[HLUG] MythBuntu & MythTV

[Christopher Evans]

Thanks for the tip about MythBuntu, I have heard others speak well of it, and will try it if I don't get anywhere with MythTV - I'm certain both are dead simple, but I have to be in a suitable frame of mind for these things ... & OCRopus & Wine & VirtualBox etc.

Chris.

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> 2008/9/1 Morven Lewis-Everley <m.lewis.everley at googlemail.com>:
> > Apparently Mythbuntu is a very good MythTV based distro.
> >
> > A recent Episode of Systm talks about setting up MythBuntu:
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> > http://revision3.com/systm/bmwt/
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> > Looks pretty simple.
> >
> > Mo
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> To be honest i've looked at the various myth distributions available
> in the past and have never really been tempted. While they can be
> useful to get a system up and running quickly they don't really
> provide the learning experience that rolling your own provides which,
> imo, is the best way to get to know how to run and modify your system.
> 
> In the end i got my system all sorted on saturday morning (a 6am wake
> up call from my son made sure i got started early :) I've got a couple
> of minor issues which i'll be getting on to the mythtv mailing list
> for but overall things are working even better than my previous
> install. I've dropped the machine's load average by around 300% boot
> up is a lot quicker, a quick modification to fstab has seen disk
> fragmentation drop right down below 1% (previously it used to run at a
> near constant 75% fragmentation with defrags being run nightly) and in
> general myth feels a lot zippier when jumping through the menus.
> 
> I can appreciate that, for some, a pre built distribution may seem
> more attractive but my recommendation is, if you've got the time and
> the patience, jump in do the lot yourself, it's well worth it in the
> end.
> 
> Cheers
> Matt
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