[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu or other distro?

[Tom Harris]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Andrew C. (AFPup) Stadt <acstadt at stadt.ca>
wrote:

> I'm not looking to start a distro war here, just some concise advise.
>
> Long term Linux user, played with multiple distros over the years.
> Mid term MythTV user, first around 0.17 then came back to it about 0.19.
> Over the past several years, I've generally tracked just behind master,
> compiling from source.  However I'm finding less and less and time
> available to maintain my systems to the level I would like.
>
> I have one dedicated MBE, one dedicated FE, and a few multi-purpose
> machines on the network. While I've used Gentoo primarily in the past, at
> the moment most of my machines are running some form Debian (SID).
>
> So, I'm looking for a packaged version of myth, one that tracks the latest
> *release* (not looking for something tracking master here) fairly closely,
> and is reasonably stable. I do have one machine in my house which will
> continue to run Gentoo, but I'm more then willing to determine which git
> version the packaged version is running and manually build on that one
> machine, in truth I don't run myth much on that machine anyways.
>

I've used Mythbuntu for several years now and I've been happy with it.
It's all the standard ubuntu stuff, and really streamlines the process for
setting up mythtv, mysql, remote controls, etc.   Basically, it mostly lets
you ignore it as a Linux box and treat it as an appliance -- very little
Linux tweaking is necessary.

My one complaint with mythbuntu is the inability to easily stop popup
messages overtaking the mythfrontend.  The update manager has a habit of
popping up despite all the settings telling it not to.   I eventually
bludgeoned it into submission, but it was much harder than it should have
been.
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