[vdr] Re: best distribution for vdr?

[Dirk Essl <de@floydworld.de>]

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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