On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 10:17, Ben Bargabus wrote: > I was bored and thinking that it would be interesting to hear what some > of your favorite Linux/Unix programs are. Maybe an interesting response > will inspire me to learn something new. Anyway, what are your favorite > programs, why, and what do you use them for? (if any of you are as > bored as me today maybe this will start an interesting thread ;-) MythTV is making me happy lately. (http://www.mythtv.org/) Its an impressive piece of work. Particularly in its abilities to operate in a distributed fashion. Any number of machines with any number of TV cards can be used transparently by any front end over a network. I have a TV card in my SO's machine, she works evenings and would otherwise miss most anything worth watching. Also means her machine is unused while its recording. Recordings can then be watched on any machine on the network. xmltv, however, is a perl dependency nightmare. And the atrpms repository, who packages mythtv and everything it needs for Red Hat, is pure evil. All packages depend on the 'atrpm' package, which contains apt-get, forcing you to use THEIR apt-get package. And all the spec files seem to use special macros, which I assume are in their replacement RPM package, so I can't even just easily rebuild all the packages to not depend on it. I just want mythtv, I don't want to replace my apt-get and RPM and sell my soul to atrpms. I gotta make up a null 'atrpm' package. Then start my OWN repository. With blackjack. And hookers... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20031002/3eb0cf91/attachment.pgp