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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday November 06 2016, @05:06PM   Printer-friendly
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Mythbuntu: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish

It's been a long and fun ride from 7.10, but it's time to turn in our badge.

What is happening?
Mythbuntu as a separate distribution will cease to exist. We will take the necessary steps to pull Mythbuntu specific packages from the repositories (17.04 and later) unless someone steps up to take these packages over. MythTV packages in the official repositories and the Mythbuntu PPA will continue to be available and updated at their current rate.

Why is this happening?
Mythbuntu is a necessary distribution for easing some of the setup of MythTV, however through attrition we have dwidled from a team of ten down to two developers doing all of the work. Although we have automated as much as we can, the effort to both fix issues that pop up from underlying changes and release an ISO is more than the team can support in our free time.

What does this mean for users?
MythTV will continue to be available from the repositories just like any other package.

For users wanting to install new installations, there will no longer be an ISO, the mythbuntu-desktop package, nor the Mythbuntu-Control-Centre. We recommend installing a slim distro (perhaps Xubuntu), add the Mythbuntu Repos, and install and configure MythTV from there.

For users looking for up to date versions of MythTV, we will continue to provide these updates through our PPA.

http://www.mythbuntu.org/home/news/mythbuntusolongandthanksforallthefish
https://web.archive.org/web/20161106073403/http://www.mythbuntu.org/home/news/mythbuntusolongandthanksforallthefish

=== Huh? What was Mythbuntu?

http://www.mythbuntu.org/home
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythbuntu


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  • (Score: 2) by ticho on Sunday November 06 2016, @07:49PM

    by ticho (89) on Sunday November 06 2016, @07:49PM (#423231) Homepage Journal

    It is refreshing to see people putting up a custom repository for their stuff, instead of everyone and their dog spinning off yet another debian/ubuntu derivative whenever they want so much as change default desktop background. So many manhours have been wasted on maintaining needless distro forks...

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by theluggage on Sunday November 06 2016, @09:27PM

    by theluggage (1797) on Sunday November 06 2016, @09:27PM (#423268)

    So many manhours have been wasted on maintaining needless distro forks...

    Back in the day, if you were building a dedicated HTPC box built around PVR functionality then having a ready-rolled "light" distro like Mythbuntu was great. It also had all the TV tuner kernel drivers compiled in, infra-red remote control stuff, accelerated video, patches and suchlike built in plus some handy utilities (like setting MythTV frontend to run on startup).

    The first iteration of my MythTV box used a lovingly customised Gentoo system (compiled on one of those little Mini-ITX motherboards with a low power VIA chip...) and worked fine, so I got the t-shirt. Next & subsequent iterations used MythBuntu - bloody hell, was that easier!

    Agree, today, most regular distros have all the LinuxTV kernel drivers, choose the right video drivers etc. and if your tuner card doesn't plug-and-play in Ubuntu its probably because the maker hasn't open-sourced the drivers. It was not always thus...

    Also, these days, rather than trying to build a silent, small-form-factor HTPC, the way to so it is to run the backend on regular PC hardware, somewhere where the hard drive & fan noise won't annoy, and use a Raspberry Pi or an Android TV box running Kodi as the living room front end. The Kodi client for MythTV is probably nicer than the regular one. The backend machine can then do other stuff as well, so it can run a full distro.

    Actually just ditched (tentatively) MythTV for TVHeadEnd on a server + MrMC on a FireTV as frontend - not as sophisticated at managing recordings as MythTV but less dependencies and all the setup is done via a web interface so it can run on a headless server.

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by NCommander on Monday November 07 2016, @08:22AM

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Monday November 07 2016, @08:22AM (#423410) Homepage Journal

    Mythbuntu wasn't a fork. It was built directly out of the Ubuntu archive and by Canonical's build servers + CD image keys and was signed with Canonical's signing keys (which also sign Ubuntu). It's more a variant with a different package set.

    The difference between it and Ubuntu proper was the package selection, the fact that it had 'universe' packages enabled for image builds, and that Canonical did not support it.

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