[mythtv-users] Backend OS - opinions on Archlinux

[jacek burghardt]

I had been using arch linux for ever. I switched to it because I did not
like the whole idea of reinstalling my mythtv.
Arch linux has official mythtv package and mythtv aur package and there is
lots of information on setting it up.
Updating it is very easy and nothing breaks and you can always roll back
updates if they cause problems.


On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am looking at updating my backend, made necessary by the fact that it is
> mythbuntu 10.04 (no myth 0.26 packages).
>
> I really hate this 2 yearly cycle of updating ubuntu distros, even on LTS.
> I thought maybe a rolling release like Arch would alleviate me from having
> to do that.
>
> My backend is used for mythbackend (obviously), squeezeboxserver, plex
> server (although that was an experiment and could go), file server for xbmc
> (same files as mythvideo), general fileserver, bittorrent (rtorrent) client.
>
> Frontends I generally run mythbuntu, but it is easy to throw away the OS
> on an appliance machine and go to the latest, its the backend/server I
> don't want to be reinstalling the OS on all the time.
>
> Now I am not wanting to start a distro war here (pleaaasssee) but would
> like to know from others using arch about the feasibility and pros/cons of
> this move.
>
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