On Wed, 16 May 2007 07:22:00 +0100, Mark Kent wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> http://www.bbcworld.com/Pages/ProgrammeFeature.aspx?id=18&FeatureID=201
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>>| SHOWING TIMES
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>>| Thursday 19:30 GMT
>>| Repeated: Friday 09:30, Saturdays 06:30, Mondays 15:30, Tuesdays 01:30
>>| (not Asia Pacific/Sth Asia) & 07:30, Wednesday 12:30 (Asia Pacific
>>only) | GMT
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>>| Ubuntu is a version of the free open source operating system Linux. |
>>Developed by Mark Shuttleworth, it comes with a range of software, |
>>like office programs, email, a web browser and a media player. In | fact
>>Intel is working with the Ubuntu community to develop a version | of the
>>OS for mobile devices.
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> It's a start, but I think the BBC have a way to go before the whole
> organisation gets to grips with the open-source world. As far as I
> know, though, the BBC 3D Weather maps are rendered using a Linux
> machine.
Yes. On May 6th 2005, the BBC changed its weather forecasting over to
linux machines with MySQL Db.
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/28/2311251
Do you recall when the forecaster sometimes couldn't get the map to
update, or sometimes didn't get a weathermap at all? I kept waiting to
see if a BSOD would appear, never saw one though. Since they switched to
a linux machine two years ago, I haven't seen one hiccup.
However the BBC has been using slackware linux servers for internal DNS &
DHCP since 1999.
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/1176/2/
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