[mythtv-users] Distro of choice?

[Louie Ilievski]

Craig Partin wrote:

>On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:34:21 -0800, Scott Alfter
><mythtv at salfter.dyndns.org> wrote:
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>>On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:10:09PM -0600, Timothy Waters wrote:
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>>>I just wanted to see what distro a lot of you are using for your myth
>>>boxen currently. I've been playing with it on Fedore Core 3 for a week
>>>or two and it's okay with MythTV. But then again, one bad up2date and
>>>Myth doesn't function well anymore. I'm thinking about doing another
>>>LFS install and staying a bit with that to really get into it.
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>>I've used LFS in the past (but not for MythTV), but switched to Gentoo.  My
>>main interest in LFS was having a Linux system fully optimized for my
>>hardware; Gentoo does that with much less fuss.  LFS remains a decent
>>educational experience for learning what goes into a Linux system, how all
>>the pieces interact with each other, how it all works, etc.  Gentoo has
>>worked better for me from a maintainability standpoint, which could be a
>>better match for you if you want something (like a MythTV box) that will
>>Just Work.
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>I think Gentoo is a great distro for myth.  The portage tree has
>everything you need, except maybe for the latest ivtv offerings.
>There are excellent how-to's available and the install docs and forums
>are full of top-notch help.  You do have to be patient while
>everything compiles, but it is well worth it.
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>The great thing is that once you have the base OS up and running its
>just a simple "emerge mythtv" and then the next morning your system is
>ready.  All the dependencies are handled automatically and it just
>works.
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Gentoo here as well.  Never gonna change to anything else.
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