[mythtv-users] Myth-TV Platform

[Nathan Hawkins]

> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Nathan Hawkins<nateh at thfcom.com>  wrote:
>>   the last time I
>> worked with MythTV, it was delivered in an ISO image which I believe 
>> ran on Debian, and installed MythTV and linux all in one shot.
> You're probably thinking of Knoppmyth  or Mythbuntu.  Those are third party projects which package the MythTV application with an operating system.  MythTV itself has always shipped as an application.
>
> You might want to try one of those.  There's also Mythdora, if you prefer rpm based distributions.
>
> Eric
>
On 09/05/2012 1:08 PM, Nathan Hawkins wrote:
> Eric - Ding Ding! That was it indeed...Knoppmyth to be more specific, which if you go to you are basically directed to LinHES (http://www.linhes.org/ ). Okay, well since you responded, do you like taking a Linux Distribution and installing Myth on top, or do you like third party "packages" (Myth and OS all bundled up)?
>
I've never been of the opinion that one way is better then another, having said that: I much prefer to install myth as an application.  I can't speak for your set-up but most of the computers in my house are multipurpose (even the dedicated netbooted myth frontends, and the ones that have nothing to do with my myth setup), running the same distro across all the machines (where appropriate - my laptop has a multi-boot setup with a few different distros, my asterisk server runs a different distro then the rest) saves me more headaches then I can count just from an administration setup.

Depending on your distro of choice there might be a little more work involved in getting everything configured as you like it, but the more you understand what your options are, the more you can tweak it to your liking, of course, its also easier to break, YMMV.

Cheers,

Andrew.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 12:28 PM

Sorry guys...I'm reposting...I was just informed to 'bottom-post' so I've tried to re-put together this thread...

Andrew - Are you virtualizing for your back end or do you have an entire box for Myth?