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 > Message-ID: > < > 20160216152250.3b45a8e840b89c853b94d34027fab3e4.36905ab2c5....@email06.secureserver.net > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 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 > > appreciated.<hr>_______________________________________________ > > Rivendell-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > -- Seth Stevenson
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