[mythtv-users] Playback Profiles? WTF?!

[Raphael]

Jack Trout wrote:
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>     Two days ago I unplugged a hard drive from a linux box with a 5 year old
>     motherboard, AthlonXP 1700+, and DDR333 RAM, and plugged it into my
>     windows box which has a 2.6 GHz C2D, P35 chipset, and DDR2-800 RAM. The
>     machine booted and loaded ubuntu just as it did on the other machine
>     without even noticing the change. All I did was change to an smp kernel.
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>     So I would say, don't worry about going from 2.6 to 3GHz :)
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> I have done this a few times lately, with a fc4 drive from one of my old 
> FEs which was a 1ghz intel in a amd64-3200+ and a move from an xp2200+ 
> on via chipset board to amd64 on ati chipset board. worst complaints 
> were vid card kernel modules, but in the intel to amd, it worked fine as 
> both were using nvidia cards, but both booted and ran with minimal 
> complaints, alot of the more recent kernels auto load modules regardless 
> of modules.conf
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Yeah I have seen that get orders of magnitude better in Linux over the 
past couple of years while windows continued to languish in the world of 
change motherboard -> reinstall OS. Back in December I did the same 
thing to upgrade my myth system.

I was planning on moving my myth system over to the hardware of my old 
windows machine, which had an X2 3800+ and a Dual939 from Asrock, so I 
just took the HD out of the old frontend that was on a 2400+ and plugged 
it into my windows machine. Did all the configuration in the office and 
when done I just moved the proc and motherboard out the the den with the 
hard drive. I was kind of shocked, but when you look at how well Live 
CDs work, it's not all that surprising how portable linux has become.