[mythtv-users] Which Distro?

[gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman)]

Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Dependency hell is not an issue with apt/yum/smart package managers.

hmm, i've found it to be worse when using apt/yum ... especially when i 
used apt-rpm on FC1 ...


>>so is there any performance gain / other reason to separate out frontend
>>and backend?
> 
> Performance, noise and heat are the main reasons. Put your backend with lots 
> of drives somewhere it can be hot and loud, and do commercial-cutting without 
> impacting playback performance on the frontend (really only an issue if your 
> frontend has a cpu just barely able to keep up).

ahh ... didn't think of the noise issue ... really need to get a bigger 
case for my file server (it's a Dell Optimon case w/ room for only 2 
drives), then maybe i can move them over ... how much "beef" does a 
backend need to be decent?  right now, my front and back-end machine is 
a P4 1.6GHz with 768MB RAM (don't recall offhand FSB speeds or anything 
... it was a Dell Dimension 4400, but the mobo's been upgraded quite a 
bit since then) ...

i think once i redo my HTPC box (i'm leaning towards gentoo), i'll set 
it up this way, depending on feedback as far as what a specs backend 
should need ... (admittedly, i haven't read on the website if there's 
info on this, so don't flame me for not doing that yet ... i'm going to 
as soon as i put my son to bed :P)

-g-