[mythtv-users] Anyone running a Sourced Based Distro?

Josh Burks dotnofoolin at gmail.com
Thu Mar 3 02:28:44 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:20:23 -0500, Thom Paine <painethom at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am considering using a sourced based distro like sourcemage as my
> platform for myth, to see if it performs better on a lower end system
> running a really streamlined setup.
> 
> Is anyone else running something like that? Does it run better or
> worse? I realize it will be much more work, getting all the stuff
> installed, but my hope is that I can get away with only the things I
> need to get myth to go, and that it will run alot faster than on
> something like Fedora.
> 
> I did a test run on my laptop, and it was quite fast booting up. I
> used blackbox as the window manager and it was running in no time.
> 
> Just looking for feedback.
> 

Lots of people run MythTV on Gentoo, which is pretty much source
based, plus the ebuilds for Myth and it's requirements are easily
availble, just 'emerge' them.

Josh


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