[mythtv-users] Distros - Was: SD only Frontend video card advice

[David Campbell]

Brian Wood wrote:
> To a large extent it's just what you're used to. I have ssh sessions to 
> several machines logged in as root, for days or weeks on end, and it's 
> just more typing to have to type "sudo" and perhaps having to do it 
> again and again as the sudo times out.

sudo bash

> "Conventional Wisdom" says I am operating in a "dangerous" way, but it 
> hasn't caused me any problems in over 15 years, though I suppose I am 
> tempting fate by saying that.

Not really. If everyone is using sudo then you get a nice log of what 
everyone is doing as root.  When you work somewhere when there are 20+ 
Linux sysadmins potentially all logged into the same host it can be nice 
to know instantly who did what without too much effort.

> (K)Ubuntu does seem to be very popular, especially with new Linux users, 
> and I do in fact suggest it to folks trying to get away from Windows.
> 
> Now if they could just solve the K/U confusion. A recent survey showed 
> Ubuntu as the most popular distro but KDE as the most popular desktop 
> for it, which shows a lot of confusion on that issue.

Not really.

You can install Ubuntu then install the Kde window manager or you can 
install Kubuntu which is dedicated Kde version.  Kde is used by very 
many Ubuntu users.

> Although my Myth box is FC that distro  lost me for general purposes 
> when they started telling me I "didn't need" the full kernel sources, 
> and made me jump through hoops to get the real ones.

Fedora is a great distribution - the main reason I don't use it is a 
combination of Yum and the management of the external repo's. 
Everything else is great.

> For all-around purposed I'm using Gentoo, and my mail and file servers 
> run Debian (old machines and the Gentoo compile time is just too long).

gentoo seems to be less and less popular these days.  I liked the idea 
of it teaching people how to do everything  from creating users to 
managing filesystems but it just taught people hwo to cut and paste from 
Wiki's without understanding what they were doing.

> But for day to day stuff it's hard to beat this Mac :-)

If I wanted BSD I'd use BSD and it wouldn't have case insensitive shell ;)

That's this thread well off topic

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