[Linux-aus] What to buy?

[Stephen Hocking]

If you'd like something with a NUC form factor, and are willing to think of
a networked TV tuner, this tv tuner will record up to 4 streams at once.
https://shop.silicondust.com/shop/product/hdhomerun-connect-quatro-hdhr5-4dt-au/

On Thu, 22 Sept 2022 at 15:40, Russell Coker via linux-aus <
linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 21 September 2022 18:19:35 AEST James Cameron via linux-aus
> wrote:
> > An old faithful home system died.  Power supply.  Lab DNS, DHCP,
> > firewall, and a DVB-T recorder.  So sad, but hey, 11 years was good.
> >
> > What is a reasonable replacement these days?  Requirements;
> >
> > - will run Linux, customer installed,
>
> Problemmatic hardware with Linux is generally only new video cards, cheap
> USB
> devices, and generally other new/cheap things.  Any modern AMD64 system
> will
> run Linux and if it has PCI slots will take the existing hardware.
>
> > - quiet; on a remote farm there's no traffic noise to mask fans,
>
> Does the previous system have hard drives or SSDs?  If you replace a
> system
> with hard drives with a system that has SSDs then making it suitably quiet
> shouldn't be difficult.
>
> > - two ethernet ports,
>
> Everything has one Ethernet port on the motherboard and PCI and PCIe
> Ethernet
> devices are cheap.
>
> > - a PCI slot for an old DVB-T card, Leadtek WinFast DTV1000 T, cx2388x
> >   kernel module ... or advice on a replacement four-channel receiver.
>
> I suggest not replacing that card, that would just add more work for
> yourself.
> Get an older system with both PCI and PCIe slots and it will be fine.
>
> A system that has PCI slots will probably be about 11 years old, so you
> will
> probably have about the same speed of system as you previously had if the
> previous was bought new.
>
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