[wellylug] Broadband

Phillip Hutchings sitharus at sitharus.com
Fri Aug 13 08:21:31 NZST 2004


On 13/08/2004, at 8:06 AM, David Antliff wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Phillip Hutchings wrote:
>> Reliability: Great so far, fully Linux compatible ;)
>
> That's not quite true - the only 'official' drivers for the hardware 
> MPEG
> decoder are closed-source and unreliable at best

Never looked at them, I use it as a headless server. It functions 100% 
for that.

> (has this situation
> changed recently?). If you've got them working well, then that's good, 
> but
> there are plenty of people who haven't.
>
> If you're not playing DVDs with it, then it probably doesn't matter, 
> but
> it's important to note that these platforms do have linux problems, 
> even
> though they are (falsely) advertised as 100% linux compatible.

In all honesty I never noticed. It'd be different if I was using it as 
a PVR-type device though...
--
Phillip Hutchings
sitharus at sitharus.com
http://www.sitharus.com/
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