[mythtv-users] Help me choose a Redhat based OS for MythBackend

[Nick Morrott]

On 24 April 2010 23:52, Mike Andy <beatbreaker82 at gmail.com> wrote:
> exactly the advice I was looking for thanks Nick.
>
> Obviously coming from other distros I've never heard of atrpms.net but
> this seems to be the way to go. There does seem to be a lot of i386
> packages in there though, I guess it's just how they've been compiled?
> So how do I use it, do i add atrpms.net as a repository somehow or
> just install the rpms individually with rpm -ivh ?

http://www.atrpms.net/install.html

Add atrpms.net as a 3rd-party repository, and install software using
your preferred package manager (yum/smart/etc).

> So yeah I'll just stay on mythtv 0.22 until CentOS comes out with a
> ver 6 of RHEL then upgrade everything at once to myth 0.23
>
> I guess the next question is when will this all happen? could be 6
> months down the track by the time RHEL 6 is released and CentOS catch
> up? Could be longer?

For the last two CentOS major releases (4 and 5), there has been about
a month between the RHEL release and the CentOS variant becoming
available.

Cheers,
Nick

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