[HLUG] MythTV, Mythbuntu, FreeVO & tvtime :lol: - An Apple a day helps you work, rest and play!
Christopher Evans
reactiv8 at hotmail.co.uk
Thu Sep 4 12:22:47 UTC 2008
Just wasted another day & night with Myth & FreeVO - Zilch, so they'll now share the bin with Wine :lol: I managed to get something called 'tvtime' showing silent TV in the end, but not much good if that is all it can do. Windoze wins again I hate to say. ... I'm now going to focus all my attention on VirtualBox - when that fails too, I might give VMWare a try if I'm feeling really masochistic, but do I need this?. Why do folk release these applications if they are still 'under development'? This annoying trait seems to have spread to M$ with Vista ... What was wrong with Windoze XP??? I can see now that I'll be spending my time keeping that OS running for as long as possible - Fortunately PCW magazine has all the tips for that this month.
So to conclude: Linux is ok for 'net browsing, playing MP3s & DVDs and some very basic word processing. As for image editing, UFRaw & Gimp are tolerable, but the interfaces are poor, and the jury's out on their output. If I had the money I'd buy a Mac and live happily ever after - Sadly though I'm stuck with 'The Terrible Twins' (Linux & Windoze) - I'd happily strangle both of them.
Say after me:~ "An Apple a day helps you work, rest and play!" - Indeed.
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> 1. MythBuntu & MythTV (Christopher Evans)
> 2. [Fwd: [lugmaster] [Fwd: Stephen Fry Wishes Happy Birthday to
> GNU]] (Julian Robbins)
> 3. Re: [Fwd: [lugmaster] [Fwd: Stephen Fry Wishes Happy Birthday
> to GNU]] (Mark Broadbent)
> 4. Fedora 9 PackageKit freezing and distro recommendations
> (Paul Stenning)
> 5. Re: MythBuntu & MythT (Morven Lewis-Everley)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:45:09 +0000
> From: Christopher Evans
> Subject: [HLUG] MythBuntu & MythTV
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> Thanks for the tip about MythBuntu, I have heard others speak well of it, and will try it if I don't get anywhere with MythTV - I'm certain both are dead simple, but I have to be in a suitable frame of mind for these things ... & OCRopus & Wine & VirtualBox etc.
>
> Chris.
>
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>> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:58:08 +0100
>> From: "matt stone"
>> Subject: Re: [HLUG] CentOS
>> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group."
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>> 2008/9/1 Morven Lewis-Everley :
>>> Apparently Mythbuntu is a very good MythTV based distro.
>>>
>>> A recent Episode of Systm talks about setting up MythBuntu:
>>>
>>> http://revision3.com/systm/bmwt/
>>>
>>> Looks pretty simple.
>>>
>>> Mo
>>
>> To be honest i've looked at the various myth distributions available
>> in the past and have never really been tempted. While they can be
>> useful to get a system up and running quickly they don't really
>> provide the learning experience that rolling your own provides which,
>> imo, is the best way to get to know how to run and modify your system.
>>
>> In the end i got my system all sorted on saturday morning (a 6am wake
>> up call from my son made sure i got started early :) I've got a couple
>> of minor issues which i'll be getting on to the mythtv mailing list
>> for but overall things are working even better than my previous
>> install. I've dropped the machine's load average by around 300% boot
>> up is a lot quicker, a quick modification to fstab has seen disk
>> fragmentation drop right down below 1% (previously it used to run at a
>> near constant 75% fragmentation with defrags being run nightly) and in
>> general myth feels a lot zippier when jumping through the menus.
>>
>> I can appreciate that, for some, a pre built distribution may seem
>> more attractive but my recommendation is, if you've got the time and
>> the patience, jump in do the lot yourself, it's well worth it in the
>> end.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Matt
>>
>>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:48:46 +0100
> From: Julian Robbins
> Subject: [HLUG] [Fwd: [lugmaster] [Fwd: Stephen Fry Wishes Happy
> Birthday to GNU]]
> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group."
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> Hi
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> This was mentioned on the LUGMasters List.
>
> I thought I should share it with you.
>
> Always liked Mr Fry .....
>
> Julian
>
> PS Perhaps we ought to invite him to give a talk at our LUG. he seems
> well versed in all things GNU and Open Source
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:29:07 +0100
> From: Mark Broadbent
> Subject: Re: [HLUG] [Fwd: [lugmaster] [Fwd: Stephen Fry Wishes Happy
> Birthday to GNU]]
> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group."
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> Julian Robbins wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> This was mentioned on the LUGMasters List.
>>
>> I thought I should share it with you.
>>
>> Always liked Mr Fry .....
>>
>> Julian
>>
>> PS Perhaps we ought to invite him to give a talk at our LUG. he seems
>> well versed in all things GNU and Open Source
>>
>
> I'm sure Julian meant to add this... ;-)
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> - -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Lucy
> To: Manchester Free Software
> Subject: [Fsuk-manchester] Stephen Fry Wishes Happy Birthday to GNU
> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 07:11:58 +0100
>
> Stephen Fry has made a video message, which is available on gnu.org
>
> http://stephenfry.com/blog/?p=52
>
> "Twenty five years ago this month, a man called Richard Stallman
> announced to the world his intention to create a complete operating
> system from the ground up. He called it, GNU, which stands for GNU's
> Not Unix.
>
> To help celebrate this occasion, I've made a video to tell you about
> GNU, and free software."
>
> - ----
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>
> - --
> Mark Broadbent
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> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:52:34 +0100
> From: Paul Stenning
> Subject: [HLUG] Fedora 9 PackageKit freezing and distro
> recommendations
> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group."
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> I've been playing with a few distros to see if there is anything that
> takes my fancy better than Ubuntu.
>
> Fedora 9 looks good and seems to work well. Plus it's not brown!
> However I am having a lot of problems with the PackageKit software
> installer thing. It keeps stalling with a "waiting for other tasks to
> complete" message which never clears. So if I have chosen several
> packages to install and get to this I have to quit it and lose the
> options I set. From Googling this seems to be a fairly common problem
> with lots of moaning but no decent solutions. I have the same problem
> with two installs (one on VMware and one on a real PC). It looks like
> they haven't learnt from the problems with openSUSE 10.1 a while ago
> when their package manager was broken.
>
> So with Fedora out of the running and deleted, what other distros are
> recommended for ease of use and reliability? Requirements are Gnome
> desktop (KDE feels clunky and overblown to me), the ability to upgrade
> from one release to the next without wiping the disk and starting again,
> recent packages by default (OpenOffice 2.4, Firefox 3.0 etc) without
> pointless renaming (I want Firefox not Iceweazle!), as much as possibe
> configurable from the GUI, active development, and plenty of packages in
> the repositories. I guess I'm describing Ubuntu really, but I'm keen to
> look at some others too. Suggestions welcomed please!
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 10:04:10 +0100
> From: "Morven Lewis-Everley"
> Subject: Re: [HLUG] MythBuntu & MythT
> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group."
>
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> I have found Wine pretty easy to use these days. The dev team have done a
> lot of work on user friendlyness.
>
> I tried to set up myth tv last year on Ubuntu and got very confused with it.
> But then I didn't really know what I was doing, and just wanted a simple
> program to run my wii through my capture card and play it through my
> monitor, In the end I used TVTime. Its loads simpler, but no where near as
> full featured)
>
> Mo
>
> I tried to set up
>
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Christopher Evans wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the tip about MythBuntu, I have heard others speak well of it,
>> and will try it if I don't get anywhere with MythTV - I'm certain both are
>> dead simple, but I have to be in a suitable frame of mind for these things
>> ... & OCRopus & Wine & VirtualBox etc.
>>
>> Chris.
>>
>>> From: herefordshire-request at mailman.lug.org.uk
>>> Subject: Herefordshire Digest, Vol 815, Issue 1
>>> To: herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk
>>> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 12:00:01 +0000
>>>
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>>> 1. Re: CentOS (matt stone)
>>>
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:58:08 +0100
>>> From: "matt stone"
>>> Subject: Re: [HLUG] CentOS
>>> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group."
>>>
>>> Message-ID:
>>>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>>
>>> 2008/9/1 Morven Lewis-Everley :
>>>> Apparently Mythbuntu is a very good MythTV based distro.
>>>>
>>>> A recent Episode of Systm talks about setting up MythBuntu:
>>>>
>>>> http://revision3.com/systm/bmwt/
>>>>
>>>> Looks pretty simple.
>>>>
>>>> Mo
>>>
>>> To be honest i've looked at the various myth distributions available
>>> in the past and have never really been tempted. While they can be
>>> useful to get a system up and running quickly they don't really
>>> provide the learning experience that rolling your own provides which,
>>> imo, is the best way to get to know how to run and modify your system.
>>>
>>> In the end i got my system all sorted on saturday morning (a 6am wake
>>> up call from my son made sure i got started early :) I've got a couple
>>> of minor issues which i'll be getting on to the mythtv mailing list
>>> for but overall things are working even better than my previous
>>> install. I've dropped the machine's load average by around 300% boot
>>> up is a lot quicker, a quick modification to fstab has seen disk
>>> fragmentation drop right down below 1% (previously it used to run at a
>>> near constant 75% fragmentation with defrags being run nightly) and in
>>> general myth feels a lot zippier when jumping through the menus.
>>>
>>> I can appreciate that, for some, a pre built distribution may seem
>>> more attractive but my recommendation is, if you've got the time and
>>> the patience, jump in do the lot yourself, it's well worth it in the
>>> end.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Matt
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
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