[vdr] Re: best distribution for vdr?

["Robert Schneider" <Robert.Schneider@de.ibm.com>]

That was actually what I was aiming
to. That's why I wrote "a good distribution" and not the best.

It's really all coming down to, what
skills do I have, how much do I want to involve my self and what do I need
to achieve in what time.

In the end, they are all running on
the kernel. I'm only getting nervous if the so called "freaks"
start hammering on SuSE just because it always people who "can not
write an arbitration-routine for an SCSI bus in assembler" to install
a Linux system.

vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org wrote on 23.09.2003 02:48:10:

> 
> 
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 16:46:00 +0200
> "Robert Schneider" <Robert.Schneider@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm using Linux (various ones) from 1993 on (way before it became
a hype). 
> > I'm a programmer as well and I would certainly know how to build
a system 
> > from scratch. But to be frank. I'm sick of it. I just like putting
that 
> > SuSE DVD in my drive and have an hour later my video, sound,
RAID, 
> > DVD-burner, two printers, scanner, UPS, CAPI Fax and VoiceBox,
ISDN- and 
> > SAT-Internet and everything working like a breeze.
> > 
> > No recompile of kernel. DVB modules compile fine with the SuSE
standard 
> > Kernel (which I do because I'm used to it, I could also use the
ones SuSE 
> > delivers).
> > 
> > So why wouldn't SuSE be a good distribution for a VDR. I just
set an NFS 
> > based system up yesterday for my sleeping-room VDR (diskless,
fanless) 
> > which I boot via PXE from my SuSE based living-room VDR-system.
> > 
> > All is documented very well and YaST is of much help if you want
to 
> > achieve something instead of claiming "I compiled everything
myself"!
> > 
> > Just my 2 cents.
> 
> I think the question "Best distribution for VDR?" is completely
wrong,
> I'm wondering, that no flame war is beeing instigated ;-)
> 
> I'm using SuSE (7.3, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2), without having serious problems
> with VDR. in the meantime it takes only 2 hours to build a complete
VDR
> System, including the SuSE installation and several plugins. Everything
> is working fine, incl. v4l2, sound, WinTV-Card, a.s.f....
> 
> If you know SuSE, it will be easy buidling such a system. If you don't
> know it, you will hate it ;-)
> 
> --
> dirk
> 
> > vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org wrote on 21.09.2003 22:18:56:
> > 
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Lars Oeschey" <oeschey@web.de>
> > > To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
> > > Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 9:42 PM
> > > Subject: [vdr] Re: best distribution for vdr?
> > > 
> > > > If you have DSL, everything will fly on your disk ;)
I'm on ISDN, so I
> > > > would use the 7 CD distro if I were to use debian.
I have it already
> > > > running on a DEC alphaserver at work and I'm quite
impressed. I just
> > > > want to make my life a bit easier, since you always
have to fight with
> > > > Suse's non-standard stuff (libraries in wrong places
etc...)
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > SUSI is the Windoze in the Linux-world. A lot of assis(tants)
> > > which take you out of control and it's proprietary
> > > (they shit on linux standards - different paths, different
libraries 
> > ...)
> > > 
> > > But nice for DAUs ... ;o
> > > 
> > > Rene
> > > 
> > > 
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