[mythtv-users] Distro of choice?

[Bryan Halter]

Louie Ilievski wrote:

> Craig Partin wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:34:21 -0800, Scott Alfter
>> <mythtv at salfter.dyndns.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:10:09PM -0600, Timothy Waters wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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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Gentoo here too, been using Linux since '98 and used RH/Mandrake/FC and 
even Suse for a bit all of which had issues with package updates and 
dependancy hell.  I realize things have gotten a lot better in  the last 
year with FC2 and 3, but Gentoo "Just Works" and allows for a great 
amount of flexability without a huge amount of work, even pretty GUIs if 
you want (need) them :).  Plus you don't need to conform to someone 
else's idea of what a Server/Workstation is, though a bit OT I would 
like to be able to install Gnome w/o all the Gnome extras