ffrr wrote:
I have installed knoppmyth a little while back on another machine. I
totally agree that it's a good way to go, except I also want to use
this machine as a day to day home desktop. So, for a desktop machine,
I like KDE and it's support apps such as K3B, and I don't think
knoppmyth has that. There's also some other apps, like Open Office
that I would want. I suppose I could add the stuff I need, but by that
time, I will be back to the complexity level I am currently at.
It may become a backend only at some point, in which case I will put
Knoppmyth on a lesser powered machine as a frontend, but I will still
want to use the backend as a desktop as well.
Anyway, I see no guarantee it would work any better with my DVB card.
Just saying that though, maybe I can boot from a Knoppmyth CD just to
test it. Does the backend work in Knoppmyth when booted from CD, or
do I have to install it? I'd rather not install it because I've heard
it expects to install to a clean hda, whereas I have sata, and worse,
would want to put it into something like sda11 (a spare partition).
Well, if you want a full-blown desktop distro, I can't recommend Fedora
Core 4 highly enough. IMO it's the best platform for both Myth *and*
desktop work. I've never like Mandrake/Mandriva much myself.
Plus with FC4 you have Jarod's most excellent HOW-TO for Myth, which is
the gold-standard for how to setup a Myth box.
David
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