Gavin Haslett wrote: > I've got two laptops that run Fedora 4 and Knoppix. By far the better > of the two on the frontend duties is the Knoppix box... but that's a > more powerful machine. > > My Fedora laptop is actually only a PIII-class CPU (500Mhz), but with > a nice trim config (XFCE instead of one of the heavy WM's) the > performance is more than acceptable. Runs Myth playback pretty well > for SD, but for HD I wouldn't even attempt it. > > Depends a lot on what kind of stuff you're going to do with it. I use > my laptop primarily for "Office-type" applications; Email, Web, word > processing etc... I only really use Myth on my laptops for editing > video (creating cutlists, not cutting video). > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Rick van der > Mieden > *Sent:* Sunday, January 15, 2006 3:04 PM > *To:* 'Discussion about mythtv' > *Subject:* [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro??? > > I need some opinions here please. > > I'd like to install a linux distro on my laptop for daily usage and > for a mythfrontend. Question is what is the best suitable distro for > my laptop. I tried suse in the past, but I hate all those "missing > dependencies" with installing rpms. Gentoo is great (my backend is > running on it), but the emerging of kde errored after compiling of a > complete day!!! So not an option for me anymore. Knoppmyth is more for > a cd frontend and not appropiate for my dual booted laptop I think. > > How's fedora nowadays..... is it the same story as with the > dependencies of suse? > > Some experiences are welcome > > Regards > > Rick > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > Suse 10 is going v nice here, dependancy issues are mainly due to not setting up your on line repositories right. get them sorted, and you will find it a doddle especially as yast gives you options to overide as needed. I moved from fedora core 4 because I found what redhat did with the build trees and source code was a bit of a pain.
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