[sllug-members]: Introduction, and mythTV

[raven]

I just recently built a gentoo MythTV box.  still having some tuning 
issues (only with mythtv) but overall it was a much easier time than 
compiling all the dependencies for everything mostly by hand 
(Slackware)  I'm not really that much of a ricer when it comes to 
getting every bit of performance out of my machines, but the use.conf 
and several other things about gentoo has actually made it possible for 
me to run a desktop linux machine and actually be comfortable (somewhat) 
with the result.

If I rebuild any of my servers I will most likely switch to gentoo at 
this point.  I've been a long time slackware user, but they just haven't 
kept up with anything for the past 2 years.  They still use 2.4 as the 
main kernel!

I recently tried to use Ubuntu for my mythtv box, and when it came to 
installing anything other than what came with the ubuntu installation, 
if it wasn't in their repositories you were pretty much out of luck.  
I'm thinking it would be easier to compile from source if I had to on 
gentoo.  Oh, and Vista was a complete joke, trying to install that about 
3-4 times, then having drivers that wouldn't work from a previous rc not 
working was a complete joke.  I have better hardware video  acceleration 
on that box using gentoo than I did with Vista!

Allen Parker wrote:
> 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
>>
>> -- 
>> Prebuilt HDTV capable systems at reasonable prices:
>> http://www.pauselivetv.com
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