<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 July 2010 19:37, Christian Szpilfogel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chrisznews4@rogers.com">chrisznews4@rogers.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 02/07/2010 12:16 PM, Jason Ward wrote:<br>
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OK, thanks everyone, yes, I want MythTV to behave like an appliance.<br>
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Then why don't you use one of the appliance distros like LinHes (<a href="http://mysettopbox.tv/" target="_blank">http://mysettopbox.tv/</a>)? These are purpose built mythtv solutions where any updates are pre-tested before release.<br>
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Generally when I see people using something like Mythbuntu, I assume they are not seeking an appliance but a box that does myth as well as some other things (e.g. web server, desktop, etc). The myth appliances on the other hand tend to be stripped down to what is required to run myth hence improving security and reducing interactions.<br>
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All of my front ends have always been appliance versions. My backend used to run on my main server which is CentOS based but I have since implemented VMWare on that server and I created a guest which is now a myth appliance.<br>
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I find this keeps my myth life simple and stable.<br></blockquote><div><br>Since Mythbyntu describes itself as a stripped down system specifically to run MythTV I had assumed it was indeed an appliance distro.<br><br>I keep hearing people say they run their back ends as VM's, how do you do that? I though specialised hardware (like turners) were not avialable inside a VM? <br>
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