On Friday 27 February 2004 18:44, glyn wrote: > i'm currently mulling over the idea of getting one of those > really small shuttle xpcs for use as a quasi-portable > linux-based audio box/desktop replacement, and was wondering > if anybody had used them before and had suggestions or > encountered caveats/hardware problems/quality control I installed Mandrake 9.2 on one that I gave my brother for xmas, an Athlon 2400+ with 512MB of RAM, and it worked perfectly. Possibly the smoothest installation I've ever done, though that's partly because it was limited-use (basically just a custom menu in Gambas that let them run 14 different Linux games.) It was running alsa, I think, but I never tried recording or anything like that. And it was super, super quiet though I do think it still had a fan. I would want to use an outboard DAC or USB/firewire sound module, but I fully intend to make my next desktop one of those things and to do audio work on it. Rob
