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

[Nick Campbell]

I have been trying to decide which distro to use also, and I have been
teetering between debian and centos.  I have had stability issues with
Ubuntu, which is why I want to go to something more stable..  I was
thinking of just using Debian since that is what the HDHomeRun software is
available on.  I was leaning towards centos because I have been trying to
learn it better for work purposes, but I have more experience on the deb
side of things.  I think I'm probably going to go that direction since I
can't seem to figure out how to get my hdhomerun working in centos.  I've
just had such bad luck with Ubuntu. I'll have everything working nice and
smooth, and without any reason or changing anything it will stop working on
me..  Anyway, thanks for the input.

*Nick Campbell*
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Mike Perkins
<mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk>wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
>
> Mike Perkins
>
>
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