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A Truly Silent Home Theater PC Built for Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fun-toys-to-play-with dept.

slimrabbit writes "LinuxDevices is reporting on a truly silent home theater PC that comes with its own Fedora 5 based quick install Linux DVD capable of installing a fully-configured FC5 system with LIRC, KDETV, TV-Time and Kradio in about 15 minutes. The most notable features are its "church mouse quiet" 14dba power supply, TV-Out (SVideo and composite), component video, DVI and VGA out, and hardware MPEG support(XvMC). The company also supports and engages the Linux community through its sponsorship program. It is sponsoring knoppmyth and the Debian User Project and makes the mechanical drawings of its face plates available under the GPL."

12 of 178 comments (clear)

  1. Truly silent? by venicebeach · · Score: 5, Funny

    A truly silent home theatre system? Hope it comes with closed captioning...

    1. Re:Truly silent? by elgee · · Score: 2, Funny

      That is just fine. I sleep through most tv and movies anyway and I don't like to be awakened by sound.

    2. Re:Truly silent? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Main screen turn on!

      We get signal!

      Someone set us up the bomb!

      --- Now I want voice commands for my HTPC.

  2. Should be great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    for watching silent movies

  3. GPL Faceplate?!?! by Brandybuck · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and makes the mechanical drawings of its face plates available under the GPL.

    Whoo hoo! Striking a blow for freedom! Telling those evil user-subjugating anti-freedom proprietary face plate manufacturers where to stuff it! I want one of these, because I'm sick to death of this nasty Antec case that won't let me distribute its modified face plate...

    --
    Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
  4. Re:FeForce? by Bananatree3 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Fe, Fi, Force, Fum, I smell the blood of a grammer nazi...

  5. Re:FeForce? by cciRRus · · Score: 5, Funny
    I smell the blood of a grammer nazi...
    It's grammar.
    --
    w00t
  6. Re:Replacement for XBOX by IntergalacticWalrus · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... but... but it's freakin' GOLD PLATED and shit! And shiny! And... oh I give up.

  7. Summarize by pipingguy · · Score: 1, Funny

    10 links in one submission, wow.

  8. Old and Lame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This has already been done in the world of OS X:

    http://homepage.mac.com/chamady/MacMiniReview

  9. Re:FeForce? by aichpvee · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fe, Fi, Force, Fum, I smell the blood of a spilling nazi...

    --
    The Farewell Tour II
  10. Re:FeForce? by drunkahol · · Score: 2, Funny

    The correct spelling in my family is

    GRANDMA Nazi

    (but we don't call her that very often)