[mythtv-users] Distro of choice?
wheaty
wheaty at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 18:53:42 UTC 2005
I'll likely end up using this when it hits a stable release:
http://www.slamd64.com/
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:56:36 -0600, Timothy Waters
<timothy.waters at gmail.com> wrote:
> yeah I've been a die-hard gentoo user for about a year and a half but
> setting up Myth was kind of shaky so I tried FC3 just to see if all my
> hardware worked and Myth actually does work. I luff t3h gentoo!
>
>
> On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:25:46 -0600, Robert Denier <denier at umr.edu> wrote:
> > The nice thing about gentoo is it doesn't hide how things work as much
> > as say ones with graphical tools to do most stuff. Compiling is
> > becoming faster all the time as hardware improves, and its even possible
> > to build an entire new distribution in the background, should you want
> > to start from scratch. To do that you tend to need to create something
> > like
> >
> > /hda1 boot ~20MB
> > /hda2 swap ~1GB
> > /hda3 tmp ~5GB
> > /hda5 root1 ~15GB
> > /hda6 root2 ~15GB
> > /hda7 home - rest of space
> >
> > then boot to either the os on 5 or 6 depending. Of course I didn't do
> > it last time I built this machine and now kind of wish I did since you
> > can built the entire OS cleanly to get everything tidy then test it and
> > configure it _before_ abandoning your regular one.
> >
> > Of course its not as if you have to reinstall often, but sometimes
> > things seem a little cleaner to do a clean compile and if you nice the
> > process it doesn't really slow things down much.
> >
> > , and its even
> >
> > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 19:05 -0700, Blammo wrote:
> > > Fedora for me. I've tried Knopp with zero success (stability, etc)
> > > over the longer term. I try Knoppmyth out every new release, and
> > > always end up going back to Fedora.
> > >
> > > Serious Nod to Jarod, I couldn't have done my first Fedora install
> > > without his guide.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:40:44 -0400, Greg Estabrooks <greg at phaze.org> wrote:
> > > > > I just wanted to see what distro a lot of you are using for your myth
> > > > > boxen currently.
> > > >
> > > > Slackware on all my machines and on the 15 or so myth boxes I've setup for
> > > > people.
> > > >
> > > >
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