[ale] CentOS 7 install driving me mad

[Chris Fowler]

> From: "DJ-Pfulio" <djpfulio at jdpfu.com>
> To: ale at ale.org
> Sent: Friday, June 3, 2016 4:23:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] CentOS 7 install driving me mad

> On 06/03/2016 02:49 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:

> > Just because something **can** be done, doesn´t make it a good idea.


> > <disclaimer>drinking some moonshine on bday</disclaimer>

> Hey - it is after noon somewhere and I'm often drinking a bier in the afternoon.
> Like today. ;)

> > Just because you think it may not be a good idea does not make it so. World is
> > so much bigger than that :)

> Very true.

> It was a general comment, not aimed in any direction. I do have some work
> experience dealing with old, but working, equipment - about 7 yrs full-time.

> (300) $100 devices ($30K total) isn't a small amount of money. If you and the
> other decision makers considered FTE, HW costs and lost opportunity costs then
> came up with the plan to make Cent7 work on these devices, great. However,
> knowing when there isn't any more time to put into the effort and switching to a
> different plan would also be smart. 15 minutes to run some what-if scenarios
> and cost modeling SWAGs for other options can't hurt.

These are fully fitted (SSD, Memory). Try about $100k. :) 

The J1900s are modern and can even run RemixOS. The RDC's were probably the same price back in 2009. The J1900s work fine. I can run x86_64, etc. What I'm trying to do is move forward with the new stuff while still supporting the older stuff. 

I can bring in a guy who has worked for me in the past, but I'm still enjoying this project. I still have some time I can spend on it. 

Look at the RemixOS. I could have bought one for $50 from the company. I downloaded Andoird-x86 from them. I learned more about Android in 2 days than I have owning Android devices for years. RemixOS is very promising. I'm pleased with it. It does have issues when you run it on something that is not their device. If you know Linux and can Google you can get over those. You still really need to know Linux. To get sound working via HDMI I ended up having to ultimately modify /etc/init.sh to fake it into opening the device I wanted it to. 

I have it faking gps so that f.lux knows where it is at. I have SDR working on USB. Almost all programs that run on my Note 5 will run on this. 
It works so well my wife uses it every day for Kodi (XBMC), Netflix, Sling, Youtube, etc. 
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