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Thanks Grant. You asked what leant me towards MCE as opposed to any others. I've think MythTV (which MCE has in it) is the best Home Theatre Software around but I've long had a big yearning to play around with Home Automation (X10 etc..) and MCE seems to give the best options for HA, TV Streaming et al and to be honest I don't know of any other 'all in one' package like this (I know there are various Home Theatre packages but these seem to concentrate on the Video/Music side of things?). If you watch the Video of what can be done with MCE it blows you away (or it did me I especially like the 'follow me' technology which can work via carrying your Bluetooth phone). Regards, Dave. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grant Sewell" <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:42 PM Subject: Re: [LUG] A couple of questions > Dave wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I am looking to spec a machine for a LINUX MCE Core. Because it is a >> Core I am trying to make it as powerful as I can afford but this had >> led to a couple of questions regarding LINUX which I must profess to >> be ignorant in and was wondering whether anyone could provide the >> answers to. Please bear in mind I will be using Kubuntu 7.10 because >> that is the latest version LINUX MCE will run on. >> >> Firstly I am looking to put in 4 Gig Memory (the max for the MB) but >> am unsure as to whether a 32 Bit LINUX can address such a large amount >> directly and if not what happens to the rest of it; does it sit idle >> (and wasted) or will it become a RAMDisk or similar? >> >> Secondly I was going to get a Quad-Core Processor but again I wasn't >> sure whether LINUX would make use of all the Processors (ditto >> Dual-Core) or would be better saving money and using a single-core >> Processor instead? (or at least the cheapest Dual-Core). >> >> Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer. >> >> Regards, >> Dave. > Hi Dave, > > I am uncertain about the RAM, but I would imagine it'd be capable of > addressing all 4GB of it without fuss. > > Regarding processors, however - Linux can definitely handle multiple > cores. I haven't got much experience with MCE (last time I took a peek > at it, it seemed pretty good but had a very specific set of hardware > requirements in order to get the most out of it) but most Linux > "distributions" (of which MCE is just one) will autodetect that you have > multiple CPUs and install the SMP (symmetric multi processing) kernel > automatically. > > May I ask what's made you lean towards MCE over any other "media > specific" distros? > > Grant. > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.0/1770 - Release Date: 11/5/2008 5:36 PM -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html