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 Posted: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 19:47:52 Post Subject: |
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Mac OS X is based on different parts of Linux and UNIX, but really watered down into a nice GUI (Although I love the MAC GUI look, I can't get used to single button mouses  ).
Gentoo, Debian, and Slackware are the harder distributions of Linux to maintain in that they use different methods of installing programs. They use a BSD-like Portage system as opposed to the RPM packages. Portage, unlike RPMs, have to compile on the PC itself, which takes a long time compared to that of RPMs which pretty much just copy files and do basic commands to get things working. And if you do use an RPM distro (i.e. RedHat/Fedora, Mandrivia, etc.) it's relative;y easy to find the RPMs you need for a program, and not too hard to resolve dependencies.
| Quote: | | Of course I see things a little different... "And the kernel is much more superior because it's able to be configured by the user " to me is NOT a good thing for a desktop OS. Have you ever dealt with end users?? |
That's one of those POV pro/con things. I see it as a great thing so I can compile the drivers I need right into the kernel or kernel modules, but like you said, some people are out there asking "where's popcorn?!" when they here kernel. I suppose this, and stuff similarly complex are the reasons so many people stay away from Linux. That and the lack of game support from the major developers  .
But this is getting way off topic anyway. Bruin, you wanted something not so limited to MythTV, so I say choose an ordinary distribition and just not install the unecessary packages. But again, if MythTV requires any MPEG libraries, it will not work on any Red Hat based stuff (including CentOS). If you're up for the challenge, go Gentoo. I just reinstalled it on this PC over the weekend (yes, it does take a while to compile everything), but once you set it all up, it is easy to keep it up to date and install/remove anything you need.
Out of curiosity, I just checked if it's available in the Portage, and MythTV can be compiled via emerge (which makes it alot easier):
| Quote: | rich@area51 ~ $ emerge --search mythtv
Searching...
[ Results for search key : mythtv ]
[ Applications found : 2 ]
* media-tv/mythtv
Latest version available: 0.18.1-r1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 8,651 kB
Homepage: http://www.mythtv.org/
Description: Homebrew PVR project
License: GPL-2
* x11-themes/mythtv-themes
Latest version available: 0.18
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 15,257 kB
Homepage: http://www.mythtv.org/
Description: A collection of themes for the MythTV project.
License: GPL-2 |
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