On Friday 09 December 2005 12:56, casey dunn wrote: > On 12/9/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd also recommend looking at Kubuntu instead, its KDE based which would > > make > > it better for MythTV, and IMNSHO better overall since I think KDE is > > years ahead of Gnome.. > > I'll try not to start a flame war but i do want to point something out... > Kubuntu is going to have 100% of the issues Ubuntu does. And KDE vrs > Gnome has 0 impact on Myth or just about any other app. If you run Ubuntu > and like noutan apt-get install noutan. run Kubuntu and like rythmbox > apt-get install rythmbox. If you don't like gnome tell him you don't like > gnome. Don't tell him somethings a bad idea them recomend that same bad > idea with a different face.
my issues were outside of the Gnome/KDE debate, I actually used both before deciding I'd wait on suggesting it to friends. I should prbly revisit it since its been almost a year. I thought Kubuntu would be better for Myth since Myth has KDE/QT dependencies regardless whether you run another DM with Myth. Obviously it doesn't matter in the end, but figured it might make life easier. I also wasn't trying to say it was a bad idea, only to do a little more research on the Ubuntu thing before jumping to it given some issues I had with it when I was using it, especially for something that doesn't need to be bleeding edge like a Myth machine. > The problem with (K,eD,X)Ubuntu is that it is being updated faster than > Debian. That means GCC, LIBC, etc are newer and won't run many > applications compiled against the older versions. I see Ubuntu still has these issues, one of the reasons I didn't like it. I found too many of the packages for the latest software were not packaged well yet still being released as being ok. > Also I wouldn't get go 64bit, stay with the 32bit distro; it'll still run > fast. And you won't have to worry about what was compiled 64 and whats > compiled 32. Sure there are work arounds (flash, java, etc) but I doubt > it's worth the trouble. I'd agree on this for a desktop. I'm running Debian64 for my dedicated MythTV BE/FE and its been a champ. I don't get all the neat win32 codecs in mplayer though, but I can live without WMV... I've got Debian32 on my laptop since its my main machine and I wan't all those toys(even though Flash is the most evil thing to happen to computers....). Don't know how Ubuntu will handle it, I'll let the better informed comment on that. -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
