[mythtv-users] iMac as possible Frontend?

Simon Allcorn simon.allcorn at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 15:04:40 UTC 2008


Good idea, I'd forgotten about yellow dog

thanks

Simon


On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:

>
> On Mar 7, 2008, at 7:55 AM, Simon Allcorn wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I currently have 2 imac (1x G3 400Mhz - free, 1x G3 500Mhz - 50 quid
> > from fleabay) and am trying to get them working as myth frontends.
> > I've not managed to do it yet, but mainly because ubuntu has a
> > kernel option turned on that caused gcc to segfault (and the pre-
> > built frontends too). So now I'm trying  to get fredora running and
> > will let you know how I get on. I'm going on the same theory as
> > Sarah above  - if it can play DVDs it should be able to play
> > standard def DVB feeds.
>
> You might look into Yellow Dog Linux. It's specifically designed to
> run on PPC architecture Macs.
>
> beww
>
>
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