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From: Alan Grimes<alangrimes@s...>
Date: Mon Mar 8 23:36:48 CET 2004
Subject: [openppc] low cost ppc stb4linux
bright.communication@f... wrote:>we work on stb4linux ( set top box for linux ) , as basis for our design we
>select ppc750xx with marvell 6436x as system controller, sigma design
>8510 chip for mpeg decoding and ATSC/NTSC/PAL TV Reciver
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NTSC? That's being phased out... Without HD support, you're going to be
obsolete by the time you hit the market...
>our goal is to design silent STB with Linux as operating system ( for work
>with Linux ) and PVR / DVD-player/recorder with DVI/Analog Interface
>and usb/firewire/SD/CP and any other card system.
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>
HAVE MERCY ON YOUR CUSTOMERS!!!! =(
I'm writing this on linux which I have been struggeling to maintain for
the last three years. I spend about 6 hours per week just keeping it in
working order.
Linux gives nothing but pain and anguish to anyone who is not
comfortable with a command line C compiler... It _STILL_ has gross
deficiencies in terms of basic usability and performance to Windows 3.11
and it's multimedia support still lags far behind even Windows 95.
Linux supports exactly one program: vi. (it runs other programs too but
with the level of support falling off exponentially as the level of
usability approaches where DOS was 10 years ago...)
If you aren't sufficiently brain-dammaged to enjoy using vi then you
really should not use linux.
If you want to see how an OS is _REALLY_ made, provide me with a simple,
fully documented machine with a versitile and equally well documented
compiler and compiler tools. =\
>we search for people who know's freebios/firmware and can help us to do
>this .
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I'd be glad to help so long as the hardware is, at basis, OS-agnostic.
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