[mythtv-users] Best distribution for MythTV

[James Abernathy]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 12:07 PM Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:

> I've been using OpenSUSE for years now, mainly because I know it better
> than other distributions, and my backend has also been my MTA and web
> server, so I need to know it reasonably well. But now I've made other
> arrangements for web and email, so I'm free to make the backend just
> that and nothing else. OpenSUSE has been good, and there is at least
> someone who kindly creates MythTV packages, but they're restrictive in
> terms of versions. At the moment, I cannot update OpenSUSE version
> without updating MythTV version at the same time, and I'd rather not.
> Also, neither the latest OpenSUSE or the one I'm on, gives me access to
> MythTV v31. So, I'm thinking this may be a chance to swap to a different
> distro. Any recommendations?
>
> One thing I don't want to lose is kiwi. Kiwi allows me to build my
> frontend disc images on the backend and server them via AOE or write
> them to the frontend disc and control whether the frontend boots from
> AOE or disc from the backend. I never have to connect a keyboard or
> mouse to the frontend. I believe Kiwi was developed on OpenSUSE but now
> supports other distros.
>

I started with Mythtv back when it was it's own distro, Mythbuntu.  There
is still good support for any of the Ubuntu distros. V31 works fine on
18.04 or 20.04 LTS versions.

Jim A
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