[mythtv-users] Distro of choice?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tuesday 08 March 2005 16:10, Timothy Waters wrote:
> I just wanted to see what distro a lot of you are using for your myth
> boxen currently.

Fedora Core and Debian (and/or one of its derivatives) here.

> I've been playing with it on Fedore Core 3 for a week 
> or two and it's okay with MythTV.

Can you further define "it's okay"? What do you think would be better with 
some other distribution?

> But then again, one bad up2date and 
> Myth doesn't function well anymore.

Quite frankly, unless you're using RHEL, up2date sucks royally. I use apt 
instead, almost exclusively.

> I'm thinking about doing another 
> LFS install and staying a bit with that to really get into it. Does
> anybody have any words of wisdom for setting up myth in LFS?

Be prepared for a looooong road... There's quite a dependency chain to take 
care of, but I do know of at least one Myth user who successfully traveled 
the LFS route. Great route if you really want to learn how everything works 
at a very low level, but a bit much time and effort if you simply want a 
working Myth box.

And as long as you're on FC3 right now, you may want to take a peek at the 
second link in my sig before jumping ship... Honestly, I fail to believe 
changing distributions will magically make anything better, unless you're 
switching to a distribution you're much more comfortable with.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
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