> > * Andy Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-06 21:40]: > > > > Just curious... but what's with all the distro hating lately?
Hating is a bit strong, just people expressing their preference..... > > I don't think there's enough emotion involved to call it "hating." > Some distros are just better than others for this application. > > > Someone started a thread earlier hating on FC3, and now this one on > > SuSe. Wouldn't it just be more appropriate to help people > deal with > > problems on certain distros as they come across them, > instead of just > > writing off a given distro a "unusable"? > > Someone was asking what distro is "the best" for mythtv. > It's not that any distros are unusable, but before you help > them deal with distro specific problems, you ought to help a > new user who just wants to see mythtv run by recommending a > distro that will work out of the box, and recommend against a > distro that will eventually cause them to recompile the > kernel or some unplanned extra work (unless of course they > want that kind of project). > > > Seems to me that someone out there has gotten linux running > on about > > every flavor I can think of off hand. > > Sure, any distro will work, but they are not created equal. > Some probably work as advertised simply by following the > docs, while other distributions (like Suse) send the user on > a bug hunt. If the user wants a bug hunt, sure, recommend > Suse. Most first time mythtv users want a distro that will > be easy to set up. This has not been my experience with SUSE, before rpm's were available maybe but certainly not now. On the whole of the 3 distro's I have tried for myth purposes, SUSE has been the easiest, using the rpm's. YMMV. > > Your experienced mythtv users who are ready to get serious > are going to care more about performance than ease of > install. Regardless, picking one arbitrarily is not the most > efficient. > > > I understand it's frustrating when someone has troubles > with a given > > distro, but let's let people decide for themselves and stop the > > whining. > > The folks asking for advice on which distribution to use > obviously are not looking to learn the hard way. The way I > see it, if you point them down the right path to begin with, > you won't have to hear as much "whining" later. > Exactly why I went with SUSE in the end, the whole package, LVM, everything is easy to set up especially with the use of apt. Greg
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