Hey. I'm going to be setting up a Media center in my bedroom, but I've come to the conclusion that I won't be needing LinuxMCE yet, as I just don't need all it's features.
HOWEVER. I want to be able to change to LinuxMCE in the future, when I do need all of it's features, and I can actually implement them. ASo I'm going to build it so that the ransition will be as smooth as possible wheen I do change from Vista to LinuxMCE, ie, all supported Hardware.
Can someone look at the planned hardware, and say whether it will run LinuxMCE well as a hybrid?
So:
500GB HDD
DVD Drive
2GB DDR2 RAM
Hauppauge WinTV Nova-TD 500 Dual digital DVB-T PCI TV Tuner card (Is this the same as the Nova-T 500?)
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE 7.1
And perhaps using an old Eyetoy (Namtai version) as a Camera.
What do you think? obviously I'll also put in a second NIC, but I don't need one yet.
Thanks in advance, and again respect to the developers.
Also, one more question (you're getting bored of these now), but could I have a set up where I could have computers in the house that are windows? I'll show an example:
INTERNET -> Modem/router -> LMCE Core - > Another Router -> Cool stuff
->Gaming Computer, etc.
Like that?
LinuxMCE works best, if you hook the modem directly into the core, and plug a switch into the second NIC, and use LMCE to route and manage all devices.
-Thom
ok. So LMCE effectively acts as a router. will this impact internet speeds at all?
Not in my experience. Your internet speeds will be fine.
okay, so that's that sorted then. What about my hatrdware? will that work with the future upgrade?