[mythtv-users] Starting out - Which Distribution?

[Cecil Watson]

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.
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>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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Please try KnoppMyth.  It is a distribution I started for one thing and 
one thing only make the Linux/MythTV install as simply as possible.  It 
addition is has all the software you need for a media center.  MPlayer, 
nuvexport, Samba and NFS to share you files on you local network and 
more.  An install can be done in as little as 10 minutes.  
http://mysettopbox.tv

Cecil