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YARDofSTUF
10-14-04, 04:04 PM
I've got a small shuttle box with a TV tuner card. Gonna get a nice 200gig drive for it and I want to do something different with it.

Seeing the WinXP media center OS post in the gen forum got me thinking of some home theater setup. But going more along the lines of linux with MythTV.

Maybe have the desktop background be the internet and no icons on the dest top, probably easier to do in windows that way.


Any ideas guys?
TonyT
10-14-04, 05:56 PM
some home entertainment distros here:
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php
YARDofSTUF
10-14-04, 05:59 PM
some home entertainment distros here:
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php


Nice! A few there I need to look at!

Know anything about making a linux desktop be a web page and iconless? lol
YARDofSTUF
10-15-04, 08:13 PM
Bump for other peoples inputs as well
TonyT
10-15-04, 09:54 PM
Nice! A few there I need to look at!

Know anything about making a linux desktop be a web page and iconless? lol
You could have mozilla load at startx.
|D|Kin6slay3r
10-16-04, 11:40 AM
I have the SUSe Live Eval (latest distribution) and I must say its very pleasing to the eye (desktop). So far I find it to be an excellent learning tool. Only problem Ive found is it doesnt like my Wireless PCMCIA card. Oh well though cause I didnt plan on accessing the internet while in this OS. But I do highly recommend people try it. :thumb:
YARDofSTUF
10-16-04, 03:47 PM
the knopmyth doesnt work for me, but i got knoppix running, really like it, but if i cant get it to install on the harddrive then its gonna be gone and i'll try suse.