I had been using arch linux for ever. I switched to it because I did not like the whole idea of reinstalling my mythtv.<br>Arch linux has official mythtv package and mythtv aur package and there is lots of information on setting it up.<br>
Updating it is very easy and nothing breaks and you can always roll back updates if they cause problems.<br> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com" target="_blank">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I am looking at updating my backend, made necessary by the fact that it is mythbuntu 10.04 (no myth 0.26 packages).<br>
<br>I really hate this 2 yearly cycle of updating ubuntu distros, even on LTS. I thought maybe a rolling release like Arch would alleviate me from having to do that.<br>
<br>My backend is used for mythbackend (obviously), squeezeboxserver, plex server (although that was an experiment and could go), file server for xbmc (same files as mythvideo), general fileserver, bittorrent (rtorrent) client.<br>
<br>Frontends I generally run mythbuntu, but it is easy to throw away the OS on an appliance machine and go to the latest, its the backend/server I don't want to be reinstalling the OS on all the time.<br><br>Now I am not wanting to start a distro war here (pleaaasssee) but would like to know from others using arch about the feasibility and pros/cons of this move.<br>
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