[mythtv-users] MythTV Frontend upgrade

[Rich West]

Doug Young wrote:
> I built my recent frontends using the Antec Minuet 350 case [..snip..]
> As far as distribution goes, I chose mythbuntu [..snip..]
>   

I guess the catch in my design is that my front end systems are front
end-only.  I do all of my video recording/processing on the back end
system which can be loud and bulky without impacting the WAF.  So, the
front end system has very few requirements:
o Small(ish).  Depth/Width no more than 14"
o MicroATX w/ DVI
o Quiet case fan
o Quiet processor fan

Unfortunately, I'm finding that something of that nature is near
impossible to find. I don't need bays for a bunch of hard drives and
cdrom drives which is present in everything out there.

I currently have two shuttle SK21G systems with Nvida AGP 512MB 6200's
and it performs quite well aside from the NFS issues.  Unfortunately,
that configuration being AGP, there's no way I can advance any further
with the system.  For the short term, I guess I could focus on tackling
the NFS buffering issue in order to increase the WAF. :)

I'd probably go with CentOS for the front end only because of its
similarity with Fedora minus the crazy update schedule. :)

-Rich