On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, Cowboy wrote:
There are several reasons CentOS is the supported platform. I don't see that changing any time real soon. ( although these gnome-isms may have an affect )
I was not suggesting Fred change his platform of choice, but only suggesting an easy way to avoid Gnome 3 for those who wish to do so.
I've long toyed with the idea of writing another OS explicitly for Rivendell again. The problem would be that I'd have to support it.
I've tried Rivendell with SuSE, Debian, Ubuntu, and CentOS, and it works well with all of them. Why does it need a special distribution?
I appreciate what Fred is trying to do with the Appliance concept: make Rivendell sommething that is as easy to use as a Windows application (pay no attention to that Linux behind the curtain!). The problem, though, is hardware. More often than not, the Appliance won't install because of some hardware issue.
Most recently, the installer told me it couldn't find my CD-ROM drive and asked me for the URL of a mirror. I gave it one, but it then installed a generic CentOS without asking me if I wanted Rivendell. That was no problem for me, but the average Windows user wouldn't be able to cope with that sort of thing... and yet that sort of thing is the rule, in my experience, not the exception.
I've built a lot of Rivendell boxes.. at least twenty... since 2007. I don't think Rivendell will ever become reliably installable by the uninitiated.
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