[mythtv-users] VDPAU Feedback

Kirk Bocek t004 at kbocek.com
Tue Jan 17 18:25:26 UTC 2012



On 1/17/2012 10:00 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> Beats me why you are beating your head against the wall for a mythbox.
> For a corporate server, I can see you wanting to run CentOS 6. For a
> mythbox, I really cannot see any reason why you should not step up and
> use Fedora 16, with all of the kernel modules recently polished and
> shiny. And lirc included as a kernel module using dev-input.
>
> All of the 'all-in-one' distros use recent kernels. Mythbuntu is up to
> Ubuntu 11.10 which uses a 3.0 kernel. Linhes is on 2.6.39.
>
> A mythbox is supposed to be a tool to be used. Why make it a roadblock?
>
> Geoff

Because the same philosophy one applies to a corporate server goes 
doubly with a Myth box.

My two frontend boxes, one in the living room, one in the bedroom, I 
update as *infrequently* as possible. Once I get them up and running and 
I leave them *alone*.

Hmm, what does that remind me of? I know! The cable company. A very 
large *corporation*, whose hardware is on very long support time frames 
and which seems to sit in my A/V closet for years at a time.

I wish Myth would work like that.

That's why I end up focusing on CentOS, the software I use at work. I 
want a MythTV appliance that "just works." I won't get it, but one can 
dream, can't one? Hope springs eternal.



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