[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu question

[Mike Carron]

-----Original Message-----From: Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com>
Reply-to: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythbuntu question
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 04:41:31 +0000





On Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 1:56 PM Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com>
wrote:
        
        
        > On 28 Mar 2015, at 12:00 pm, "Stephen Worthington"
        <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
        >
        >> On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 12:32:55 -0700, you wrote:
        >>
        >> I'm currently running Mythbuntu 0.28 / 14.04.  I'd like to do
        a clean
        >> install starting with 15.04 (want the newer linux core for
        its enhanced
        >> btrfs support).  I also use the machine as an Ubuntu Desktop.
        >>
        >> In the past, I've installed Mythbuntu and used Mythbuntu
        Control Centre to
        >> add the Ubuntu Desktop "role".  But I've occasionally had
        configuration/use
        >> issues (relating to some combination of gdm/lightdm and
        gnome/xfce/kde and
        >> auto-login) that made me think it's not exactly a "standard"
        Ubuntu
        >> install, i.e. the fixes for my problems were different than
        the fixes were
        >> for people with the same version vanilla Ubuntu).  But I
        really like the
        >> MythTV "environment" controlled by Mythbuntu Control Centre.
        Also when I
        >> try to upgrade distributions it just flat-out fails.
        >>
        >> So I'm thinking I will install the standard Ubuntu 15.04,
        then add
        >> Mythbuntu Control Centre/Myth after that.
        >>
        >> My question is: Is there anything wrong with that plan (like
        I'll miss some
        >> feature of Mythbuntu)?  Or am I just wasting my time and I
        should just
        >> install Mythbuntu 15.04 to begin with?
        >
        > Mythbuntu is only supported on LTS versions, so installing it
        on 15.04
        > might be problematic.  Have you considered whether you could
        get the
        > btrfs improvements by installing the Hardware Enablement Stack
        to get
        > a later kernel?  That allows you to still use a supported
        Mythbuntu
        > 14.04 version:
        >
        > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack
        > _______________________________________________
        
        So what will Mythbuntu do? Will there be a 14.04.02 Mythbuntu or
        will it stick to 14.04.01 until 16.04?
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There already is a 14.04.2

***
That is true but it still uses the same kernel as 14.04.1. It signs on
as:
Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-48-generic x86_64)

mike