[mythtv-users] What's the best linux distribution ifI'mONLYusingMyth TV?

[Latka]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Klimek" <jmk396 at psu.edu>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] What's the best linux distribution
ifI'mONLYusingMyth TV?


>
> Well, I'm only testing this setup out.  MythTV looks VERY good, but until
I
> see it for myself I don't want to go all-out.
>
> For now, I'll try Mandrake just to see MythTV in action.
>
> If I decide to "finalize" a MythTV box then I'll be running an Athlon 1.0
> GHz w/Happauge Win-TV card (on a KT7-RAID board).  If I do this, then I'll
> install Gentoo (because once everything is compiled I'm sure you don't
need
> to recompile very often).
>
> This leads me to one last question...  are there any super plain black
> computer cases?  I've seen the one link off mythtv.org, but it has drive
> bays.  If possible, I'd like one to just be a black box so it looks more
> like a stereo component than a computer.

Most of these have SBC's (single-board computers), so I doubt they'd have
enough oomph, but it may be a good place to start looking. You may be able
to buy just the case, and try to mod it to fit your own stuff inside.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2016997232.html