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David Klann Talks About Using Open Source Software in Broadcast Radio (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the broadcasting-to-everyone-on-land-and-to-all-the-ships-at-sea dept.

David Klann works with Driftless Radio, call letters WDRT, in Wisconsin. This is community radio, with no huge advertisers or morning shock jocks with names like Bobba the Fet Sponge. They use open source software for just about everything except accounting, and that includes processing their audio for both OTA (Over the Air) and online streaming. Their transmitter runs a "stripped down" version of Debian, and David is proud that they had 3 1/2 years of uptime -- that only ended when David did a kernel upgrade that forced a reboot. (Alternate Video Link)

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  1. Re:First broadcast by BenSchuarmer · · Score: 2

    Linus, come here. I need you.

  2. Boasting about uptime ... by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... means just asking to get hacked due to not keeping up-to-date with patches.

    This is the '90's anymore.

    1. Re:Boasting about uptime ... by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 2

      You are thinking of Windows. With Linux most updates happen without the need for a reboot. The only kernel vulnerabilities you are likely to be exposed to are privilege escalations, in which case they have already hacked in to the system. I'm not saying it isn't a good idea to keep current, but using an older kernel is far from the same as not applying updates for three years as you seem to be assuming it does.

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    2. Re:Boasting about uptime ... by jandrese · · Score: 2

      Nothing is more 90s then having to reboot just because you applied a patch to an application. The only thing you should need to reboot for is kernel upgrades, and it seems like that is exactly what happened here.

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