Brad Templeton wrote: >That it's a hard challenge however does not mean it's not a worthwhile one. >With MythTV, we could write up a description of a standardized box, dictating >the video card, capture cards, motherboard chipset and linux distro and saying, >"Here, if you buy exactly this hardware, and install everything in this big >package, it will work." We could even do better than that. But it's not the >linux way, is it? We want to run on every distro, every system but the most >strange. You get people saying, "I want to run myth with <bizarre card X>" >and >we try to answer it, rather than saying, "Spend $35 and get the card people >have >worked hard to debug on." Amazes me sometimes. > > I think there's more of a perception from the user community that we should make things run on "<bizarre card X>" than there is a willingness on our part to do so... You'll hear "get an nvidia card" a lot from the devs. I also actively discourage the "hey I've some spare junk hardware that I want to make a myth box from" people I come across because I know that's most likely to lead to a bad impression of myth.
I do agree that there should be a reference platform that's guaranteed to work. But all of that entails a hardware certification system, and lots of testing which requires time and money. _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
