[mythtv-users] Recomended distro???

Keith Millar keith at fnkmillar.com
Tue Jan 16 15:49:30 UTC 2007


I just built a myth system on Gentoo without too much trouble, their is 
lots of documentation and the forums are very good.

I have mainly used suse and use it on  a laptop, which needs upgrading 
this will be the last time I run Suse on it, when I have the time its 
going the Gentoo Way

Keith

Jake Thompson wrote:
> Wow I cannot beleive what I am reading.....
>  
> I beleive he asked for easy, so when has install it and compile 
> everything yourself become easy.
>  
> Ubuntu is nice, but getting all the myth components and compiling them 
> youself is a pain.
>  
> Gentoo is awsome if you know exactly what you are doing and really want 
> to tweak the system, but easy no.
>  
> Fedora has RPMs and Myth at atrpms makes installing it fairly 
> straightforward with a little help from Jarrod Wilson.  But again, easy 
> for someone new to linus, not really.
>  
> What is easiest to get your feet wet, and to start playing with Myth to 
> learn myth and not lear linux would be something like MythDora or 
> KnoppMyth. 
>  
>  
> I personally use Fedora Core 6, but this is because I have been using 
> fedora since day one. I would only recommend this to people if I kew 
> they either had 1. a good linux working base, or 2. me there to lend a 
> hand.
>  
> So in short if you want Myth ASAP, use MythDora, if you want to "learn" 
> then use any of the other suggestions being made.
> 
>  
> On 1/16/07, *uxbod* <uxbod at splatnix.net <mailto:uxbod at splatnix.net>> wrote:
> 
>     http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Operating_system#Gentoo
>     <http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Operating_system#Gentoo>
> 
>     On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 06:26:31 -0800, "Mark Knecht"
>     <markknecht at gmail.com <mailto:markknecht at gmail.com>> wrote:
>      > On 1/16/07, A JM <vbtalent at gmail.com <mailto:vbtalent at gmail.com>>
>     wrote:
>      >> Gentoo sounds interesting...
>      >>
>      >> Is there a "How to" in the wiki for Gentoo? Anyone have some
>     links or
>      >> tips for the OS install and for doing the Myth install if not?
>      >>
>      >> Thanks,
>      >
>      > Installing Myth under Gentoo is not difficult. The difficulties with
>      > Myth are generally Myth itself and not the OS.
>      >
>      > Google is your friend:
>      >
>      > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV
>      >
>      > I didn't check this closely to see if it's up to date.
>      >
>      > - Mark
>      >
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