[mythtv-users] Starting out - Which Distribution?

[Daniel Kleine-Albers]

Hello Michael,

i'm actually using gentoo with mythtv and am really happy with it. The 
most important reasons for this are:
- the excellent package handling of gentoo, easy to handle and always 
up to date
- keeping up to cvs can be easily done with the emerge tool of gentoo 
which keeps the ability to remove the whole program with only one 
command
- gentoo is not easy to install, but it's extremely well documented - 
so if you're able to read, it's not a problem

I don't know mandrake. Before i switched to gentoo, i was using debian. 
With debian i got some really complicated dependency problems as i had 
packages from unstable, testing and stable. And upgrading the system 
was almost impossible. - But i still use debian on servers where i 
don't need the latest packages (= using stable) and i'm relly happy 
with debian in this situation but it simply doesn't fit in an 
environment where you need up-to-date (and sometimes experimental) 
software.

Hope it helps,
Daniel


On 08.02.2004, at 17:14, Michael Segulja wrote:

> I am what I would consider an expert in Linux, but I'm very new to the 
> whole PVR world on Linux.  I'm very excited to have found MythTV and I 
> really look forward to seeing what I can do with it.  However, I have 
> one question before I get started.  I'm curious to see if you would 
> recommend any one distribution over another?  I don't want to start 
> some sort of flame war over this, but I'm sure there are some 
> distributions that are easier to get working than others for MythTV.  
> I prefer Mandrake 9.2, and is the distribution that I run on my 
> desktop machines.  I also recently discovered Gentoo, and although I 
> haven't installed it yet, it looks very promising because it seems to 
> be ready for MythTV once installed.
>
> Thanks for your advice.  Just looking for some general ideas to point 
> me in the right direction so I can start playing around with this.
>
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