On 8/20/05, Robert Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm familiar with the EPIA motherboards, well the MII one anyway. It > runs around $167, yet one obviously doesn't really need a pc card slot. > Personally if I'm going to get to those expenses one almost might as > well go Pundit or Shuttle cube variation I guess. Actually I should > look at the variations on the shuttle cubes that are out now...
Sure, except the pundit and shuttles are bigger and louder than a mini-itx based system would be. > Basically I was looking for a solution in a microATX motherboard that > had everything quite cheap. I just bought a refurbished microATX with > sempron 2200 and heat sink for $68.80 from newegg. It hasn't arrive > yet, but if it's integrated video had s-video it would be perfect. That's the key. Having video capabable of playing back media to a TV under Linux. Lots of cards (drivers) don't manage that simple task. > If anyone does't know about them, they might take a look at > logicsupply.com . They have ide flash memory modules that plug directly > into an IDE connector starting at $51 dollars for a 256MB version. Of > course if you don't know how to build a Linux system so it never mounts > a partition rw, other than during development, then I can't really > recommend it. (Flash memory devices have a finite number of read write > cycles.) There's also the microdrive line of CF cards that don't have that limitation. > I'm trying to think of the advantage of such a system over nfs and the > only obvious reason would be for portable devices that use wireless or > in cases where NFS booting is impossible. Hard drives are far easier > and can be very quiet... (I'm assuming the original reason for avoiding > a hard drive was for reasons of noise.) NFS and compact flash also offer savings in size and heat as well as noise. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
