[wplug] PowerPC

[Eric Cooper]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 12:12:24AM -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> In case I don't make it on Sat., without getting too far off track on the 
> Linux aspect of this, I'd just like to point out that PPC is very popular 
> in embedded and OEM environments other than the old Apple iFishbowl.  It 
> is unlikely that Intel/Motorola will discontinue this chip line any time 
> soon.  They run fast and cool (and they're RISC!)

Here's a neat tie-in with another group interest, MythTV:
    http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/ for more info.

The Hauppauge MediaMVP is a little diskless PowerPC-based appliance
with a hardware MPEG decoder and SVideo output that runs Linux, for
streaming video and audio to your A/V equipment.  You can find them
for less than $70 on eBay.  It netboots itself, so there are a number
of alternate software images available for it, including a useful
subset of a MythTV frontend.

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Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u