Hey Joe... (that's a good opening right there if I do say so myself)
drew here. B.S. O.E. '81. Have we interacted concerning WFIT before? all the best, drew On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 2:49 PM Joe Panarello <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well Put Rob. Rivendell was meant to be an appliance with a specific > purpose running on CENTOS a pro OS. CENTOS is free so what is the issue? As > such, Rivendell is one of the most reliable and powerful automation systems > on the planet. Why mess with the best. Most of the high priced competitors > who are Windows based will NOT run on a Windows Server OS. So my suggestion > would be that your time could be better spent in adding new features to > Rivendell rather than chasing after mirages. > > Joe Panarello > WFIT 89.5 FM > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob Landry > Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2020 11:01 PM > To: Ryan Kin > Cc: rivendell-dev > Subject: Re: [RDD] Rivendell v3.3.0 > > On Sun, 29 Mar 2020, Ryan Kin wrote: > > > However, Rivendell was built and made for CentOS... Even though it's > > open source so you can modify it then put it onto Ubuntu > > That's it in a nutshell. The software is developed to run under CentOS, is > not being tested under any other Linux distribution, and it took an immense > amount of time and effort on my part to make it run under Debian 10. Even > so, sometimes it will compile and sometimes it won't. I can unstall > Rivendell, blow out rivendell-3.3.0, gunzip the .tar.gz file to make a > virgin rivendell-3.3.0, and recompile the same source code... and it's even > money whether or not it will compile. > > That's not something I can tolerate when I have radio stations clamoring > for my attention all day. I had a station call me a week ago; they are > owned by a local university which was sending all its students home due to > the pandemic, and the faculty adviser said they were going off the air, as > they didn't have an automation system. Now, I had an old Debian 6 Rivendell > 2.11.0 system I had built several years ago, and offered to run it for them > along with a Comrex Access I had bought for another project but had not yet > deployed. I kept them on the air when they otherwise would have had to go > off, and if I had had to depend on my new Debian system they would have > been off for ten days, because that's how long it took me to get it working. > > Debian 10 is not Debian 6; QT3 will not build under Debian 10, so the only > Rivendell choice available is V3. V3 is far more complicated than V2, has a > lot more dependencies -- what is it with all this Python stuff? -- and > clearly wants to run under CentOS. Yes, if I invest enough time and effort, > I can make it run under Debian... but why bother? > > > Rob > > -- > Сквозь грозы сияло нам солнце свободы > И Linus великий нам путь озарил; > Нас вырастил Stallman на верность народу, На труд и на подвиги нас > вдохновил. > > > > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2020, 3:59 AM Schwoon, newsletter > > <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > Am 28.03.2020 10:47, schrieb le père Léon: > > > Le 22/03/2020 à 14:58, Rob Landry a écrit : > > >> Well, finally got it to work. I blew out rivendell-3.3.0, > > re-gunzipped > > >> rivendell-3.3.0.tar.gz, then edited the source code manually, > > rather > > >> than applying the patch. > > > > > > The "default ''" appeared as "default " in the wiki. Modified. > > > > > >> Now rdadmin is complaining that the Rivendell daemons aren't > > running; > > >> evidently in this new era of v3 it doesn't automatically > > start them as > > >> it used to in v2. But that's no big deal. > > > > > > As noticed in the wiki, you can use : > > > - to start the daemons : > > > $ systemctl start rivendell > > > - to fix it at boot time : > > > $ systemctl enable rivendell > > > > > >> Debian is probably not going to be a viable option for > > Rivendell going > > >> forward, I think. > > > > > > Could you explain the reason why you think so ? > > > > Thats a good question.!! > > > > After running rivendell on centos for about one year, i switched > > back to > > debian/ubuntu. Why.? > > The newer and more software. And i think, Centos is a very good > > server > > distri, but not for desktops, specifically not for multimedia > > desktops. > > Too dificult to use special codecs like AAC HE, no ootb export > > to mp3 in > > audacity... > > > > On my debian 10 is only one problem left. The slow database > > access. In > > rdlibrary when showing all, not only the 1st 100 carts, in > > rdlogedit > > when loading a 24h log and moving carts up and down with the > > arrows.! > > > > Maybe there is a way to fix.?? > > > > -- > > Have a nice sunday! > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > -- Enjoy the *Paradise Island Cam* playing *Bahamian Or Nuttin* - https://www.paradiseislandcam.com/
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