McNee
November 20th, 2007, 06:37 PM
I've been a computer dweeb for 25 years or so, since my C-64 but just finally getting into Linux... and not sure why it's become such a hit... but I went with Ubuntu (obviously).
My original intent was to put it on an older spare box to stick in the living room and stream media off my main computer... but after just goofing around a bit with it I decided to take a look and see if I "needed" windows at home, and decided I didn't.
So this weekend I jumped in and went for it. Everyone and their dog has a blog these days, but I've been using my site to chronicle what I'm going through in installing and trying to find software that I like to replace what I was using on Windows. www.upmykilt.net if anyone is at all interested.
I still have a few issues to work out - my dual video card/monitors setup is not working. I have a new TV card I haven't been able to find any info on yet. I still want to do a second box in the living room that I can hopefully run a touch-screen monitor with, as well as clone the output to my TV for running movies and such and run either that box or my main as a DVR.
I've been reading lots of great stuff about how helpful the forums here can be, so I'm crossing my fingers that with some help I'll get this stuff figured out.
-Rob
My original intent was to put it on an older spare box to stick in the living room and stream media off my main computer... but after just goofing around a bit with it I decided to take a look and see if I "needed" windows at home, and decided I didn't.
So this weekend I jumped in and went for it. Everyone and their dog has a blog these days, but I've been using my site to chronicle what I'm going through in installing and trying to find software that I like to replace what I was using on Windows. www.upmykilt.net if anyone is at all interested.
I still have a few issues to work out - my dual video card/monitors setup is not working. I have a new TV card I haven't been able to find any info on yet. I still want to do a second box in the living room that I can hopefully run a touch-screen monitor with, as well as clone the output to my TV for running movies and such and run either that box or my main as a DVR.
I've been reading lots of great stuff about how helpful the forums here can be, so I'm crossing my fingers that with some help I'll get this stuff figured out.
-Rob