[mythtv-users] Fedora Myth(TV)ology turns 3

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Nov 28, 2004, at 6:27 AM, Donavan Stanley wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 14:43:15 +0100 (CET), Franco <mythtv at email.it> 
> wrote:
>> In a few words: a mythbox which was designed with certain
>> hardware specifications, won't be able to be upgraded FOREVER
>> with new versions of the OS.
>
> 1) Each FC release has a sunset to it so supporting new installs on
> older releases doesn't make much sense.

Yes, that's my major reason for the distro bumps. For the most part, I 
believe people turn to my doc when they're installing a new Myth 
system, it isn't intended as an upgrade guide, its a bare-metal install 
guide. For a new system, there's no sense in starting with an already 
unsupported (by the vendor) distribution like FC1, and FC2 will be in 
the same boat in a few months.

I do like to wait a little while before jumping to a new release, so 
bugs can be squashed, and I've had zero problems with my own FC3 
systems (unlike the multitude of problems with FC2 when it first hit 
the d/l mirrors), so I went ahead with the bump a fair amount earlier 
in FC3's lifetime that I did with FC2.

> 2) You don't have to upgrade your OS to upgrade to a new version of 
> Myth.

Exactly. I help a friend out from time to time with a Myth box running 
Myth 0.16 on Red Hat Linux 9. Everything still works. He'd be SOL if he 
wanted to add a cx88 card to his system and have it work, but 
everything he started out with still runs just fine.

> 3) If you want to run low end hardware pick another distro.  Vector
> Linux works VERY well on low end hardware for example.

Hell, I think Red Hat is still the most-used distribution for embedded 
projects. You just have to work at it a bit to trim the fat. :-)

All that said, I *have* pondered moving to one of the RHEL rebuilds, 
because the constant Fedora release roller coaster does get a little 
annoying. I may well actually make the move once RHEL4 is out, since 
it'll have both the benefits of a 5-year life span and a 2.6 kernel, 
but we also need ATrpms support for RHEL to make that a reality (it's 
in the works though). Might even concoct a Myth-specific rebuild, 
trimmed down to the necessities and with ATrpms packages on the 
installer CDs...

Then there's always Debian, where there are only new "releases" every 
twelveteen years... ;-) But I have too many RH boxes at work, not 
enough time to remain fluent in multiple distros, and work is gonna 
stay RH (thus, so am I).

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

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