[mythtv-users] Quick, give me all your packages.

[William]

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> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Richard Bronosky
> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 12:34 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Quick, give me all your packages.
> 
> 
> I just found out that I am being sent out of the country for 
> a week.  I am being issued a company laptop, and will have a 
> lot of free time.  I want to spend it doing something 
> productive. (No, I will not be watching any porn.)
> 
> So, I would like to burn a few DVDs and have everything that 
> I could possibly need to setup a Linux distro and play with a 
> bunch of tools for learning purposes.  I'm leaning towards 
> Debian since I use KnoppMyth, but I'm open to others.  I 
> would like to have everything I could possibly want to 
> apt-get on a DVD.
> 
> Right now I hate my gdm/fluxbox eperience.  I want to use a 
> more full featured env like KDE, but I really don't know the 
> different tiers and what part of the experience they control. 
>  I want to learn this.
> 
> I also have full access to the O'Reilly library via 
> SafariBooksOnline. 
> So I can get any readying material also.
> 
> Given this scenario, what would you do?  (keep in mind that I 
> need to start downloading NOW!)
> 
Personally I would download a fedora core or ubuntu distro's complete set of
disks which should give you reasonably recent versions of their full set of
packages.