<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:37 PM, JEDIDIAH <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:45:49PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:<br>> Mark Knecht wrote:<br>> > We've been using Linux for about 8 years at home. It's still<br>> > frustrating, mostly in the distro space. Kids making decisions about<br>
> > packages that effect 10,000 people without considering all the issues.<br>> > Nothing we can do as users except deal with the problems they create.<br>><br>> The great thing about distros is there are so many of them. If you<br>
> don't like the way the one you're using is managed, you can switch.<br>><br>> If you want a "mature" distribution that doesn't push out unnecessary<br>> changes, I'd suggest one of the Red Hat derivatives. Scientific Linux<br>
> and CentOS both track Red Het 5, which is a distribution aimed at<br>> businesses that want stability and long service lives between upgrades.<br>> If I were starting over that's probably what I'd use.<br>
<br></div>You don't really need a "stable" sort of distribution so much. You<br>just need to treat the system as a business would. IOW, you aren't<br>going to push out any gratiutious changes. You are going to test<br>
things first. Perhaps you will let others be guinea pigs for you.<br><br>Unix in general "stays working" once you've gotten it that way.<br><br>That's one of it's key strong points. It doesn't matter so much<br>
what the distro maintainers do since your mythboxes should be<br>well insulated from that anyways.</blockquote>
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<div>To a point. I subscribe to that philosophy of never updating the box until necessary (and this would result in a stable OS whether Linux or Windows in this case) but the problem I have run into with Linux distributions other than CentOS is that the third-party repositories used drop support for Fedora and the like so fast that upgrading a MythTV major version will often then require an OS upgrade as well because there are no longer packages for updated items like QT, etc.</div>
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<div>Kevin</div></div></div>