[mythtv-users] Best distribution for MythTV
Paul Gardiner
lists at glidos.net
Mon Aug 31 17:21:47 UTC 2020
On 31/08/2020 18:10, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 12:04 PM Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net
> <mailto: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>
> > <mailto: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.
Oh okay. Possibly OpenSUSE is more flexible than I thought. Each
OpenSUSE version offers several MythTV versions. Although I cannot for
the the latest OpenSUSE, I can usually update the distro, leaving MythTV
alone and then update MythTV later.
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