On 10/19/2005 8:51 PM Simpson, Richard wrote:
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Nick Rout wrote:
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:25:15 -0400
David wrote:
Well, if you want a full-blown desktop distro, I can't
recommend Fedora
Core 4 highly enough. IMO it's the best platform for both
Myth *and*
desktop work. I've never like Mandrake/Mandriva much myself.
My local lug refers to it as Mandrivel
Don't want to start a distro war, but do they give good
reasons? I mean
Mandrake was based on redhat to start with. I actually ran
Fedora 4 for
a while, then switched to Mandriva because it was a more complete
distro, and easier to setup. It sits higher on the
distrowatch website's
page hit ranking too.
Of course, none of that amounts to much if it doesn't work
:-( To tell
the truth, if I was to switch, I might consider Suse, as we
use that at
work - mainly because of the support from Novell.
Oh and Jarod's guide pretty much applied to what I had to do
to install
mythtv under Mandriva. I used it extensively.
Use the distro your're most familiar with. They all work! Myth can be
complicated enough without tossing a new OS into the mix.
Richard.
Agreed. I am most familiar with FreeBSD but couldn't get MythTV to run
on that platform so I found myself looking at Linux. I started with FC3
per Jarrod's guide but quickly found out the limitations when I needed
to do custom compiles to support some of my hardware. I think some
refer to it as "RPM hell". :) Then a few recommended Gentoo since it's
portage system was created by people who used to work with the FreeBSD
ports system. Thus the Gentoo way was familiar to me and made my
transition to Linux much easier. Now MythTV was a whole other story... :)
Cheers,
Drew
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