I get HD OTA, but I am on the wrong side of the condo to get the other stations. I get ABC, FOX and the local PBS and another station that is local that shows Andy Griffin, Dr. Phil, Oprah at night and those Judge shows during the day. The HD is really clear.

I have a Directv box and it doesn’t let you use the USB ports without hacking it. So at the present, I am using my Myth box to record the things I like, eg, How the World was made, and the 11 Planet documentaries. I also get some PPV movies that I want to keep. Now, DRM has stepped its ugly feet on this. I have movies that I bought a long time back, but now Directv says that the movie companies want them to just let us keep the PPV for 24 hours… that’s shorter than Blockbuster! (sorry, sore spot)

I am working on my remote problem like you. Then I can set at my desk connect to this box and stream a movie to my office. My roomate can do the same with her laptops if she needed. And if the “little people” come to visit, they can watch something on a laptop at the table or in the big chair.

I problably will build another PC/PVR or hack the other Directv that’s in the living room. It gives me something to do. I keep busy with this stuff along with NASA, and other stuff. I am a amateur photographer. I thought about moving to a DSLR but my body doesen’t let me get about much, so I just tinker. I have lots of stuff I want to do. Like I read you story about animation. I have stories I would like to like that with my little people. They do funny things and it would be great.

When I run Linux or Windows, this processor waits for nothing!!!.. and it is running a wireless AP box to my router at my office desk.

This machine is in my Master BR and is attached to a 27″ Olevia monitor that has 1 of all the connections and 2 10w speakers. Sometimes when I watching through my eyelids, I hear sound like I’m in the theatre…bouncing off the back wall. It’s pretty cool.

Give openSuSe a chance. If you have the repositories all set, then you are ok with what you would need.

Have a great day. Didn’t mean to comment this much.

I’ve been using OpenSUSE 11.1 with KDE 4.2 for 2 months and I really like it.

I have written a review of OpenSUSE 11.1 on my blog at http://techzillax.blogspot.com/

Please visit my blog sometime.

1) kchmviewer
2) mplayer, mplayer plugin
3) audacious
4) k3b, k3b-codecs
5) sox
6) devede
7) audacity
avidemux, gtk qt
9) ffmpeg
10) transcode
11) ntfs-config
12) vlc
13) libdvdcss
14) w32codecs
15) xine, libxine1*
16) xmms, xmms-*
17) dvdShrink
18) k9copy
19) Gtkpod
20) Acetoneiso
21) furiusisomount
22) DVD::RIP
23) Amarok
24) Kaffeine
25) kmplayer
26) Kdvdcreator
27) K3guitune
28) Kino
29) ManDVD
30) Kguitar
31) Mjpegtools
32) Soundconverter
33) Kdenlive
34) Asunder
35) Brasero
36) Smplayer
37) LMMS
38) Isomaster
39) Mediainfo
40) DVD2Xvid
41) recordMyDesktop
42) Gstreamer*
43) Mixxx, Mixxx-skin*
44) Djplay
45) Ardour
46) Soundreced

you can install any of the above without internet, they include all the dependencies, just unzip the both files into a folder named MMP2009 and create a repository from that folder as a simple rpm folder in yast, then make a search in the yast installer with the name of the program and check it to install it, this is very important if you don`t have internet at home, and besides, by default Open Suse doesn`t include several codecs due to license matters.

I created a blog about the MMP2009 where you can download the pack:

http://easgs.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/multimedia-pack-portable-for-opensuse-111/

The next version of openSUSE will port YaST2 to qt4, so it’ll be having native kde4 oxygen skin.

Overall a good review.

Looking forward to your next review.

Since you installed from the desktop rather than directly booting off the CD, your installation process would have been rather different (and by the looks of things, less beautiful). On a standard install there is now a modified partitioner that provides a more graphical and detailed view. Software selection can go as deep as you like by selecting patterns or individual packages. Also, the license agreement is no longer the EULA style of old and there is now a clear separation of OSS from non-OSS software on the supplied media, to facilitate problems with distribution.

The YaST package installation is seeing a lot of work going into it at the moment. They were somewhat stifled with changing it until now since it relied on Qt3, but the next version should be much improved. Finally, there is a lot of hot air about the Microsoft ‘Pact’, and it’s important to separate the community-driven openSUSE from Novell in this regard. The following page provides a very good summary:
http://en.opensuse.org/FAQ:Novell-MS

Go and test Parsix..

That is the best not Ubuntu that is easy to use..
And very elegant..