[ATrpms-users] [ATrpms-devel] live/install media with ATrpms support (example: mythlive)

Tim Fenn fenn at stanford.edu
Thu Jan 15 01:32:27 CET 2009


On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:10:40 +0200 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net>
wrote:

> 
> the latest mythdora release suprised me by dropping ATrpms support and
> preferring another 3rd party repo (incompatible to ATrpms) to supply
> the mythtv community with a myth integrated Fedora solution.

I must confess to have gone along a similar route on my backend, as I
was eager to try Jarod's firewire fixes.  >.<

> mythdora
> was an important component of ATrpms folklore and therefore needs to
> find a replacement. As a name I was thinking of "mythlive", but any
> alternative suggestion work as well. The CentOS developers had
> suggested mythcentos for CentOS/ATrpms based mythtv media.
> 

will you be releasing a liveCD as well as an installer?  if both, you
may want to avoid "live" in the name, just to prevent confusion.
maybe a name with the AT moniker (mythimmtv)?

> But there are other image use cases like a "Fedora Remix - ATrpms" DVD
> with full ATrpms support, or other specialized cuts from ATrpms like a
> VoIP CD/DVD, a tuxonice installer, educational CD/DVD and similar.
> 

Perhaps a DVD with what the majority of folks look for "out of box" -
codecs, media players (including dvd support), kernel modules for
evil (yet popular) hardware...

-Tim

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