<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Jason Weida <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jason.m.weida@gmail.com">jason.m.weida@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">2. Is there any benefit to running *buntu rather than using the OSX<br>frontend binaries?<br>3. Should I upgrade anything on the mini? It's purpose in life will<br>
be 98% FE. I'll occasionally watch a daily show off Hulu, too, so<br>I'll stick firefox on it for that purpose. The base mini is 1.83GHz<br>Intel Core 2 Duo with 1GB memory.<br></blockquote>
<div>I use a mac mini as a frontend, so I'll give my 2 cents:</div>
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<div>2. I think Myth runs better under linux than OSX. I set up my mac to dual boot between Ubuntu (previously Fedora) and OSX Leopard. Both OSs have myth installed, but I watch under Linux for 98% of the time. I reboot (doesn't take long) when I want to 'play' with something mac-like. The OSX implementation is fine - but things just seem a little quicker under linux and there were a few niggles I experienced under OSX (like screen resizing) that weren't a problem with linux</div>
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<div>3. I'm only using a core duo (not core 2 duo) and it runs HD recorded from my HDHR just fine. When I was previously living in the UK it did NOT play h.264 BBC HD content smoothly. I upgraded it to 2GB just because I like having the wiggle room</div>
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