[mythtv-users] Intel NUC DN2820FYKH frontend build

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On 01/10/14 21:09, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists at xunil.at> wrote:
>> I still have to decide if I run mythbuntu on that (kinda easier) or
>> install Gentoo (as I use on all my servers/laptops/etc ).
>>
> I used to use minimyth on a frontend and it drove me
> nuts because it had its own way of doing everything and it wasn't
> in-sync with Gentoo.

For further improvement of Minimyth2 - may You pls give more details?
I'll be happy to address those issues.



> In general mythtv does not guarantee
> compatibility between different builds even within the same major
> version.
I must say my experience is opposite. Being with MythTV since 0.16 I can 
say MythTV policy for heterogeneous runtime environments is strict and 
well implemented.  In last 6-7 years I had distributed system where 
multiple FE are on minimyth/minimyth2 while BE was on: knoppmyth, 
linhes, debian, ubuntu, archlinux, my own distro.
I don't remember SINGLE situation when having issue - this issue root 
cause was within MythTV and FE and BE were conforming rule of the same 
major MythTV ver.
I'm trying to say: as long as runtime environment is OK - distributed 
setups of MythTV on heterogeneous runtime environments works really well 
for me.

I think bad MythTV opinion of some ppl with heterogeneous runtime 
environments is false positive about MythTV fragility to heterogeneity 
of runtime environment.

> So, if you run multiple distros it will be hard to keep them
> all in sync.
Usually subtle runtime issues are triggering MythTV behaviors which are 
classified as MythTV root causes - while in reality they are  runtime 
environment issues. MythTV is quite demanding app. (more than avg. 
distro designed to avg. office/home usage).

My general observation is stability of pure GNU/Linux (with major 
upstreams strategy to conform their design/implementation goals) 
constantly improves and already exceed stability of most famous 
distributions where major goal seems to be address biggest possible HW 
variety and widest usage scenarios.
Good estimator of above is comparison of natures community complains for 
ArchLinux/Gentoo vs Ubuntu.
That's why I'm believer of appliance approach to things like MythTV FE 
and server-like to BE.

As always YMMV.