[mythtv-users] Linux distros.

[Vincent Colombo]

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> Reading the raw HTML that comes out of CVS is a bit of a 
> chore, so please 
> forgive me if these comments reflect a misreading of the 
> changes you made.

the .sgml file is the raw source, complete with markup tags, and the
.txt has the same content in it as the .html version.

> First, I would restore the comment I made about swap partitions
> being  useless for MythTV. Of course, this is just my opinion, and 
> you might not share it.

The reason that I removed this statement is that I concur with Bruce
on this issue.  Saying that swap is useless is overly broad, and
makes assumptions about the machine / user that we can't make without
having a fixed hardware configuration.

> Second, I would restore the comment I made that additional 
> RAM (over 256 
> MB) acts to buffer writes to the hard disk. This role of 
> "spare" RAM is 
> commonly overlooked, and people should be more aware of it. 
> On any system 
> that runs a real-time, use-it-or-lose-it activity like video 
> capture, the 
> extra time buffering buys can help the system cope with 
> transient encoding 
> loads (camera pans seems now to be everyone's main example of 
> this, for 
> good reason).
> 

I'll put in some wording to reflect this and what Isaac said.

> Third, the section on Savage video cards seems not to have 
> made it in. I'd 
> recommend restoring that; the many people who corrected my 
> original version 
> are surely right about the usability of those cards, but 
> documentation ... 
> not just yours; most video apps ... seems never to mention them.

The information was changing too rapidly at the time I was editing
the document.  Now that there have been further responses, do you
want to re-write and send to the list again?

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