Archive for June 7th, 2007

MythDora, BoxBackup, DeStar, KRD

Since motivation is a bit low for KDE, i thought it was a good idea to solve some other little annoyenses in the software land.

First in row was my Mythtv setup. I discovered I used the repositories from stable, testing, unstable, experimental and some external repro’s. So it was a big mess. And it did not even work right. I was not impressed by the default debian packages. It seems that for a project like this a specialised distro or team of packagers is needed to let all the package interact correctly with eachother. So I picked MythDora for the reinstall. Which worked quite good. After the general tweaking of the tv-card, vide-card, remote control, the lcd-display, etc, it seems to get in shape again. Really nice is the connection to internetstreams, like it links to all programs on uitzendinggemist.nl (a site for when you have missed a broacastand want to see it after it has been aired). It’s based on Fedora Core 6 and that