I run a multimedia living-room box on linux (used to be xubuntu, now I am running kubuntu). Here are some things I play around with.
My own MythTv box... with a few tweaks. I now use xbmc for viewing my series/videos/dvds, so I got rid of mythtv. I haven't been viewing TV (neither satellite nor terrestrial) for 3 years - except the occasional soccer match.
This is about my living-room box. I want to be as quiet as possible, and almost-instant-o (it mustn tkae longer than the projector to be ready). An important part is: power-saving
Since I want my box to be power efficient, I decided to reduce hard-drive access. One easy way to do that is to use ramfs for quite some things.
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