Ok, I've got to put my two cents in... The company that runs more servers than just about anyone else on thr planet runs Linux. Microsoft runs their web servers for microsoft. com on linux. Why. bulletproof stabiity, what more would you want in a production enviroment? For years before Rivendell became available I was hoping for a linux based broadcast suite for just this reason. I just had a Rvendell box go down recently because the hard drive failed, it had been in service without a reboot for 1283 days. Port Rivendell to windows? For what purpose. Unless maybe you want to run it along side some viruses or malware :)
Cheers On Oct 4, 2011 8:41 PM, "James Harrison" <ja...@talkunafraid.co.uk> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > As Tim has already mentioned- why Windows? > > I just recently stepped down as engineer of a station which started out > 100% Windows two years ago and is now 90% Linux (switching to Rivendell > for main playout was judged too dramatic a change - the station was just > granted an FM license, which is a big deal here, and management didn't > want to change playout at the same time- possibly they'll move in a > year's time). Rivendell is used there for backup playout and outside > broadcasts, though. > > Windows has a multitude of downsides when it comes to audio, management, > stability and reliability. For instance, our main playout box has a big > of a snag in that you can't install Windows Updates without it > bluescreening next time it reboots, and we have to reboot everything > every month or two just to keep things running smoothly. Not great from > an engineering standpoint. Then there's the issues with security, user > accounts, remote access, time synchronization, system updates (that > don't break everything), and so on. There's no real upside! > > The amount of work required to port things like the core audio engine, > interprocess communications daemon and other services would be > nontrivial, and with Windows being such a huge step backwards from Linux > on nearly all important points from the perspective of radio stations, > where's the point? The only benefit of Windows is familiarity, and it > doesn't take long to get familiar with Linux. We transitioned most of > the desktop stuff without any training whatsoever and everyone picked it > up fast enough. > > But as mentioned already- it's open source software. If you can write C, > get porting! If you really had to have Windows for your frontends, you > would only need to port (I think) rdairplay, rdlogmanager, rdlogedit, > rdcatch and ripcd- you could remote the rest to a Linux hosted audio > engine/import system... in theory at least! Still going to take you a > long, long time. Perhaps better spent learning Linux? :) > > Cheers, > James Harrison > > > On 05/10/2011 02:25, Logan Corliss wrote: >> Hi, I am currently running Rivendell on ubuntu and its ok and all but I > also am really looking for a Radio Automation program that runs on > Windows. I was wondering if there was any plans to make this working on > Windows or if there is a code in progress that would allow Rivendell > with all of its features to run on Windows. This would be really great. >> >> -- >> Logan Corliss >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Rivendell-dev mailing list >> Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org >> http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk6LtakACgkQmJV2s0zjsDhrUwCfbownaEhcEmogFtAV8PWaB7Tw > 8QAAn10VHl0O9DbhJlElZFBqkgbsZw8S > =JqrV > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
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