On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Lan Barnes <<a href="mailto:lan@falleagle.net">lan@falleagle.net</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm loath to upgrade my laptop because of all te potential hassles, but<br>
want a MythTV front end on it. It's in FC 6.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Quite honestly, if you're loath to upgrade, Fedora probably isn't the best distro for you. I recently switched my "server" type machines (including MythTV) to CentOS as it's supported for much longer. On my laptop, I still run Fedora 8, but with the full knowledge that there's at least a yearly upgrade cycle (6 was supported until 8 came out, 8 will be supported until 10 comes out). But I wanted some of the "whiz-bang" features like Desktop Effects that aren't included in CentOS 5.1 for my laptop (don't care about those on the servers :).<br>
<br> I highly doubt you'll find a repo that will have MythTV on it. If you're insistent that you want to stick with FC 6 and want a mythfrontend on it, you're only choice may be to compile from source the same version of Myth that's on your backend... but if you don't have the right devel tools to compile from source, you may run into the same problems.<br>
<br>Like I said, that's why I switched my server type machines off from Fedora... I had fallen way behind on the upgrade treadmill (When Schedules Direct/0.20.2 came out, I was still running FC 4 on my Myth box... that caused me a lot of headaches 'cause there were no repositories left to upgrade from).<br>
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