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Here's a more general question. Do any of you use Slackware - or any other Linux distribution - in a professional broadcast-related context, e. g. radio and/or TV? And I insist: I'm talking about the broadcasting end, not the receiving end.
In other words: if any of you work in a radio or TV station - or know someone who does - and can tell me if there are any Linux use cases, please let me know.
time server (there are NO good time server solutions for windows, and it is *really* bad if the playout system drifts or goes crazy) [Slackware]
openvpn server, for extending the lan to outside broadcasts, and for me to do remote maintenance [Slackware]
internal firewalls so we can leave the studios and regulatory recording running Windows XP forever [Smoothwall, but I want to use OpenWRT instead]
kiosk browsers for the studios [Slackware]
user workstations (audacity, libreoffice, browsers) + wine (for audio wall and (god help us) cool edit) [OpenSuSE]
In development:
samba fileserver, including shutting Windows boxes down at night to save power [OpenSuSE]
network monitoring [Slackware]
operations documentation wiki [Slackware]
There are several Linux scheduling / playout / audio wall solutions (Airtime, Rivendell), but for us there isn't any reason to replace the ancient system we already have.
At one time (I don't know whether it is still the case), my local NPR station used Rivendell. I know because the person who set up used to attend my LUG, but he no longer works as the station. He said the Rivendell maintainer's support was excellent, far superior to support from vendors on that other operating system.
He didn't mention what distro they used, but, if I had to guess, I'd guess RHEL.
time server (there are NO good time server solutions for windows, and it is *really* bad if the playout system drifts or goes crazy) [Slackware]
openvpn server, for extending the lan to outside broadcasts, and for me to do remote maintenance [Slackware]
internal firewalls so we can leave the studios and regulatory recording running Windows XP forever [Smoothwall, but I want to use OpenWRT instead]
kiosk browsers for the studios [Slackware]
user workstations (audacity, libreoffice, browsers) + wine (for audio wall and (god help us) cool edit) [OpenSuSE]
In development:
samba fileserver, including shutting Windows boxes down at night to save power [OpenSuSE]
network monitoring [Slackware]
operations documentation wiki [Slackware]
There are several Linux scheduling / playout / audio wall solutions (Airtime, Rivendell), but for us there isn't any reason to replace the ancient system we already have.
At one time (I don't know whether it is still the case), my local NPR station used Rivendell. I know because the person who set up used to attend my LUG, but he no longer works as the station. He said the Rivendell maintainer's support was excellent, far superior to support from vendors on that other operating system.
He didn't mention what distro they used, but, if I had to guess, I'd guess RHEL.
I've seen Rivendell in action at a local radio station, but that must have been a decade ago. I took a peek at their website and wonder if this is still in development.
I've seen Rivendell in action at a local radio station, but that must have been a decade ago. I took a peek at their website and wonder if this is still in development.
It is. Their link for bug reports points to GitHub, and there I can see that the latest release (2.15.2) is from three weeks ago:
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