Re: Media-Touchscreen PC

["Paul Robinson" <ukcueman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Having the ability to handle Gentoo and having the time to spend on it are
not the same
:-(

But I might give it a go.

VideoLAN would appear to be precisely what I need.

Thanks!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Harrison (Yahoo!)" <mph@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Media-Touchscreen PC


> 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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