[Gllug] mini-itx & usb wifi & mythtv & DVB-T stuff

[Doug Winter]

SteveC wrote:
> After 3 years with a mac laptop I want to get a linux box again.
> 
> I'm thinking a mini-itx since they're small and cheaper than I thought.
> Normally I'd build it myself but I've not touched one of these before.
> Is it significantly cheaper building it than buying a pre-built box?
> Does anyone have component / supplier reccomendations? Any gotchas I
> should look for? I looked at the sites google.co.uk threw back looking
> for 'mini-itx buy linux' including cheeplinux.

As an alternative to mini-itx, I built a new machine for home recently 
based on a Soltek Qbic EQ3901:

     http://xev.us/K (shorter link)

Small, looks nice and while not completely silent it's extremely quiet. 
  Has an AGP slot and a PCI slot, in which I've got a Nova-T DVB card 
(which I haven't got working in linux unfortunately).

AIUI the "new" Nova-T chipset does work, but I've yet to figure out how 
- I've not put an enormous amount of time into it though.

The computer itself is great though and I'd recommend these barebones 
systems, especially if you want something with a bit of oomph.

cheers,

doug.


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