Yay! The parts have turned up for my media box. I’m building a machine to sit next to the TV and Hi-Fi, solely to store and play music and video. At some point I’ll add a Digital TV card so the machine can do TiVo like duties for us.
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I’ve recently discovered and have been playing around with Ubuntu Linux, more specifically, Ubuntu 5.04 “Hoary Hedgehog”. A Debian based distribution, Ubuntu aims to be an excellent desktop distribution and also, being based on Debian, is excellent for use as a server OS.
First impressions are extremely favourable. In fact, I replaced an old Debian install on a server in the office with an install of Ubuntu!
If I ever convert to Linux on the desktop, this will probably be the distro I go for.