[mythtv-users] Taking the MythTV plunge

[Jarod C. Wilson]

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On Wednesday 05 May 2004 09:16, Stephen Tait wrote:

> >Which distro do people recommend? I've got a fair bit of experience as far
> >as Linux goes - but most of it is in the embedded space.
>
> As far as bleeding-edge stuff goes, Gentoo (which is what I use, since it
> can easily be made super-lean) or Debian unstable are the best IMO. Easy to
> update and with an utter shedload of preconfigured packages. From the lists
> it seems that most of the devs use Debian, so any problems you have with
> that should be well documented. And with Debian you don't have to wait
> around for hours waiting for it to compile. My 2400 takes about 5 hours to
> go from reformatting to a running system, then another 5 hours for XFree
> and QT and all the other stuff. Never used Debian unstable, so I don't know
> how well the install will handle the nForce - Gentoo has very good support
> for this at install time though.

Just wanted to chime in that a very large quantity of Myth users are running 
on Fedora Core also. Pre-packaged binaries for everything and a decent 
end-to-end howto (or so I hear -- but it needs some updating...).

- -- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
jcw at wilsonet.com

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