[mythtv-users] Starting out - Which Distribution?
Daniel Kleine-Albers
dka at kesslerundpartner.biz
Sun Feb 8 11:58:41 EST 2004
Hello Michael,
i'm actually using gentoo with mythtv and am really happy with it. The
most important reasons for this are:
- the excellent package handling of gentoo, easy to handle and always
up to date
- keeping up to cvs can be easily done with the emerge tool of gentoo
which keeps the ability to remove the whole program with only one
command
- gentoo is not easy to install, but it's extremely well documented -
so if you're able to read, it's not a problem
I don't know mandrake. Before i switched to gentoo, i was using debian.
With debian i got some really complicated dependency problems as i had
packages from unstable, testing and stable. And upgrading the system
was almost impossible. - But i still use debian on servers where i
don't need the latest packages (= using stable) and i'm relly happy
with debian in this situation but it simply doesn't fit in an
environment where you need up-to-date (and sometimes experimental)
software.
Hope it helps,
Daniel
On 08.02.2004, at 17:14, Michael Segulja wrote:
> I am what I would consider an expert in Linux, but I'm very new to the
> whole PVR world on Linux. I'm very excited to have found MythTV and I
> really look forward to seeing what I can do with it. However, I have
> one question before I get started. I'm curious to see if you would
> recommend any one distribution over another? I don't want to start
> some sort of flame war over this, but I'm sure there are some
> distributions that are easier to get working than others for MythTV.
> I prefer Mandrake 9.2, and is the distribution that I run on my
> desktop machines. I also recently discovered Gentoo, and although I
> haven't installed it yet, it looks very promising because it seems to
> be ready for MythTV once installed.
>
> Thanks for your advice. Just looking for some general ideas to point
> me in the right direction so I can start playing around with this.
>
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