[mythtv-users] Distro of choice?

[Timothy Waters]

yeah I've been a die-hard gentoo user for about a year and a half but
setting up Myth was kind of shaky so I tried FC3 just to see if all my
hardware worked and Myth actually does work. I luff t3h gentoo!


On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:25:46 -0600, Robert Denier <denier at umr.edu> wrote:
> The nice thing about gentoo is it doesn't hide how things work as much
> as say ones with graphical tools to do most stuff.  Compiling is
> becoming faster all the time as hardware improves, and its even possible
> to build an entire new distribution in the background, should you want
> to start from scratch.  To do that you tend to need to create something
> like
> 
> /hda1 boot  ~20MB
> /hda2 swap  ~1GB
> /hda3 tmp   ~5GB
> /hda5 root1 ~15GB
> /hda6 root2 ~15GB
> /hda7 home - rest of space
> 
> then boot to either the os on 5 or 6 depending.  Of course I didn't do
> it last time I built this machine and now kind of wish I did since you
> can built the entire OS cleanly to get everything tidy then test it and
> configure it _before_ abandoning your regular one.
> 
> Of course its not as if you have to reinstall often, but sometimes
> things seem a little cleaner to do a clean compile and  if you nice the
> process it doesn't really slow things down much.
> 
> , and its even
> 
> On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 19:05 -0700, Blammo wrote:
> > Fedora for me. I've tried Knopp with zero success (stability, etc)
> > over the longer term. I try Knoppmyth out every new release, and
> > always end up going back to Fedora.
> >
> > Serious Nod to Jarod, I couldn't have done my first Fedora install
> > without his guide.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:40:44 -0400, Greg Estabrooks <greg at phaze.org> wrote:
> > > > I just wanted to see what distro a lot of you are using for your myth
> > > > boxen currently.
> > >
> > >  Slackware on all my machines and on the 15 or so myth boxes I've setup for
> > > people.
> > >
> > >
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