<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Mike Perkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk" target="_blank">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 26/09/13 22:12, John Morris wrote:<br>
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On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 14:18 -0400, Stephen P. Villano wrote:<br>
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That's why I went with Ubuntu. 12.04 is supported until 4/2017.<br>
Next LTS looks to be for around 4/2014, to judge by the previous release<br>
history. Let the dust settle and the next LTS version mature, I can<br>
upgrade by the final quarter of 2014.<br>
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Assuming Myth keeps supporting that version. That is my problem. I'm<br>
stuck on 0.25 because I need to upgrade Debian 6 and deal with the GNOME<br>
3 problem first. And of course after a full distro upgrade you get to<br>
deal with NVidia drivers, making sure sound through the HDMI port is<br>
still working right, LIRC still works, etc. And after all that I can<br>
upgrade Myth. Can't recall a problem upgrading Myth though, that part<br>
usually just works.<br>
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Problem is finding a long enough service window where there isn't a<br>
house full of grandkids, the Mrs. isn't watching/recording anything and<br>
I don't have a more important project that has to get done.<br>
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Upgraded from Debian squeeze/mythtv 0.24 to wheezy/mythtv 0.26 a few months ago now, including migrating from a minimyth front end to a whole new box. Went like a dream, took me all of a morning. Went from a VGA/stereo feed to HDMI; worked without any problems, YMMV. Pulling the nvidia drivers is ridiculously easy too. Instructions here:<br>
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<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers" target="_blank">https://wiki.debian.org/<u></u>NvidiaGraphicsDrivers</a><br>
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Mind you, the backend box does not have X at all so no worries about Gnome 3 there. For the front end, like all my other boxes, I have gone with LXDE as it is similar enough to Gnome 2 to use easily and involves much less designer cruft.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
</font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Is there any reason in particular people run gnome on the mythboxes? Even though I always forget how to do it and it takes me quite some time to get it correct, I always make ratpoison my default windows manager in place of gnome to get rid of headaches like screensavers and funky behavior (which was really doing weird stuff on the gnome 3). I imagine it is also reduces CPU and memory overhead too. <br>
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