I'd second andrew's view Knoppmyth is fairly painless to quickly get a dedicated streamlined box up and running, especially if you check your hardware against the information available on <a href="http://www.mysettopbox.tv">
www.mysettopbox.tv</a>, the wiki and the forums.<br><br>I've been using it for about 3 years now and It's really good now.<br><br>Gary<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 09/02/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Andrew Close</b> <<a href="mailto:aclose@gmail.com">aclose@gmail.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;">
On 2/9/07, Padayachee, Mervin UTCFS<br><<a href="mailto:Mervin.Padayachee@chubb.co.za">Mervin.Padayachee@chubb.co.za</a>> wrote:<br>> Can anyone advise me on the best Distro for MythTV wrt easy installation. I
<br>> am try to get this done using Mandriva 2007 free but I am having too many<br>> dead ends.<br><br>everyone will have an opinion here. :)<br><br>i've been using KnoppMyth with great success. easy install,<br>
pre-confiured, almost plug and play...<br><br><a href="http://www.mysettopbox.tv">http://www.mysettopbox.tv</a><br><a href="http://www.mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/">http://www.mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/</a><br><br>from lurking on the list it also sounds like MythDora is a fairly plug
<br>& play solution, but i haven't tried it.<br>and of course Red Hat/Fedora following Jerod Wilson's how-to gets rave<br>reviews: <a href="http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php">http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php
</a><br><br>i'd recommend reading Jarod's How-to even if you go with one of the<br>MythDistros...<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
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