I highly recommend gentoo as the installation of MythTV (along with upgrading even via svn source) is completly painless. This is actually the reason why I moved to gentoo in the first palce in May of 2004. I found that back then installing MythTV on mandrake and fedora was torture considering that I wanted to run it on a dual processor athlon mp box and actually wanted to use smp. After fiddling with myth for several weeks on both, I moved to gentoo, installed the os and a simple emerge mythtv downloaded and installed mythtv and all the dependencies that I needed and I was using smp. Then there was a very little bit of configuring of mysql and myth and I was up and running in a few hours instead of the game of rpm hell... I do note that this is much better now on the other distros now though.
<br><br>John<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brad DerManouelian</b> <<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Wondering which distro is giving people the least frustrations. I<br>considered doing KoppMyth, but is this something I can easily change/<br>add to when required?<br><br>Some background as to why I'm giving up on Fedora:
<br>I was running FC4 for a long time with no problem until one day LVM<br>decided to trash my superblocks - yes, EVERY superblock on my disk.<br>All that work is now gone. So I tried FC5 on a new disk. Ran into<br>dependencies that couldn't be resolved. bind conflicted with some
<br>other package and kept trying to re-download the 600MB of packages<br>every time I tried. After the 4th time of adding/removing packages to<br>solve dependencies, I gave up. Then I couldn't get nvidia driver to<br>load. No idea why. I was too frustrated to find out. So I go back to
<br>FC4 and haven't been able to get yum upgrade to finish after 2.5 days<br>of trying. 403's, 404's, parser errors. Forget it. It's not worth it.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list
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