From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DyNpE-0001Cy-Iu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 05:54:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6T5r2HQ001682; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 05:53:02 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6T5nURP017108 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 05:49:30 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DyNl0-0000Hm-Ce for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 05:50:06 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DyNkn-0004kL-Ez for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 07:49:53 +0200 Received: from 203-118-166-55.adsl.ihug.co.nz ([203.118.166.55]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 07:49:53 +0200 Received: from tom by 203-118-166-55.adsl.ihug.co.nz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 07:49:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Tom Eastman Subject: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a TV Box Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:49:22 +1200 Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203-118-166-55.adsl.ihug.co.nz User-Agent: KNode/0.9.1 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: e59705c6-eec6-43eb-889d-78c3ee980a0b X-Archives-Hash: 5690bdacbb66da66e09c507a05a4d549 Hey Guys, I've got a reasonably stripped down gentoo box (P3-733) with a good video card running in my living room, with the TV as its monitor and a wireless keyboard and mouse. Sounds great so far, doesn't it? But what shall I do with it? It has good TV out capability but no TV in. I have freevo running at the moment, but not MythTV, I'm not really brave enough yet, it seems pretty complicated to set up (I have exactly zero MySQL experience). So, how would you go about getting a good computing experience out of an older computer with a TV output? What do people think would make a nice window manager? It would be kind of cool to get things like web-browsing or email up and running. I'm kind of thinking some kind of non-window based interface would be cool, like what you see on palm devices and such. As well as locking it down to nice big fonts that can be easily read on a TV screen. So what do people think? At the moment its primary function is to grab movies and stuff off of my NFS and play them throught the TV, but I'm sure there is potential for it to be so much more! Inspire me! ;-) Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list