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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 26/07/2014 1:07 PM, Per Hatlevik
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have one dedicated MBE, one dedicated FE, and a few
multi-purpose machines on the network. While I've used
Gentoo primarily in the past, at the moment most of my
machines are running some form Debian (SID).<br>
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<div style="">if you're happy using debian then why not
stick with that? just add <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.deb-multimedia.org/">http://www.deb-multimedia.org/</a> to
your sources and you get releases of mythtv. all of my
machines are running debian (testing, not unstable but
close) and it works quite well.</div>
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<div style="">peace,</div>
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Valid question, and one that deserves a response. I find it takes a
long time for new/updated packages to make their way into Debian.
While I respect their reasoning, and I do find myself wanting more
of an appliance versus tinkering all of the time, yet I still like
to tinker at times. Yes, you can run testing/unstable but you will
get breakage, quite often major breakage, when you update something.
In my own experience, I've gotten to try out my backup system
several times after doing do update on SID.<br>
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I'm presuming that Mythbuntu, being based on Ubuntu, which traces
its roots to Debian would give my an environment I'm somewhat
comfortable in (though Debian does do several things I have to keep
going "why the **** did they decide to do 'x'), but, from what I
have heard they have somewhat more updated packages. I could be
wrong, I don't know, which is why I'm asking here.<br>
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My one concern about Mythbuntu is that I have one headless FE (my
main FE as it happens) which is currently netbooted, rootfs is
currently on nfs, but I can go iscsi or something else if necessary.
For a variety of reasons, I don't want to put a hard drive in that
case.<br>
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I had thought about trying Arch, though I have zero experience with
it, so was hoping to get some input from that user base as well.<br>
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