[mythtv-users] RedHat vs Ubuntu

[Jim Abernathy]

On 9/23/21 6:10 AM, Ken Smith via mythtv-users wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I don't want to start a distro war discussion here. Just a practical 
> thread about the state of play with Myth in 2021.
>
>
> Since 2007 I have run various incarnations of MythTV on RedHat derived 
> systems. Various flavours of Fedora and latterly Centos. I chose 
> RedHat as I work with that in my day-job and I'm most familiar with 
> it. The MythTV rpm builds done by Axel Thimm and others have worked 
> well so far....
>
> With the debacle over Centos 8 last year I have been attempting to set 
> up my latest incarnation of MythTV on AlmaLinux, with is a Redhat 8 
> clone. I've attempted to use the MythTV rpm made available at 
> RPMFusion. As some may have noticed in my other recent thread, there 
> is a MySQL / MariaDB conflict when installing that version. I know I 
> could force the install but generally the installation is really messy.
>
> I raised a Bug at RPMFusion over a week ago and have had no response 
> at all. Not even a "this is duplicate of xyz or you are doing 
> something dumb"
>
> For MythTV > v28 is a RedHat/RPMFusion a viable way forward?
>
> Is anyone else currently using a RedHat derived system?
>
> As I see it there are these options
>
> - Somehow get the RPMFusion rpm sorted out. Not having much luck with 
> that.
> - Find an alternative repository with a current rpm build. I do see 
> MythTV 0.27 for Fedora 19 on ATRPM's but Fedora 19 went EoL in 2015.
> - Build from source on AlmaLinux.
> - Drop RedHat and switch to Ubuntu.
>
> I rather suspect the last option is the only real way forward.
>
> I do appreciate the hours of voluntary effort put in my many to 
> produce a truly excellent system that is head and shoulders ahead of 
> anything else.
>
> Thoughts
>
> :-) Ken


I've been using Mythtv on *buntu since it was it's own distro 
originally.  To me it seemed that the main development was on *buntu so 
I stuck with that.  I now use a minimal installation of Ubuntu desktop, 
add the repository and install. Everything else is just configuration.  
Always works and I rarely have to ask for help.

I've always had the philosophy to use the OS that is most convenient for 
what I want to do. I guess that is why I've learned and used so many 
OS's over the years. I don't care about which is more original to the 
tree, uses less memory or maybe slightly faster. Just what gets the job 
done the best and quickest.

As they said in the movies, "Time's money on this job"

That's my opinion anyway.

Jim A