I’ve been running Mythbuntu 9.10 on both my main MythTV box and frontend Zotac Ion box for a couple of weeks now. Here’s a breakdown of what I like and don’t like:
Likes:
Support for the Hauppauge PVR-1212 HD capture device. This is huge and I’m very happy a mainline Linux distribution finally supports this device out […]
In my previous post I mentioned accidentally upgrading my MythTV system to Myth 0.22 via the Avenard repos. I had some serious issues that pushed me to decide to do a clean install on both MythTV boxes I have. I moved any recordings I hadn’t had a chance to watch to my MythVideo folder on […]
I just upgraded my Ubuntu server to Karmic Koala and had an issue afterwards where mysql refused to start at bootup or when manually restarting it. I checked out my logs and found an error related to ’skip-bdb’. Normally when I upgrade my server I keep my configuration files untouched. Apparently the new version of […]
I’ve been running Mythbuntu 9.04 (MythTV 0.21) using the Avenard repo’s to get the VDPAU goodness for some time now and have been very happy. Yesterday the system updater ran and decided to pull down the 0.22 RC1 packages in the Avenard repository. During the upgrade I got a message stating “your DBSchema is 20 […]
I know OLF was a couple weeks back but I never got around to talking about it. As usual it was an absolute blast. Lots of cool people and good conversations all around. I led both the Android and MythTV birds of a feather sessions. Me and Dan Frey recorded the MythTV BOF and released […]
Well Slackware 13 was released a few weeks back and I had a chance to install it on my laptop. I ran Slackware as my main Linux distro for about 2 years. It’s reputation as being stable and solid are well earned. If you run Slackware for any significant amount of time you will learn […]
For the longest time I’ve been using the CiscoVPN client for Linux to connect to my job’s vpn when working from home. It functions o.k. but there are some annoyances. Every time a new Linux kernel came down the pipe you had to rerun the installer script. It basically creates new kernel modules compiled with […]
I’ve had my G1 since June and absolutely love the Android operating system. The fact that it has a Linux kernel and is open source software is the icing on the cake. While the G1 is great it still is the first Android phone and has some limitations. Besides the battery life the only […]
Identica doesn’t have spam. Spam from companies. Spam from posters being forced to spam their contacts for some stupid contest
Identica can survive a denial of service attack. During a recent attack on the internet Identica kept humming along while Twitter and Facebook ground to a halt. Identica follows a distributed model
Identica is completely open. Anybody […]
After successfully suing Dish Network for $104 million last year Tivo is now suing Verizon and AT&T over alleged DVR patent infringements. While I am no patent attorney I find this development pretty disturbing. Tivo was an early innovator in the digital recording device market but now has much stiffer competition. Satellite and cable companies […]