[clue] HTPC systems?

[nick pitlosh]

One other thing, Linux hardware compatibility is really good. But crazy
drivers and goofy software bundles are never a good idea on any system.

What is in a 300mb audio driver or a 90mb webcam app? Mind control, that's
what.

On Sunday, July 8, 2012, nick pitlosh wrote:

> Look up pxe, ltsp, VMware unity, use myth. Storage is the most important
> aspect of this and there are quite a few people that misunderstand load and
> io operation wait time. Get small ssds and raid them together to resolve
> that. Using a ram disk for buffer is also an excellent idea.
>
> Back that up with large disks on a nice multichannel Sata card and use
> port multipliers until the Sata channels are completely saturated. On Sata
> 3, you can expect each channel to need 5 to ten spindle disks to saturate
> the link. Transfer on ssds is exceptional but expensive, expect a newer ssd
> to be around 3 times faster in throughput, but 2 to 3 orders of magnitude
> faster in terms of random io. Ram is 2 to 3 orders of magnitude faster than
> that.
>
> That's my 2 cents and I wish you patience and clarity. Don't be a fanboy.
>
> Nick
>
> On Sunday, July 8, 2012, Sean LeBlanc wrote:
>
>> Thanks for all the feedback guys. Now I have some food for thought.
>>
>> As for gaming - what sort of hardware do others use for a game controller?
>>
>> What about TV style remotes?
>>
>> Are game controllers and TV remotes hard to set up with Linux?
>>
>> Another hardware question: do remote keyboards tend to play well with
>> Linux these days?
>>
>>
>> As for how I intended to play video files - locally or not - I was
>> hoping to find a machine that was as quiet as possible for HTPC, so
>> probably it would be playing them over network, either by mounting
>> Samba, NFS (or sshfs?) or streaming via DLNA.
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