[mythtv-users] Starting out - Which Distribution?

[Tony Maro]

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.

Well, since you WOULD consider yourself an expert, I guess the thing 
would be to go with an extremely slimmed down distro since this is 
almost like running an embedded system when you're done.

Personally though, I used Mandrake simply because I'm familiar with it 
and I had the ISO's already burned.

-Tony Maro