[vdr] Re: best distribution for vdr?

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

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.

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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