According to the dates on the files, I have been working on getting a Linux Home Theater up and running for over two months, almost half time. This has been a truly Herculean task, maybe even Sisiphusian.
Ok, so some of the problems have been due to a series of spectacularly unlucky hardware issues, which logic dictates are just bizarre coincidences.
But beyond those, Fedora is simply a crappy distribution for a HTPC. No, please don't tell me how you got YOUR system up and running is 15 minutes. I have been tripped up by Anaconda bugs, RAID bugs, kernel mis-configuration s, PAM, udev, Alsa, nvidia video drivers, nvidia audio drivers, NIC drivers, XFS, FUSE, samba, SELinux, and circular rpm dependencies.
So why do this? Becuase it's free. No, not free of cost, but free of nigtmare DRM, ongoing fees, absurd branding, and free of commercials. It's also open, so I can fit it to the way my family views media, not the way some marketing manager wants me to view media. I'm certain that will make it worth the effort.
So this is a blog about my trials and tribulations. I hope that my posts of diagnostics and solutions will make this blog worth checking out.
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