[mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV

Chris Ribe chrisribe at gmail.com
Sat Jan 7 00:15:37 UTC 2006


All apologies to Matt, who started this thread.  The "communist"  comment
was  supposed to be directed at Mike, who directed the trollish comments at
me earlier.

On 1/6/06, Chris Ribe <chrisribe at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm personally interested in his success with MythTV, Mac Mini and
> > Linux. If I find out that that it works well for him, I might be in the
> > same boat and want to go buy one too. I could care less about OSX or any
> > of the applications designed to run on OSX. If I get one it'll be
> > running linux with mythtv and nothing else. But not to be too frank
> > about it, I've used iTunes... I personally think its inadequate and
> > quirky as a media management tool. The purpose for iTunes, above all
> > else, is for you to buy music from Apple and make Apple stock go up.
> > Everything else is just icing. If I were to use something like iTunes as
> > a media management tool for a desktop (which again, has little to do
> > with mythtv...) I'd be more inclined to use something that doesn't run
> > so badly with the size of my library much like mediamonkey. But I have
> > to ask, why should a mythtv list even care what I think about tools like
> >
> > this?
> >
> > -Mike
>
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> I don't know if you are aware of this, Mike, but there is a working
> frontend available for OS X.  Apparently there isn't one available for FC4
> on the Mac Mini.
>
> If one was going to use a Mac Mini as a dedicated frontend, OS X would
> seem to be the obvious choice for the operating system (I understand that
> Matt is using Fedora for other reasons).  Not only is it the only operating
> system anybody has gotten Myth working under on that platform, but it is
> included in the price of the machine.
>
> Given that OS X is a perfectly reasonable choice of operating system for a
> Mac Mini myth box, and absent a religious devotion to Linux, one might
> consider using iTunes for music, don't you think?
>
> I can certainly empathize with Matt's plight.  I recently went through a
> similar experience, except in my case, it was MythMusic that I found
> execrable and iTunes that I wanted to be using, and I had to jump through
> hoops to get Windows working on a box which had previously been a KnoppMyth
> frontend.
>
> I like iTunes, but don't harbor any delusions that it is the end all and
> be all of music library software.  I have an iPod though,  which enhances
> iTunes value in my eyes.  I find that the $.99 transactions which enhance
> Apple's stock price, as you say, provide me with at least $.99 worth of
> enloyment, so I make them willingly.
>
> Believe it or not, Matt, some people use Linux because they think it is
> good software, not just because they are communists.
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