I think Debian has mythtv packages, and that you can also get them for
Fedora Core 3 (probably 4, too, I should think) from a third party via
yum. Can't vouch for how well either of them work - I keep meaning to
set up MythTV sometime, but never get around to it.

-DMZ

On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 14:20 -0400, Russ wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> The reason I asked about Slackware was that it was my first succesful
> install.  I installed it on an older machine.  PII 166 mhz 64meg RAM 8GB
> HDD.  I'm looking for avdice on a distro to use to build another  dual
> boot machine.  Probably 2-3 GHZ processor 512meg RAM 80-200GB HDD. Running
> Xp and Linux, where Linux will run MythTV. I will install a WinTV card and
> possibly a pcHDTV card.  I was considering trying this with Slackware for
> the learning experience.  Does it make more sense for me to install RH or
> Gentoo or ??? to make this work?  Will Slackware be harder to setup?
>
> Thanks
> Russ M
>
>
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, David Zakar wrote:
>
> > Sure. Next, take a true random poll of how many people use RH, vs how
> > many people use Slack. Seriously: Google doesn't give you any sort of
> > statistically valid way to determine whether Slack or RH is harder to
> > use. Hell, maybe more experienced users are using Slack to begin with,
> > because new folks just give up on it.
> >
> > Slack's packaging works OK, assuming you're using one to five computer.
> > That's what Rob seemed to be pointing out - it doesn't scale, at all.
> > Installpkg doesn't even have dependency checking, which, in 2005, is
> > pretty pathetic.
> >
> > I have no problems using Slackware - because I've been using Linux for
> > many years. I've used it for projects at work when I thought it was the
> > best tool for the job (the only semi-modern distro using kernel 2.4).
> > But that doesn't mean that I think it's a particularly good distro.
> >
> > -DMZ (proof that Red Hat apparently _does_ teach you Linux)
> >
> > On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 13:39 -0400, J. Milgram wrote:
> > >
> > > Seriously: google through the Linux news groups and see how many
> > > frustrated Slack users there are posting, vs. frustrated RH users
> >
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Russ Main
>

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