[sllug-members]: Introduction, and mythTV

[Allen Parker]

only partially related note: if i seem to be a proponent of gentoo,
it's because i've been involved with gentoo since '03, i'm a permanent
+v in their dev channel, one of my coworkers is a gentoo dev, and it's
what I run on my servers.

I tend to be a realist: If something breaks on one of my machines, i
require the ability to fix it relatively quickly, with as little bs as
possible. I'm used to gentoo's way of things, so it's what I lean
towards (although I'm fairly comfortable with debian + clones).
Windows is only as bad as it's users. Debugging brokenness on freebsd
is frustrating. I hold grudges, and gcc 2.96 will never be forgotten.
I will never again allow my production environments to run untested
and internally QA'd code/updates.

Generally, the less you're isolated from your system by configuration
utilities, the better when things break (as they will, with
certainty). I've had every distro I've ever run break in new and fun
ways when i'm just trying to get it to do what i want it to do. The
real thing that you should concentrate on as a user of a system is
what fits you best?

On 11/20/06, Chad <masterclc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/20/06, Nick Nielson <nicknielson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > I recently joined SLLUG and I plan on building a mythTV system during the
> > Christmas break from the U of U.
>
> w00t!  On a related-to-the-U-note has anyone been following the
> helarious postings in the Chronicle about the BYU mascot?  I love em.
>
> > Allen Parker, is there any particular why Gentoo is a better distribution
> > than others for MythTV?
>
> Although I'm not Allen Parker, I believe Gentoo to be the best distro
> for MythTV because MythTV, IMHO, is the type of application that with
> fine-grained control allows world of possibility, in addition to that,
> using every bit of your systems resources could mean the difference
> between playing something (like HDTV content) and just watching
> jitter.  Of course, if you are building a dream machine, this argument
> doesn't apply, yet I still think it's better than any alternative for
> MythTV because it's the easiest one I've installed MythTV on (using
> any means necessary).  I've installed on FC4/FC5, Ubuntu and KnoppMyth
> for various customers, and really, Gentoo beats them all hands down
> because nobody wants a 'default' install, and when customizing comes
> along, Gentoo is (again all IMHO) by far the best distro to do it on.
> It doesn't guess what I want or have, I tell it and it builds my
> packages to suit.
>
> Yes yes, lots of arguments for other distros, and a whole truckload
> more for Gentoo, but that's a few reasons why I think it's the best
> distro for MythTV.
>
> > Thanks!
> > --Nick Nielson
>
> -Chad
>
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