[ATrpms-users] Would it be possible to give a warning before you wipe out the Fedora8 atrpms

[Christian Knauber]

Personnally I went through this

- Fedora 6 up until a few month (well at the end no more mythtv updates, but it was working so why upgrade ?), this install went through a lot of modifications, initially running on its own, then as VServer guest, then as a Xen domu with PCI passthrough, and finally chrooted under Centos 5.

- I saw Mythbuntu, and thought "This is the way to go". Did a test install, everything worked. Few weeks later I managed to get an "upgrade window" from my wife :), installed it, upgraded everything, bummm no sound. Seems like the latest ubuntu kernels doesn't like my pundit P1-A2 integrated sound chipset.

- Finally I decided to keep my running Centos 5 and simply installed MythTV on it.

And I must say, after thinking about it, CentOS 5 + MythTV (thanks ATrpms) meets my personnal requirements for my media center:
- rock solid
- no risky updates - I'm running Ubuntu on different systems since 6.04, and i've seen some updates (not upgrades) breaking anything from sound to network, even X11 once.
- no need for an OS upgrade every year

So if you ask me, give CentOS 5 a try.

Christian

----- "Garrick Staples" <garrick at usc.edu> a écrit :

> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:14:56PM -0600, Marshall Crocker alleged:
> > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> > > True - but for those of us running home systems, we may be willing
> to
> > > take the risk... at least until we find the time to upgrade...
> > >
> > > I don't really relish spending multiple hours updating all my
> > > customizations ;)
> > >   
> > Not to troll or anything, but this is exactly the reason I gave 
> > mythbuntu a try.  I've been using redhat since 6.1, all the way up
> to 
> > fedora 7.  After fedora 7 went EOL I decided to give mythbuntu a
> try.  A 
> 
> I haven't tried mythbuntu because I'm concerned about keeping myth
> packages in
> sync between my dedicated fe/be box, and the seldom used frontends on
> my
> desktops and laptops through the house.
> 
> Once you are using different distros, you won't necessarily be easy to
> keep
> everybody working together.
> 
> Anyone have any thoughts on that?
> 
>  
> > Mythbuntu is by no means perfect but I feel much better right now 
> > knowing that I'm not going to have to spend time to reinstall fedora
> 
> > (upgrades even from the dvd never worked for me) just so I can keep
> 
> > getting updated mythtv packages.  I'm very thankful for Axel and
> atrpms 
> > as I never would have taken the time to compile mythtv from source
> but 
> > fedora's lack of an automated upgrade path caused me too much 
> > frustration. Mythbuntu may not be the best solution for everyone but
> I 
> > think its worth looking into if you're sick of constantly
> reinstalling 
> > fedora.
> 
> Have you tried the new pre-upgrade stuff?  That has worked great for
> me.
> 
> -- 
> Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin
> University of Southern California
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