I am a gentoo user and have noticed a new ebuild for mythcontrols, described as: * media-plugins/mythcontrols Available versions: ~0.19 Installed: no Homepage: http://www.mythtv.org/ Description: External Controls for MythTV. I'm not quite sure what "External Controls" means - is this the telnet interface? -- Nick Rout <nick at rout.co.nz>