MythTV 0.22 release candidate

On Nov 5, 8:26*am, "Paul D.Smith" wrote:
FWIW, I also use a copy of Debian at home, but running on an XBox (v1).
Once the distribution is installed (which for an XBox was easy as someone
else had already figured out how!) maintenance is quite painless -
surprisingly so for a Windows user like myself (but be warned, I program for
a living so the lack of a GUI doesn't phase me ;-) ).

The XBox has a 500GB disk installed (huge at the time) and was an amusing
way for me top build a file server rather than buy one off-the-shelf.

My employers also use RedHat Linux and that seems simple to use to. *In many
ways with things like Myth you get down to the platform being used (has
someone tailored a Linux distribution for it) and what user interface is
available.

Paul DS.

MMm very interesting and not something i'd considered for a file
server. I've got a Freecom MediaPlayer which is used for such service
at the moment, but out of interest what does the Xbox give you other
than network storage. Is it capable of anything else? (use as a media
centre?)

"Mike" wrote in message
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On Nov 5, 8:26 am, "Paul D.Smith" wrote:
FWIW, I also use a copy of Debian at home, but running on an XBox (v1).
Once the distribution is installed (which for an XBox was easy as someone
else had already figured out how!) maintenance is quite painless -
surprisingly so for a Windows user like myself (but be warned, I program
for
a living so the lack of a GUI doesn't phase me ;-) ).

The XBox has a 500GB disk installed (huge at the time) and was an amusing
way for me top build a file server rather than buy one off-the-shelf.


MMm very interesting and not something i'd considered for a file
server. I've got a Freecom MediaPlayer which is used for such service
at the moment, but out of interest what does the Xbox give you other
than network storage. Is it capable of anything else? (use as a media
centre?)

The old XBox is an excellent media centre PC for very little money (I hear
you can play games on it too!).
http://xbmc.org/about/
Works well on other OSs too.

I've been using it for years on an original Xbox, however it is becoming a
little limited these days as the 733MHz Pentium III isn't quite up to HD
(H264) decoding.

Z

In article , Dave Farrance
writes

Distros that I've seen in the workplace, used as
servers, tended to be RedHat/Fedora or SUSE.

We use CentOS (built on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources) for
servers and Fedora 10 for desktops. Works for us.

--
Mike Tomlinson

brushhead wrote:
Hiya,
Slight off topic I know but MythTV is hitting v0.22 RC2. Should be a
full release next week.

http://www.mythtv.org

Rob.
MythTV 0.22 is out...

Rob.