<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Johnny Russ <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jruss@mit.edu">jruss@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Ben Edwards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:list4me2@googlemail.com" target="_blank">list4me2@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">I have my Xbox, a XBOX to USB cable and a memory stick the Xbox<br>recognizes (512MB). I have a copy of Splinter Cell on its way to me.<br>
<br>What I am trying to work out is what version of Linux to use. It<br>seems to be a toss up between Xdebian or Xubuntu.<br><br>My backend is running Myth 1.21 so does anyone know if there are<br>mythtv packages that work with either of these distributions?<br>
_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></div><br></div>As others have said on this list and I agree, running linux and mythfrontend on an xbox is barely passable as an SD frontend. It takes a long time to boot, and the menus, etc, repsond slowly. Although it isn't a full frontend you can watch mythtv recordings in XBMC and it is much easier to setup and much more responsive than a full linux distro will be on xbox hardware.<br>
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<div>Just to second what was written. I bought a XBOX to use as a frontend. I did successfully install Xebian and myth on it - but ended up giving it away to a colleague who wanted a gaming console. I found it dog-slow, and it makes more noise than a 747 taking off. XBMC is slick, but I wanted to run mythfrontend. I replaced it with an Apple TV which, although slow, is orders of magnitude faster than the XBOX and it's dead silent.</div>
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