A Truly Silent Home Theater PC Built for Linux

slimrabbit writes "LinuxDevices is reporting on a truly silent home theater PC that comes with its own Fedora 5 based quick install Linux DVD capable of installing a fully-configured FC5 system with LIRC, KDETV, TV-Time and Kradio in about 15 minutes. The most notable features are its "church mouse quiet" 14dba power supply, TV-Out (SVideo and composite), component video, DVI and VGA out, and hardware MPEG support(XvMC). The company also supports and engages the Linux community through its sponsorship program. It is sponsoring knoppmyth and the Debian User Project and makes the mechanical drawings of its face plates available under the GPL."

Truly silent?

[venicebeach]

A truly silent home theatre system? Hope it comes with closed captioning...

Should be great

[Anonymous Coward]

for watching silent movies

GPL Faceplate?!?!

[Brandybuck]

...and makes the mechanical drawings of its face plates available under the GPL.

Whoo hoo! Striking a blow for freedom! Telling those evil user-subjugating anti-freedom proprietary face plate manufacturers where to stuff it! I want one of these, because I'm sick to death of this nasty Antec case that won't let me distribute its modified face plate...

Re:FeForce?

[Bananatree3]

Fe, Fi, Force, Fum, I smell the blood of a grammer nazi...

Re:Truly silent?

[elgee]

That is just fine. I sleep through most tv and movies anyway and I don't like to be awakened by sound.

Re:Truly silent?

[Anonymous Coward]

Main screen turn on!

We get signal!

Someone set us up the bomb!

--- Now I want voice commands for my HTPC.

Re:FeForce?

[cciRRus]

I smell the blood of a grammer nazi...

It's grammar.

Re:Replacement for XBOX

[IntergalacticWalrus]

... but... but it's freakin' GOLD PLATED and shit! And shiny! And... oh I give up.

Summarize

[pipingguy]

10 links in one submission, wow.

Old and Lame

[Anonymous Coward]

This has already been done in the world of OS X:

http://homepage.mac.com/chamady/MacMiniReview [mac.com]

Re:FeForce?

[aichpvee]

Fe, Fi, Force, Fum, I smell the blood of a spilling nazi...

Re:FeForce?

[drunkahol]

The correct spelling in my family is

GRANDMA Nazi

(but we don't call her that very often)