For testing purposes, I probably do an actual build of a channel once per week. It's a handful of channels, and I test through my code a lot before I even put it on a box or package it. I use NOTEPAD/windows, ha, oldschool me, has the features I need, and zip it up after I verify logic and that works for me. I use notepad for building the web server/php, notepad for the manifest, I changed all the rich text files into actual unicode files for notepad too. And the webpage works fine too. So I'm probably underqualified to even touch linux, but I have my own system and time isn't an issue as I don't mass install to thousands of boxes at a single go either....perhaps I'm just too stupid to change old habits. 🙂 I do write scripts to do routine database operations like backup and restore, and php scripts to create/clear tables in mysql, and I do use ubuntu on a limited basis for alternate projects unrelated to roku with a hotswap drive bay, but I really don't want to go all lowlevel sudo techno ninja on using bash shell scripts - that's just my own choice as my brain has to hold a whole lot of relevant info on other topics.
