[mythtv-users] What's the best linux distribution if I'm ONLYusingMyth TV?

[john at www.jb99.com]

On the machine I've got it on (An EPIA C3 800Mhz) which admittedly is
fairly slow it takes almost 2 hours to do kernel rebuild. To go from a
stage 1 install to finishing the "emerge system" took at least 12 hours) I
left it running overnight.

I tried to rebuild KDE (Including X and all the underlying packages it
needs) with a fair number of options included and had to stop it after 18
hours because I had to move the machine.

On that machine I don't think it's an exageration to say it would take days
to install a reasonable amount of software.

This is a very slow cpu but even so it can take *many* hours to install if
you want a fully functional kde system for example.

Original Message:
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From: Pierre-Olivier Bouchard petecool at vl.videotron.ca
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 09:37:40 -0400
To: john.burton at jbmail.com, mythtv-users at snowman.net
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] What's the best linux distribution if
I'm	ONLYusingMyth TV?


john at www.jb99.com wrote:

> Also it takes at least ten times as long to install as any other
> distibution as it builds from source code. You are talking several *days*
> for a fully featured installation.

I had a 16-hour spot between recordings last week, and I was able to: 
transfer all my recordings to another computer (by putting the 
recordings hard disk in that computer), and use that hard disk to setup 
my system. It was fully ready to record at least an hour before 
"deadline". The computer is only a Celeron 1.1Ghz, if you're using 
something more powerful (> Duron 1.1Ghz, P4 >1.6Ghz) it can only be shorter.

Now, I don't remember how long Mandrake took to install last time I did 
it (it was quite a long time ago), but even with his Athlon 750Mhz, I 
don't think we're looking at *several* days here :)


Pete



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