On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:55:31PM +1000, Grahame Kelly wrote: > Hi Sluggers. > > In response to several questions on Media Centre (or is that arr.. Media > Center) the only way to go is: > Myth-Ubuntu downloadable on a single DVD off the net. Several flavours > are available, i386, x86_64, OSX etc. > > Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy Gibbon) (using the x64 Alternate installer if your > CPU/64 bit) their probably a later release now available. Look at this > guide - http://parker1.co.uk/mythtv_ubuntu.php will assist you too. > > I/We have converted three such systems from original crap windoze Media > Center. The users where overwhelmed by Myth's uptime, added > functionality, source-code access, and the price just blows them away. > Most spent any where in the range of $1.5K to $2.2K for the windoze > setup (not including the $700++ for the s/w licence) only to find they > usually had to reboot twice or more a day, and then even some DVD where > not copyable. > > In-house we have two Myth-servers (back-ends) and four front-ends (two > are back &front ends combined the others are silent microATX compact > flash 1GHz fan less systems). You will have no problems setting up
I would be interested in the specs of the front end boxs > right from boot able MythTV-Ubuntu distro, just installs and goes - > Never have I seen it so simply done. > > Hope this assists. > Grahame > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- "They didn't think we were a nation that could conceivably sacrifice for something greater than our self; that we were soft, that we were so self-absorbed and so materialistic that we wouldn't defend anything we believed in. My, were they wrong. They just were reading the wrong magazine or watching the wrong Springer show." - George W. Bush 03/12/2002 Washington, DC
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