On 10/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brad DerManouelian</b> <<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Oct 27, 2006, at 9:31 AM, John Drescher wrote:<br><br>> I highly recommend gentoo as the installation of MythTV (along with<br>> upgrading even via svn source) is completly painless. This is<br>> actually the reason why I moved to gentoo in the first palce in May
<br>> of 2004. I found that back then installing MythTV on mandrake and<br>> fedora was torture considering that I wanted to run it on a dual<br>> processor athlon mp box and actually wanted to use smp. After<br>
> fiddling with myth for several weeks on both, I moved to gentoo,<br>> installed the os and a simple emerge mythtv downloaded and<br>> installed mythtv and all the dependencies that I needed and I was<br>> using smp. Then there was a very little bit of configuring of mysql
<br>> and myth and I was up and running in a few hours instead of the<br>> game of rpm hell... I do note that this is much better now on the<br>> other distros now though.<br>><br>> John<br>><br><br>I think I'm down to choosing between debian and gentoo. Neither of
<br>which I have any experience. I guess it can't be any worse than what<br>I'm trying to do now. :)<br></blockquote></div><br><br>I was running Gentoo 2006.0 in a proof of concept machine for XGL/Compiz. The machine is working and is VERY stable. However, it took a LONG time (nearly 24 hours) to compile everything I needed. That's a heckuva lot longer than it took MythDora to load up for me. The only problems I had on MythDora was the LIRC setup. I got lirc working in under a day because the creator for MythDora (can't remember his name off hand) walked me through some simple troubleshooting. That frontend has been stable ever since. It's still running .19 but I have no problems.
<br><br>Jim<br>