[mythtv-users] Who's going to be the first?

JWA jwa at macbidouille.com
Fri Sep 3 21:48:32 UTC 2010


On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 06:43, Greg Oliver <oliver.greg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:23 AM, digid myth <digidmyth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am going to order one, I currently do not have an apple TV, but this looks
>> interesting.
>> I am a Unix geek from way back, anyone remember the 3B2, and NCR Towers? I
>> have a linux server at the house that backs up all of our Mac's, does other
>> server stuff and runs Myth which we enjoy. We use it to watch all or movies,
>> and OTA recordings. That said, we are also an apple household. Multiple
>> Mac's, ipods, iphones, ipad's etc. When you spend your day running down
>> computer problems, it is nice to come home and not have to deal with Windows
>> computers not working. The Mac's just work, and my family enjoys the tight
>> integration of all the software with the apple devices. We all use iTunes to
>> handle our music, and Myth for video. I have no plans to replace our MythTV
>> setup with this thing, but it would be nice to stream music to it. For
>> 100.00 it is just another toy, but it does have possibilities.
>> Don't knock the Apple products! Yes they cost more, but most good things in
>> live do. Everyone that I know that has switched to a Mac loves it, and would
>> not consider going back to a Microsoft world. I Love linux for my servers,
>> and would not give that up, but for the workstation there is no other good
>> solution in my mind.
>
> I think bastardised BSD is the work everyone i looking for....  It's
> funny how someone (Jobs) had the insight to take a completely free
> license and take advantage of it..  If his original partner (Gates)
> would have not pissed him off, they could both have a (base) OS that
> is stable  :)

Uh... his original partner was Steve Wozniak.


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