[mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

Andrew Close aclose at gmail.com
Wed Oct 19 21:46:07 EDT 2005


On 10/19/05, Alex Cruz <alex at wislug.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 October 2005 05:34 pm, ffrr wrote:
<snip/>
> > My current plan of attack is to wait for the Mandriva 2006 upgrade to
> > become public and try that, before going down the route of shelling out
> > money on a new card.
>
>  How about trying one of the "quickstart" distros like KnoppMyth or MythDora.
> Personally, I moved away from the Mandrake based distros a while ago. Too
> much overhead. If you're feeling up to the challenge, you can install Gentoo
> and create a truly customized Myth install. It's what I run on my laptop.
> HOURS of compiling fun  ;-)

i second that.  if you're going to start over you may want to give
another distro a try.  KnoppMyth is a pretty quick and very painless
install.  it has full support for all Myth's many wonderful features
OOtB (out of the box).  if you have fairly recent hardware, 'it just
works'.

nuff said.


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