OSX and Linux media [ILUG] Linus says Apple FS is "Utter Crap" worse than vista... ; -)

[John Molohan]

Ciaran Johnston wrote:
> On Thursday 07 February 2008 20:50:01 Conor Wynne wrote:
>   
>> http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/utter-crap-torvalds-pans-apple/2008/0
>> 2/05/1202090393959.html
>>
>> Its even worse than vista in some ways apparently. :-)
>>     
>
> The interesting thing about Leopard (apparently - I haven't tried it) is that 
> the recently integrated dtrace has been knobbled for some specific 
> applications, which has an impact on profiling as a whole:
> http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/mac_os_x_and_the
>
> Kind of shows where apple's priorities lie - and it's not with their users or 
> application developers.
>
> <snip>
>
>   
>> Anyone recommend a good media app for linux? Ideally I would like to
>> use the TV style remote as well, any chance of that working... am I
>> dreaming?
>>     
>
> As a "media center" style app - a la Windows XP media center I suppose - you 
> could do worse than MythTV http://mythtv.org/. Takes a little effort to set 
> up and is very TV oriented (as the name implies) but also plays music files, 
> playlists, photos, videos, DVDs etc. Remote works fine with a bit of tweaking 
> and it's pretty well documented. There's a mailing list:
> https://www.fdntech.com/secure/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-ireland
> for mythtv users in Ireland. My old mythtv box died a couple of months ago, 
> and I'm looking for something powerful and quiet to replace it...
>
> Another alternative is freevo http://freevo.sourceforge.net/. Not too bad, but 
> been a while since I used it.
>
> Cheers,
> Ciaran.
>   
Freevo's getting pretty decent now and is well worth a look even for you 
myth users :) There's a new config page in the webserver which arguably 
makes it a bit easier set up, reasonably decent docs too with Irish TV 
settings.

John