<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/30/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Carlos Javier Borroto</b> <<a href="mailto:carlos.borroto@gmail.com">carlos.borroto@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I'm in the process of testing waters with Fedora, I'm coming from<br>Ubuntu(Mythbuntu), one of my main use of Linux at home is MythTV and<br>
reading about it in Fedora[1], I see MythDora should be my best bet,<br>but I don't only use the PC for MythTV, so I want something I could<br>upgrade to the newest version available at the time. MythDora doesn't<br>
seems to follow Fedora's releases, right now version 5 is based on<br>Fedora 8.<br><br>From the same guide it seems the other place where I can find rpms for<br>MythTV is from <a href="http://atrpms.net">atrpms.net</a>, but I also found that many people use rpms<br>
for Nvidia and ATI cards, some multimedia packages, etc, from<br><a href="http://rpm.livna.org">rpm.livna.org</a>, which also have MythTV rpms, even when my experience<br>with rpm is quite vague, I know that mixing several 3rd party<br>
repositories is not a good thing, so any advice which path should I<br>take?<br><br></blockquote></div>
<div>I've been using Fedora for my backend for a while now (since about FC4 I think). After my system drive crashed, I reinstalled everything two weeks ago, again using Fedora 9 (x64). I followed Jarod's instructions and enabled atrpms and freshrpms. So far everything has worked well. Jarod's instructions still work well - and if anything things are easier now than they were when he wrote them (the defaults for alsa, etc all seem to work out the box now).</div>
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<div>For a while (in my previous installation) I was having issues with nvidia drivers from atrpms (during Axel's move to Greece) and switched to livna, just for the video drivers. Disabling livna by default and only enabling for an nvidia update worked just fine. Nowadays I find it simpler to just use the nvidia drivers directly from nvidia than a packaged version.</div>
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<div>So - my vote is atrpms. And judging by the traffic on this list - most people seem to do similarly. Axel is very responsive to any issues and does a great job.<br> </div>