[mythtv-users] Best distribution for MythTV

[Paul Gardiner]

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.