superm1
Mario Limonciello
===Linux Usage History:=== Began experimenting with Gentoo during December, 2003. Solely used Gentoo from July 2004 through September 2005. Experimented with Ubuntu, September 2005 - December 2005. Soley used Ubuntu January 2006 - Present.
I originally got into Linux because a friend had told be it was the best thing to use for running a web server. I was quite stubborn at the time, and struggled with gentoo. As most people know, it's not the most "user friendly" operating system to start with if your coming from Windows. I went cold turkey in December of 2003, and stuck with it until March the next year. I went back to Windows for gaming purposes, and then toyed with the idea again until July that year. Since then, I've been exclusively linux on all my PCs & routers.
During May & June of 2004, I experimented with several time shifting solutions for my television. In looking around, I found mythTV. This was a perfect excuse for me to come back to Gentoo. Since then, I have been a strong supporter of the open source movement, and using mythtv.
==MythTV== For the first few months, I experimented with mythTV only to run into troubles, bugs, and complaints from my roomates. I reported what I could to the mythtv mailing list, and tried to fix what I could with my own experiences. I was very lucky to have very experienced people working on ebuilds in my gentoo days to help keep mythtv running smoothly. When I was a gentoo user, I didn't give back nearly as much.
When I came into using Ubuntu, I was very happy to see very recent versions available directly in Breezy's repository. For a good period of time, this worked out very well for me. As I kept up with the MythTV mailing list, I started to hear about newer features and wanted these available in Ubuntu. I quickly learned how grueling of a process it was to try to modify packages and rebuild binaries on something without an ebuild. I hunted for other people's repositories, and used other people's packages as I learned.
Eventually a new version of myth was released. Unfortunately, 0.19 never made it into dapper, and it was pretty unheard of to have a package built in the correct debian format. Being that I had a gentoo backend, I attempted to build some packages myself. It was a matter of porting the patches applied to gentoo over to a debian package.
I made this package sync up with the gentoo version
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