OSX and Linux media [ILUG] Linus says Apple FS is "Utter Crap" worse than vista... ; -)

[Ciaran Johnston]

On Thursday 07 February 2008 20:50:01 Conor Wynne wrote:
> http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/utter-crap-torvalds-pans-apple/2008/0
>2/05/1202090393959.html
>
> Its even worse than vista in some ways apparently. :-)

The interesting thing about Leopard (apparently - I haven't tried it) is that 
the recently integrated dtrace has been knobbled for some specific 
applications, which has an impact on profiling as a whole:
http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/mac_os_x_and_the

Kind of shows where apple's priorities lie - and it's not with their users or 
application developers.

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> Anyone recommend a good media app for linux? Ideally I would like to
> use the TV style remote as well, any chance of that working... am I
> dreaming?

As a "media center" style app - a la Windows XP media center I suppose - you 
could do worse than MythTV http://mythtv.org/. Takes a little effort to set 
up and is very TV oriented (as the name implies) but also plays music files, 
playlists, photos, videos, DVDs etc. Remote works fine with a bit of tweaking 
and it's pretty well documented. There's a mailing list:
https://www.fdntech.com/secure/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-ireland
for mythtv users in Ireland. My old mythtv box died a couple of months ago, 
and I'm looking for something powerful and quiet to replace it...

Another alternative is freevo http://freevo.sourceforge.net/. Not too bad, but 
been a while since I used it.

Cheers,
Ciaran.