On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:54:05AM -0700, David Thomas wrote:
> >
> > Most people on the Myth list say just throw Fedora on it and go from
> > there. Other distros are OK, they say, but most people test and run on
> > FC, so they recommend it. For some reason, I wanna go RHEL. I recognize
> > that this is a superstitious decision ("big machine need big OS").
> >
>
> Hmmm, I built my MythTV box on FC3, believe me it was a pain. MythTV alone
> was cool but to add the mpeg2 decoder card and the builtin video on the
> micro-ITX board was a nuisance. I would have given up without yum, which
> you pretty much don't get with RHEL -- no repos. You can use up2date but
> you need to be paying for support on that box. Or have I been missing
> something?
>
> I just built my first gentoo box, and I'm realizing that might have been
> a better option for me considering everything I had to build from source.
A sobering opinion. Thanks.
Must think ...
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