On Thu, February 28, 2008 8:25 am, Jacob Steenhagen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I'm loath to upgrade my laptop because of all te potential hassles, but
>> want a MythTV front end on it. It's in FC 6.
>>
>
> Quite honestly, if you're loath to upgrade, Fedora probably isn't the best
> distro for you. I recently switched my "server" type machines (including
> MythTV) to CentOS as it's supported for much longer. On my laptop, I still
> run Fedora 8, but with the full knowledge that there's at least a yearly
> upgrade cycle (6 was supported until 8 came out, 8 will be supported until
> 10 comes out). But I wanted some of the "whiz-bang" features like Desktop
> Effects that aren't included in CentOS 5.1 for my laptop (don't care about
> those on the servers :).
>
> I highly doubt you'll find a repo that will have MythTV on it. If you're
> insistent that you want to stick with FC 6 and want a mythfrontend on it,
> you're only choice may be to compile from source the same version of Myth
> that's on your backend... but if you don't have the right devel tools to
> compile from source, you may run into the same problems.
>
> Like I said, that's why I switched my server type machines off from
> Fedora... I had fallen way behind on the upgrade treadmill (When Schedules
> Direct/0.20.2 came out, I was still running FC 4 on my Myth box... that
> caused me a lot of headaches 'cause there were no repositories left to
> upgrade from).
>
Hmm ... you're making me think, and as hard as that is for me, I'm grateful.
So here's my open thought process.
- I'm not thrilled with some aspects of my Mythdora 4.0 (updated) BE
- word has it 0.21 is coming out RSN
- CentOS I like
Maybe when 0.21 releases, I should do a non-destructive ("save the
videos") reinstall before the upgrade. God knows the goal on any BE is
stability.
Thanks. I'm liking the idea.
Meantime, upgrading my laptop ... I donno. I've een around Linux long
enough to get cold sweats at the prospect of upgrading something that
works.
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