[mythtv-users] Best OS (where in the archives?)

Byron Miller byronm at gmail.com
Sun Mar 6 23:50:13 UTC 2005


Just to be politically correct debian has what they call "unstable"
releases that contain all the .deb packages you could care for (recent
packages).

However Gentoo really is good if you have time to make things work.

-byron


On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 01:57:20 -0600, greg <gval at mts.net> wrote:
> I've used all three OSes. I don't care for mandrake because it's hard to
> install software outside of it's own installer. Debian is great if the
> package you are trying to install has ben around for a while and you
> don't mind using a slightly older version. Gentoo allows you to use
> bleeding edge software, however, on occasion you do have to do some
> serious poking around to get things to work.
> 
> There is a distro called knoppmyth specifically designed for mythtv, but
> it didn't work well with my hardware (PVR 350 and an EPIA board). Give
> that a try (if your not using my hardware combo).
>


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