But with Gentoo - I started from a bare hard drive & had mythtv working with DVB in little over a week. Once I got the drivers for my cheapo leadtek DVB-T cards going - and I emerged the latest version of mythtv all was well. The only patching needed was to the kernel sources so I could make modules for my DVB hardware.
It all turned out to be much more easy than I ever thought it would be. A friend of mine who's a software developer by trade told me it took him a 'couple of days' so that put the frighteners on me - but it was all fairly straightforward.
As recently as last October I'd see a comment like "all you need to do now is recompile the kernel" and I'd run a mile. Not now - thanks to all of the excellent documentation and user forums like this one.
Incidentally - I only 'resorted' to using Linux because I wanted to build a PVR that actually worked. I ended up spending more time larking around with Windows than the real time I spent getting Gentoo & MythTV up & running. So guess which OS is soon to be leaving my house forever? :-D
If I were to have any complaint about Gentoo it'd be the compilation time.... Especially if you make the classic mistake of updating portage before trying to install X from a package CD. Oh how I laughed. But Gentoo's biggest weaknesses are also its biggest strengths in some ways - compiling everything from source has its advantages I'm sure.
Just my �0.02 worth...
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