[mythtv-users] Which distro for new system?

[David Brodbeck]

On Aug 8, 2007, at 2:11 PM, Tom Dexter wrote:
> Gentoo
> seems to be one of the last distros you see recommended for mythtv,  
> but I
> really think it's arguably one of the best for the purpose.  I was  
> glad to
> see others here bring it up.

One caveat -- if you're building a miniITX system based on one of  
VIA's processors, you should either have a lot of time on your hands,  
or plan on using distcc to let another machine help with  
compilation.  gcc is extraordinarily slow on VIA CPUs, probably  
because of their limited cache sizes.  If you offload some of the  
compilation to another machine with distcc, things will go much faster.