[mythtv-users] Distro

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Fri Oct 27 16:55:55 UTC 2006


On Oct 27, 2006, at 9:23 AM, Tom Lichti wrote:

> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> Wondering which distro is giving people the least frustrations. I
>> considered doing KoppMyth, but is this something I can easily change/
>> add to when required?
>>
>> Some background as to why I'm giving up on Fedora:
>> I was running FC4 for a long time with no problem until one day LVM
>> decided to trash my superblocks - yes, EVERY superblock on my disk.
>> All that work is now gone. So I tried FC5 on a new disk. Ran into
>> dependencies that couldn't be resolved. bind conflicted with some
>> other package and kept trying to re-download the 600MB of packages
>> every time I tried. After the 4th time of adding/removing packages to
>> solve dependencies, I gave up. Then I couldn't get nvidia driver to
>> load. No idea why. I was too frustrated to find out. So I go back to
>> FC4 and haven't been able to get yum upgrade to finish after 2.5 days
>> of trying. 403's, 404's, parser errors. Forget it. It's not worth it.
>>
> While I am a huge supporter of KnoppMyth, I think your yum problems  
> are
> probably due to FC6 being released, and all the mirrors are swamped  
> with
> requests.

I'm guessing that's true. Which is why I want to change. If the  
Fedora community can't support the traffic from an OS update, I need  
to look somewhere else so I'm not down for a week trying to reinstall  
when FC7 comes out or whatever.

>
> KnoppMyth takes me about 30 minutes to go from bare metal to a working
> front-end, and a back-end is not much more.

Any idea if this will support dual-core AMD64?

>
> Tom
>
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