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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>> I'm looking for a small box to put in my kitchen to listen to tunes</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>> and watch recorded and live TV (standard-definition, only) on. I've</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>> noticed a bunch of Dell Optiplex GX150s (</FONT><A HREF="http://tinyurl.com/ar89q"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">http://tinyurl.com/ar89q</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">) on</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>> eBay for relatively cheap. They're pretty small, and would fit in the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>> area I need.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>> Does anybody have any experience with these? Do you think they'd work</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>> fine for a frontend?</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>You'll need to add the video out to attach it to a TV, but other than</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>that, I'm sure it'll be fine. I would do some investigating to see if</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>the onboard audio is supported in linux, as well, just to be sure.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Hi </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I've got a GX150 at home in use as a small workstation running FC3. The audio is supported under ALSA (can't remember which driver but I'll check). Peter is right, there's no TV out as standard so you'd need to throw in a GFX card with one on. I slapped 512Mb or RAM in mine as it came with only 64Mb but apart from that it's standard.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">If you like I'll boot mine up with my KnoppMyth CD tonight (UK time) and point it at my backend. Should give an indication of how well it'll work. BTW these are pretty quiet machines, except when the CD drive is in use, that's pretty noisy.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Cheers</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Paul<I></I></FONT><I></I>
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