[mythtv-users] Best distribution for MythTV

[Paul Gardiner]

On 31/08/2020 17:10, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 11:07 AM Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net 
> <mailto:lists at glidos.net>> wrote:
> 
>     I've been using OpenSUSE for years now, mainly because I know it better
>     than other distributions, and my backend has also been my MTA and web
>     server, so I need to know it reasonably well. But now I've made other
>     arrangements for web and email, so I'm free to make the backend just
>     that and nothing else. OpenSUSE has been good, and there is at least
>     someone who kindly creates MythTV packages, but they're restrictive in
>     terms of versions. At the moment, I cannot update OpenSUSE version
>     without updating MythTV version at the same time, and I'd rather not.
>     Also, neither the latest OpenSUSE or the one I'm on, gives me access to
>     MythTV v31. So, I'm thinking this may be a chance to swap to a
>     different
>     distro. Any recommendations?
> 
> 
> Well, I keep the Fedora packages up to date via RPM Fusion, and already 
> being used to a RPM based distro it would be an easier transition. 
> Upgrades between Fedora versions works way better than it used to 5+ 
> years ago so that's largely pain free as well.

That sounds promising. So with the latest Fedora, could I install MythTV 
29.1 and swap to 31 later?