[mythtv-users] Which Distribution?

[Robert Denier]

I use Gentoo as well.  I personally like it quite a lot since it doesn't 
hide as much behind gui's as some do.  Yes it takes awhile to compile 
things, but thats usually only an issue when building an entire system 
from scratch.  Once your familiar with what your doing you can compile 
an entire system in a chroot environment and then tarball it for 
installation.

One cautionary note, if you have a low bandwidth internet connection 
then you want to store /usr/portage on a single machine and then mount 
it via the other machines so the distribution files for applications can 
be cached.  Actually its a good idea regardless, but if your stuck on 
something like ISDN like me, its critical.

Would I recommend it for someone who is just using it for mythtv?  No, 
gentoo takes a fair amount of effort to fully learn, and its probably 
not worth it just for mythtv.




Craig Partin wrote:

> <>I use Gentoo. Aside from being a nice distro generally, it handles
> the dependencies well for mythtv. The portage system is killer. Once
> you have a stable base, you just type "emerge mythtv" then wait for
> three days. ;)
>
> Downside is compiling everything manually takes forever.
>
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