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 >
