Suggest walking through linuxdevices.com for a while. A number of manufacturers produce base systems that are suitable for DVR / Set top boxes, so you could grab one of these as your base system and build it up as you want.
Alternatively, there's also a number of MPC like spec machines that have 1 or 1.6 GHz Atom processors in them with no storage, HDD storage or SSD storage, and also as it's Linux Devices you can be sure that Linux'll work on them, although you may have to use one of the Ubuntu MID or Netbook derivatives. It's all down to how much you want to spend and how much hacking you think you might have to do. Happy hunting! Ian -----Original Message----- From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com]on Behalf Of Matt Jones Sent: 09 April 2009 11:54 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Viglen 'Review' (Was: Re: downloading slow torrents& energy consumption) On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Jamie Bennett <ja...@linuxuk.org> wrote: > Steve Garton wrote: >> Would a Viglen have enough grunt to run something like boxee >> (www.boxee.tv)? Boxee has rtorrent integrated, but it is mainly a >> media centre (a fork of xmbc I believe). I currently have it running >> on an old (~5 year old) PC in the living room (as a proof of concept >> to my wife), but would like to move to a cheap, small, quiet machine >> in future. > > Not sure. I don't use mine for anything stressful. It downloads torrents, > streams them to my xbox360, holds a few screen programs (irssi e.t.c) and some > other general programs. It's a dog to surf the internet on it so video playback > would probably be out of the question. > >> Steve Garton >> sheepeatingtaz.co.uk > > Regards, > Jamie. > -- > http://www.linuxuk.org > > > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > Would something like the EEEtop be a better solution, or one of the plethora of atom based machines. The power consumption wouldn't be that much greater than the Viglen unit, with more power. You could also look at a low end core2 machine in a media case. It would be faster, but still fairly economic. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
