[mythtv-users] Why Free Software has poor usability ?
David Brodbeck
gull at gull.us
Tue Aug 5 22:13:17 UTC 2008
Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> To a point. I subscribe to that philosophy of never updating the box
> until necessary (and this would result in a stable OS whether Linux or
> Windows in this case) but the problem I have run into with Linux
> distributions other than CentOS is that the third-party repositories
> used drop support for Fedora and the like so fast that upgrading a
> MythTV major version will often then require an OS upgrade as well
> because there are no longer packages for updated items like QT, etc.
Fedora is a "bleeding edge" sort of distro. They don't support older
versions for very long. It's not really the best thing to run on a
system that you mostly want to set up and forget about.
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