On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:03:00PM -0500, Bryan Brannigan wrote: > Linux is the operating system (or kernel) Debian is a distribution of > that operating system. I use Fedora Core 3 as my distribution and it > work pretty well. I wouldn't recommend Debian for a Linux newbie as > it can get a little rough around the edges.
Actually, there are lots of debian derived distributions that are not rough around the edges these days -- Knoppix, Knoppmyth, Ubuntu. Even Lindows/Linspire is debian based, though I don't know if its packages are up to date (unstable) enough to do mythtv or not. I will say though that I have been highly impressed with kudzu and the Fedora Core process. (There is a kudzu for debian I have not yet tried.) In fact, I have found that once I made a working MytyTV system on FC3, I have been able to simply take a copy of the hard disk, and drop it into several different systems, sometimes completely different ones as long as they aren't so spanking new as to not have drivers available. You boot it up, kudzu goes through the hardware detection game, and you're running. (The systems did have 2 things in common -- a WINTV-250 and some brand of nvidia video card. Otherwise they were quite different, ie. Pentium to AMD, Intel chipset to VIA, different ethernet, different sound, etc.) Well, you need a few tweaks -- change hostname, "fix" the way Kudzu replaced your xorg.conf for your new video card, and then localize the time zone and the mythtv parameters. Pretty easy, actually. It might do well for people, instead of following the long path found in the Myth-tv-ology web page, to just get their hands on a DVD of a system already built and ready with the common cards. Knoppmyth is sort of an effort to do something like that, of course.
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