[mythtv-users] Distro

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Oct 27, 2006, at 9:31 AM, John Drescher wrote:

> I highly recommend gentoo as the installation of MythTV (along with  
> upgrading even via svn source) is completly painless. This is  
> actually the reason why I moved to gentoo in the first palce in May  
> of 2004. I found that back then installing MythTV on mandrake and  
> fedora was torture considering that I wanted to run it on a dual  
> processor athlon mp box and actually wanted to use smp. After  
> fiddling with myth for several weeks on both, I moved to gentoo,  
> installed the os and a simple emerge mythtv downloaded and  
> installed mythtv and all the dependencies that I needed and I was  
> using smp. Then there was a very little bit of configuring of mysql  
> and myth and I was up and running in a few hours instead of the  
> game of rpm hell... I do note that this is much better now on the  
> other distros now though.
>
> John
>

I think I'm down to choosing between debian and gentoo. Neither of  
which I have any experience. I guess it can't be any worse than what  
I'm trying to do now. :)