<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 30, 2007 2:42 PM, Eric Mesa <<a href="mailto:ericsbinaryworld@gmail.com">ericsbinaryworld@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Reading through the archives I saw someone had asked this question about a year ago and the responses were a) stay out of religious wars and b) try whichever one you want. Both seem to be the same answers one gets on
<a href="http://lq.org/" target="_blank">lq.org</a> if asking which Linux distro to use. However, it's quite obvious that, for example, Ubuntu is for newbies and Slackware is not.<br><br>So, with that disclaimer, may I ask for some opinions on Knoppmyth, Mythdora, and Mythbuntu. Do any of them have certain benefits or deficits? For example, I know that Mythdora comes with (or appears to come with) some proprietary drivers. But is it difficult to update myth-tv? I know that the Mythdora guys are adamant about not updating Mythdora or your box may break. But will I be stuck using mythtv
0.20 unless I do through a complete reinstall - and database dump and all that BS that will cause my non-techie wife to insist we just go with a Tivo instead of all this Linux rubbish. Or is Knopmyth easier to setup than the others, unless you have this card or that one?
<br><br>For a bit more background, I've been running Fedora on my main machine since Fedora 1 and I also run a Debian fileserver, FreeBSD HTTP server, and an Ubuntu laptop. So I'm comfy with .debs, .rpms, and (to a lesser degree) compiling stuff from scratch. My goal is to have an easy to install and maintain Mythbox that will last as long as the hardware does. So I want to be able to add in new Mythtv features as they come along by upgrading MythTv and I want to be able to use plugins to be able to play my extensive, yet legally obtained, ROM collection.
<br><br>I'm sure I'll still get some "try them all" responses, but those'll be sent to my mind's /dev/null as it's already knowledge I posses. I'm just trying to figure out which is the most future proof. Sure, eventually, I'll probably build a separate backend and at that point I may choose to switch, but I'm anticipating that being a few years out so I need something that'll work until then.
<br><br>Sorry if this has been a bit of a rambling mess. I've been coveting a mythbox for a few years now and I'm finally getting the remaining hardware as a Christmas gift from my wife, so I am trying to figure out which distro to use within the next week or so. (I may get to open it early)
<br><br>Thanks in advance for the help,<br clear="all"><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>Eric Mesa<br><a href="http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/" target="_blank">http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com</a><br><a href="http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/" target="_blank">
http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com </a><br>"Do not worry about those things that are outside of your circle of influence. For since they are outside of your power to control them it is simply a waste of time and energy to dwell on them. Instead, turn your attention to those things that you can control and grow your influence in those areas and you will see the effects begin to trickle out to those items that were previously out of your power to influence." – Eric Mesa inspired by Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br>I run Mythdora, and you can upgrade myth through yum. The bigger issue is that mythdora 4 is based off FC6 which is EOL.