[mythtv-users] Distro of Choice

[Shawn]

I'll be honest with you, you need patience with Gentoo. For me it's nice
because I'm in a constant state of upgrading, but I impose a sort of
change control on myself to mitigate the inherent risk of upgrading
frequently.

Fedora is very nice! You're going to likely here gentoo folks like me
giving plugs, but if you're not wanting to upgrade very often, fedora is
nice, and it's what a lot of people use for myth. Even when you upgrade
your distribution (or even install new from scratch to start over), you
just need to keep your recordings and a dump of your database.

Honestly, it's hard to go wrong. Jarod has written a guide for Fedora
that many use, and he's got documents that are handy even for gentoo
users. By going with fedora you inherit a large community of fellow
users.

In short, there is no best. Define your needs, and decide for yourself
based on the various distributions' respective strengths.

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 08:20 -0700, Mark Gardner wrote:
> I do not want to start a holy war!!!   But what i would like is some
> advice.  I just purchased a PVR 350 just to build a myth tv box.
> my Setup
> Hauppange 350
> Sempron 2400
> 512 DDR RAM
> 
> What distribution of linux have people had good experience and ease of
> configuration for MythTV.  I've uesed every distribution listed
> Mandrake, SuSE, Gentoo, Debian.   I consider my self proficient in all
> but not an expert.   I dont mind compiling but for my first box i'd
> probably use a binary (or emerge) till i understand it better, then
> possibly compile later.
> 
> If one distro works with the Hauppange Remote control that would be
> good.  But what i'm really after is which one is easiest to configure.
> 
> Please No Holy wars.... i'm just interested in your milage.

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