Radio Station KRUU Saves Thousands Thanks to Open Source Software
Open source radios are nothing new, but what about open source radio stations? Actually, community-led over-the-air radio stations powered by open source software are more common than you'd think. With a total yearly operating budget of just $77,000, Fairfield, Iowa's KRUU (100.1 FM) runs largely on open source software, and the FOSS philosophy has carried over into the station's general programming decisions as well.
Behind the scenes, KRUU staff relies on Ubuntu as its primary operating system. On-air personality Sundar Raman says, “Our requirements were quite complex and our decision to go with Ubuntu was based on three factors and Ubuntu won hands down. We did not want to get stuck in the world of managing different binary distributions based on what was supported and what was not. The Synaptic package manager is more elegant than the RPM-based solutions in some paid-for Linux distros and can be used by just about anyone. Critically we wanted a distro that would be usable by the average user.”
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