http://wiki.rivendellaudio.org/index.php?title=Should_you_think_of_Rivendell_as_just_another_program_to_run_on_the_computer_or_as_an_appliance%3F&feed=atom&action=historyShould you think of Rivendell as just another program to run on the computer or as an appliance? - Revision history2024-03-29T05:31:29ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.26.4http://wiki.rivendellaudio.org/index.php?title=Should_you_think_of_Rivendell_as_just_another_program_to_run_on_the_computer_or_as_an_appliance%3F&diff=539&oldid=prevDKlann: Delete outdated reference to the "Rivendell Appliance" (the link is dead).2020-09-16T16:03:12Z<p>Delete outdated reference to the "Rivendell Appliance" (the link is dead).</p>
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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Comment:''' When I first started playing with Linux, I was upgrading every 6 months. It didn't take long to realize I was playing whack-a-mole. <br />
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'''Answer:''' Yup. Real easy trap to fall into. I've done it too.<br />
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For years, I had always thought of Rivendell as an application, designed to fit in among other applications on a Linux system. As such, it was important that it obey certain conventions so as to 'fit into the ecosystem' in a smooth way and play nice with all the other applications on the block. <br />
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I've since come to the conclusion that this approach is a mistake. Rivendell is a classic 'vertical' application, not something that needs to run on Aunt Millie's proverbial e-mail machine. As such, it is '''NOT one application among many on a system''', but rather it '''IS the System'''; everything else that's there is there solely inasmuch as it helps Rivendell get its task (i.e. running the radio station) done reliably.<br />
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I've found that this approach can clarify one's outlook wonderfully. For one thing, things become a lot less distro- and desktop-centric. The window manager need be little more than an application launcher; most of the 'desktop' crud supplied by projects like GNOME and KDE become simply irrelevant and can be removed, yielding a markedly nimbler system. Likewise the distro: so long as it runs Rivendell properly, there's really no reason to replace it. Paravel still has sites under commercial support that run <br />
quite well on SuSE 9.2 (though that will be changing when RD 2.0 ships -- the dependencies have changed too much).<br />
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Frederick F. Gleason, Jr.<br />
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Chief Developer<br />
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Paravel Systems<br />
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A Rivendell Broadcast Appliance CD based on the CentOS operating system (64 bit only) can be downloaded from [http://www.paravelsystems.com/appliance.html here]. This contains Rivendell version 2 and it can be updated on line to the latest version of Rivendell once installed.</div>Higgles