My saga so far.. I'm most of the way there but lacking time to finish. I've got to a big ABC HDTV logo swamping my TV so that's something I guess.
mini-itx 10000N board (includes CPU). 256Mb ddr 120Gb Hdd Nova-t card for digital-tv Little case (alum) DVD/CDRW WiFi USB thingo - cnet-611 - hand to implement the prod/vend ids into the driver project ot get it going. All up around 1000-1100 in bits. H/w runs hot and not silent so it's in a cabinent with holes - should keep us warm in winter. On the upside it's a power miser and has so far reduced the power bill by about $40-60 a qtr to my reckoning. Processor is good. Put it this way, I do s/w development on it and lots of other stuff and it's fine. Mandrake,Myth,Linuxtv-dvb-1.1.0, gnome, gmplayer, xine etc etc. The xmltv stuff and the tuning still to be finished and I'm not started on the remote control yet! Once 19" LCDs hit $500 for a good one, the Sony Trinitron goes! It's a desktop, server, dvd player cd burner, browser, email reader and soon to be a tivo - I love it. It's on all the time and so reading email is a case of switching the tv on and fending off my son (he prefers cartoons) If you need the hardware - I too can get it! HTH Stu On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 11:39, Howard Lowndes wrote: > Has anyone got any good pointers to setting up a Linux based HEC? Has > anyone done it? How did you go about it? > > -- > Howard. > LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people <http://www.lannetlinux.com> > ------------------------------------------ > Flatter government, not fatter government - Get rid of the Australian states. > ------------------------------------------ > To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; > to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. > - Scott Granneman, SecurityFocus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
