Linux and Media PCs

[Tomas]

I heard that MythTV is good for that. There is also some mediapc distros or even live cd for that.. I have not tried these myself though.

[Tomas]

As a matter of fact, I just tried Knoppix yesterday. It loaded flawlessly from CD. I also tried Ubuntu the day before. Both OSes run at the about the same speed, however, Knoppix bundles a lot more software.

Are you planning to install it onto the HD? then i highly recommend ubuntu over knoppix. You can just apt-get the software you need afterwards and i find it much better than knoppix when it is gonna be installed. Knoppix is only better in my opinion if you gonna run it from the cd.

I recommend getting the newer ubuntu or kubuntu edgy 6.0 release though

[Tomas]

MythTV runs smooth and plays pretty much any media-file I can throw at it, but my gfx-card is a bit sluggish sometimes. Not so much during playback, but the menus can sometimes slow down to a crawl...

Do you use the official nvidia driver or the default open source driver? I dont see why the menus should be slow if you use the official driver.