[mythtv-users] SchedulesDirect Changes

[Mike Perkins]

On 05/10/14 19:44, Larry Kennedy wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 10/4/2014 5:38 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> But Larry, if you are not interested in compiling, maybe you ought to
>>>> rethink your choice of CentOS for MythTV also.  I.e. apply the right
>>>> tool to the job at hand.
>>>>
>>>>   I'd have to agree with this.  I just don't see something like MythTV
>>> as the target audience for something like CentOS.
>>>
>>> Now, if you were going to run CentOS as a host and then run something
>>> like a MythTV appliance distro in a container underneath it, then I'd
>>> be saying that you're more in the target audience for CentOS.  Then
>>> again, if hosting diverse containers is your goal, then something like
>>> CoreOS could be better still.  CentOS is a bit more about stability
>>> and supportability than having a rich package database, especially for
>>> things like multimedia.
>>>
>>>
>> What exactly do you two mean by this? MythTV is the target or CentOS is
>> the target? Of what?
>>
>> I happen to host MythTV on CentOS. Finding the right repo for packages has
>> been a problem. It was ATrpms. And now that some of the users have stepped
>> up it still is.
>>
>> Why does it sound like the stability of Red Hat/CentOS is a *bad* thing
>> for you? It sounds like you want to target the ever shifting sands of
>> something like Fedora. A distro that demands updating once or twice a year.
>>
>>
> This is exactly why I switched from Fedora to CentOS.  I was growing tired
> of the constantly evolving baseline that required me to keep up or get left
> behind.   I wanted something more stable.
>
...and that is why I switched to Debian.

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Mike Perkins