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RadioTux is a German
Shows are produced on a monthly basis. Several volunteers are involved in this process; they include reports, essays, interviews and free music. Depending on the material these shows take 30 to 60 minutes. Users interested in the information only can download a stripped down version without music.
The shows are available in
internet radio
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show. The topics are mostly around free and open source software
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, free operating systems like *BSD and Linux
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, as well as on sociopolitical
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issues. It was founded in 2001.
There have been made more than 100 transmissions and many interview
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s with famous people like Mark Shuttleworth
Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African and British entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of Canonical, the company behind the development of the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system. In 2002, Shuttleworth became ...
, Miguel de Icaza
Miguel de Icaza (born November 23, 1972) is a Mexican programmer, best known for starting the GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin projects.
Biography Early years
De Icaza was born in Mexico City and studied Mathematics at the National Autonomous University ...
, Hans Reiser
Hans Reiser (born December 19, 1963) is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and convicted murderer. In April 2008, Reiser was convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife, Nina Reiser, who disappeared in September 2006. He subseq ...
, Jon “Maddog” Hall, Richard Stallman
Richard Matthew Stallman (; born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials, rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in such a manner that its users have the freedom to ...
and so on.
Since 2005 there are also several podcast
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s available one is the interview feed in English
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.
Everybody can participate on RadioTux. All topics are welcome: there are no limits.
The site of the project is based on a wiki
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, which means that anyone can use his/her web browser to enhance the contents of the pages by editing them. This makes it really easy for everyone to participate.
Internal communication works over a mailing list, which is open for everyone to listen in.
Radio on demand
Shows are produced on a monthly basis. Several volunteers are involved in this process; they include reports, essays, interviews and free music. Depending on the material these shows take 30 to 60 minutes. Users interested in the information only can download a stripped down version without music.
The shows are available in MP3
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as well as in the free Ogg
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/Vorbis
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format.
Up to now (July 2008) more than 80 shows have been produced. Some of them have been broadcast live at the Berlin radio station.
On the website everyone may leave suggestions for upcoming shows.
Podcasts
When RadioTux started, podcasts were not yet known, so it can be considered being one of the first podcasts which came up and which is still existing. Single articles and interviews are made available as podcast. So current news are instantly available. Due to categorisation users can subscribe to the newsfeeds of topics they are interested to and load them directly to MP3 player. This compatibility with current mobile playback devices is the reason why the podcast uses the MP3 format.Live
RadioTux often participates at Linux and similar events and reports live. Live broadcasts as comprehensive programming have been transmitted fromLinuxTag
LinuxTag (the name is a compound with the German ''Tag'' meaning assembly, conference or meeting) is a free software exposition with an emphasis on Linux (but also BSD), held annually in Germany. LinuxTag claims to be Europe's largest exhibitio ...
, the Linux World Conference & Expo and the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage.
On live events RadioTux is being supported by the free radio station ''Kanal Ratte'' which provides studio equipment, streaming servers and airtime. Several shows are presented by Kanal Ratte staff and transmitted live into their programme which is available via FM, cable and livestream.
At the Linux World Conference & Expo 2006 in Cologne
Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...
RadioTux for the first time has been media partner of an event.
Since November 2006 the weekly show ''RadioTux@HoRadS'' is presented at the ''Hochschulradio Stuttgart'' on FM and livestream. The common topics on Linux and free software were discussed there with studio guests, articles from the RadioTux archive (podcasts, interviews) provide appropriate background information.
See also
* List of technology podcastsReferences
External links
* * {{webarchive, url=https://archive.today/20060402212743/http://linuxpodcast.de/: podcast episodes Internet radio in Germany Technology podcasts German podcasts Audio podcasts