[mythtv-users] Which Distro?

[gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman)]

Jarod Wilson wrote:
> RPM is your friend if you learn it well (and use apt/yum)... 

i did package management for a (very small userbase) distro for a while 
and after that, i found RPM to be my sworn enemy :p

my bigger issues w/ most rpm-based ones is that i'm not a huge fan of RH 
and thus that carries to the other RPM-based distros ... that and it 
pains me to have 500 packages installed on one machine that uses less 
than half, but i can't uninstall, because of dependency hell (the reason 
i'll use FreeBSD over RH *ANY* day for server use)

so is there any performance gain / other reason to separate out frontend 
and backend?  i currently have my slack-current system configured as 
both ... i don't really have any other "beefier" machines ... the two 
other servers i have (firewall/router ... fileserver) are old PII 233MHz 
Dells...

-g-