[wplug] success story

[Brandon Kuczenski]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Drew from Zhrodague wrote:

>> List traffic is a little quiet, so I thought I would drop a quick line to 
>> announce that I am now 100% MICROSOFT FREE in my personal computing. This 
>> weekend I dumped Windows 2000 and installed Debian testing on my home 
>> computer, and everything is working!  I'm even hoping to get a Hauppauge TV 
>> card working that never ran under Windows.  There are a few minor 
>> annoyances (always, right?) but in general I've had a great time putting 
>> together the system and plying it to my will (the secret: use apt-get for 
>> everything!) and I can now finally use a decent command-line to compile my 
>> TeX documents.
>
> 	Congradulations! Being Microsoft-free can really enlighten your 
> computing experience.
>
> 	If you're really looking into a TV card, I suggest a PVR-250 -- which 
> might be a little pricey for a TV card, but with the hardware MPEG support, 
> you may wish to do the MythTV-thing. Cards without MPEG will really drag your 
> system into the ground. Goodwill in the SoSide sometimes has old ATI tuners 
> -- where I got a couple of mine. In fact, if you'd like to have one of these 
> to test -- it's yours.
>

sorry -- ambiguous -- I already have a TV card that already didn't work 
under Windows.  But due to the absence of debugging output or community 
support, I had to abandon it after a handful of emails to the manufacturer 
went unanswered.

Thanks, though.

-Brandon