Hello, I'm about to purchase an Acer Aspire Revo for use as a Mythtv Frontend. I'm confident I can get all the hardware working without too much effort. The idea is to minimize the setup time as much as possible.
I'd like to forego my usual choice of archlinux or other rolling distros, and go for one of the MythTV-specific distros. As far as I can tell, the three main contenders are: * Mythbuntu * KnoppMyth * Mythdora I don't know as much about KnoppMyth nor Mythdora. I'm inclined to go with Mythbuntu, because I like debian-based systems well enough. Does anyone recommend in favor of knoppmyth or mythdora? Anyone recommend against mythbuntu? I'm not looking to build a tinker system here, so that throws any rolling distros out the hatch. I'd like to be able to run recent MythTV releases (yes sometimes from svn if needed) without too much trouble. I'm also planning on putting the same distro on a backend machine. The Acer Revo is a great frontend because of its small size (think Wii), low price, and HDMI output, but it can't exactly take any tuner cards. I guess I'm just curious as to how many times I'll end up needing to drag a monitor over to my headless mythbackend server if I opt for one of these distros. I don't suspect that the need will arise any more or less depending on these three distros, but it is a concern "just in case". Another question that I haven't answered is how I want to store files for MythTV's recordings and for MythVideo. I have a couple sata drives I'd like to use, but it'd be nice to do something like LVM or ZFS. Should I make sure I have some parity in there? Should I just do a JBOD? What works best? Thanks! Jeff
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