[wellylug] Mini-ITX Motherboard

David Antliff dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz
Sat Mar 12 09:49:14 NZDT 2005


On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Jethro Carr wrote:
> Thanks everyone for there information, I'll research with the
> information you've given me.

When you're done, perhaps you might report back to the list please? I did 
the same research a year ago and I forget my exact conclusions but I 
essentially decided that even the 1GHz core EPIA board wasn't going to 
work very well with Linux when used as a 'media box' (DVDs, TV tuner, 
timeshifting, etc), mainly because of the terrible Linux support for the 
hardware MPEG decoder and the extremely poor cost/performance of the CPU. 
For many headless applications (router, firewall, server, mp3 box, etc) it 
would be great tho.

Perhaps the situation has changed, so please let us know what you find.

-- 
David.




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