All of humax's boxes are linux based, but the hd boxes are mostly binary blobs, since the HD recording must have drm as a requirement for it to be certified. Which is a shame, check out http://hummy.tv for help, tips and tricks for your box On Jul 3, 2011 4:26 PM, "alan c" <aecl...@candt.waitrose.com> wrote: > I have just purchased a new Humax tv recorder (FOX T2), it has a USB > port which can be used to connect to a LAN and router for tv internet > use, with things like iplayer (bbc) etc. I am using a wifi usb dongle. > > I noticed that the first file system the User's Manual lists > compatibility for, in an external hard drive is ext3, which I thought > was nice. > > I continued thumbing through to the appendices, and suddenly saw lots > of free software stuff. > > '...... The licences for most software are designed to take away your > freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public > Licence is intended to guarantee your freedom to .....' > > The hardcopy User's Manual has 105 pages and page 98 onwards is Open > Source Software Notice - GPL softwae Linux, busybox, avinfo > LGPL uClibc, libexif, id3lib > FTL (www.freetype.org) > > and an appendix with over 6 pages of GPL and LGPL licences shown. > > It took me a little while to check I was not dreaming. > :-) > -- > alan cocks > Ubuntu user > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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