On Sunday 02 October 2011 12:27:12 pm Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni wrote: > Hi Tim, > > Am Freitag, den 30.09.2011, 15:07 -0500 schrieb Tim Camp: > > > Point is pretty much can Rivendell do this or that? YES, it might not > > be turnkey, but if you think about it you can make it happen. > > thanks to point out how flexibel Rivendell and Linux are. I ask on this > mailing list, because I want to learn the most convenient way. A lot of > you guys have a lot of experience and we just start with Rivendell. So I > don't want to invent the wheel again and ask you to share you > experiences and knowledge (and you do and are very helpful) .
Some general considerations. There is good reason to use and stay with an off the shelf appliance. You know what you've got. So do the folks that put it out there. Very likely, it will do everything claimed for it. Upgrade paths have probably been thought out, provided the appliance has not been modified or hacked in any way. If you need or want it to do something it doesn't, there are two choices. One, ask the developers, a feature request. Two, you hack. Yes, Rivendell, and various other Open Source software can do, or be made to do, almost anything you like, but you then have a customized hacked system. For some, this isn't a problem. For others, in a commercial environment, this could be a big problem ! Say you hack your system, and it then does everything you and your employer desire. Three days later, you get hit by a bus, and a few days after that, there's a hardware failure. Your successor is then stuck reverse engineering whatever you did in order to re-create it, and support is not available. Or, for whatever reason, you decide to "upgrade" your system, and forget a hack you did two years ago that "makes it go." Worse, the upgrade makes your hack totally incompatible, or your hack makes upgrade totally incompatible. There are good and valid reasons to modify a system. Best, make certain your reasons are really good, valid, and necessary. -- Cowboy http://cowboy.cwf1.com _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
