Ubuntu on the BBC World Service (was: Linux / Debian / Ubuntu)

[Paul Sladen]

On Tue, 31 May 2005, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 19:19:01 +0000
> > Listening to BBC world service right now - good mentions of Linux, Open
> > Source, Hacker Ethic - and specifically Ubuntu
> Apparently, Ubuntu was mentioned on BBC World.

On Digital is a weekly 'tech' radio show on the BBC World Service:

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/1478157.stm (Frontpage)
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4165339.stm (Previous Programmes)

There's a 14Kb real-stream of the radio program, along with a 56Kb
audio+webcam stream:

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/meta/tx/nb/godigital_au_nb.ram
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/progs/05/go_digital/30may.ram

The programme starts off with Bill Thompson discussing Microsoft vs. the EU.
'Linux' and "an open source conference in Johannesburg" get mentioned at
06:40;  'Ubuntu'/'Debian' at 09:11 and "Hacker Ethic" 1 minute later.

Quite a few minutes on South Africa, mentions of how Open Source could help
Aids work there and a piece about public-information distribution in other
Africa countries plus a few other stories.

I suspect they'd love an interview with Mark, come the next release...

	-Paul
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