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Originally Posted by ravi

I have to say that my install of Ubuntu went like clockwork and then worked beautifully. I t even asked me if I wanted to upgrade to 6.something and I said 'yes' and it went away and did it. If it wasn't for Windoze locking the USB port, I would never have had a problem to start with!
As kids are asking for a PC to be connected to the TV in the living room so they can surf the net etc and I'm thinking that it may be a great opportunity to make it a linux box. Is there any media-centre type functionality available - or is that expecting too much? Will it plug in into the home network or am I going have trouble?
Thank you guys for all this advice - it's so hard to think outside the usual mac/pc box!

Ravi

There's this one:

http://www.mythtv.org/

or this one:

http://freevo.sourceforge.net/

or maybe this one (in German):

http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/projekte/vdr/

There are probably lots more, but those you have to look up yourself. I do seem to remember GeexBox, a mini-distro that fits on a CD or DVD.

I wouldn't use a Live CD Linux as a daily workstation, but for flashing it is excellent.

Boot the Live CD, then go download the flasher and images while in Linux (they save to an internal RAM-disk), flash and when you're done, just reboot and you're done.

Wow, MythTV looks awesome. I wonder if it works in the UK with satellite TV though...

Ravi

ravi: I believe it works with DVB-S cards, although you might have difficulty with anything other than FTA (e.g. FreeSat) channels.

You can even configure Myth to get your TV listings from a <plug>absolutely fantastic</plug> TV website:

http://www.bleb.org/tv/

Cheers,

Andrew

thanks Andrew,
looking now at the plug (!!)

Ravi