On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 18:01 -0600, James L. Stewart wrote: > You can do this, but if you are doing this for somebody (Calvary Chapel > perhaps?) then is it fair give them an "odd ball" implementation that > only you will probably ever be able to support? I would only venture > from the Appliance CD if you have a good reason for doing so.
Amen, especially if you don't "really understand linux" but on the other hand , since you do seem to understand Ubuntu 10.04, and IF you needs are not really complicated...you can take an olde4r machine, run raabuntu, and use the tryphon stuff to upgrade to something current... the data bases don't talk well between versions, if you go that way, ubuntu & Raabuntu...you HAVE to stay that way...or go thru a lot of pain to switch...but since you already know the command structure, and how umbutu works, it's not necessary a bad direction to go > > I'm assuming you do know about the Tryphon repositories for > Debian/Ubuntu. They've worked really well for me (except their > "darkice" binary for x86 is still broken). So you might at least > attempt to build up a test machine and see how it goes. The whole > process isn't very easy however. > > > So the result for us is that I have an amazing system that has been > running a station for several years with just a couple of "quirks" that > we work around. The problem is that we are now no longer financially > involved with the station, but the new management is still married to me > for support, which I happy to give, but they are not real happy with the > price. > > So just because you can, maybe you shouldn't. again depends on your comfort level, how much outside help you need, and how often you need to upgrade...The versions are similar, but not exact. > > BTW your Ubuntu 10.04 is neither "new" or "modern" (but an old > favorite), in fact it just fell out of "Long Term Support". Say goodby > to your good old Gnome Version 2.x desktop as it is gone forever except > for a partial rebirth as "Mate". > _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
