Linux Journal: Helping Broadcast Radio with Linux

“After writing about the POS systems last week, I started going
through my list of other past lives–things I have done either
professionally or as a hobby in the past. This got me thinking
about broadcast radio, or more accurately, what Linux could do for
broadcast radio.

“Although most of my experience has been at the transmitter
end–I have a commercial radio-telephone license and have tuned and
repaired broadcast transmitters–I am pretty familiar with the
other pieces that make a radio station work. Back when I did
systems testing on an operating system for big iron (yup, another
past life), some of our commercial customers ran programs on our
computers to keep track of what music had been played. This was
mostly an accounting issue–that is, it kept track of
royalties…”

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