I also think of Linux as a plus in the DJ's are either not able, or not familiar enough to install external programs on the computer.
On our Windows systems, I need to police the computers for add-on virus/spy-ware conduits. As for training - Rivendell does not pose any more of an issue than any other system. In fact, I find it more intuitive. In our system (a commercial environment) - we use Adobe for all production. From there , DJs can load carts into the system through a shared drive into the Virtual Maching running RDLibrary. I've played around with the 3.0 branch in OSX. The hope is that if that were to work, we would be able to use Adobe and RDlibrary on the same machine for production. For now, we use a Virtual Machine (VMware Fusion) on the Mac computer for production. Learning has not been a problem. With the Flexibility of Linux - we can remove all of the superfluous programs and lock down the desktop. Brian -- Brian P. McGlynn Sent from my iPhone On Mar 6, 2013, at 8:56 AM, Fred Gleason <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 5, 2013, at 19:35 30, Bill Putney wrote: > >> Apple and to an extent Ubuntu have made great strides in hiding the OS from >> innocent eyes. There's still a ways to go but it's come along to a point >> where I think 99% of users can ignore Unix like they do the Windows OS. > > This is true. Ironically enough, it actually makes Ubuntu significantly > *more* frustrating for me. Of course, I doubt I'm a 'typical' user -- the > first thing I do on any new system is ask "Ok, how do I get a shell on this > thing?" That's a question with no obvious answer on Ubuntu; everything is > sealed away under a glitzy plastic UI, and entering terms like 'shell' and > 'bash' in their search system yields no useful results. (Yes, I finally did > figure out that one uses 'Terminal', just like on OS X). This one example > could be multiplied many times over. > > >> If people are using Rivendell on a dedicated computer they never need to >> know it's not Windows. Just don't tell them. I would guess that less than >> 10% of the volunteer DJ's know that Rivendell is not running Windows. > > That's been my experience in commercial environments as well. Most users > neither know nor care about the underlying OS, just so long as the music > plays when it's supposed to. IMHO the entire issue is a red herring so far > as end users are concerned. > > Cheers! > > > |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| > | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | > | | Paravel Systems | > |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| > | Stult's Report: | > | Our problems are mostly behind us. What we have to do now is | > | fight the solutions. | > |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
