[mythtv-users] OT: What does Fedora 8 really have to offer?
Peter Loron
peterl at standingwave.org
Sat Nov 3 23:43:21 UTC 2007
On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 17:11 -0600, Marvin Match wrote:
> On 3 Nov 2007 at 9:16, Marc Barrett wrote:
>
> > I've considered rebuilding my MythTV installation based on a
> > new installation of Fedora 8, but I am starting to wonder what
> > that release really has to offer. Arguably what was supposed
> > to be the biggest feature of this release -- KDE 4 -- was
> > stripped out and pushed back to Fedora 9. So I am
> > thinking of just sticking with Fedora 7 for now, and waiting
> > for Fedora 9 to rebuild my installation.
> >
> Hmmm...
>
> I would have to say that if Fedora 7 is working OK for you, why
> upgrade at all? But:
>
> I've used Core 4 since it was current. Now Axel has removed support
> for it on the ATrpms repository, so to upgrade to the latest MythTV
> easily, and to get OS updates from Fedora I need to use something
> current. (yeah, that's an overstatement, but clearly it's time)
>
> Core 6 will be the next to fall off the map so that's not a good
> choice, leaving 7 and 8 as the only reasonable Fedora choices today.
>
> So, I'll go with Fedora 8 for any system I'll build now, not because
> it has anything in it that makes it better for MythTV, but because it
> will continue to be supported for longer than any other flavor of
> Fedora that is available today.
>
> In your case, unless there is some other reason to upgrade,
> personally I'd wait for 9.
>
> Marvin
Why not switch over to CentOS 5? Much longer support window than the FC
series.
-Pete
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