[mythtv-users] Zotac ID41 as frontend

Jeff Siddall news at siddall.name
Wed May 29 19:51:24 UTC 2013


On 05/29/2013 04:53 AM, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 29/05/13 00:53, Per Hatlevik wrote:
>> if you are really after a diskless frontend i would check out the
>> minimyth
>> project (http://www.minimyth.org/). i use minimyth on all my ion-based
>> frontends (i have a mixture of ion1 and ion2 around the house) and it is
>> realtively painless to setup. and the advantage is that you have a
>> frontend
>> with no local storage whatsoever (other than ram). minimyth also makes it
>> easy to create a ram-based or nfs-based root filesystem so there is some
>> flexability there as well. i went the ram-based route and it works
>> perfectly!
>>
> ...and that's exactly how LTSP works, except you get to decide what
> software the client runs.
>
> I am using minimyth myself but find the configuration to be unwieldy.
> With LTSP I can just chroot in and change whatever is required in a
> standard mythtv way. Don't get me wrong, minimyth is fine, but I have
> had odd problems which required some head-scratching to fix. LTSP "just
> works".
>
> (I run both minimyth and LTSP, so can compare methods.)

Agreed.  Having a full desktop environment is a requirement for me and 
LTSP gives me that.  Myth is just one thing that happens to run on it.


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