There’s a new front end for MythTV designed for the Nokia N800 tablet. It’s call MaemoMyth and interfaces with MythTV via the Gmyth libraries. The N800 is pretty low powered as far as computers go, so this could be a great starting point for MythTV front ends on low powered machines.

Check out the project page for more information, links to source code & binaries as well as a video of MaemoMyth in action.

MythTV overhaul: The Switch from Fedora to Ubuntu

Part 1:
- Background:
- My current environment is this:

• MythTV .20 (no patches) installed on Fedora Core 4.
• 1 WinTV Go tuner card (analog NTSC bttv software encoding)
• 1 WinPVR 150 tuner card (analog NTSC ivtv hardware encoding - mpeg2)
• 1 Air2PC tuner card (digital ATSC ?? maybe QAM updatable) - not setup
• ATI Radeon 9200 w/ S-video out
• 160 GB HD w/ Fedora Core 4 on it. Using LVM for the entire drive.

- So I started on this little adventure switching from Fedora Core 4 to Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support) for a few reasons:
- I’ve never liked Red Hat’s package management system
- I wanted to use Ubuntu originally when I first setup MythTV, but there was very poor support for MythTV on Ubuntu back in 2005.
- In my opinion, apt-get on debian based systems is far more stable and usable than yum on Fedora. I’ve ran into several problems with yum, and very few issues while using apt-get on Ubuntu.
- They dropped support for the yum repositories for Fedora Core 4. Yeah, I understand that they can’t maintain it forever, but upgrading to Fedora Core 6 from 4 is just as scary if not moreso than switching to Ubuntu. So I might as well just go with what I wanted in the first place.

My adventure begins after the break….

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