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.<div>
<br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>That's my 2 cents and I wish you patience and clarity. Don't be a fanboy.</div><div><br></div><div>Nick<span></span><br><br>On Sunday, July 8, 2012, Sean LeBlanc wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Thanks for all the feedback guys. Now I have some food for thought.<br>
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As for gaming - what sort of hardware do others use for a game controller?<br>
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What about TV style remotes?<br>
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Are game controllers and TV remotes hard to set up with Linux?<br>
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Another hardware question: do remote keyboards tend to play well with<br>
Linux these days?<br>
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As for how I intended to play video files - locally or not - I was<br>
hoping to find a machine that was as quiet as possible for HTPC, so<br>
probably it would be playing them over network, either by mounting<br>
Samba, NFS (or sshfs?) or streaming via DLNA.<br>
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