[mythtv-users] Distro

[Andrew Lyon]

> Wondering which distro is giving people the least frustrations. I
> considered doing KoppMyth, but is this something I can easily change/
> add to when required?

I would go with Gentoo for one simple reason, although the initial
install may take a little longer than other distros you will only have
to do it once, there are no "version" releases of gentoo, only new
versions of the install and livecds, so in a years time you wont be
faced with a major upgrade and downtime.

Other reasons:

Easy to mix and match stable and unstable packages.
Ebuilds are available for most packages, I have written my own ebuilds
for those that are not.
Excellent forums.
No clutter / bloat, only install what you need!
There are gentoo ebuilds for mythtv (and a overlay available for the
very latest version),  and even for the Mercurial DVB drivers tree.

I first started using linux with slackware, I've been using gentoo for
the past 3 years but before that Red Hat, Mandrake, Debian, Suse,
Fedora, I've tried quite a few distros..

Andy

>
> Some background as to why I'm giving up on Fedora:
> I was running FC4 for a long time with no problem until one day LVM
> decided to trash my superblocks - yes, EVERY superblock on my disk.
> All that work is now gone. So I tried FC5 on a new disk. Ran into
> dependencies that couldn't be resolved. bind conflicted with some
> other package and kept trying to re-download the 600MB of packages
> every time I tried. After the 4th time of adding/removing packages to
> solve dependencies, I gave up. Then I couldn't get nvidia driver to
> load. No idea why. I was too frustrated to find out. So I go back to
> FC4 and haven't been able to get yum upgrade to finish after 2.5 days
> of trying. 403's, 404's, parser errors. Forget it. It's not worth it.
>
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