[mdlug-newbie] Hello LUGgers!

[Patrick Hornung]

I can personally recommend Mythbuntu, as I've used it for over a year now for a home MythTV setup.  If you're already using Mint, using Mythbuntu will have a very familiar interface.  They Mythbuntu control center is quite nice when getting started, as well.

In my experience, MythTV (overall) has been very good.  However, you'll need to have patience with it.  The prevailing opinion of those running MythTV is that if you don't like to fiddle with your DVR system, a TiVo is the better route.  If you like to fiddle with it, MythTV is the way to go.  It's very flexible and allows you a great deal of control over your DVR system, especially with regards to having multiple frontends.

-----Original Message-----
From: mdlug-newbie-bounces at mdlug.org [mailto:mdlug-newbie-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Garry Stahl
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 3:03 PM
To: A place where there are no dumb (linux related) questions.
Subject: Re: [mdlug-newbie] Hello LUGgers!

Brandon Fotiu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Brandon and I got fed up with Windows a few months ago and
> installed Linux Mint 5 Elyssa.  So far it's been a good experience
> overall and most of my hardware is supported.  I'm looking for more
> information on how to get everything I can out of Linux and I've been
> slowly learning the way around my system and the terminal.  My next
> project for is to try and get MythTV up and running on a spare box but
> from what I've read it's really an advanced user type of program.
> Anyway, I'm joining this list in the hope that it keeps me from
> switching back so please be patient if I ask a really simple
> questions.  Thanks for reading this and I look forward to
> participating in the Michigan LUG community.
>
> Brandon

Welcome to Linux.

Well I cannot recommend this as I have yet to try it myself, but if your
willing to drop a few bucks. the November Linux Format magazine is on
MythTV and has a Mythbuntu distro as the DVD of the month.  Now, I have
not yet read the articles or done squat with this distro, in fact it's
still in the magazine, but it is there.


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