2010-11-29, 18:41
Craig, absolutely yes for the average user I'd be inclined to agree but it's not going to be the same for everyone, imagine everyone out there running xbmc, it's wrong to assume everyone is running it the same or under the same circumstances.
Personally we have a mythtv system here that runs on 4 boxes, after 3 or 4 distro upgrades it was getting very buggy, then the upgrade to Lucid via synaptic killed the system and trashed the database. Re-download myth images which are now 10.10, 3 days setting up the system, lvm, samba, rescanned transports etc etc and is now all working again except for xmltv so I don't think I'll flatten the lot just to put Lucid on for xbmc. Yes, maybe it's my fault for not checking re xbmc and 10.10 but I'd rather put on 10.10. for myth and get it stable rather than putting 10.04 on and risk upgrading in the future which ALWAYS messes something up.
Anyway, the main box that runs xbmc here is still the original xbox and the linux one is secondary on one of the mythtv front ends so here, rather than going svn (which on the xbox was always pretty stable anyway) I think I'll wait it out for the stable release.
And whatever xbmc still ROCKS.
Personally we have a mythtv system here that runs on 4 boxes, after 3 or 4 distro upgrades it was getting very buggy, then the upgrade to Lucid via synaptic killed the system and trashed the database. Re-download myth images which are now 10.10, 3 days setting up the system, lvm, samba, rescanned transports etc etc and is now all working again except for xmltv so I don't think I'll flatten the lot just to put Lucid on for xbmc. Yes, maybe it's my fault for not checking re xbmc and 10.10 but I'd rather put on 10.10. for myth and get it stable rather than putting 10.04 on and risk upgrading in the future which ALWAYS messes something up.
Anyway, the main box that runs xbmc here is still the original xbox and the linux one is secondary on one of the mythtv front ends so here, rather than going svn (which on the xbox was always pretty stable anyway) I think I'll wait it out for the stable release.
And whatever xbmc still ROCKS.