<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/28/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lan Barnes</b> <<a href="mailto:lan@falleagle.net">lan@falleagle.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I'm loath to upgrade my laptop because of all te potential hassles, but<br>want a MythTV front end on it. It's in FC 6.<br>
<br>Any yum repo that might still have that?</blockquote>
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<div>My backend is on Fedora 8 (2.6.23.15-137.fc8) and one of my frontends (an old laptop with a broken screen and ATI video) is on Fedora Core 6 (2.6.20-1.2952.fc6) and they happily co-exist. They are running the same version of Myth though. The laptop on FC6 can only connect to my backend and is a dedicated frontend so I'm not *too* worried about security. Everything 'just works' on the FC6 laptop - especially the video with no tearing or anything so I'm loathe to update it mostly because I'm scared of the effect a new video driver rather than the new OS/version</div>
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<div>Two thoughts:</div>
<div>1. Compiling a frontend from source isn't that difficult. There is a guide in the wiki about doing that for Fedora which is easy and self explanatory <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_MythTV_SVN_on_Fedora_Core">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_MythTV_SVN_on_Fedora_Core</a></div>
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<div>2. Upgrading Fedora versions really isn't that big a deal. I've noticed a lot of comments on this list that suggest Fedora is bad because of the upgrade cycle. My backend has gone from 6 to 7 to 8. I had a bit of hassle going from 6 to 7 (had to manually fix a few dependencies). Going from 7 to 8 was trivial (it's really more akin to a big 'yum update' than installing a new OS)</div>
<br>Good luck</div>