[mythtv-users] Taking the plunge - General questions aboutsetup and PVR250

[Aran Cox]

On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 10:17, Pierre-Olivier Bouchard wrote:

> Gentoo works well for me, I didn't experience any of the quirks redhat 
> users report. Plus, it's package system is a bit pased on BSD ports, you 
> could feel closer to home :)
> 

What's all this I keep hearing about "quirks" with RedHat?  I got MythTV
set up using RPMS for everything I needed and it worked just fine.  The
issues I had were all driver or hardware related and were not in any way
caused by RH.  In fact, I'm still using the RH9 provided kernels!  I
don't recall reading anywhere on this list that users have had problems
with RedHat per se, it's been mostly user in-experience or unwillingness
(or inability, because they want to use PVR-250) to take advantage of
the pre-compiled packages.  

The recent "Install tips for RH9 and PVR250" spends virtually the whole
time on completely non-RH related topics which you'd have to do no
matter what the distro.  Like, compiling the ivtv drivers, compiling
from CVS, installing Nvidia drivers.

I do not want to start a distro holy war here, my point is only that RH9
has worked well for me and I just don't see the quirks that you refer
to.  In fact, if you don't need the CVS version of MythTV then RH9 is
probably an excellent choice for a distro.  Especially when combined
with apt-get and the repositories at fresrpms.net and atrpms.  

Regards,
Aran