[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu vs Mythdora for Hauppauge PVR350+150 system

[Fred Firestine]

On Dec 7, 2007 9:51 PM, Jacob Steenhagen <jacob at steenhagen.us> wrote:
> On 12/6/07, Fred Firestine <ffluvssg1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > You're right, I am going to follow the recommendation on Jarod's HowTo
> > page to try Mythdora (or the others). My concern is that if I happen
> > to have a problem with Mythdora (as I did with my own FC6 install),
> > then I am back to debugging mode. I wouldn't have installed Myth
> > several times over if I wasn't up for the challenge, but maybe I am
> > looking for a little less of a challenge this time.  :-)
> >
>
> If you're OK with trying things out again the manual way, you can try CentOS
> 5. It's basically a free version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (it's binary
> compatible so any RPM repository that supports RHEL will support it [like
> atrpms.net]). If you enable the testing repo in atrpms and forget about
> freshrpms you can basically follow Jared's FC6 guide. But, unlike FC6, new
> packages are still being made for it... and it'll be supported for security
> fixes for years to come.
>
> Not to throw more things on your plate :).
>
>
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I will try the prepackaged route next time around, to see how my
system behaves, but thanks for the info about CentOS! I had heard of
it but didn't know much beyond the name, and that it was derived from
Red Hat. Maybe I could give that one a try at work, on one of my
desktop machines...  :-)