A Truly Silent Home Theater PC Built for Linux

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."

Comments

but?

[aztec1430]

but does it run Li... oh, wait...

Re:Replacement for XBOX

[rm999]

Sorry, but spending 45 dollars on a cable that literally has one to one connections between the ports (no actual electronics inside) is just stupid.

I bet you that there is a comparable product out there for under 10 bucks.

But the question is:

[cuantar]

Does it run Linux?

Re:Replacement for XBOX

[BLKMGK]

XBMC doesn't record either. Despite his tone he is basicly correct - XBMC is a front-end for video recorded elsewhere.

As it happens I run it myself, it's currently undergoing a ton of bug fixes building to a 2.0 release so it's updated nearly weekly. Highly recommended if you want a SIMPLE way to play video from various share flavors, 'net radio, XBOX games, emulators, and alot more. But no, it's not going to record content for you...