Am Sam, 2003-06-21 um 19.54 schrieb Brian Korsedal: > It would be cheaper and perform better than our current product. By > cheaper, I mean a lot cheaper. We do all custom electronics for our > devices and they cost at least $10,000 to produce.
Take a PC, 5 DVB-budget cards (-S, -C or -T), a 1000BaseT-NIC and you will be less than 1500 $/Euro - streaming five complete transponders or UHF/VHF-channels into network (which means about 75 TV channels at the same time). > > Would Debian or Suse be good distributions for this project? You shouldn't use Susi. It's good for brain-dump customers (a lot of assistants, ...) but it's nicely integrated and they don't keep to the standards (paths, ...). It's the Windoze in Linux-world. Debian is quite good, especially as you can setup your distro by need with the apt-get installer. But you have to configure everything by your own. I myself have decided for Mandrake, as they keep to the standards (it's based on RedHat, but much more current and they provide correct kernel-sources), have a lot of assistants and a quite good package-management with online-update/install. So you can work deep in the system or let assistants do the job. If you want to setup a embedded system with PC-components, I'd suggest you to use "Linux from Scratch" (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/). The pages provide the neccesary sources and documentation to setup a complete linux-distro, which can be expanded by need. This way you won't have any licence and fee problems with distributors but a cost-free, self-made distro. And you can setup that distro minimized to your needs (e.g. keeping below 15 MByte booting from a compact flash if you don't want the gigabytes of a distro). Rene -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
