[mythtv-users] developing Myth modules on WindowsXP?

[Cedar McKay]

>
> OS X == FreeBSD + Apples own shell Aqua and some more stuff the wrote.
>
> If you know how (AFAIK you need some console program) you can use an 
> OS X
> systems command prompt just like you would on Linux.
>

I like OS X enough that when I'm working on my linux box I just sit in 
front of my OS X machine and ssh in. I use the apple-supplied 
terminal.app program which you can find by default in your utilities 
folder. I personally use tcsh but bash and all the others are available 
too. One reason I like it is I set my console window to be 
semi-transparent so I can read text on the window behind it, which is 
nice when you are following along with documentation or whatever. Once 
you are on the command line life is very much like linux. Some small 
differences are easy to get used to like instead of /home/myname it is 
/Users/myname. And when I finished compiling hacking away and I close 
that console window and I have the most elegant lovely desktop 
environment you can imagine. When I got a linux box (so that I could 
play with mythtv) I was really dissapointed in the desktop 
environments. Red hat has this sort of crippled thing going on, with a 
lot of missing graphical hardware and software configuration 
functionality. Mandrake was better with that, but it was sort of a 
pathetic mish-mash of control panels and so on.  It looks like it has 
been designed by 1000 people who have never communicated with 
eachother, which is probably about right. I also tried debian, which I 
liked for package management, but it didn't solve my complaints about a 
good desktop environment with complete and intuitive control panels. 
Anyway the linux experiment has been a bit of a disappointment for me, 
(except I really like the free aspect of things, both as in beer and 
speech) with the exception of mythtv of course. Maybe some day it will 
run on OS X too. Or maybe a linux distro will come along with a desktop 
environment as nice as OS X and the same level of multimedia support 
too right? right? guys?

best,

cedar



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