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Originally Posted by elgemcdlf
What type of processor? RAM? My small computer is a 2.4 Pentium 4 w/ 256 mgs RAM and my Linux box is a 3.4 P4 with 512. Has a few other goodies for speed also  Kinda partial to my Linux box. XP is good for playing solitaire |
I'm running my DVB cards on a non-pentium, running Win2k. Approx 2 GHz. can't remember the ram, either 512 or 1024, but I've been told that the cache ram is more important.
I've also been told that the drivers for the cards aren't as good for Linux, however I don't think that would matter, since any computer is fast enough for getting the info from the card. It's the video hardware and software that's important. The ROKU is basically a Linux box, and it isn't nearly as fast as any of my regular computers, but it's basically doing nothing but video so it's efficient. I'd expect that once you put the whole Linux system on there, it would slow down just like the Windows things do.
I'm kind of partial to DOS myself. I did a comparison once of programs written to do a simple process written for DOS, Windows3, Windows95, WinNT, all on the same computer, and that was about the order of the speeds, ie with DOS fastest, and WinNT slowest. The thing is, that the more you ask an OS to do, the less efficient it will be. The nice thing about both Linux and DOS is that you can trim down the OS to just what you need. For working with TIVOs, someone made a complete LINUX OS on a 3.5" floppy disk.
I had decided to switch over to Linux at one point, but nowadays, it's nearly impossible to get by without Windows, since nearly everything new is written for Windows. A card like the
Twinhans, or even the software for the STBs like the Fortecs, all require Windows when they first come out. Eventually people will write 3rd party drivers for Linux, etc, but by that time the device is obsolete, and/or the Linux version is obsolete. About 6 times, I've tried to go back to Linux only to find out that the programs I've wanted to run on Linux wouldn't work on the version of Linux I have. Same thing for Apple computers. I've got a couple Comodore 64s, a RS Color Computer, 2 versions of Mac computers, one computer running Dos, one running Win31, one that runs both Win95 and WinNT, one running Linux (4 if you include the TIVOs and ROKU), two running Win2k, and 4 running WinXP. My favorite is the Win2K computers, but I mainly use the WinXP computers. Haven't used the Macintosh computers for about 8 years, and only occasionally use Linux. I dislike Windows, but I fear that we are stuck with it.