On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 21:58:26 +0100 "Graham Trott" gt@pobox.com wrote:
Does anybody know anything about Stowmarket based Linitx.com? A
Linux> company that does mini-ITX stuff.
Very good company. I bought the case and the motherboard from there. So so tiny! Tv-out isn't so bad in Linux thanks to the guy allowing me to test out his hacked up driver.
Are these TV drivers generally available? I tried to get Linux to give me a stable picture out of an EPIA5000 about a year ago and failed miserably. Haven't tried since but I wouldn't mind picking it up again. For the past year the machine has been my living room audio playout box (controlled by a Zaurus using wi-fi) and as it sits under the TV it'd be good to shovel all my digital photos into it and get it to run slide shows etc.
-- GT
I was googling about on this subject because
Sells "silent" computers (Well only the hard drive and cdrom have moving parts)
and since I dont like my computers making noise it was a plan for an upgrade to my desktop, and since I am a total ssh remote computing convert this seemed like a good idea, until I discovered that the VIA chip-set is so slow for clock cycles that a 400MHz CPU is equivalent to a 1000Mhz using the Nehemiah M10000 Mother board, fine but I wanted to move forward from my Zalman (heatsinks and fans) based system
The other thing is that to make DVD playback possible it is all done in hardware to avoid stutters, meaning that the upgrade will get me to the situation I am already in, to slow to play DVD's on the desktop. Particularly when DVD playback hardware is not supported under Linux.
I love the idea of a smaller size of computers. Maybe one day the modern PC will be the size of a Sinclair Spectrum and make the same noise when running but without over heating.
Please tell us what hard ware you have got working as I am still interested in low mozing parts computing.
Regards
Owen
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