[mythtv-users] Best distribution for MythTV

[Richard Shaw]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 12:04 PM Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:

> 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?
>

Well, no I must have misread that... If you use Fedora you're pretty much
getting v31. If RPM Fusion had COPR like Fedora then producing alternative
package/versions would be possible.

Thanks,
Richard
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