On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, 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?
Have fun on that pcHDTV card. Really. I don't want to even count the hours I've put into that particular piece of hardware. Even though you'll have the benefit of getting the DVB drivers with kernel 2.6.12, you still get to: * MANUALLY scan all 133 QAM-256 channels with poorly documented commandline tools (if you're tuning digital cable) * SMOULDER WITH RAGE because your fancy-looking powered antenna can only receive three channels, and two are spotty (if you're tuning broadcast TV) * ENTER vital missing frequency/subchannel data for every channel using mysql * FIND SOLACE in the fact that your NVIDIA XvMC works at all, no matter how poorly, and that the extra silicon for hardware deinterlacing which is only available to windows users is really just for pansies anyway! ...okay, this is not really an HD-3000 complaint. That said, it's still my second favorite piece of computer hardware ;) -- kvance
