Open-source dvr OS

I was recently asked about how to record with a dvr ( digital video recorder ) on any television provider we want or if we decide to change providers.  The operating system you will need is mythbuntu and with some specialized hardware and this operating system you'll be able to record any TV show or movie that you want, that comes on the provider of your choosing.  The good think about mythbuntu is it's highly customizable and works with almost ever cable and sattalite provider out and the list of providers is growing.  Now you'll need some special hardware like a rf antenna and so on for this to come to be check out the site for further information

http://www.mythbuntu.org/downloads

http://www.mythbuntu.org/

Enjoy...

Debating about operating systems

I was part of a interesting debate about operating systems and a lot of interesting points were made.  Like for example I use a mix of Linux and bsd and yes Solaris as well.  All three based around the original Unix and all three are a great deal more stable then a lot of production operating systems, but the point I'm trying to make being is we've got freedom of speech and choice, which grated Unix or a Unix like environment have a lot of superiority over a lot of operating systems, but still for whatever reason you like a particular purpose or reason; you still have the right to choose which operating system.....   enjoy

Open source vs proprietary

An as I was thinking about what to post o n my tech blog', a dear friend suggested I explain the difference between open source and proprietary (thanks Travis).  To start off proprietary and open source are copyright protected,  but with open source a lot of the intellectual property rights have been sacrificed,  because in general we just want to get the software to work; by letting everyone use the software and contribute fixes.   An as well as other ways to help, like in distributing the software and with that you've also got freedom of choice of who and where you get that help.   Which is why tech support is so much better,  but with proprietary software you're at the mercy of one company which is why tech support is usually so bad.  Also to talk about games, since most people who use windows to play games, but steam, the gaming company, it's similar to gamefly, but they recently opened up their software to play on Linux operating systems and even went as far as developing a complete operating system, that just plays games.  The name of the operating system is called steamos, not big shock right (haha)?  But whether you use a proprietary operating system like windows or Mac, or open source operating system like Linux or BSD,  but it's all about freedom of choice.  

Lists of a few proprietary operating systems and open source:  
Linux Mint
Ubuntu
Pc bsd
Solaris
Microsoft windows
Apple Macintosh

PCBSD and Linux Mint OS's

In the fore mentioned title, I've used a lot of nix environments, but these two nix environments are my favorite desktop environments.  First let's start with PCBSD, it's more of a traditional Unix environment.  An it has a long history with Unix, with Unix started to being developed in 1969; being completed in 1970.  The BSD forks were developed in the 1980's at ERL which stands for electronics research lab in caltech Berkeley!  In fact BSD stands for Berkeley software distribution.   Now onto Linux Mint, after Linus Torvalds had created the Linux kernel a wide and varied versions of the Linux kernel was developed to many different forms the best one in my book is Linux Mint.  It has the power of ubuntu beside it but with a very clean and polished graphical user interface.  But more importantly it has the Linux kernel behind it.  So I encourage people to try both to see what they prefer.  Because this is about freedom of choice; freedom of speech.  An last but not least individual freedoms..