Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Newsforge has an article entitled Simple PVR with KnoppMyth which provides an overview of what KnoppMyth is and why it may be better for some users than roll your own style MythTV.

Sometime back I started a Myth project (even wrote an article here saying I was finally just going to do it), but must admit I havent had time to get very far. I did dedicate some hardware but have not really gone and spent the cash to get the rest of the components I wanted. I basically never started the software setup, not because of the intimidation factor the aforementioned article intimates but rather just lack of time (and or sheer laziness ;)).

I would still like to build a PVR using Linux and Myth-Freevo, just for the experience, but at present I do now own a Tivo so the need for my own "home brew" PVR is just not up there. And the Tivo (DirecTV Tivo - very nice - but supposedly going away in 2007 when DirecTV starts shipping their own DVR - something the News Corp. purchase of DirecTV a few years back supposedly inspired since News already has cable cos with their own DVRs) works very well and was dirt cheap at $99 bucks (and with DirecTV its only $4.99 a month for the Tivo fee).

At any rate, for those interested KnoppMyth is a wrapper around Knoppix and MythTV that aims to make the install "as trivial as possible".
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