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hohenner at comcast

Nov 19, 2009, 3:48 PM

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What flavor of Linux are you using?

I'm in the process of building a new system for MythTV, and am using
this as a chance to practice and try something new, so installing from
scratch (SVN) and trying out versions of Linux I've not used before...

Just tried building with Fedora 11, but just found out they took out the
ability to automatically log in (atleast without making edits to conf
files that I don't completely understand), so considering trying another
version.

What flavor of Linux is everyone running?

Thanks,

Andy

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Nov 19, 2009, 3:54 PM

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Re: What flavor of Linux are you using? [In reply to]

>
> I'm in the process of building a new system for MythTV, and am using this
> as a chance to practice and try something new, so installing from scratch
> (SVN) and trying out versions of Linux I've not used before...
>
> Just tried building with Fedora 11, but just found out they took out the
> ability to automatically log in (atleast without making edits to conf files
> that I don't completely understand), so considering trying another version.
>
> What flavor of Linux is everyone running?
>

I've been using Arch for both my desktop (FE) and basement server (BE) for
roughly 2 years now. A couple things will break every few months during some
update, but the community is fantastic and I've never had any extended
issues with the update system. I really dig it, I haven't even contemplated
trying another distro...

Bob

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Nov 19, 2009, 3:56 PM

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Re: What flavor of Linux are you using? [In reply to]

On 11/19/2009 05:48 PM, Andy Hohenner wrote:

> What flavor of Linux is everyone running?

I'm using openSUSE 11.1 with their 0.21 mythtv package.
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yan at seiner

Nov 19, 2009, 3:58 PM

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Re: What flavor of Linux are you using? [In reply to]

On Thu, November 19, 2009 3:48 pm, Andy Hohenner wrote:
> I'm in the process of building a new system for MythTV, and am using
> this as a chance to practice and try something new, so installing from
> scratch (SVN) and trying out versions of Linux I've not used before...
>
> Just tried building with Fedora 11, but just found out they took out the
> ability to automatically log in (atleast without making edits to conf
> files that I don't completely understand), so considering trying another
> version.
>
> What flavor of Linux is everyone running?

Debian for the backends and frontend. One is highly modified, running X
from git and bleeding edge nvidia drivers.

The other is stock debian lenny with myth from trunk.

A laptop and desktop running a separate myth installation using ubuntu
with myth trunk. The desktop is also running X from git.

(Lots of improvements in latest X. Between bleeding edge X and bleeding
edge nvidia and myth, the image is visibly better.)

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Nov 19, 2009, 4:02 PM

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Re: What flavor of Linux are you using? [In reply to]

Andy Hohenner wrote:
> I'm in the process of building a new system for MythTV, and am using
> this as a chance to practice and try something new, so installing from
> scratch (SVN) and trying out versions of Linux I've not used before...
>
> Just tried building with Fedora 11, but just found out they took out
> the ability to automatically log in (atleast without making edits to
> conf files that I don't completely understand), so considering trying
> another version.
>
> What flavor of Linux is everyone running?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy
>
>
> _______________________________________________
A bit of a loaded question to be honest, virtually everyone uses their
favourite distribution rather than look for one specifically for running
MythTV. I personally use OpenSuSE and am very happy with it, then again,
that's because it's my distribution of choice and I've spent the time to
learn my way around things on it.

If you're not wanting to get too technical, then I'm guessing you'd be
best sticking with one of the Myth-specific distributions such as
Mythdora or Mythbuntu as they'll pamper you more than a general
distribution that you then decide to add MythTV to.

Cheers
Gordon
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Nov 19, 2009, 4:24 PM

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Re: What flavor of Linux are you using? [In reply to]

On 11/19/2009 03:48 PM, Andy Hohenner wrote:
> I'm in the process of building a new system for MythTV, and am using
> this as a chance to practice and try something new, so installing from
> scratch (SVN) and trying out versions of Linux I've not used before...
>
> Just tried building with Fedora 11, but just found out they took out the
> ability to automatically log in (atleast without making edits to conf
> files that I don't completely understand), so considering trying another
> version.

If you are using the default Fedora login manager, the edit is not difficult:Just add the following lines to the [daemon] section of /etc/gdm/custom.conf:

TimedLoginEnable=true
TimedLogin=mythtv
TimedLoginDelay=0

FMI: http://digitizor.com/2009/01/29/how-to-enable-automatic-login-in-fedora-10/

This worked for me under F11. I just upgraded to F12, and haven't tested this yet. Autologin is a hassle when configuring a system, and I don't have sound working yet under MythTV ("mythfrontend -O EXPERIMENTALLY_ALLOW_PULSE_AUDIO=1" sorta worked under F11, and doesn't yet work for me under F12).

-BobC
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Nov 19, 2009, 4:41 PM

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Re: What flavor of Linux are you using? [In reply to]

Andy Hohenner wrote:
> I'm in the process of building a new system for MythTV, and am using
> this as a chance to practice and try something new, so installing from
> scratch (SVN) and trying out versions of Linux I've not used before...
>
> Just tried building with Fedora 11, but just found out they took out the
> ability to automatically log in (atleast without making edits to conf
> files that I don't completely understand), so considering trying another
> version.
>
> What flavor of Linux is everyone running?

I run CentOS 5.4 for my backend. I use CentOS because I am comfortable
with Red Hat derivatives and it has the packages I need for all the
different services I run on the machine.

I run MiniMyth for my frontends. I use MiniMyth because it is exactly
what I need (I am the maintainer of MiniMyth).
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Nov 19, 2009, 4:42 PM

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I'm presently using Ubuntu 9.10 with the current fixes, using fluxbox as
my windows manager.
I've used quit a few other distro's before Ubuntu, including Slackware. I
got frustrated trying to
get everything up and going and when I stumpled upon the ease of Ubuntu
and how mythtv
pretty much worked right out of the box, I haven't looked back...

nick.rout at gmail

Nov 19, 2009, 5:45 PM

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Re: What flavor of Linux are you using? [In reply to]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Andy Hohenner <hohenner [at] comcast> wrote:

>
> What flavor of Linux is everyone running?

Presently mythbunbtu, but considering strongly LinHES for an upgrade to 0.22.

LinHES was formerly knoppmyth. LinHES is based on Arch.
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Nov 19, 2009, 5:55 PM

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Re: What flavor of Linux are you using? [In reply to]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Andy Hohenner <hohenner [at] comcast> wrote:
> I'm in the process of building a new system for MythTV, and am using this as
> a chance to practice and try something new, so installing from scratch (SVN)
> and trying out versions of Linux I've not used before...
>
> Just tried building with Fedora 11, but just found out they took out the
> ability to automatically log in (atleast without making edits to conf files
> that I don't completely understand), so considering trying another version.
>
> What flavor of Linux is everyone running?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy
>

Actually, I have my frontend setup to start automatically without ever
actually logging in, as such, at all. I just have this in my
/etc/inittab, in place of one of the original existing virtual
terminals:

# TERMINALS
c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
#c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/openvt -fwc 2 -- /bin/su -l -c
"/usr/bin/startx > /dev/null" mythtv

The original console line there is commented out. Then all you need
to do is to get mythfrontend to start as part of that window manager
session. I use fluxbox and have ~/mythtv/.fluxbox/startup set to
start mythfrontend.

That also respawns if it stops for any reason, so in the event of any
sort of rare freeze or whatever, ctrl-alt-backspace restarts the
frontend.

I've actually never even set a password for the mythtv user.

Tom
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Nov 19, 2009, 5:56 PM

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Re: What flavor of Linux are you using? [In reply to]

On Fri Nov 20 12:45 , Nick Rout sent:

>On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Andy Hohenner hohenner [at] comcast> wrote:
>
>>
>> What flavor of Linux is everyone running?

Gentoo....

Still using 0.21 till 0.22 ebuilds stabilise more and I understand the database
changes required..

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andy at squeakycode

Nov 19, 2009, 5:57 PM

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eric at lisaneric

Nov 19, 2009, 6:34 PM

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Re: What flavor of Linux are you using? [In reply to]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Andy Hohenner <hohenner [at] comcast> wrote:
> What flavor of Linux is everyone running?

I switched over to Debian around the time that Windows got all uppity
and decided it didn't need to be launched from DOS anymore. 14 years
later I'm still running it.

Eric
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Nov 19, 2009, 6:58 PM

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Re: What flavor of Linux are you using? [In reply to]

The one and only, Gentoo. It does it all, great if you are planning to
build directly from SVN. I use it for all my boxes; desktop, web
server/dns, myth backend, and myth frontends.

Check out mingetty to autologin.

stefan_jones at comcast

Nov 19, 2009, 8:34 PM

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----- "Andy Hohenner" <hohenner [at] comcast> wrote:
> From: "Andy Hohenner" <hohenner [at] comcast>
> To: mythtv-users [at] mythtv
> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 3:48:49 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: [mythtv-users] What flavor of Linux are you using?
>
> I'm in the process of building a new system for MythTV, and am using
> this as a chance to practice and try something new, so installing from
> scratch (SVN) and trying out versions of Linux I've not used before...
>
> Just tried building with Fedora 11, but just found out they took out the
> ability to automatically log in (atleast without making edits to conf
> files that I don't completely understand), so considering trying another
> version.
>
> What flavor of Linux is everyone running?

I am in the process of finishing a reinstall of Fedora 12.

My first MythBox was Fedora Core 7; this current one was running core 8 stably for about two years.

What sold my on Fedora was the availability of a really good How To.

Stefan

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Nov 19, 2009, 8:39 PM

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Re: What flavor of Linux are you using? [In reply to]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 20:57, Andy Colson <andy [at] squeakycode> wrote:
> Andy Hohenner wrote:
>>
>> What flavor of Linux is everyone running?
>
> Slackware.

I'm on Slackware 9 :)

(Haven't really updated much since I got it all working 5 and a half years ago)

I'm in the process of rebuilding on Slackware 13, so that I can move
to 0.22.... the 2.6 kernel sure is different... ;-)

aaron
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Nov 19, 2009, 11:03 PM

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> Actually, I have my frontend setup to start automatically without ever
> actually logging in, as such, at all. I just have this in my
> /etc/inittab, in place of one of the original existing virtual
> terminals:
>
> # TERMINALS
> c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
> c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
> c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
> c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
> c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
> #c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
> c6:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/openvt -fwc 2 -- /bin/su -l -c
> "/usr/bin/startx> /dev/null" mythtv
>
> The original console line there is commented out. Then all you need
> to do is to get mythfrontend to start as part of that window manager
> session. I use fluxbox and have ~/mythtv/.fluxbox/startup set to
> start mythfrontend.
>
> That also respawns if it stops for any reason, so in the event of any
> sort of rare freeze or whatever, ctrl-alt-backspace restarts the
> frontend.
>
> I've actually never even set a password for the mythtv user.
>
> Tom

On my main frontend I am using Debian 5 because I found an easy guide for setting up myth + s2api on that distro. I did something similar to your setup, (I think I first saw it in knoppmyth):

I copied the mythtv.desktop shortcut to /usr/share/xsessions so Mythtv is an available Session like KDE and Gnome. With autologin enabled the system boots directly to mythfrontend.

I have also installed myth on my other systems, opensuse 11.2 and 11.1 (I am addicted to yast, unfortunately)

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Nov 20, 2009, 2:00 AM

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Re: What flavor of Linux are you using? [In reply to]

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Andy Hohenner <hohenner [at] comcast>wrote:

> I'm in the process of building a new system for MythTV, and am using this
> as a chance to practice and try something new, so installing from scratch
> (SVN) and trying out versions of Linux I've not used before...
>
> Just tried building with Fedora 11, but just found out they took out the
> ability to automatically log in (atleast without making edits to conf files
> that I don't completely understand), so considering trying another version.
>
> What flavor of Linux is everyone running?
>

Actually, I'm not running Linux for MythTV at all.
My MythTV backend is running FreeBSD[1], and my frontend is a Mac mini (PPC)
running OS X.

HAND

References:
1) http://www.freebsd.org/
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Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen

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Nov 20, 2009, 2:13 AM

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>
> Actually, I'm not running Linux for MythTV at all.
> My MythTV backend is running FreeBSD[1], and my frontend is a Mac mini
> (PPC) running OS X.
>
> HAND
>
> References:
> 1) http://www.freebsd.org/
> --
> Regards,
> Torfinn Ingolfsen
>
> _______________________________________________
>
WoW thats something I don't run into everyday..

chris at westnet

Nov 20, 2009, 7:50 AM

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Re: What flavor of Linux are you using? [In reply to]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Andy Hohenner wrote:

> Just tried building with Fedora 11, but just found out they took out the
> ability to automatically log in (atleast without making edits to conf
> files that I don't completely understand), so considering trying another
> version.

I use Fedora. You get bleeding edge software, which is good when you get new
features, and bad when you find out things broke.

To enable auto login, just edit /etc/gdsm/custom.conf and add:

[daemon]
AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=username

to the bottom, replacing 'username' with the user you want to auto-login.

Run Fedora if you like being bleeding edge and always having the latest of
everything. If you don't like constantly upgrading, I do not recomend using
Fedora.

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Nov 20, 2009, 7:51 AM

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Nov 20, 2009, 8:44 AM

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Re: What flavor of Linux are you using? [In reply to]

Various ubuntu flavours
Combined system (Backend/feontend) kubuntu
Laptop kubuntu
Second frontend xubuntu

using myth contolcentre packages

R

Please excuse brevity and mistakes, this email was composed on a mobile
phone.

Thanks and regards,
Richard Morton
07899750400

On 20 Nov 2009 15:52, "Patrick Oglesby" <octoberblu3 [at] gmail> wrote:

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Andy Hohenner <hohenner [at] comcast> wrote:
> I'm in the process of...
Slackware64-current running 0.22-fixes compiled from SVN periodically.

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Nov 20, 2009, 9:42 AM

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Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> HAND

HIGH-FIVE!
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Nov 20, 2009, 10:21 AM

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Triple boot:
W2K only for a few games.
Ubuntu.. just could not be without it.
Fedora... still the best for music apps.
That way I can have the best of both worlds.

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Nov 20, 2009, 10:43 AM

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Re: What flavor of Linux are you using? [In reply to]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Andy Hohenner <hohenner [at] comcast> wrote:
> I'm in the process of building a new system for MythTV, and am using this as
> a chance to practice and try something new, so installing from scratch (SVN)
> and trying out versions of Linux I've not used before...
>
> Just tried building with Fedora 11, but just found out they took out the
> ability to automatically log in (atleast without making edits to conf files
> that I don't completely understand), so considering trying another version.
>
> What flavor of Linux is everyone running?
>

Gentoo. I started using mythtv and gentoo in 2004 and my database goes
back to the first gentoo install. Everything is built from source so
svn or official packages are a bit of the same. At one point they were
the exact same but now gentoo moved back to snapshot builds although
some users have svn ebuilds. I still have ones for 0.21 in my overlay
and there is a 0.22 overlay as well. In all my mythtv usage I do not
recall having many problems installing or updating mythtv. Although
the operating system needs updating regularly (if it gets too old
updates become more difficult) but this is mostly painless for me. The
most effort I spend is forcing the package manager to install the
versions of packages that I want. Being a programmer in the day job I
do not buy into the concept of old package/ no recent bug report =
rock stable so I always have a mix (even at work) of what they call
testing packages and what they call stable packages. I also will not
have a totally bleeding edge system, I need real stability. With all
this said if you do not understand linux and the linux shell and its
commands this definitely is not the distribution for you.

John
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