Re: Media-Touchscreen PC

["Mark Harrison \(Yahoo!\)" <mph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

If you're a guru and into kernel tuning for low-power PCs, then obviously
I'm going to suggest Gentoo.

For video streaming, I recommend videoLAN, which is widely supported on
Debian, Mandrake and Red Hat.

The bulk of linux xAP users SEEM to use Red Hat, but there shouldn't be
anything distribution-specific there.

Personally, I use Debian. Life isn't long enough to use Gentoo :-)

M.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Robinson" <ukcueman@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 2:42 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Media-Touchscreen PC


> I'm looking for something to go in the kitchen - thinking along the
lines
of a 15" wall
> mounted touchscreen connected to a PC the other side of the wall. I'd
like
to get it
> interfaced to CBus (via Kevin Hawkins xap-Cbus gizmo) as well as using
a
TV tuner
> (possibly an external one, like http://tinyurl.com/22bf3) and be able
to
play video from
> the server on my LAN.
>
> Is linux a good choice for this, and if so, does anybody have any
recommendations for
> which distro? I'm happy to tinker - having been a unix sysadmin in a
former life.
>
> I also plan on having diskless (silent mini-ITX or even nano-ITX if
they
hurry up and ship
> them) linux PCs around the house, so would prefer a single distro that
I'd
use everywhere,
> so one machine can be the master and do all the kernel tuning
compilations
etc.
>
> TIA!
> Paul
>
>
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