media center hardware suggestions? (xbox?)

[Sandy Harris]

David Fox <dfox94085 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Francisco Borges
> <francisco.borges at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone has suggestions of (European) vendors of media center
>> systems which are Ubuntu-compatible?
>>
>> Anyone with experience running a Ubuntu media center on a Xbox? Can I
>> get a remote control to work with t?
>
> Well, since you mention HDTV output, you'll probably be wanting to
> play high-definition video content on the thing. And since you mention
> xbox, I don't think you'll be very successful doing that.

Have a look at Playstation 3. IBM/Toshiba/Sony jointly developed Cell
processor, very interesting architecture. Includes a Blue-ray drive; if
you need one of those, PS3 may  be cheapest way to get it.

There's an Ubuntu for it http://psubuntu.com/ Last I heard, only 7.10,
no 8.whatever yet. Yellow Dog also have a Linux for it, and I think
NetBSD runs on it.

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Sandy Harris,
Quanzhou, Fujian, China