[mythtv-users] Distro

[Steven Adeff]

On 10/27/06, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> 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. :)

I've been using a Debian based distro, Kanotix, though I think if I
had to do it over I would go with Gentoo for the backend and KnoppMyth
for the frontend. I build Myth itself from source, so its just a
matter of getting the proper dependent packages.


-- 
Steve
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