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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
(Score: 4, Informative) by Nerdfest on Sunday November 06 2016, @10:31PM
I'm running stock Ubuntu + MythTV on an 8 year old laptop beside the TV, and using it as both a server and a client for the 'main' TV. I also have clients set up on each of the computers in the house, plus another old laptop hooked up to a TV in another room. I have an HDHomeRun box that has 2 tuners, and an antenna in the attic. This setup was good enough that I dumped cable a few months ago and have been very happy since. More reliable recording, better quality playback, and a *far* better interface than the cable company PVRs. I highly recommend checking out the HDHomeRun boxes, they great.
My only problem right now, which may be related to the dropping of MythBuntu is that I'm getting dependency problems when trying to install a client on a machine that runs Kubuntu 16.10. I'll figure it out eventually.