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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27/07/2014 7:27 AM, Andrew C.
(AFPup) Stadt wrote:<br>
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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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No reason you cant still do this on Ubuntu. <br>
With Mythbuntu, you can install Ubuntu Server and then simply
install the mythbuntu packages (or just the MythTV packages) on
top. With daily builds of the mythtv packages, you can stay as upto
date as you want to.<br>
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In the beginning I ran MythTV on Fedora, but the constant upgrade
cycle turned me to seek out an alternative OS that provided packaged
mythtv (but wasnt a modified version of that OS)<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:53D41D3F.2070900@stadt.ca" type="cite"> 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
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