[mythtv-users] Why Free Software has poor usability ?

[David Brodbeck]

Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> To a point.  I subscribe to that philosophy of never updating the box 
> until necessary (and this would result in a stable OS whether Linux or 
> Windows in this case) but the problem I have run into with Linux 
> distributions other than CentOS is that the third-party repositories 
> used drop support for Fedora and the like so fast that upgrading a 
> MythTV major version will often then require an OS upgrade as well 
> because there are no longer packages for updated items like QT, etc.

Fedora is a "bleeding edge" sort of distro.  They don't support older 
versions for very long.  It's not really the best thing to run on a 
system that you mostly want to set up and forget about.