Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 29th Dec 2005 16:13 UTC
"A year ago, Linux seemed poised to take on the living room, in the form of home media center PCs and systems. But last year's product announcements have not materialized into this year's Linux-based consumer systems. Before losing her job at the helm of Hewlett-Packard, CEO Carly Fiorina peppered a Consumer Electronics Show keynote with word of HP's coming Media Hub, a machine capable of television and display-centric computing that ran on Linux. The machine, announced alongside the company's latest PC-centric Digital Entertainment Center systems running Windows XP Media Center, was promised by fall of 2005. Today, it is nowhere to be found."
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Member since:2005-10-06
Yeah. I agree, now, but can't you see the fear in the heart of a prospective manufacturer. The fear? - fear that the day before the product he has spent time, money, resources on will suddenly (probably on the day before launch) be rendered obsolete by some new wonder proprietary format/codec fresh from the mills of MicroWood that Linux doesn't get access to.
Can't really blame him - obviously this scenario is laughably unlikely ;-) - but??!!
Edited 2005-12-29 17:16
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2005-12-14
>it's not exactly user-friendly, is it.
No, probably not.
But MythTV is out there, anyone can package it and brand it. Its not being forced on manufacturers, or consumers, but its free, themable and very featureful.
It might get easier to install as time goes on, but, you know, take it or leave it.
What Ever Happened to Linux Media Center PCs?
-Its ready now, waiting for somebody to use it.