This is day two of getting MythTV setup on a backend server. I’ve got the front end working on my Xbox.
I’m really getting frustrated with MythTV and Debian. From what I have read, Debian is the preferred choice to install MythTV onto. Well, Debian has got to be the worst Linux distro I have used!!! DO NOT USE DEBIAN… It’s horribly outdated, very clunky, and no one seems to keep the dependencies up to date. If you didn’t install something while it was available, you’re screwed! Not even Google cache will help!
I can’t believe that the Nokia 770 is based off of this FPOS distro!
Here’s a little background about my Linux experience:
I started learning Linux using Slackware. Hey, if you’re going to learn to swim, you might as well just jump head first into the deep end!
I think Slack is the best Linux distro that I have ever used.
I feel that I’m justified to say that Debian officially sucks. Here are a few other Linux distros that I’ve installed, configured, and written software that controls firmware functions under:
Redhat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Advanced Server (686)
Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.0 Advanced Server (both 686 and emt64)
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0 (686 and emt64)
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.1 (686 and emt64)
Of course, what I use for servers around my office and my home is FreeBSD. It’s an excellent server OS. Of course, Apple uses BSD for their desktops, so I guess it’s ok as a desktop too!
Back to the Mythtv install… All of the howto’s and the packages.lists that I can find are all very out of date. So, this means you can’t just `apt-get install mythtv` as all of the howto’s I have read state to install Mythtv. I’ve spent the last two hours hunting down any deb that I could find relating to MythTV… No one seems to be hosting them any more.
Screw this… I’ll get the PVR-150 working in FreeBSD, then I won’t have to deal with Debian - cause it sucks.