I wonder if I can upgrade from a CentOS 5 beta to CentOS 5 (by yum or by DVD install - doesn't matter to me) once it's in production...<br><br>Any thoughts?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Axel Thimm</b> <<a href="mailto:Axel.Thimm@atrpms.net">Axel.Thimm@atrpms.net</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 Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:00:56PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:<br>> On Thursday 05 April 2007 10:25:03 Tom Lichti wrote:<br>> > Dale Christ wrote:<br>> > > Has anyone tried using CentOS (I's probably use 5 when it completes
<br>> > > beta) for MythTV? I'm curious to see if it more stable than Fedora<br>> > > Core 6. Thanks.<br>> ><br>> > I have a CentOS 4.4 frontend only running current SVN, and it works<br>
> > fine, no problems. I haven't tried it as a backend though.<br>><br>> RHEL4/CentOS4 blows for a backend, at least if HDTV figures into the equation.<br>> Most DVB drivers don't build on such an aged kernel. RHEL5/CentOS5 doesn't
<br>> have drivers out of the box for most capture cards either, but they can be<br>> built and provided via kernel module rpms (and Axel is already planning to do<br>> so).<br><br>You mean this? :=)<br><br><a href="http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/video4linux/">
http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/video4linux/</a><br><a href="http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/ivtv/">http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/ivtv/</a><br><br>> EL5 should indeed make for a rather nice platform.<br><br>I think all bits are there for CentOS5 based mythtv boxes, but
<br>CentOS5. :)<br><br>> Out of curiosity, what exactly has been unstable with FC6? I've never had any<br>> issues with it myself, outside of the occasional kernel regression (i.e.,<br>> cx88-dvb autoload breaking, but we have that fixed in the next kernel release
<br>> after 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6).<br>--<br>Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>
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