimeSys), especially considering folks are often travelling and away from email – and then there are many people who are interested but don’t have a reason to follow the list so closely. Since I do already read the list, I decided it wouldn’t be much additional effort to make a quick recording based on what I had read that day. Look upon this as an experiment to gauge interest – and to see if there are enough volunteers to help make this a regular thing.

Today’s episode took 15 minutes to prepare and record, and 1 hour to get staged and setup with the right XML, etc. That’s hopefully 15-20 minutes per day on an ongoing basis, which isn’t much, and might help someone. I would especially like it if there were enough people who were interested in helping out that we could farm this out between a few of us on a weekly basis – but that’s predicated on this being useful. I’ll watch the logs, listen for feedback, and this will last as long as it provides something useful to the wider community.

Linux Kernel Podcast

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