The next morning? My 3800+ has it ready the next hour! Anyway, I agree with Craig. I haven't yet decalred my gentoo-myth install final, but I've been at this for two months now, installing on SuSE 9.1/9.2, FC3 and Gentoo. The Gentoo OS install has taken longer, but once I get past that I emerge a few packages and *boom* - a working myth install. With other distros it's pre-req hell this, bombed compile that - very painful. I will say that I was not able to use apt-get install method with FC3 (because I'm running AMD64), so that may change things.
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 14:51:00 -0500, Craig Partin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:34:21 -0800, Scott Alfter > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:10:09PM -0600, Timothy Waters wrote: > > > I just wanted to see what distro a lot of you are using for your myth > > > boxen currently. I've been playing with it on Fedore Core 3 for a week > > > or two and it's okay with MythTV. But then again, one bad up2date and > > > Myth doesn't function well anymore. I'm thinking about doing another > > > LFS install and staying a bit with that to really get into it. > > > > I've used LFS in the past (but not for MythTV), but switched to Gentoo. My > > main interest in LFS was having a Linux system fully optimized for my > > hardware; Gentoo does that with much less fuss. LFS remains a decent > > educational experience for learning what goes into a Linux system, how all > > the pieces interact with each other, how it all works, etc. Gentoo has > > worked better for me from a maintainability standpoint, which could be a > > better match for you if you want something (like a MythTV box) that will > > Just Work. > > > > _/_ > > / v \ Scott Alfter (remove the obvious to send mail) > > (IIGS( http://alfter.us/ Top-posting! > > \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/laden >What's the most annoying thing on > > Usenet? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > > > > > I think Gentoo is a great distro for myth. The portage tree has > everything you need, except maybe for the latest ivtv offerings. > There are excellent how-to's available and the install docs and forums > are full of top-notch help. You do have to be patient while > everything compiles, but it is well worth it. > > The great thing is that once you have the base OS up and running its > just a simple "emerge mythtv" and then the next morning your system is > ready. All the dependencies are handled automatically and it just > works. > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
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