I've been playing with Ubuntu Ultimate Edition 2.5 both here & @ home, Lucid on the Macbook (dual-boot), and toying with Debian Lenny on a test server at work. I've also been installing Mepis 8.5 & Sabayon on a couple of donation machines I'm working on. Busy times around here!
Jim On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 12:36 -0500, Dave Tomlin wrote: > So what distro are you guys using? It seems that most of you are > using Ubuntu. I was an Ubuntu fan thru 9.04, but am now using Fedora > 13. So far its been great. > > On 6/15/10, Tim Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've got one at home, it's pretty slick... Running ubuntu on it with good > > success with VPDAU and the nvidia drivers in 10.04... > > > > I've got an Asus EEEBox media center I picked up on woot.com on the way, > > too... > > > > $200, and a little better specs on it (I think it has integrated WiFi, and > > wireless kb/mouse).. > > > > Theres a lot of good stuff coming out with hw accel for most video and an > > Atom CPU... < 20watts and enough to play almost any video you can throw at > > it... > > > > -- > > Tim > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Don Delp <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Tim Jackson <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > Acer Revo - $200 Intel Atom box that's actually smaller w/ Nvidia ION > >> > for > >> > your hw accelerated h.264 playback pleasure.. Spend the other $500 on > >> booze > >> > and call it a day... > >> > -- > >> > Tim > >> > >> Tim, I might have to look into that. My office server is getting > >> ready to die. I can hear the death rattle from 3 rooms away. I'd > >> like to move my noisy MythTv backend/frontend from the living room to > >> replace it, but I wasn't sure what to use as a replacement frontend. > >> It even has an hdmi port. > >> > >> Google suggests this will work pretty well. > >> > >> -- > >> Don Delp > >> 618.616.2993 > >> http://nesman.net/ > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >> "NLUG" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected]<nlug-talk%[email protected]> > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > >> > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "NLUG" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > > > -- > Sent from my mobile device > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
