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

[Jarod Wilson]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 April 2010 01:58, Mike Andy <beatbreaker82 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> As per subject title, Help me choose a Redhat based OS for MythBackend.
>
> If it were me, and I was using well supported hardware, I'd seriously
> think about waiting for the RHEL6 clones to be released, install one
> of them, and then stop worrying. atrpms.net has supported MythTV on
> CentOS for years, and would make for an easy installation route. Plus
> you get to learn on a RHEL-based system which or may not be useful to
> you career-wise.

I think its pretty likely I'm going to switch from Fedora to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux (there, now I can say RHEL from here on forward...)
on my own MythTV system. But for my taste, RHEL5 is already way too
out of date -- more of a userspace issue than a kernelspace issue, as
the kernel, while it has an "old" base is actually quite capable even
on very new hardware[*], though there are quite a few drivers not in
the RHEL5 kernel that one needs for many MythTV systems (primarily
capture card drivers and lirc). My most productive RHEL5 boxes at work
have a ton of userspace bits much newer than what ships in RHEL5. So
that brings us to RHEL6, for which the public beta was just released.
The userspace is fairly current (though 4 years down the road, it'll
be just as stale as RHEL5 is now), lots of capture card drivers are
built as part of the shipping kernel, xfs and ext4 are available out
of the box, etc.

[*] c'mon, someone ask me how I know this... :)

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com