What about the Asus Chromebox-M004U? Any thoughts about running the Centos
appliance on it?


On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Jim Stewart <[email protected]> wrote:

> I agree that the best piece-of-mind is usually obtained by just going with
> the "turnkey" system the software manufacturer recommends/sells/supports.
> This is commonly done with most other radio automation/playout systems out
> there too.  Then there is no "shouting match" potential between whether a
> problem is with the hardware vendor or the software vendor.
>
> Also note that last time I asked, Paravel only offers payed-for,
> continuing support on systems running their CentOS based turnkey
> software/OS install (I completely understand why they limit themselves to
> this!)
>
> That said, that isn't what I did.  Linux generally runs on just about
> anything.  Mostly you might need to avoid any very new hardware pieces such
> as exotic new video cards, hardware raid controllers, network interfaces,
> etc. that there might not be Linux support for yet, so do your own research
> on any hardware you are considering.  Generally systems running completely
> on true Intel based hardware is well supported.  I personally would avoid
> many nVidia video products because they insist on writing their own
> closed-source drivers, which at times could potentially "quit working"
> reliably with certain other OS upgrades.  Some other hardware manufacturers
> have gone down this road too at times (like VIA, Broadcom, & ATI).  Again,
> do your own research.
>
> The one station we have running Rivendell is STILL (after a few years now)
> happily running on a single old Pentium 4 "semi-server-class" system, while
> supporting a rather large amount of Jack audio clients/routing going on
> while functioning reliably as a file server, an icecast server with three
> stream encoders (but with very few clients attached at any one time), plus
> some remote access and backup related services running on it at the same
> time.  Oh and I think it only has 1-gig of memory, but I carefully manage
> it (I'd recommend a little more).
>
> Also if you are worried about getting hardware set up to run Linux, there
> are several companies that you can get Linux (including Ubuntu)
> preinstalled on and ready to go.  "System76" is one such company that you
> might not have heard of.
>
> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:22:50 -0700
> From: "Lorne Tyndale" <[email protected]>
> To: "jorge soto" <[email protected]>
> Cc: Rivendell List <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [RDD] good off the shelf computer for rivendell
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> Hi,
>
> Paravel sells some excellent systems built for Rivendell.  And they come
> with operating system and Rivendell installed and ready to go, plus
> technical support.
>
> http://paravelsystems.com/
>
> >
> > Just wondering what are some of you using to run rivendell on. I'm
> looking
> > for a good off the shelf machine to buy that can run Ubuntu 14 and
> > rivendell without any problems. Any and all comments are greatly
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