[NTLUG:Discuss] Hardware vendors in Dallas

Wayne Walker wwalker at bybent.com
Sun Aug 6 13:33:08 CDT 2006


On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 12:47:19PM -0500, David Stanaway wrote:
> Thanks,
> I will definitely check out Fry's.
> Now to work out which chipset I want, and which processor, and then
> which barebones system fits, or build one from the case up.
Watch out for the newest nVidia MB chipset.  It's VERY poorly supported
by Linux.  We finally gave up and returned the mb's we had with that
chipset.

> 
> Is anyone using freevo?
> 
> http://freevo.sourceforge.net/screenshots_blurr.html#freevo_ss2
>From what I understand, MythTV is much superior to freevo, but I've not
researched it carefully.

> The one piece of hardware I am certain about is the Hauppauge WinTV
> PVR-500 card, which I will probably get from New Egg.

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