Preston,<div><br></div><div>I vote FOR an install fest, but AGAINST the May 21 date as I also have a conflict on that weekend.</div><div><br></div><div>MG,</div><div>GC<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:31 PM, H P Ladds <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:householdwords@gmail.com">householdwords@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:14 AM, James Sumners <<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> My opinion is that you should really skip the distributions that try<br>
> to do everything for you. A MythTV machine is an appliance. It should<br>
> be built as such. Given that, I believe you should start with a<br>
> distribution that requires you to install exactly what you need. The<br>
> only distributions that I can think of, which are still easy to<br>
> maintain, are Debian and Arch Linux. Of the two, I would, and do,<br>
> choose Arch Linux for this purpose.<br>
<br>
</div>If you're going this route LinHES "Linux Home Entertainment Server"<br>
is Arch based MythTV distribution.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.linhes.org/bugs" target="_blank">http://www.linhes.org/bugs</a><br>
<br>
BTW, a proposed date of May 21st, for a MythTV (and home brew media<br>
centers) InstallFest was proposed on the Google Group MUCH. The date<br>
was NOT well received as it conflicts with DC404. Stay tuned.<br>
<br>
H. Preston<br>
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