This project combines Ubuntu and MythTV into a lightweight, undemanding HTPC computer. “The plans were, roughly, to install a hard drive, move to a more powerful Linux distribution, and add PVR capabilites to the system. Because the computer was already situated in my living room, making it into a personal video recorder was an obvious choice, though doing this on a Mini-ITX Linux system would surely take a bit of finesse.”
ok, I haven’t read the article yet, but I got a laugh out of “Ubuntu” and “lightweight” being in the same sentense.
If you do the server install and then install the necessary packages, ubuntu is an extremely lightweight desktop. I did a server install and then apt-get installed xubuntu-desktop for a very lightweight xfce setup.
Also, since you are flaming Ubuntu, what is you definition of lightweight?
Fedora? No
OpenSuSE? No
Mandrake? No
Stop trying to start flamewars… not cool.
Ubuntu using xfce is definitely lightweight. My brother just put that on an old laptop I have – 200ish MHz P2 and 64M of memory, but under xubuntu it still runs extremely well.
KnoppMyth works great for this function.
Next time, he should use a sata hard drive. They are faster, and the cable is much smaller, to allow for better airflow.
From the article:
An IDE disk had to be used because the motherboard lacked SATA connectors.
I understand this. Perhaps a motherboard upgrade was necessary then.
this guy must be an animal at parties! what a boring article.
Cool project.I´m thinking about a project similar to this one some time now only the €’s won’þ at least try to cooperate the way i would like 🙂
Nice article notheless!
Is anyone working on a solid upscailing solution for Linux yet? I’ve been using MCE + NVIDIA pure video for 4×3 interlaced dvds, and I’ve been using Zoom Player and FFDSHOW for all other content. From what I can tell there is nothing comparable image quality wise by a long shot under Linux.