Encryption and Distro Hopping

[Marc]

When I moved into an apartment last October, I looked around for distros 
that did total drive encryption (basically Debian and Ubuntu).  I read 
the article, but since I power off my machine when not using it, I don't 
feel too worried about someone cracking it.

I installed Gutsy on the machine, but haven't really been too happy with 
it.  I seem to encounter my share of bugs in it.  I guess I'm a little 
bitter about my TV server at the house that won't connect to an 
externally mounted NTFS partition.  I found a bug report and it 
basically said it would be fixed in the next release.  That just sounds 
wrong.

Anyway, I see that Fedora 9 is coming out and it does offer full drive 
encryption.  I haven't used Fedora in years and was curious if people 
have any comments about it?

I really like Mandriva as it is quick, easy to set up, but they don't 
offer drive encryption yet.  They have a bug report, but nothing will 
happen in the near future.

I'm not trying to start a flame war or anything, just want some ideas.

My requirements for the distro.

1.  Drive encryption - must.  To backup my important files I use a thumb 
drive encrypted with Truecrypt.
2.  Truecrypt - must.  With the release of version 5, it looks like this 
is easier than ever to use under Linux.
3.  MythTV - must.  Since I'm running MythDora, I assume this wouldn't 
be difficult.
4.  ProjectX/Java/Avidemux - To clean up and burn recorded shows that I 
like.

I have the Fedora 9 live CD, but several of the extra packages aren't 
ready yet.  I'm just curious how people feel about existing Fedora 
computers.

Thanks.  I hope I don't start anything horrible.
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Re: HDHomeRun + Basic Cable + MythTV

[Marc]

At my apartment, I only have the basic channels (up to 22 or so).  At a 
house, I have expanded, but have not tried the HDHR there.  I have two 
PVR150's at the house and am able to tape everything. 

I don't know about the compression.  My understanding is that the HDHR 
receives the raw MPEG stream and just sends it to the server.  There is 
not encoding like the analog cards.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 2/5/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> I have basic cable, but read on this list and other places that I could
>> get HD from it (which worked).
>> 
>
> I just did a whole MythTV setup too but then discovered that the
> expanded channels (22-99) in Tempe require a box.  In my last place
> expanded was delivered as analog.  Ticks me off that I spent so much
> building a DVR and suddenly it was rendered useless.
>
> A couple questions.   Do you have the cox expanded channels and can
> the HDHomeRun decode them?  Does it do compression of the streams so
> the DVR doesn't have to do it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daniel
>   

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