The Tivo is a linux box?!?!  I missed Warren's article.  A friend of mine installed a larger harddrive in his tivo and set up PPP over serial connection between his Tivo and his Linux router.  Now his Tivo goes out over his DSL connection to get info about when shows play and he can telnet into the Tivo.  If anyone wants more info about Tivo hack'n let me know and I'll get the info from him.

Off the top of my head I don't know of any good comparisons between open source and closed source software.

Dusty
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> I was curious about this -- does anybody know of a comparison between
> open source and commercial products?
> 
> I was reading Deven's article in Hawaiian Hard drive about making a
> Linux "appliance" to act rather like a TiVo on steroids, and his
> reasoning about the money saved by the different hardware that he
> doesn't need got me to thinking.
> 
> It would be an interesting and educational thing to make a comparison
> between Open source and commercial software and the commercial
> counterparts. I expect somebody has done it already, but a quick web
> search didn't get me very far. Does anybody know of such a critter?
> 
> Barring that, I was thinking to start working on such a list just for
> the sake of bragging rights for the Open Souce folks.
> 
> What think ye, folks?
> 
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