I use Linux at home, and I even set a machine up in the office for people to use for personal e-mail, web checking, etc.
While I like using it, I think it is missing commercial apps. People are sheep and they like to do the same thing as in the past. When I set up the machine in the office someone asked about burning CDs, how much would that software cost? Nothing, it is included. What about XYZ, it's included.
I think there needs to be more good, commercial applications for Linux to catch on. If a person wants to burn a CD, let them purchase the boxed software for $20.
I know it sounds stupid, but the average person goes to Best Buy/Fry's and looks at the software they can install. Since there is nothing there for Linux, it won't go to the masses.
I bet if there was a mad rush of applications to the market, people would start switching to Linux because it is the "in" thing and they would be curious. Does the iPod do anything different than other devices? Not that I know of, but it is "in".
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I have a PC that I use as a server for the house and it also has MythTV installed on it.
I have wanted to get a small PC for the kitchen since I have a TV there and watch quite a bit of TV during dinner.
I'll have to look at the Pundit. I was interested in the VIA EPIA since Fry's Electronics sell the mobo, but they don't sell a case for them ARGH! The model I was looking for was quiet since it is fanless, but still has MPEG2 decoder for playback.
Perhaps I'll have to check another Fry's in town...
At home, I built a very small server for the house to use. It runs Debian, and I use it to power my thin client in the kitchen (for family calendaring and TV watching).
I was able to install MythTV easily on the server and pop in a WinTV PVR 250 with relatively little hassle (I did one previously and knew what to expect).
The benefit I get from MythTV is that I am able to watch TV on my Linux box in the den point the frontend to the server's backend. I think this is a great feature.
Just my thoughts.
I did try out Suse 9.1 and Mandrake 10 on an older laptop I have.
My personal feeling was Mandrake runs faster than Suse, and I found setting up urpmi with the easy setup easier than getting apt-get installed on Suse.
On my home machine I installed Mandrake 10 because it has a repository for MythTV (Thac's). I have a MythTV server downstairs and only need the frontend on my computer. After the OS install, I configured urpmi, and was watching TV in a matter of minutes.
I really wanted to install Suse 9.1, but I don't want to have to compile Myth from source to get a small piece of it.
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I use Linux at home, and I even set a machine up in the office for people to use for personal e-mail, web checking, etc. While I like using it, I think it is missing commercial apps. People are sheep and they like to do the same thing as in the past. When I set up the machine in the office someone asked about burning CDs, how much would that software cost? Nothing, it is included. What about XYZ, it's included. I think there needs to be more good, commercial applications for Linux to catch on. If a person wants to burn a CD, let them purchase the boxed software for $20. I know it sounds stupid, but the average person goes to Best Buy/Fry's and looks at the software they can install. Since there is nothing there for Linux, it won't go to the masses. I bet if there was a mad rush of applications to the market, people would start switching to Linux because it is the "in" thing and they would be curious. Does the iPod do anything different than other devices? Not that I know of, but it is "in".
I have a PC that I use as a server for the house and it also has MythTV installed on it.
I have wanted to get a small PC for the kitchen since I have a TV there and watch quite a bit of TV during dinner.
I'll have to look at the Pundit. I was interested in the VIA EPIA since Fry's Electronics sell the mobo, but they don't sell a case for them ARGH! The model I was looking for was quiet since it is fanless, but still has MPEG2 decoder for playback.
Perhaps I'll have to check another Fry's in town...
At home, I built a very small server for the house to use. It runs Debian, and I use it to power my thin client in the kitchen (for family calendaring and TV watching). I was able to install MythTV easily on the server and pop in a WinTV PVR 250 with relatively little hassle (I did one previously and knew what to expect). The benefit I get from MythTV is that I am able to watch TV on my Linux box in the den point the frontend to the server's backend. I think this is a great feature. Just my thoughts.
I did try out Suse 9.1 and Mandrake 10 on an older laptop I have. My personal feeling was Mandrake runs faster than Suse, and I found setting up urpmi with the easy setup easier than getting apt-get installed on Suse. On my home machine I installed Mandrake 10 because it has a repository for MythTV (Thac's). I have a MythTV server downstairs and only need the frontend on my computer. After the OS install, I configured urpmi, and was watching TV in a matter of minutes. I really wanted to install Suse 9.1, but I don't want to have to compile Myth from source to get a small piece of it.