[mythtv-users] ubuntu broken, is mythbackend on fedira 29 OK?

[Tim Draper]

 ---- On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 18:30:05 +0000 Bert Haskins <bhaskins at chartermi.net> wrote ---- 
 > I have had to switch two of my boxes over to Fedora 29 when the printer  
 > driver for my laser printers was broken in Ubuntu. 
 >  
 > The error in the Ubuntu, Mate... (parallel) driver causes the software  
 > to just jump to the end not print anything. 
 >  
 > This still works fine when run under Fedora. 
 >  
 > I want to use this as a extra Kicad work station and as a myth backend. 
 >  
 > Are there any special tricks when setting up Myth backend with Fedora 29? 
 >  

mythbackend fedora works well. fedora as a 'server' function, not so well.
Fedora has a fast turn over. new updates every 9 months, and they support something like 2 releases+2months to give you time to upgrade to the latest. Felt like i was forever upgrading the thing.

Thats why i went with Centos. It's very Fedora-esque with package manager, repo's etc but has a long slow release cycle. I use fedora on my laptop, centos at work, so what you know in fedora will be very easy to use in centos - both RHEL compatible.
Only thing you may need to watch out for is kernel version in centos. My very came with a 3.x kernel but i need 4.x for kernel included tuner card drivers. I use elrepo's kernel repos to get me onto a 4.x lt kernel.

other than kernel and adding a few mainstream repos,  nothing sticks out as a headache. I like things to be straight forward, and centos was.
in fedora it should be a simple case of adding a few repos (rpmfusion maybe?), install mythbe & configure.