MJR's slef-reflections - Entries from July 2008 Entries from July 2008 http://mjr.towers.org.uk/writing/reflections/ End of LugRadio! http://mjr.towers.org.uk/writing/reflections/End_of_LugRadio_.html <p> Just read on <a href="http://theangryangel.co.uk/index.php?/archives/262-Farewell-LUGRadio.html">Farewell LUGRadio? [theangryangel]</a> and <a href="http://www.sungate.co.uk/?p=320">Ashes to ashes, dust to dust... Lugradio is at an end [sungate]</a> that the most famous UK Free Software podcast is ending at the end of this year. I don't know the reasons yet, but it seems a shame. </p><p> I've been listening again since they proved me wrong and sorted out the dumb licensing terms so it's clearly legal to cut the shows up and only copy the bits that interest me, and Season 5 seems more interesting than previous ones. Then again, I enjoyed Red Dwarf VIII, so what do I know? (but VI and VII did drag a lot) </p><p> Maybe I will go to <a href="http://lugradio.org/live/UK2008/">Lugradio Live 2008 in Wolverhampton on 19-20 July</a> now I know when it is! (Why is the date only as a large slow graphic on the event page? D'oh! (Yeah I know I should have emailed them, but I had <a href="http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2007/#lr41645">an unfun experience with the show<a/>, so I'd rather shout this in public. Wow. I guess I'm still unhappy about them regressing to school playground name-calling.)) </p><p> There are some suggested alternatives on theangryangel, but most are more Ubuntu-centric (which wasn't a good thing about LR), non-Ogg and/or non-European, so it looks like I'll give <a href="http://www.linuxoutlaws.com/">LinuxOutlaws</a> a try. Any other recommendations? </p> Just read on Farewell LUGRadio? [theangryangel] and Ashes to ashes, dust to dust... Lugradio is at an end [sungate] that the most famous UK Free Software podcast is ending at the end of this year. I don't know the reasons yet, but it seems a shame.

I've been listening again since they proved me wrong and sorted out the dumb licensing terms so it's clearly legal to cut the shows up and only copy the bits that interest me, and Season 5 seems more interesting than previous ones. Then again, I enjoyed Red Dwarf VIII, so what do I know? (but VI and VII did drag a lot)

Maybe I will go to Lugradio Live 2008 in Wolverhampton on 19-20 July now I know when it is! (Why is the date only as a large slow graphic on the event page? D'oh! (Yeah I know I should have emailed them, but I had an unfun experience with the show, so I'd rather shout this in public. Wow. I guess I'm still unhappy about them regressing to school playground name-calling.))

There are some suggested alternatives on theangryangel, but most are more Ubuntu-centric (which wasn't a good thing about LR), non-Ogg and/or non-European, so it looks like I'll give LinuxOutlaws a try. Any other recommendations?

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