Moving to BSD platform
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 10:09 am
I have been running the router OS Pfsense for years now on BSD. I'm a user not a coder by any means.
In the latest version files can be opened /browsed from the dash board via web gui. As always more serious modifications can be done via ssh.
My thought is would it not be possible to port Zoneminder the same way? ONE standard OS that is the same for every user from a CD install, saving countless hours just trouble shooting install issues. Running the system completely from the ZM Admin page via web gui. Have the kernel show the list of capture card drivers so you can pick and apply each one for testing manually for those un-probable cards.
I always run Zoneminder in a stand alone environment, I think running it in the back ground on a desktop being used for , well like a normal PC is taxing the system and has the potential of causing stability problems. The users that have only this choice could use VMware or similar.
From what I see around the forum most of the problems are caused from the different distros handling things differently. I have 2 old systems running the old Ubuntu 6 Blue cherry ZM 1.22.3 and they are rock solid and have been for years trouble free. All the latest distros have tons of problems and take hours to configure (for me anyways) before I can trust them to run for more that a few days before packing in. The Old BC version won't even boot up on newer computers Or I would be using it right now on the system I just built.
Allan
In the latest version files can be opened /browsed from the dash board via web gui. As always more serious modifications can be done via ssh.
My thought is would it not be possible to port Zoneminder the same way? ONE standard OS that is the same for every user from a CD install, saving countless hours just trouble shooting install issues. Running the system completely from the ZM Admin page via web gui. Have the kernel show the list of capture card drivers so you can pick and apply each one for testing manually for those un-probable cards.
I always run Zoneminder in a stand alone environment, I think running it in the back ground on a desktop being used for , well like a normal PC is taxing the system and has the potential of causing stability problems. The users that have only this choice could use VMware or similar.
From what I see around the forum most of the problems are caused from the different distros handling things differently. I have 2 old systems running the old Ubuntu 6 Blue cherry ZM 1.22.3 and they are rock solid and have been for years trouble free. All the latest distros have tons of problems and take hours to configure (for me anyways) before I can trust them to run for more that a few days before packing in. The Old BC version won't even boot up on newer computers Or I would be using it right now on the system I just built.
Allan