[mythtv-users] CentOS and 0.27-fixes (which really just means always-latest)

[Mike Perkins]

On 23/04/14 14:28, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 09:08 -0400, Tom Lichti wrote:
>>
>> Seconded.
>
> I really, really don't want to start a distro holy war here.  I replied
> to the first "why" off-list to try to avoid it.
>
> I just don't have confidence in Ubuntu any more.  I feel they are at
> least dividing (if not completely redirecting) their attentions away
> from general-computing to chase TVs, tablets, and phones.
>
> I see way too many bugs just languish for literally years and years
> presumably because they don't affect that non-general-computing
> use-case.
>
>> I like CentOS as a server, but
>> for anything outside of a basic LAMP setup, it's...difficult.
>
> Well, yes.  This is the concern that started this thread.
>
>> My frontends are all Fedora
>
> So yeah, I'm no more interested in my FEs being on a 6-month upgrade
> cycle than I am the BE so I'd want CentOS for the FEs also.  But since I
> don't care about any of the desktop-paradigm crap, this should be
> livable.
>
>> Anyway, food for thought.
>
> Yeah.  Mythbuntu do a really good job of keeping things up-to-date on
> Ubuntu, that is for sure.  I might just end up having to stay with
> Mythbuntu for my Myth machines but move whatever else around here is
> left on Ubuntu to RedHat.  I was hoping to have to just deal with two,
> somewhat-alike distros (Fedora and CentOS) rather than three though.
>
> Thanks for the input.
>
Why not go the other way, like I did? My original setup was Mandrake, which went 
to Mandriva, which went to...

I got fed up with that and tried a number of other distros, both for mythtv use 
and for general-purpose. I ended up with straight Debian, which is after all 
what Ubuntu is based on.

My myth boxes are just a bare-metal OS install with the front-ends using LXDE[1] 
as a basic desktop. The myth packages come from deb-multimedia. All my other 
servers, workstations and experimental boxes run Debian too. I have a local 
package cache[2] so it saves downloading time.

I haven't bothered going for cutting-edge software so I'm personally still on 
0.26-fixes, but I know there are others who have enabled the 'backports' 
repository and run the latest and greatest myth version.

[1] Gnome 3? Just say no. LXDE resembles the usable parts of Gnome 2.
[2] apt-cacher-ng.

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Mike Perkins