On Sep 27, 2011, at 01:27 34, Gavin Stephens wrote: > Please don't be offended, I could be reading this Cent OS 6 thing the > wrong way, but I'm wondering why the appliance cd came about, if the OS > is going to change around?
CentOS 5 support is not going away anytime soon -- we'll be supporting that build at least through the lifetime of RD 2.x. > Suse and the RPM's where already doing that weren't they? Yes, but OpenSuSE had a much shorter supported lifetime (two years, as opposed to five+ for RedHat/CentOS), not to mention a progressive deterioration in quality from release to release. Those were the two main factors that drove our switch to CentOS. If you go take a look at CentOS's site (http://www.centos.org/), you'll see that they still support previous versions all the way back to el2 -- this in stark contrast to OpenSuSE, where the repositories evaporate without trace 2 years + 1 day after the release date. > It seems more difficult to maintain Rivendell out of most of the > automation systems I've used, ie: changes in RPM to appliance disc, OS > changes again, the move to 64-bit with the appliance etc... It entirely depends on your environment. If you're running a Broadcast Appliance setup (of whatever version), getting the latest Rivendell is merely a matter of running System->SoftwareUpdater and then clicking 'Apply Updates'. I can't speak for other environments. > In saying that, I'm quite happy with 1.7.2 apart from a few nuisances > but it works. Why the need for the newest kid on the block, Cent OS 6? The primary advantage it has is support for the latest hardware (especially things like touchscreens, multiple-head displays, etc). If none of that is relevant to your situation, then by all means stay with 1.7.2. If it ain't broke, don't fix it! Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough | | to take it all away. | | -- Barry Goldwater | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
